In a startling revelation, a former CIA officer has claimed that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is effectively under the command of an American general — a move he said has forced India to recalibrate its strategy, even as fresh disclosures emerge about a major Indian strike on a Pakistani airbase dangerously close to the country’s nuclear nerve centre.
John Kiriakou, a former CIA counterterrorism operative who served in Pakistan, claimed that Pakistan’s government has placed its nuclear weapons under the command of an American general. “The command and control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal has been placed under an American general by the Pakistani government,” he claimed in a viral video clip, adding that this has reduced the nuclear threat and led India to “back off” in recent years.
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Separately, a top Pakistani official has admitted that India’s BrahMos missile attack on Pakistan’s strategic Nur Khan airbase left Islamabad deeply rattled. Rana Sanaullah, special assistant to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, recently confirmed that the Nur Khan airbase was hit and said Islamabad was thrown into “panic mode,” uncertain whether the missile carried a nuclear payload.
Satellite images released by the Indian Armed Forces show that Pakistan’s Nur Khan airbase sustained...
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