He then served as Foreign Secretary from 1994 to 1997, later replaced by Shamshad Ahmad.
In 1998, Foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmad that "Pakistan's policy implies that it will not only use nuclear weapons in a retaliatory strike, it is also ready to take the lead and use nuclear weapons first to counter Indian conventional aggression.".
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