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It did not happen this way. Paki did not convey through US that they would use nukes. It was in the latter part of Kargil when India had started using LGB s to bomb enemy positions and the Kargil plan started to fail. Mushhy mobilized nuke missiles from storage which was detected by USA. At that point Clinton called up Mushy and asked him to stop mobilizing nuke missiles. Then he called up Vajpayee to know where he would stop. Vajpayee told he had no intention of attacking Pak or bombing anything across the LoC. His operation would be limited to our territory. But he would respond to Pak nuclear blackmail too if things went that way. Then clinton promised deescalation and ordered Musshy to take back the nukes, which he did.Dude! You're just twisting words to justify your blurb!
Pakis officially conveyed through Bill Clinton that they would use nuclear bombs during Kargil conflict. Clinton called Vajpayee to stand down! Vajpayee literally dared Pakis to use their nuclear weapons and promised to wipe out the entire country of Pakistan in return!! Same threat was repeated after 26/11, again via US intermediaries (McCain), but this time Manmohan Singh didn't have the balls! Vajpayee even refused a ceasefire - said he would rain bombs & bullets on every Paki on Indian territory.
This IB & LOC construct in just a fiction you (and maybe few others) created! Pakis nuclear doctrine is for use of nuclear weapons when India occupies its territory (beyond LOC or IB is irrelevant; if they made such a distinction then it would be inviting India to take back POK with no nuclear threat!) or if Pakis feel overwhelmed in any way by Indian conventional forces (even without physically crossing LOC/IB!)
Limited conflict under nuclear umbrella was a well tried and accepted phenomenon in Indian military!!!
Pak nuclear threat is suicidal as it talks of using TNW s on its own territory too. They wont use till their existence is under threat. As far as taking back PoK is concerned I dont think its feasible without a fullscale war with Pakis. Bcoz if we ingress PoK, Pak would open other sectors like they did in 1965.