Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed retribution and promised that India will pursue the Kashmir attackers to “the ends of the earth”. Believing an Indian attack imminent, Pakistan is readying its military. However, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif has invoked its weapons of last resort, issuing a thinly-veiled reminder of its nuclear deterrent. Referring, as Pakistan usually does, to its nuclear arsenal as “strategic”, Defence Minister Asif told Reuters in Islamabad: “‘In the current situation, some strategic decisions have to be taken. So those decisions have been taken.”The balance of this article can be read in the website of The Diplomat.