| N-strike warning ‘made at behest of Musharraf’ |
ISLAMABAD The Pakistani warning of a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds, as reported in a British daily, was actually made at the behest of former president Pervez Musharraf, according to Daily Times.
The report published on Friday by The Guardian said Pakistan could launch a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds, an army general boasted in 2001 in Islamabad.
The warning has been described in the latest volume of former British communications director Alastair Campbells’ diaries, The Burden of Power, it said.
On Saturday, writing in the Daily Times from London, Asif Mehmood said it was Musharraf who conveyed the nuclear strike threat through his generals to assert that it could be possible if India did not “stop killing of its own people”.
Campbell was told about the eight-second threat over a dinner in Islamabad October 5, 2001, hosted by Musharraf. Campbell wrote: “When the time came to leave, the livelier of the two generals asked me to remind the Indians that ‘it takes us eight seconds to get the missiles over’, then flashed a huge toothy grin,” he added.
Indo-Asian News Service
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