Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that Afghanistan has become the source of a proxy war between Pakistan and India. He was giving an interview to the Atlantic Media Company, at the Washington Ideas Forum on Thursday.
“In Afghanistan there is some kind of a proxy conflict going on between Pakistan and India. India is trying to create an anti-Pakistan Afghanistan. India’s vision is of dominating the region and its ambition is to create a weak Pakistan.” The former president added.
Musharraf said that many Afghan officials were trained by India. “Pakistan knows well that Afghanistan’s intelligence, Afghanistan’s diplomats, Afghanistan’s soldiers and army; they all go to India for training. Pakistan had offered them free of cost training but not even one man has come to Pakistan for training. “I have been called in India that I am a man of war, but I am a man for peace. I understand the ravages of war, which maybe very few people understand.” Musharraf added.
He said many Americans misunderstood the nature of Abottabad. “People misread that this was a garrison town. Abottabad is a town of about 500,000, roughly. This is a tourist resort. I am very sorry to say that I have seen this on television, but you don’t have walls around your houses. In Pakistan, every house has a wall. And I don’t see on television that anything is unusual in these walls. So I don’t see anything unusual in this house;” he added.
Afghanistan, source of proxy war between Pakistan and India: Musharraf
