Former CIA officer Richard Barlow revealed that a proposed joint operation by India and Israel in the early 1980s to strike Pakistan's Kahuta nuclear facility was not approved by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, calling the decision a “shame,” as the mission could have resolved numerous problems.

"I was out of government from 1982 until 1985. And I think that may have occurred while I was out of government. I heard about it at some point. But I didn't get my teeth into it because it never happened. It's a shame that Indira [Gandhi] didn't approve it; it would have solved a lot of problems," Barlow told news agency ANI.

Reports and declassified accounts suggest that Israel and India had allegedly planned a preemptive airstrike on Pakistan’s Kahuta uranium enrichment plant, the core of i

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