NEW DELHI: The ministry of exterior affairs on Friday mentioned that India had taken word of US President Donald Trump’s remarks that Pakistan was testing nuclear weapons, terming it “clandestine and unlawful”. The response got here after Trump justified the States’ transfer to renew nuke testing following Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan’s go well with.“Clandestine and unlawful nuclear actions are in line with Pakistan’s historical past that’s centered round a long time of smuggling, export management violations, secret partnerships, AQ Khan community, and additional proliferation. India has at all times drawn the eye of the worldwide group to those facets of Pakistan’s file,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned.“On this backdrop, we now have taken word of President Trump’s remark about Pakistan’s nuclear testing. Pakistan’s secret and unlawful nuclear actions are associated to its historical historical past, which has lasted for many years.,” he added.Earlier this week, Trump declared his administration’s choice to renew America’s personal nuclear testing after greater than three a long time.Justifying this, he mentioned, “Russia’s testing and China’s testing, however they do not speak about it. We’re an open society. We’re completely different. We speak about it as a result of in any other case you individuals are going to report. They do not have reporters which can be going to be writing about it.”“We’ll take a look at as a result of they take a look at and others take a look at. And positively North Korea’s been testing. Pakistan’s been testing,” he added.Pakistan has, nonetheless, denied these claims saying that it could “not be the primary to renew nuclear checks”.“Pakistan was not the primary to hold out nuclear checks and won’t be the primary to renew nuclear checks,” CBS quoted a senior Pakistani safety official saying.