India Pakistan News: The stir in Pakistan has intensified after India has targeted terrorist bases and air defense systems under Operation Sindoor started on 7 May 2025. Especially when India also demolished the HQ-9 air defense system located in Lahore, the meeting of Pakistan’s National Command Authority (NCA) on 9 May caught the attention of the international community.

The meeting indicates that Islamabad is now making a strategic reconsideration of its atomic and missile policy, and after India’s strict military replies, it can also be in preparation for a big step. The National Command Authority (NCA) is Pakistan’s highest civilian-monetary decision-making institution, which is to make a nuclear policy. Apart from this, many important decisions have to be taken, which are as follows.

-Monitoring of Micile Program

-Security of seinous properties

-The -term nuclear decision

It was established in the year 2000, headquartered in Islamabad. It is chaired by the Prime Minister, which is currently in the hands of Shahbaz Sharif.

NCA structure and member

The NCA is chaired by the Prime Minister of Pakistan and it consists of many other ministers and officials, which is as follows.

Foreign Minister: Ishaq Dar

Defense Minister: Khwaja Asif

Army Chief: General Asim Munir

Navy Chief: Admiral Naved Ashraf

Air Force Chief: Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babur

Chief of Joint Staff Committee: General Sahir Shamshad Mirza

The Home Minister and Finance Minister also join it. The decisions of this committee are on the basis of voting or consensus. Its instructions apply Strategic Plans Division (Spd), which is headed by military officers of a lieutenant general rank.

After Operation Sindoor Strategy

After surgical missile attacks on 9 terrorist bases from India on 7 May, Pakistan tried to finger Fateh-1 missile, which was disabled in the air by Indian air defense systems. In such a situation, the NCA meeting indicates a strategic thinking whether Pakistan is planning to use nuclear weapons? According to analysts, the meeting also indicates the pressure of the Pakistan Army and military domination in the role of NCA.

Army influence on nuclear control
Although the structure of NCA leads to civil leadership prominently, the army is more dominated by the war or military crisis. According to the report of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the final decision on Pakistan’s nuclear policy is in the hands of the army.