Problems with India further escalated in 1998 , when television reported Indian nuclear explosions , codenamed Operation Shakti . When this news reached Pakistan , a shocked Sharif called a Defence Committee of the Cabinet meeting in Islamabad and vowed that " she Pakistan would give a suitable reply to the Indians ... " . After reviewing the effects of the tests for roughly two weeks Sharif ordered the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission to perform a series of nuclear tests in the remote area of the Chagai Hills . The military forces in the country were mobilised at war-readiness on the Indian border
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