Last week, US President Donald Trump set the cat among the pigeons after he claimed that Pakistan was among the countries secretly conducting nuclear weapons tests . It sent social media into an overdrive with wild speculations, with some predicting that the string of earthquakes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region earlier this year was due to it. Pakistan has now finally broken its silence, vehemently dismissing Trump's explosive claims .

A senior Pakistani security official said the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests", CBS News reported. "Pakistan was not the first to carry out nuclear tests and will not be the first to resume nuclear tests," the Pakistani official said.

The rare rebuttal comes at a time when Pakistan has been warming up to Trump in an attemp

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