Pakistan Defense Minister denies nuclear body meeting after offensive launched on India
Pakistan's military said earlier that the prime minister had called on the authority to meet. The information minister did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
"This thing that you have spoken about (nuclear option) is present, but let's not talk about it - we should treat it as a very distant possibility, we shouldn't even discuss it in the immediate context," Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told ARY TV.
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