Nuclear weapons will not be used if a war breaks out between Indian and Pakistan, said Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on Tuesday.

This was reported by a Pakistani website.

Mukhtar was talking to media after visiting the ailing PPP leader Haji Aziz-ur-Rehman Chan who is in a hospital in Lahore [Images].

He also said, the reports indicate, that the government led by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [Images] will complete its tenure.

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