News Desk\/Ali Bhai Kamran
\nISLAMABAD
\nFormer President Pervaiz Musharraf has said that Afghan Intelligence Agency, NDS is playing in Indian hands and is being used as a tool for facilitating and promoting groups involved in terrorist attacks in Pakistan.
\nIn an interview with a TV channel, the former military chief said that operation Zarb-e-Azb had no short comings, as it was specifically for North Waziristan.
\n\u201cThis operation cleaned up all the camps and launching pads of terrorist, who are supported by the Indian Spy Agency with the collaboration of Afghan Spy agency NDS, to destabilize the tribal areas.\u201d
\nThe former President said that a holistic approach and planning is very crucial at the moment to curb terrorism in the Country. \u2018\u2018 Lashkar-E-Jhangvi has always been a sectarian outfit and is extensively involved in killing minorities in Quetta.\u2019\u2019
\nHe added that this sectarian outfit\u2019s masterminds are based in Punjab and are actively running sleeper cells, \u2018\u2018what steps are being taken to eliminate these sleeper cells, Punjab has become the strong hold of militancy.
\nMusharraf claimed that in my tenure as a military chief and President of the country, we were succeeding. \u201cWe were able to bring India to the negotiating table and to sort out issues that once India was not ready to discuss\u2019\u2019.
\nAnswering a question that why he did not wipe out these outfits during his tenure, Pervaiz Musharraf refuted that these terrorist incidents and groups did exist during his tenure.
\n\u201cThis all started after I stepped down, we had curved out effective strategy Viz a Viz Kashmir, we were near resolving Kashmir issue with India on four points agenda, our policies were successful , America and China was aligning with us, suddenly what has happened.\u201d
\nHe added that his government was managing freedom fighters in Kashmir, and later it was realized that a political process was required to negotiate further with India.
\nOn the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed, the former military ruler strongly criticized the house arrest of the JUD head.
\n\u201cHafiz Saeed is not a terrorist, it should be established as he runs a very large charity, they contributed to relief activities in post-earthquake and post flood periods in Pakistan.\u201d
\nHe said that Hafiz Saeed is against Taliban and Al-Qaeda and that the nation should not be confused and that India is against them because their supporters go voluntarily to Jammu Kashmir to fight Indian army. \u201cIndia banned them through United Nations,\u201d he added.
\nCommenting on his earlier statements on Masood Azhar, he said that, no comparison can be done between Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed. \u201cMasood Azhar is a terrorist, who is fighting the state of Pakistan.\u201d
\n\u201cGiving up Kashmir cause will not improve anything with India and this opinion of the Pseudo liberals that doing so will improve our relationship with India is absurd,\u201d he remarked.
\nExplaining the strategic importance of Kashmir for Pakistan he said that, \u201call our water flows from rivers located in Kashmir and India has adopted aggressive strategy and it needs to be fight with counter aggressive strategy\u201d.
\nPervaiz Mushrraf said that Pakistan needs proactive approach on the diplomatic front, he added that Indian think tanks are writing about non-military warfare against Pakistan, he added, \u201cunless we don\u2019t improve governance, nepotism and weak leadership, Pakistan will struggle\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News Desk\/Ali Bhai Kamran ISLAMABAD Former President Pervaiz Musharraf has said that Afghan Intelligence Agency, NDS is playing in Indian hands and is being used as a tool for facilitating and promoting groups involved in terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In an interview with a TV channel, the former military chief said that operation Zarb-e-Azb had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n