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2023-01-25 India-Pakistan
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US ‘prevented’ South Asia nuclear war in 2019, claims Pompeo
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[Dawn] Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has revealed that India and Pakistain came close to nuclear war in 2019 following the Balakot Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
, and that US intervention helped prevent an escalation, the Press Trust of India and AFP reported.
In Feb 2019, India launched airstrikes inside Pak territory after blaming a turban group for a suicide kaboom that killed 41 paramilitary soldiers in Indian-held Kashmir
.jpg "Kashmir") ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
. Pakistain then shot down an Indian warplane, capturing the pilot.
"I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistain rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019," Mr Pompeio wrote in Never Give an Inch, the memoir of his time as Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s top diplomat and earlier CIA chief.
According to the former US diplomat, he was awakened to speak to his then-Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj, who told him that Pakistain was preparing for a nuclear attack in the wake of the air strike and India was preparing its own escalatory response, the Press Trust of India quoted him as saying.
Quoting from his book, Mr Pompeo said that the incident took place when he was in Hanoi for the US-North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
Summit on February 27-28 and his team worked overnight with both New Delhi and Islamabad to avert this crisis.
"I will never forget the night I was in Hanoi, Vietnam when — as if negotiating with the North Koreans on nuclear weapons wasn’t enough — India and Pakistain started threatening each other in connection with a decades-long dispute over the northern border region of Kashmir," he added.
"In Hanoi, I was awakened to speak with my Indian counterpart. He believed the Paks 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 (sic)," he wrote in his book, which wrongly refers to Ms Swaraj as "he".
"I began to work with Ambassador (then National Security Advisor John) Bolton, who was with me in the tiny secure communications facility in our hotel," he said, adding that he spoke to "the actual leader of Pakistain", then army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
"As one might expect, he believed the Indians were preparing their 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 the other was not preparing for nuclear war," the 59-year-old top former American diplomat wrote.
There was no immediate comment from India’s Ministry of External Affairs or Pakistain’s Foreign Office on Mr Pompeo’s claims.
"No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome. As with all diplomacy, the people working the problem set matter a great deal, at least in the short run," he said. "My most senior diplomat, David Hale, had also been the US ambassador to Pakistain and knew that our relationship with India was a priority," Mr Pompeo said.
"General McMaster and Admiral Philip Davidson, the head of what came to be renamed the US Indo-Pacific Command, understood India’s importance, too," he said.
"Although often frustrated by the Indians, US trade representative Robert Lighthizer — a brilliant trade negotiator and a Bob Dole staff alumnus, making him a near-Kansan — was a great partner working to deepen economic ties. We all shared the view that America had to make a bold strategic effort to tighten our ties with India and break the mould with new ideas," PTI quoted Mr Pompeo as writing.
According to AFP, Mr Pompeo writes extensively in the book about his diplomacy with Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
, which included preparing three meetings between the young totalitarian leader and Donald Trump. He recalled a chilling first conversation as he flew into Pyongyang in March 2018 on a clandestine trip as CIA director.
"I didn’t think you’d show up. I know you’ve been trying to kill me," Pompeo quotes Kim as telling him.
"I decided to lean in with a little humor of my own: ’Mr. Chairman, I’m still trying to kill you.’" But Mr Pompeo described a budding understanding with Kim as the Trump administration offered incentives to lower tension. 
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