Last month’s armed conflict between the nuclear powers India and Pakistan were on the way to escalate to regular missilkrig, before u.s. officials broke into.
The skrivers Reuters on Sunday, after having talked with several unnamed sources who are familiar with the course.
the Sources include both western diplomats and officials in New Dehli, Islamabad and Washington, as well as an unnamed pakistani minister.
According to the news, India was at one time ready to send six missiles over the border, and Pakistan would reciprocate the attack ’three times stronger’.
Abdul Shakoor sitting in the remains of his home, which in the course of the conflict were hit by indian mortar attacks. Photo: Sajjad Qayyum/Ritzau Scanpix
the U.s. officials with national security adviser John Bolton in the lead should have played a significant role in the deeskaleringen of the conflict.
on the Night of the 27. February was Bolton supposedly in the pipe with India’s national security adviser several times. At that time the situation was intense, since India had carried out several bombing raids in Pakistan, which, as haskell had shot a plane down and taken the pilot captive.
The captured indian pilot under armed escort near the border in Wagah, Pakistan. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
According to the Reuters information hoped the americans, to persuade Pakistan to hand over the pilot, if India, in return, dropped the threat of massive missile launches.
28. February release Pakistan, the indian pilot, but how big the american influence has been, according to a consultant at the defense college, and researcher in the pakistani security policy David Vestenskov difficult to say.
– the Americans have interfered with diplomatic, but I think not in the way that they have been the decisive factor, he says.
According to the Vestenskov have neither Pakistan or India, had a wish that the conflict developed into an outright war.
– I think that both countries have been interested in finding a solution to the conflict, which was satisfactory for their populations, and as the adversary could accept, he explains.
Then there was the here pilot, where you said, ‘here provides an option’, but it is difficult to say whether it has been for american pressure, or has been, an american idea.
on the whole, believe Vestenskov, that the us influence on the indian agenda is limited.
Americans may be some pressure on Pakistan, but I do not think that they can put a critical pressure on India, he says.