Imagine the crisis if Lashkar-e-taiba, the jehadi terror group created by the ISI, had claimed to have a nuclear weapon when it carried out the 26/11 terror strikes in Mumbai.

“They don’t have to be truly successful to become powerful. They just have to convince the world that the Pakistanis lost one of the crown jewels,” is what an Indian official told David Sanger, the New York Times’ chief Washington correspondent.