Kargil war: Pakistan planned to drop nuclear bomb on India during conflict, says former CIA officer

A former CIA analyst revealed the information in an obituary for Sandy Berger, a former national security advisor to President Clinton

• Emma Henderson
• Pakistan planned to deploy nuclear weapons against India during the 1999 Kargil War, according to former top White House official.
  The information was revealed after former CIA analyst, Bruce Riedel, wrote an obituary for Sandy Berger who died of cancer on Wednesday. Mr Berger and was a former national security advisor to the then American President Bill Clinton.
  The CIA had warned President Clinton of the plans, which formed part of the daily top secret classified briefing on July 4, 1999, when he was scheduled to meet visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
  
  “Berger urged Clinton to hear out Sharif, but to be firm.Mr Riedel wrote: “The morning of the Fourth, the CIA wrote in its top-secret Daily Brief that Pakistan was preparing its nuclear weapons for deployment and possible use. The intelligence was very compelling. The mood in the Oval Office was grim.
  “Pakistan started this crisis and it must end it without any compensation. The president needed to make clear to the prime minster that only a Pakistani withdrawal could avert further escalation.
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• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-india-nuclear-bomb-kargil-war-former-cia-officer-sandy-berger-bruce-riedel-a6758501.html