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US distances itself from Mike Pompeo's book that claims India, Pakistan were on brink of nuclear war

26/01/2023 07:24 PM | Click to read full article

In his latest book, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Mike Pompeo claimed that he was informed that Pakistan was preparing for a nuclear attack in the wake of the Balakot surgical strike in 2019. The Biden administration downplayed former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claim that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and said that the remark was made by Pompeo as a “private citizen”. 

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