Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has said that Pakistan must realise there is “nothing positive” for it in engaging in conflict with India, asserting that Islamabad would “lose any conventional war” against New Delhi.

Kiriakou, who served in the CIA for 15 years and headed the agency’s counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, spoke to news agency ANI and said that during his tenure, he was told informally that the Pentagon once had control over Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, though Islamabad has long denied it.

He said that when he was stationed in Pakistan in 2002, he was told unofficially that the Pentagon controlled the Pakistani nuclear arsenal. "That Musharraf had turned control over to the United States... But the Pakistanis in the intervening years… have come to say that is absolutel

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