The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday lashed out at Pakistan's secret nuclear activities, saying the country's nuclear history is centred around "decades of smuggling, export control violations, secret partnerships, AQ Khan network and further proliferation."
This comes days after US President Donald Trump told CBS News that Pakistan continue to carry underground nuclear trials while the US has refrained from testing for more than three decades.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India has always drawn the attention of the global community to Pakistan's illegal nuclear weapons testing. "In this backdrop, we have taken note of President Trump’s comment about Pakistan’s nuclear testing," he said.
On Sunday, Trump said in 60 Minutes shows on CBS News that the US is going to test nuclear weapons because other countries are testing. "...Certainly North Korea’s been testing. Pakistan’s been testing. They don’t go and tell you about it. They test way underground, where people don’t know what’s happening. You just feel a little vibration," the US president said.
However, Pakistan denied that they have been testing nuclear weapons, claiming that it "was not the first to carry out nuclear tests and will not be the first to resume them."
Trump's remarks sparked speculations that Islamabad might have carried out nuclear tests in April-May, following which a series of earthquakes jolted Pakistan and Afghanistan.
These quakes were reported between April 30 and May 12, around the time when India launched Operation Sindoor to retaliate against the Pahalgam terror attack. The earthquakes were reportedly around 4.0 to 4.7 magnitude on Richter scale, similar to the readings recorded during Pakistan's Chagai-I and Chagai-II nuclear tests in 1998.
Trump also alleged that Russia and China were also secretly conducting test without public scrutiny.