Pakistan's primary motive for developing nuclear weapons was to counter India, but Islamabad's nuclear ambition under its architect and a prolific proliferator, Abdul Qadeer Khan, evolved it into an ...

China and Pakistan threatened to nuke Israel if it carries out nuclear strikes on Iran, putting the world on the "brink of a nuclear holocaust," a political commentator warned. It comes after a ...

India can make a plutonium nuclear bomb, said Pakistan’s arms control adviser, raising questions over India’s Prototype Fast ...

Saudi Arabia wants to develop its own nuclear weapons. Failing that, it wishes to partner with nuclear nations—ideally, but not only, the United States—and ingratiate itself into their nuclear ...

The world watched anxiously as India and Pakistan exchanged ballistic missiles during what is now remembered as the 88-hour war of May 2025. Observers feared that an uncontrolled escalation could push ...

Pakistan’s use of nuclear blackmail against its adversaries has enabled a strategy of regional aggression—most recently seen in Afghanistan. Pakistan has sold these attacks in international fora as ...

A Pakistani official told CBS News that the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests" in response to President Trump's assertion in an interview with 60 Minutes that the country has ...

ISLAMABAD/DUBAI Sept 19 - With many Arab nations feeling a rising threat from Israel, the Saudi-Pakistan defense pact announced this week brings Pakistan - and its nuclear umbrella - into the region's ...

A new mutual defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, signed in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Qatar this month, shows how mounting frustration with the United States is reshaping ...

Previously, Pakistan has quietly facilitated backchannel contacts between the U.S. and Iran. Its inclusion now in nuclear talks between the two is unprecedented. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign ...