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India creating 'anti-Pakistan' Afghanistan: Perv
[Al Arabiya] Pakistain's former leader Pervez Perv Musharraf said Tuesday that India was trying to create a hostile state in Afghanistan as he hit back at criticism of his country's role in fighting snuffys.
It's like he read the WaPo piece yesterday ...
Musharraf, who is touring the United States as part of a comeback bid, said he has seen photographs of Kabul-based "Pakistain terrorists" -- a likely reference to Baluchistan separatists -- meeting in India with intelligence agents.

"If I'm allowed to be very, very frank, India's role in Afghanistan is to create an anti-Pakistain Afghanistan," Musharraf, a military ruler who stepped down in 2008, said at the Council on Foreign Relations.

"This is very clear to me. There are consulates in picturesque Kandahar and Jalalabad (which) are actually involved in creating trouble in Pakistain. They have no other role," Musharraf said.

"Why wouldn't the consulates be somewhere in the north facing Uzbekistan and Tajikistan?" he asked.

India has consulates in the southern cities of picturesque Kandahar and Jalalabad -- but also in Mazar-i-Sharif in the north and Herat in the west. The Indian embassy in Kabul was targeted in an attack last year claimed by Talibs.

Pakistain has long voiced concern about India's role in Afghanistan.
They do see Hindooz ev'rywhere, don't they ...
US officials have given little credence to the assertions, with President Barack B.O. Obama in a speech Monday to the Indian parliament praising New Delhi's assistance to the war-torn country.

India, not a traditional donor, has committed $1.3 billion to Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime and is building roads, power lines and a new parliament building.
Whereas the Paks contribute guns, ammo, intel and protection to the Taliban. It's a real division of labor ...
Pakistain had been the chief supporter of the Taliban but Musharraf switched sides after the September 11, 2001 attacks and assisted U.S. forces that overthrew the hardline regime.

Musharraf bristled at criticism that Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders -- including perhaps Osama bin Laden -- have been able to escape U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan by crossing into safe havens in Pakistain's lawless border areas.
They're not in the lawless border areas, they're at the guest suite in the Quetta Hilton ...
"Pakistain is trying its best. Why is the responsibility only on Pakistain?" Musharraf said. "Why is the responsibility of their coming into Pakistain not the fault of Afghan forces and US forces and coalition forces?"

"It should be shared at least 50-50 -- we are at fault, you are also at fault," he said.
Posted by: Fred 2010-11-10
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