Friday, March 29, 2024
HomeGlobalPakistan was preparing for nuclear attack after surgical strike in Balakot, claims...

Pakistan was preparing for nuclear attack after surgical strike in Balakot, claims Mike Pompeo

Mike Pompeo made this claim in his new book ‘Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love’.

Washington:

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that the then Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told him that Pakistan was planning a nuclear strike after the Balakot surgical strike in February 2019. Was preparing for Nuclear Attack). He was stunned to hear this. According to Pompeo, Sushma Swaraj had said that in view of this, India is also preparing for an aggressive response.

read this also

In his new book ‘Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love’, launched on Tuesday, Pompeo said the incident took place when he was on a 27-28 February visit. Ko was in Hanoi for the US-North Korea summit. After this, his team worked overnight with India and Pakistan to avert this crisis. The former US Secretary of State said, “I don’t think the world knows how close India-Pakistan tensions came to a nuclear attack in February 2019.”

The former US diplomat writes in the book, “I don’t think the world knows exactly how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to a nuclear strike in February 2019. The truth is, I don’t even know the exact answer.” I know; all I know is that it was very close.”

However, at present no comment has been made by the Ministry of External Affairs on Pompeo’s claims. Explain that in response to the Pulwama terror attack, the Indian Army attacked and destroyed the terrorist training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Balakot, Pakistan in February 2019.

He said, “After an Islamic terrorist attack in Kashmir, Pakistan’s lax anti-terrorist policies probably resulted in the death of 40 Indian soldiers. India responded to this terrorist attack by airstrikes inside Pakistan. shot down one aircraft in combat and captured the Indian pilot.”

Pompeo said, ‘I was in Hanoi on February 27-28 for the summit to reduce tensions between the US and North Korea. Then I came to know about the whole thing in the night and my entire team worked awake the whole night to convince India and Pakistan. Pompeo wrote, ‘I will never forget that night in Hanoi city of Vietnam. Talking to the North Koreans on nuclear weapons was not enough. In such a situation, India and Pakistan started threatening each other in the decades-old dispute over Kashmir. Pompeo said, ‘I had to work very hard to convince Sushma Swaraj to do nothing for the time being and give America some time to resolve the whole dispute.’

read this also:-

BJP lashed out at Digvijay Singh’s statement: Congress should clarify its stand on the security of the country, said Ravi Shankar Prasad

Disagree with Digvijay Singh’s statement on surgical strike, it is not the view of Congress: Rahul Gandhi

Featured Video Of The Day

Why there was uproar and stone pelting in JNU, why the police did not take action? Saurabh Shukla is telling

Recent posts