'Indira Gandhi had a plan to attack Pakistan's nuclear base'!

The Dhaka Times Desk Indira Gandhi, the late former Prime Minister of India, is again in the media. According to the news, 'Indira Gandhi had a plan to attack Pakistan's nuclear base'!

According to media reports, the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, wanted to launch a military attack on Pakistan's nuclear facilities after returning to power at the Center in 1980. His aim was to keep Pakistan away from nuclear weapons capability. Such information has come out from the information published by the US intelligence agency CIA.

A CIA report titled 'India's Reaction to Nuclear Developments in Pakistan', prepared on September 8, 1981, was reported in the media as saying that 'the United States went a long way toward selling F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan.'

According to the 12-page 'declassified' report published on the CIA website in June this year, Indira Gandhi was very worried about the progress of Pakistan's nuclear program. He came to know that Islamabad is not far from making nuclear weapons. The reason is that at that time the Pakistani administration was trying to collect plutonium and enriched uranium very quickly. And so Indira Gandhi was thinking of a military operation in Pakistan as an advance protection of the country.

The CIA wrote in their own report, 'If the situation does not change in the next two to three months, Indira Gandhi may strike Pakistan.' However, he later refrained from attacking Pakistan. This is how the plan of the late former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi came up in the media.