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‘India and Pakistan Came Close to Nuclear War’: Blow by Blow Account by Mike Pompeo

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India and Pakistan were on the brink of a nuclear war in 2019, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed in his memoir.

The two neighbours were “too close” to a nuclear conflagration after the Indian air force carried out an attack inside Pakistan following a deadly terror strike inside India that killed scores of soldiers.

“I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over in a nuclear conflagration … the truth is, I don’t know precisely the answer either. I just know it was too close,” Pompeo wrote in his book Never Give an Inch.

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Pompeo said he got a call from External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warning him that he believed Pakistan was readying nuclear weapons for a strike and India was considering its own escalation.

He was woken up at night while he was on a visit to Hanoi with a call from Jaishankar who told him that “he believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike”.

“India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation. I asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out,” Pompeo wrote.

Working with John Bolton, who was then the US National Security Adviser, from their Hanoi hotel room he “reached the actual leader of Pakistan. General (Qamer Javed) Bajwaa”, he wrote.

“I told him what the Indians had told me. He said it wasn’t true. As one might expect, he believed the Indians were preparing their own nuclear weapons for deployment.

“It took us a few hours, and remarkably good work by our teams on the ground in New Delhi and Islamabad, to convince each side that neither was to convince each side or the other was not preparing for nuclear war,” Pompeo added.

Taking credit for the de-escalation, he wrote: “No other nation could have done that, but we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome.”

He acknowledged the work of Kenneth Juster, who was the then US envoy in New Delhi, calling him “an incredibly capable ambassador” who “loves India and its people”.

Pompeo, who was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency before becoming the Secretary of State, recounted in the book his four years in former President Donald Trump’s cabinet.

The book subtitled, “Fighting for the America I Love”, lays out how he aggressively implemented Trump’s ‘America First’ vision.

Writing about his efforts to deepen ties with New Delhi, Pompeo wrote that he “made India the fulcrum of my diplomacy to contract Chinese aggression”.

“I chose to devote serious quantities of time and effort to make India the next great American ally,” he added.

(With inputs from IANS)



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