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===Pakistan===
{{see also|N-deterrence}}
Pakistan's Foreign Minister [[Shamshad Ahmad]] warned that if Pakistan is ever invaded or attacked, it will use "any weapon in its arsenal" to defend itself.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mdWCAgAAQBAJ&q=pakistan+will+use+any+weapon+in+its+arsenal&pg=PA343|title=India-Pakistan in War and Peace |via=Google Books|date=2003-09-02|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134407583|last1=Dixit|first1=J. N. |page=343}}</ref>

Pakistan refuses to adopt a NFU doctrine and indicates that it would launch nuclear weapons even if the other side did not use such weapons first. Pakistan's asymmetric nuclear posture has significant influence on India's ability to retaliate, as shown in [[2001 India Pakistan standoff|2001]] and [[2008 India Pakistan standoff|2008 crises]], when [[non-state actor]]s carried out deadly terrorist attacks on India, only to be met with a relatively subdued response from India. A military spokesperson stated that "Pakistan's threat of nuclear first-use deterred India from seriously considering conventional military strikes."<ref name="Narang Policy Brief">{{cite news|last=Narang|first=Vipin|title=Pakistan's Nuclear Posture: Implications for South Asian Stability|url=http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Pakistans_Nuclear_Posture_policy_brief.pdf|access-date=4 January 2013|newspaper=Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Policy Brief|date=January 2010|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183022/http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Pakistans_Nuclear_Posture_policy_brief.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Pakistan's [[Pakistan National Security Council|National Security Advisor]] [[Sartaj Aziz]] defended the [[Pakistan and its Nuclear Deterrent Program|policy of first use]].<ref name="Council of Foreign Relations"/> Aziz stated that Pakistan's first use doctrine is entirely deterrent in nature. He explained that it was effective after the [[2001 Indian Parliament attack]] and argued that if Pakistan had a NFU policy, there would have been a major war between the two countries.<ref name="Council of Foreign Relations">{{cite web|last1=Boies|first1=Mary McInnis|title=Promoting U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Future Challenges and Opportunities|url=http://www.cfr.org/pakistan/promoting-us-pakistan-relations-future-challenges-opportunities/p33514|publisher=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>