New Delhi: The United States intelligence community was certain that India and Pakistan would go to war after the 2001 Parliament attack, former CIA officer John Kiriakou has said, recalling tense days in Islamabad when American diplomats were told to prepare for the worst.

In an interview, Kiriakou, who served as the CIA’s counter-terrorism chief in Pakistan, said that after the December 2001 terror strike in New Delhi, the US “was sure” that a war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours was imminent. “We had evacuated our families. We were sure that war was coming,” he said. ADVERTISEMENT

#WATCH | On the aftermath of 2001 terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament, ex-CIA Officer, John Kiriakou says, “… We believed India and Pakistan might go to war… Once a junior officer who worked

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