RAWALPINDI: Paying tribute to the scientists and engineers on Youm-e-Takbeer, Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Babar Iftikhar said that the country had restored the balance of power in the region 23 years ago.
In his tweet on the eve of ‘Youm-e-Takbeer’, the ISPR DG said that on March 28, Pakistan restored the balance of power in the region by successfully establishing credible minimum nuclear deterrence.
“AFs and the nation pay tribute to all those involved in making this dream come true,” he said in his tweet.
Pakistan observed Youm-e-Takbeer on Friday to mark the 23rd anniversary of historic maiden nuclear tests.
On this day, Pakistan became the seventh nuclear power of the world with the demonstration of nuclear capabilities and the first in the Muslim world after conducting nuclear tests at Chagai in Balochistan on May 28, 1998, as a response to India’s nuclear bomb tests on May 11 13 of the same year at Pokhran in the Rajasthan state of India.
The successful tests made Pakistan’s defence invincible.
