India balked at Israel's plans to do to Pakistan what it has done to Iran
How - and why - India balked at Israel's plans to do to Pakistan what it has done to Iran
Chidanand Rajghatta
TNN
Jun 14, 2025, 18:16 IST IST
Assessing and possibly admiring Israel's strike against Iran aimed at denuclearising the country, hawks in the New Delhi establishment would be reflecting with some regret of a time in the early 1980s when Israel offered India plans for a similar operation to take out Islamabad's then incipient nuclear program. Peaceniks would be relieved it did not come to that.
According to accounts from that time, related most notably in Deception: Pakistan, the US, and the Global Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, Israel proposed a joint operation to destroy Pakistan's nuclear capabilities, particularly the Kahuta nuclear facility, motivated by concerns over the development of what was termed the "Islamic bomb."
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