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India playing great game in Afghanistan: Mush
ndia is trying to gain influence in Kabul after the planned US withdrawal by 2014 and President Hamid Karzai is “going along” with it, former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said.
“India is certainly, certainly doing that. And, unfortunately, Afghan Government is going along,” Musharraf told CNN on Sunday in an interview when asked if he saw a new great game beginning where Pakistan and India were struggling for influence in Afghanistan. “I mean, I know that diplomats, intelligence personnel, military men, security people, go to India for training,” Musharraf said, and suggested that similar offers from Pakistan were rebuffed. “I have been bending backwards, asking President Karzai to send people to Pakistan instead of India,” he said. “We’ve opened up all our training institutions free of cost.
Come to Pakistan and we’ll train you. Not one has come.” “What is his game?” Musharraf asked, suggesting that the planned pullout of American troops from Afghanistan due to be completed by 2014 had pushed Karzai closer to India. Musharraf said he did “not at all” trust Karzai.
