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• After the dissolution of the British Empire in 1947, a predominantly Muslim Pakistan and a Hindu India were created. Kashmir remained a contentious area between the countries
• Today, the overwhelming majority of people in this region are Sunni Muslims
• Kashmir has significant water resources for both countries, and these are needed by both countries. There are over a billion people in India and about 230 million in Pakistan
• In 2019, there was another tension between the countries that nearly ended in nuclear war. The details were revealed by former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

It came after Delhi launched attacks on militants in the territory Pakistan after the attack of Indian troops in Cashmere. Pakistan then reported that it shot down two Indian military jets and captured a fighter pilot.

India has long accused Pakistan of supporting separatist militants in the Kashmir Valley, but Islamabad denies it. Recall that nuclear-armed neighbors have fought three wars since independence from Britain and partition in 1947. All but one involved Kashmir.

Pompeo: India and Pakistan were close to nuclear war

New facts about the strained relations between the countries have been revealed thanks to memoirs former secretary of state UNITED STATES, Mike Pompeo. In In Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, Pompeo wrote that he “didn’t think the world knew how close the India-Pakistan rivalry was to turning into a nuclear fire in February 2019“.

“The truth is, I don’t know the exact answer either. All I know is that it was too close,” it read. Pompeo reports that he will “never forget the night” he was in Hanoi for a summit “negotiating with North Korea over nuclear weapons” when “India and Pakistan began threatening each other during the decades-long dispute over the northern border region of Kashmir.

The former secretary of state writes that he was woken up in Hanoi to speak to one of the Indian officials. “He thought the Pakistanis had started preparing nuclear weapons for the strike. He informed me that India was considering its own escalation,” Pompeo writes. He added: “I asked him to do nothing and give us a moment to sort things out.”

The crisis was averted thanks to American intervention

It was also around this time that the American politician began working with then-national security adviser John Bolton. Pompeo contacted then-Pakistani army commander General Qamar Javed Bajwa and told him what the Indians had told him.

“Unsurprisingly, he believed that India was preparing to deploy nuclear weapons. It took us several hours to convince each side that the other was not preparing for nuclear war,” Pompeo said, adding that ” no other nation would have done what we did so soon.” night to avoid what those countries were thinking.”

Neither India nor Pakistan have so far commented on former Secretary Pompeo’s claims.