{"id":20770,"date":"2025-11-08T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/knew-f-16s-could-deliver-nukes-ex-cia-officer-makes-major-claim-on-pakistan-recalls-warning-of-enemy-within\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:35:04","slug":"knew-f-16s-could-deliver-nukes-ex-cia-officer-makes-major-claim-on-pakistan-recalls-warning-of-enemy-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/knew-f-16s-could-deliver-nukes-ex-cia-officer-makes-major-claim-on-pakistan-recalls-warning-of-enemy-within\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Knew F-16s could deliver nukes\u2019: Ex-CIA officer makes major claim on Pakistan; recalls warning of \u2018enemy within\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">\u2018Knew F-16s could deliver nukes\u2019: Ex-CIA officer makes major claim on Pakistan; recalls warning of \u2018enemy within\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Former CIA officer Richard Barlow revealed that US Presidents certified Pakistan as a non-nuclear state until 1989, despite intelligence showing modified F-16s could deliver nuclear weapons. Washington prioritized Pakistan&#039;s Afghan war cooperation over non-proliferation, even tipping off Islamabad about an operation to arrest a nuclear smuggler.<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/knew-f-16s-could-deliver-nukes-ex-cia-officer-makes-major-claim-on-pakistan-recalls-warning-of-enemy-within\/articleshow\/125177809.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts \u2018Knew F-16s could deliver nukes\u2019: Ex-CIA officer makes major claim on Pakistan; recalls warning of \u2018enemy<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}