"India has taken note of Prez Trump's comment about Pakistan's nuclear testing" - says MEA spokesman Jaiswal ::::: Did Pak secretly carry out Nuke tests b/w April and May this year ??

"India has always drawn the attention of the international community to these aspects of Pakistan's record. In this backdrop, we have taken note of President Trump's comment about Pakistan's nuclear testing." -- 

-- MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal 

If Pakistan has conducted a nuclear test without international permission, it will immediately face severe economic sanctions. 

These sanctions could completely destroy what is left of Pakistan's economy. 

This is why Pakistan's military leaders, despite all the pressure from terror and radical groups may be actually not ready perhaps to conduct a nuclear test at this juncture.

However, Rawalpindi and Islamabad are well known for displaying for no reason or rhyme on most occasions. 

 Illegal nuke activities fit Pak's record: India takes note of Trump's comment

US President Donald Trump, in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes on November 2, insisted that Russia, China and Pakistan were testing nuclear weapons, a claim that sparked widespread speculation online.  

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, "Clandestine and illegal nuclear activities are in keeping with Pakistan's history, that is centred around decades of smuggling, export control violations, secret partnerships, AQ Khan network and further proliferation. 

India has always drawn the attention of the international community to these aspects of Pakistan's record. In this backdrop, we have taken note of President Trump's comment about Pakistan's nuclear testing."  

The government said that clandestine and illegal nuclear activities were "in keeping with Pakistan's history", responding to US President Donald Trump's recent comments that Islamabad was among countries secretly testing nuclear weapons.

The quakes, which occurred between April 30 and May 12 (2025) with magnitudes between 4.0 and 4.7, were noted to be similar in intensity to the readings produced during Pakistan's Chagai-I and Chagai-II nuclear tests on May 28 and 30, 1998. Pakistan had done Nuke tests in May 1998 within a fortnight India carried out Pokhran-2.  

"Russia's testing, and China's testing, but they don't talk about it...We are gonna test, because they test, and others test. And certainly North Korea's been testing. Pakistan's been testing," Trump had said, without providing any details.

His remarks set off a wave of conjecture that Pakistan might have secretly carried out nuclear tests 

..... between April and May this year, after a series of earthquakes struck the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.

Pakistan had earlier denied conducting any nuclear tests. A senior Pakistani security official told CBS News that the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests." The official added, "Pakistan was not the first to carry out nuclear tests and will not be the first to resume nuclear tests."

The rare rebuttal came at a time when Pakistan has been warming up to Trump in an attempt to reset ties. 

In recent months, Islamabad has largely aligned itself with Trump's positions, often at the cost of political reality. Islamabad has not been known to conduct a nuclear test since 1998, when it responded to India's Pokhran-II series of nuclear tests in Rajasthan earlier that month.  

“We’re going to test because they test. And certainly North Korea’s been testing. Pakistan’s been testing. They don’t go and tell you about it. They test way underground, where people don’t know what’s happening. You just feel a little vibration," Trump had said.  

Earlier in October (29-30th) In a post to Truth Social, Trump said “because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.”

The post came less than an hour before Trump met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in South Korea on Thursday morning in an effort to come to a trade war truce. The meeting was the first between the two since 2019.

The United States last held a full nuclear weapons test in 1992, and China and Russia are not known to have held any such tests since the same era. Trump’s reference to “on an equal basis” left it unclear what weapons testing could take place. 

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