DEBKA:
Indian troops have picked up many of these fighters, astonished to find a large number of Egyptians and Saudis, who confessed under interrogation that they had received their orders, destinations, money, weapons and ammunition from former Afghanistan desk officers of the Pakistani SIS.
This intelligence has been passed from New Delhi to Washington.
Thus far, the US president has not obtained an Indian undertaking to confine any military action to Muslim rebel and paramilitary bases inside Kashmir alone. Indian military leaders are eyeing bases inside Pakistan itself near the Kashmir frontier - or even deeper inside the country.
As for Pakistan, Musharraf informed Washington that he would hold his army down to a limited military response to an Indian offensive, only if India does not step out of the borders of Kashmir. But if India strikes inside Pakistan proper, Pakistan would wield its nuclear might against military and strategic targets inside India.
The Indian leader countered with a warning that if Islamabad fires nuclear weapons against Indian targets in Kashmir - or anywhere else - India would unleash the full might of its nuclear arsenal against Pakistani territory [^] destroying large parts of the country.
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