Pakistan convened its top nuclear oversight body, the National Command Authority, on Saturday after launching strikes on Indian military targets, including a missile storage site in northern India.
The move follows Indian missile attacks on three Pakistani airbases, one near Islamabad, which Pakistan says were mostly intercepted.
India accused Pakistan of escalating tensions with continued drone and artillery attacks along the western border. Five civilians were reported killed in the Jammu region of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Amid the worst India-Pakistan fighting in three decades, global calls for de-escalation intensified. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir, while Pakistan’s Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal warned the conflict was a critical test for the international community, saying, “We would hate to see that nuclear threshold breached.”