--response to the Indian tests, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that five devices had been exploded on May 28. These explosions took place in Baluchistan very near the Afghanistan border, apparently in a horizontal tunnel. A sixth detonation was announced on May 30, conducted some 100 kilometers to the southwest according to seismic analysis, apparently in a vertical shaft.

Pakistani officials, like their Indian counterparts, seem to have exaggerated the number and s