Airstrike on Pakistan’s Nuclear Facility!… India’s Intel and Israel’s Mossad Model, but India stopped due to…, bombs were to be dropped by…

New Delhi: It was in the year 1984 when India and Israel planned a covert operation in Pakistan. At the time, there were growing concerns that Pakistan was on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb. Pakistan’s nuclear program was seen as a threat to India.

In fact, back in 1965, Pakistan’s then Foreign Minister, who later became Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had expressed his desire to acquire a nuclear bomb. He had famously said that Pakistan would “even eat grass or leaves, but it will get the nuclear bomb.” After Pakistan’s defeat in the 1971 Bangladesh war, Bhutto took over the country’s leadership and began working on the program.

Following the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India retaliated by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty and cancelling visas for Pakistani citizens. Since the Pahalgam attack, there has been widespread sorrow and anger among the people, and they are expecting a strong response from India—perhaps even an airstrike on Pakistan. Let’s revisit that 40-year-old story, which is being talked about once again today.

What was Israel’s Mossad model that is being talked about?

Let’s go back three years before 1984, to the year 1981, when Israel destroyed Iraq’s nuclear facilities at Osirak. On June 7, 1981, the Israeli Air Force breached the airspaces of three hostile countries—Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt—to enter Iraq and destroy the under-construction nuclear reactor at Osirak. For the mission, Israel deployed eight F-16 fighter jets and two F-15 jets, flying at an altitude of just 120 meters.

Amid all this, there is growing discussion about whether India could also adopt the model of Israel’s deadly intelligence agency Mossad to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. Similar debates were taking place back then too—whether India could stop Pakistan’s nuclear program.

Nuclear Program Based on Designs Stolen from China

It is said that Israel had even offered to help India with this operation and a plan was prepared for it. However, the plan was never executed. Although formal diplomatic relations between India and Israel were established in 1992, the two countries had been in contact with each other long before that. Pakistan’s nuclear program relied heavily on designs and technology stolen from Europe and China.

RAW Uncovered Pakistan’s Nuclear Program

By the late 1970s and into the 1980s, Pakistan’s program was advancing toward acquiring nuclear weapons. This development was a matter of concern for both India and Israel. During this period, India’s intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), discovered that Pakistan was attempting to develop nuclear weapons at a facility in Kahuta, near Islamabad. At that time, India was contemplating retaliation against treacherous Pakistan for the wars of 1965 and 1971. The news of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons development heightened those considerations.

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