US averted
\n\u201cNo other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome,\u201d Pompeo wrote
\n WASHINGTON\/ISLAMABAD
\nFormer US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has revealed that tensions between Pakistan and India were so high in February 2019 that both the countries were about to indulge in a nuclear escalation.
\nAccording to media reports, Pompeo said the United States had to intervene between two nuclear armed neighbors to prevent a full-fledge war.
\nBack in February 2019, tensions between Pakistan and maximized as Pakistan captured an Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot after a major aerial confrontation and chase
\nbetween the Air Forces of two countries.
\n\u201cI do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019,\u201d Pompeo wrote in his book \u201cNever Give an Inch\u201d.
\nIn 2019, Pakistan had shot down an Indian warplane, capturing its pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, who was later released in a \u201cgoodwill gesture\u201d by Islamabad.
\nPossibly the future Presidency contender wrote in his book that he was in Hanoi for a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, when he received call from a senior Indian official.
\n\u201cHe believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation,\u201d Pompeo wrote in his book, according to TRT World.
\n\u201cI asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out,\u201d Pompeo said.
\n\u201cNo other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome,\u201d Pompeo wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
US averted \u201cNo other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome,\u201d Pompeo wrote WASHINGTON\/ISLAMABAD Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has revealed that tensions between Pakistan and India were so high in February 2019 that both the countries were about to indulge in a nuclear escalation. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n