{"id":285163,"date":"2025-08-18T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=285163"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:27:38","slug":"opinion-opinion-bomb-and-the-button-time-to-call-pakistans-nuclear-blackmail-by-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=285163","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Opinion | Bomb And The Button: Time To Call Pakistan&#8217;s Nuclear Blackmail By Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Pakistan&#8217;s military has wielded its nuclear arsenal not as a deterrent, but as a diplomatic cudgel &#8211; a tool to intimidate India, extract concessions, and shield itself from accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bFor decades, Pakistan&#8217;s military has wielded its nuclear arsenal not as a deterrent, but as a diplomatic cudgel &#8211; a tool to intimidate India, extract concessions, and shield itself from accountability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Pakistan&#8217;s military has wielded its nuclear arsenal not as a deterrent, but as a diplomatic cudgel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":285164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u.jpeg",1200,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u-768x472.jpeg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u-1024x630.jpeg",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u.jpeg",1200,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u.jpeg",1200,738,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lp5r17mo_munir_625x300_18_August_25-34rV5u-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/285164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}