Washington, Oct. 24 -- Noting that Pakistan needs to come to a policy conclusion that there's nothing positive for it in fighting with India, former CIA officer John Kiriakou has said that Pakistan will lose any conventional war with India.

In an interview with ANI, Kiriakou, who was in CIA for 15 years and was the chief of CIA counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, also said that the United States could have taken out Abdul Qadeer Khan (AQ Khan), who was deeply involved in Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme and was infamous for nuclear smuggling, if they had adopted Israeli approach but he had support of Saudi government who wanted him to be left alone.

India has said it will not tolerate Pakistan's nuclear blackmail and will respo...