Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's spokesperson says the Mumbai 26/11 attacks were a response to his offer of a 'no first use' (of nuclear weapons) to India. In 'The Zardari Presidency: Now It Must Be Told', Farhatullah Babar writes how Zardari made the 'no first use' offer via a satellite link interview to senior Indian journalist Karan Thapar at a summit organised by a media house in New Delhi.
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India and Pakistan both tested nuclear weapons in May 1998 within days of each other. India's nuclear doctrine states it will not be the first to use nuclear weapons in any conflict. Pakistan has no such policy, and its leadership has openly threatened the use of nuclear weapons at the start of a war with India. Pakistan is the only nuclear-weapon state where the military directly controls nuclear weapons.
The so-called 'red lines' for Pakistan's nuclear weapons use were articulated
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