Overview
- Gen. Upendra Dwivedi said there was no discussion of nuclear weapons in the DGMO exchanges between India and Pakistan.
- He attributed nuclear rhetoric to Pakistani politicians and local voices, not to the Pakistan military.
- Indian accounts credit the DGMO telephonic exchange with helping pause cross-border firing after heightened clashes.
- Dwivedi said India expanded the conventional operational space in Jammu and Kashmir and eliminated about 100 Pakistani personnel.
- Reports cited comments by Khawaja Asif and Najam Sethi invoking nuclear retaliation, and WION reported Pakistan test-fired two missiles during that tense period.