Pakistan Army Base

In a startling admission that lays bare the hair-trigger dynamics of South Asia’s nuclear standoff, a top aide to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has revealed that his country’s military had merely 30-45 seconds to determine whether incoming BrahMos missile carried a nuclear warhead during a critical moment in this May’s Operation Sindoor.

"The (Pakistani) pilots rushed to secure their aircraft, but the missiles kept on coming, and unfortunately the fourth one hit the hangar at Bholari (airbase), where one of our AWACS was standing. It was damaged and casualties were also reported," retired Pakistani Air Marshal Masood Akhtar informed.

Four Pakistan Army soldiers were killed and five others were critically injured after heavily armed militants launched an attack on the Zhob garrison in northern Balochistan