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Musharraf says Modi good for India but aggressive towards Pakistan
Former Pakistan President and Army Chief Gen Parvez Musharraf has said that PM Narendra Modi is good for India but bad for Pakistan. In an exclusive interview to News Nation, Musharraf said,”Modi is doing fabulous job for India. He is doing very well.” He also added that Modi is not good for Pakistan. “As far as Pakistan is considered, he is an aggresive person and war mongreror.”
The general defended Kargil war that the two countries fought when he was Pakistan army chief. “Kargil was an apt reply to India”, said Musharraf. It would not have been called off had the US not intervened and “I as a General did the right thing.”
He also supoorted the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attack Hafiz Saeed saying that he is not a terrorist.
Hafiz Saeed “Sahab” and organisations like Lashkar may be terrorists for the United States and India, but certainly not for Pakistan.
He also said that the people who are waging war against the establishment in Kashmir are “Mujahideen and not terrorist”.
Reacting to the US president Donald Trump’s tweet on aid to Pakistan he said that the USD 33 Billion US aid to Pakistan is a misnomer. “During my regime USD 10 billion were given by the US to Pakistan as aid, of which $ 5 billion were for reimbursement of services rendered by Pakistan during US war against terror.”
On Pakistan’s bonhomie with China, he said “Our country came closer to China after US sanctions post 1965 war, and we were forced to buy tanks and other war hardwares from China”. China also helped us when US slapped sanction after the Pressler amendment.
“China is Pakistan’s friend in need, the way your relations are with US,” he said adding ” I personally shared a close relationship with the US Presidents, which no Indian leader ever had.”
On Kashmir issue, he said, “I tried hard to solve the Kashmir imbroglio once and for all times when I met former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Agra”.
General Musharraf said, “Dictatorial regimes in Pakistan have brought considerable progress, but democracy is important for our country and wished to return to Pakistan as soon as he got an opportunity”.
