Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State of the United States Writing in a book released on Tuesday, India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and received intervention by the United States to prevent the situation from escalating.
“I don’t think the world knows how close the rivalry between India and Pakistan is. It is predicted to escalate to nuclear annihilation. In February 2019,” the prospective US presidential candidate wrote in his book “Never Give an Inch,” his memoirs of his time as secretary of state under President Donald Trump and former director of the CIA
In February 2019, India launched an unprecedented air strike inside Pakistani territory. after charging a group of fighters who hid in the area Behind a bomb attack that killed 41 Indian paratroopers in Kashmir Pakistan managed to shoot down an Indian fighter jet and keep the pilot.
Pompeo remembered that he was in Hanoi at that time. Vietnam Meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un A high-ranking Indian official was woken up by a hotline.
“He believes that Pakistan has already started preparing its own nukes for attack. India told me It also made them consider expanding the scope of their own warfare,” Pompeo wrote. clear in advance.”
The US secretary of state at the time also said that US envoys helped persuade India and Pakistan not to prepare for nuclear war. “No country could do what we did that night. while avoiding dire consequences,” Pompeo writes in the book.
On the possibility that Pakistan could attack Kashmir Pompeo revealed that he spoke with He suggested “the real leader of Pakistan”, the Gen. Kamar Javed Bajwa, the chief of the armed forces at the time, to the weakness of the civilian government.
India tested a nuclear weapon in 1998, followed by Pakistan. It was an uncertain moment when US President Bill Clinton even said that Kashmir, which separates the two countries, is the “most dangerous place in the world”.
Pompeo also wrote extensively in this book. On his diplomatic issues with Kim Jong Un, it included preparations for three summits between the North Korean leader and President Trump.
He recounts a cold, cold conversation with Kim. The time he secretly flew to Pyongyang In March 2018, as the Director of the CIA “I don’t think you dare to come. I know you tried to kill me,” Pompeo quoted Kim as telling him.
Pompeo continued: “I decided to go back jokingly and say, Mr President. I’m still trying to kill you.”
Pompeo is known for his hawkish stance on China. by having previously controversially accused Beijing of spreading the new coronavirus it calls the “Wuhan virus”
He said President Trump told him: The definition made President Xi Jinping “hate” you and Trump urged him to shut up for a while. because the United States Need a medical device from China
Pompeo has not ruled out the possibility of running with Trump for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election despite the results of preliminary voting. noting that he received little support.
(Source: AFP)
