6 Pakistan
Pakistan is the only Muslim country out of the nine states that possess the nuclear weapons. It began the production in 1972 when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the Prime Minister and chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission was Munir Ahmad Khan. He committed to complete the bomb preparations by 1976 but was behind schedule, this is when Abdul Qadeer Khan was called from Europe and completed the project in 1984.
The development of nuclear weapons project was response to their loss in Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. According to an analysis mentioned in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the year 2010, Pakistan has approx 70-90 weapons. The exact number of weapons are hard to guess, but as mentioned by Strategic Arms Division of Pakistan, they have about 80-120 war heads genuinely.
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