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In his upcoming book titled “JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War”, Bruce Riedel, one of America’s leading experts on South Asia and counter-terrorism, has said that Pakistan had a golden opportunity to shatter the backbone of Indian army in 1962 during the Sino-Indian war but US President John F Kennedy intervened to hold Pakistan back.
In his program ‘Dunya Kamran Khan Kay Saath’ on Friday, Kamran Khan highlighted the points from the book concerning Pakistan. Bruce Riedel in his book has explained how Pakistan had a golden opportunity to get Kashmir freed in 1962 but John F Kennedy told Ayub Khan not to intervene in the war. Ayub Khan, Riedel goes on, asked the US government to play its role in resolving Kashmir issue as a bargain to abstaining from intervening in Sino-Indian war. Riedel says that though the US agreed to what Ayub had demanded, they never played any role in solving the longstanding riddle.
The book says that Chinese army surged into Indian territory in 1962. At this time, Kennedy ordered emergency airlift of supplies to the Indian army. Meanwhile, Kennedy government engaged Pakistan army into diplomatic negotiations and thus holding them back from intervening into the war. Ayub Khan was unable to take a decision due to the American pressure and as a result, Pakistan failed to exploit the biggest opportunity that came its way to get Kashmir freed.
It is pertinent to mention here that Qudrat Ullah Shahab has also mentioned in his famous book ‘Shahab Nama’ how a Chinese diplomat came to inform him about Chinese attack on India and gave him a covert message that it was also the right time for Pakistan to attack India but when Shahab told him of his encounter with the Chinese diplomat, Ayub Khan snubbed Shahab, saying the senior bureaucrat had no idea about military movement.
In his upcoming book titled “JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War”, Bruce Riedel, one of America’s leading experts on South Asia and counter-terrorism, has said that Pakistan had a golden opportunity to shatter the backbone of Indian army in 1962 during the Sino-Indian war but US President John F Kennedy intervened to hold Pakistan back.
In his program ‘Dunya Kamran Khan Kay Saath’ on Friday, Kamran Khan highlighted the points from the book concerning Pakistan. Bruce Riedel in his book has explained how Pakistan had a golden opportunity to get Kashmir freed in 1962 but John F Kennedy told Ayub Khan not to intervene in the war. Ayub Khan, Riedel goes on, asked the US government to play its role in resolving Kashmir issue as a bargain to abstaining from intervening in Sino-Indian war. Riedel says that though the US agreed to what Ayub had demanded, they never played any role in solving the longstanding riddle.
The book says that Chinese army surged into Indian territory in 1962. At this time, Kennedy ordered emergency airlift of supplies to the Indian army. Meanwhile, Kennedy government engaged Pakistan army into diplomatic negotiations and thus holding them back from intervening into the war. Ayub Khan was unable to take a decision due to the American pressure and as a result, Pakistan failed to exploit the biggest opportunity that came its way to get Kashmir freed.
It is pertinent to mention here that Qudrat Ullah Shahab has also mentioned in his famous book ‘Shahab Nama’ how a Chinese diplomat came to inform him about Chinese attack on India and gave him a covert message that it was also the right time for Pakistan to attack India but when Shahab told him of his encounter with the Chinese diplomat, Ayub Khan snubbed Shahab, saying the senior bureaucrat had no idea about military movement.
