In an indirect admission of facing defeat, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s adviser Rana Sanaullah has revealed that his country’s military had less than a minute to analyse whether a BrahMos cruise missile fired by India on the Nur Khan airbase during Operation Sindoor could have a nuclear warhead.

“When India fired BrahMos at Nur Khan airbase, Pakistan’s military had only 30-45 seconds to analyse whether the incoming missile may have a nuclear warhead,” Sanaullah told a Pakistani news channel on Thursday.

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“To decide anything on this in just 30 seconds was a dangerous situation,” he said.

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Nur Khan is a major airbase of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in Rawalpindi’s........

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