Pakistani General Parvez Musharraf who always claims of restoring the bonhomie between the two nations was behind a possible threat of Nulear Strike on India.
The warning has been described in the latest volume of former British communications director Alastair Campbells’ diaries, The Burden of Power, it said. Campbell was told about the eight-second threat over a dinner in Islamabad Oct 5, 2001, hosted by Musharraf.
British Paper The Guardian reported about this incident quoting that Pakistan could launch a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds, an army general boasted in 2001 in Islamabad.
In his diaries, Alistair Campbell writes: “At dinner I was between two five-star generals who spent most of the time listing atrocities for which they held the Indians responsible, killing their own people and trying to blame ‘freedom fighters’.
“They were pretty convinced that one day there would be a nuclear war because India, despite its vast population and despite being seven times bigger, was unstable and determined to take them out.”
“When the time came to leave, the livelier of the two generals asked me to remind the Indians that ‘it takes us eight seconds to get the missiles over’, then flashed a huge toothy grin,” he added.