With Pakistani leaders, experts, and politicians publicly threatening to use the nuclear option against india if the conflict escalates to that point, the threat of a full-scale India-Pakistan war that could turn into a nuclear conflict has increased dramatically since India's Operation Sindoor. However, Pakistan's nuclear bluff has been exposed by military analysts, who have dismissed Islamabad's nuclear threats as just wartime rhetoric due to the adversary nation's inability to resist a nuclear reprisal from india and its lack of a second-strike capability.

'Pakistan will cease to exist'
Lieutenant General KJS Dhillon (Retd), a former commander of the Chinar Corps, which is located in kashmir, told news agency ANI that if pakistan chooses to strike india with nuclear weapons, it will be completely destroyed.  "Pakistan will vanish as a nation if it ever employs the nuclear option against India.  It lacks the strategic depth necessary to either react to or repel an indian nuclear strike," he stated.
 
Dhillon addressed the potential for the current conflict to turn into a nuclear war between india and pakistan, emphasizing that although india has a no-first-use (NFU) nuclear policy, any nuclear assault will be met with a considerably stronger nuclear reaction that would completely destroy a small nation like Pakistan.

When it comes to nuclear policy, pakistan has none.  India has stated that it will not use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear nation, as part of its no-first-use policy.  However, we will retaliate massively and with intolerable damage in the event of a nuclear assault," the veteran of the indian Army stated.

India can withstand any nuclear attack
According to the previous commander of the Chinar Corps, India's data-size allows it to withstand any nuclear attack from pakistan, but a retaliatory nuclear strike would destroy the latter.  "The depth of Pakistan's east-west area extends from our Punjab, Rajasthan, and gujarat to their western data-border with Balochistan, running from northeast to southeast.  It begins in gujarat and extends to Arunachal Pradesh, in contrast to india," Dhillon stated.

From Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, they travel north-south to PoK, Sindh, or Gwadar. On the other hand, ours begins in kashmir and ends in Kanyakumari.  Pakistan lacks the strategic depth necessary to repel our attacks.  This little stretch of land contains all of their main, densely populated cities, numbering six or seven.  Our cities extend beyond kolkata and Guwahati, beginning with jaipur and Ahmedabad. We can withstand any nuclear assault because of our great geographic depth," he said.
 
"Pakistan will cease to exist" if india performs a retaliatory nuclear strike, according to the retired indian Army general.

NFU doesn't mean no pre-emptive strikes
Additionally, KJS Dhillon explained that if there are reliable indications that pakistan is getting ready to undertake a nuclear strike of its own, the NFU policy does not necessarily entail that india will not launch a preemptive nuclear strike.  "A first use does not imply that we will hold off on attacking with nuclear weapons.  We will prevent pakistan from launching a nuclear assault if our authorities believe that it is going to do so.

Lt Gen KJS Dhillon's (Retd) comments follow threats from prominent Pakistani figures, such as Khawaja Asif, the country's defense minister, who alluded to the potential use of nuclear weapons against India. "If they (India) impose a full-blown war on the region and if such threats arise that lead to a stalemate, then a nuclear war could break out at any time," Pakistani media reported Asif stating.