Senior Pakistani strategic affairs experts warned on Monday that the nuclear deterrence framework between Pakistan and India, while it held during a conflict in May 2025, is under growing strain and must be actively managed rather than treated as stable. Speaking at a book launch hosted by the Centre for International Strategic Studies (CISS) in Islamabad, advisers to Pakistan's National Command Authority (NCA) — the body overseeing the country's nuclear arsenal — cautioned that future crises would increasingly involve cyber operations, hybrid tactics, and disinformation alongside conventional military force. Experts singled out what they described as India's push to normalise limited warfare under nuclear conditions as a key destabilising factor, urging Islamabad to maintain a coherent deterrence posture, invest in strategic communication, and pursue meaningful dialogue to prevent further erosion of regional stability.