Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar has said that Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India when the tensions between the two countries mounted last week. The deputy prime minister, in an interview with CNN, said that Pakistan “had no choice” but to launch strikes in “self-defense” following India’s May 7 cross-border attacks. Terming India’s strikes a “war” and a “wishful attempt to establish its hegemony” in Kashmir, he said, “There are certain times when you have to take very serious decisions… We were very sure that our conventional capacity and capabilities are strong enough that we will beat them both in air and on ground.” While the ceasefire agreement has so far appeared to hold, Dar told the interviewer that long-term negotiations between the two parties were “not done yet.” “We still hope sense will prevail,” he remarked. He said that it was in the interest of everybody not to delay or to leave such issues beyond a certain reasonable time. “(The Indians) had seen what happened in the sky,” he added. “They could see how serious the damage was.” Deputy Prime Minister said that there was no direct contact between Indian or … Continue reading Nuclear option was never on table: hopefully sense will prevail: Dar