Nuclear Strike within 8 seconds theory

Islamabad : Alastair Campbell, a key aide of Tony Blair, has claimed that Pakistani generals has warned him that Pakistan could launch a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds. 

He writes that, “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. 

Pakistani nuclear warnings came during a visit by Blair to the Subcontinent after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. 

Campbell was told about the eight-second threat over a dinner in Islamabad on 5 October 2001 hosted by Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan’s president. “When the time came to leave, the livelier of the two generals asked me to remind the Indians: ‘It takes us eight seconds to get the missiles over,’ then flashed a huge toothy grin.” 

Tony Blair visited Pakistan less than a month after the 9/11 attacks as Britain and the US attempted to shore up support in Islamabad before the bombing of Afghanistan, which started on 7 October 2001. Campbell writes that the Pakistani leadership seemed to be keen for Britain and the US to capture Osama bin Laden. 

The news came at a time when India and Pakistan are in talks with each other on many issues including Siachin and trade. Pakistan is still blocking Nato supplies towards Afghanistan for more than 8 months now, after Nato attack on a Pakistani border check post which killed 26 Pakistani troops,  The Post was established to stop infiltrations across border. Pakistan is demanding an apology from western countries.