Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has said Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India.

In an interview with CNN, he referred to Indian strikes as a “wishful attempt to establish its hegemony” in the Kashmir region. But at the same time, he said that the nuclear option was never on the table.

“There are certain times when you have to take very serious decisions,” he said, “We were very sure that our conventional capacity and capabilities are strong enough that we will beat them both in air and on ground.”