Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou, in a recent interaction, revealed that in 2002, US intelligence agencies feared a full-scale war between India and Pakistan following the December 2001 Parliament attack and the ensuing military standoff under Operation Parakram.

During an exclusive conversation with ANI, Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who led counterterrorism operations in Pakistan following 9/11, said the US deemed the threat credible enough to evacuate its citizens’ families from Islamabad.

"Family members had been evacuated from Islamabad. We believed India and Pakistan would go to war," Kiriakou recounted. "The deputy secretary of state came in and shuttled between Delhi and Islamabad to negotiate a settlement where both sides backed off."

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