Pakistan will lose any conventional war with India, a former US intelligence officer has warned, adding the country gains nothing from such a conflict. John Kiriakou, who spent 15 years in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), told ANI that Islamabad needed to reassess its policy towards India.

Kiriakou, who was the chief of CIA counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, stressed, “Nothing, literally nothing good will come of an actual war between India and Pakistan because the Pakistanis will lose. I'm not talking about nuclear weapons. I'm talking just about a conventional war. There is no benefit to constantly provoking Indians”.

Kiriakou also revealed that the US had control over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal during Pervez Musharraf's rule. He also claimed that the US “essentially just p

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