1998 nuke tests were in self-defence against India: Pakistan
Pakistan on Sunday said it was forced to conduct nuclear tests on May 28, 1998 in self-defence and as a result of "hostile posturing" by India. These developments effectively ended the possibility of keeping the South Asian region "nuclear-weapons free", it added. Pakistan had conducted its nuclear tests in Balochistan's Chagai days after India's Pokhran-II tests.