Pakistan's primary motive for developing nuclear weapons was to counter India, but Islamabad's nuclear ambition under its architect and a prolific proliferator, Abdul Qadeer Khan, evolved it into an ...

Former CIA officer Richard Barlow said successive US Presidents continued to certify that Pakistan did not possess nuclear weapons all the way through 1989 and despite knowing that Islamabad could ...

Whether or not Kirana Hills was struck, the very plausibility of the claim is damaging for Pakistan. It reinforces the perception that India can penetrate deep into Pakistan’s strategic geography with ...

Pakistan has rejected Donald Trump’s claim that it is among a handful of nations actively testing nuclear weapons. A senior Pakistani security official told CBS News his country was “not the first to ...

Tom Cooper, one of the world's foremost aviation historians and analysts, said he has plenty of proof to back up his claim.

A hot war is unlikely following the Pahalgam attack but any missteps could change that, writes Michael Kugelman.