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    25-Jan-2023 01:07 PM


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    Sushma Swaraj "Wasn't Important Player": 5 Top Quotes From Mike Pompeo Book

    Mr Pompeo claimed he was awakened some time in 2019 to speak to his then Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj who told him that Pakistan was preparing for a nuclear attack in the wake of the Balakot surgical strike and India is preparing its own response.
    "I 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.
    The truth is, I don't know precisely the answer either; I just know it was too close," Mr Pompeo wrote.
    India, he (sic) informed me, was contemplating its own escalation". "
    I asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out... No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome," he wrote.

    Source - NDTV