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PML-N patron Nawaz Sharif has said that it was he who managed to conduct the first nuclear tests and did not give in to the international pressure in this regard, and added that it were the politicians who made the dream to make Pakistan a nuclear state realized. Addressing a gathering to mark Youm-e-Takbeer at Aiwan-e-Iqbal in Lahore, Nawaz said that he did not have peace after India test-fired the missile system, while the global community united against the decision including the then US president Clinton. But it was with the support of his friends and the whole nation that the dream got realized. He said that had there been a dictator, no nuclear tests could have been conducted. He maintained that it was after the tests that India agreed to resume dialogue and prime minister Wajpai visited Lahore.
