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Pakistan Defense Minister denies nuclear body meeting after offensive launched on India

Pakistan's defense minister said on Saturday that no meeting of the top military and civil body overseeing the country's nuclear arsenal had been scheduled following a military operation against India earlier in the day. 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. Reuters