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Indian elements in Afghanistan destabilising Pakistan: Pak senator |
The chairman of the Pakistani Senate's Foreign
Relation Committee, Senator Mushahid Hussain, today alleged that Indian elements
in Afghanistan are responsible for destabilising Pakistan. Speaking to reporters
on the sidelines of a seminar titled "Terrorism -- National and International"
on Tuesday, Hussain accused India of having adopted the principle of its politician
guru and master strategist Chanakya, who postulated that 'the enemy of my enemy
is my friend'. "Our neighbour India, somehow takes vicarious pleasure in the fact
that Pakistan is facing the menace of terrorism, which is a common enemy of mankind
and perhaps India is basing its premise on the old principle of Chanakya (Indian
politician, strategist and writer from 350 BC-275 BC). "So, in that perspective,
there is a view in Pakistan that from Afghanistan, Indian elements are destabilising
Pakistan," said Hussain. India hopes to deliver goods to Afghanistan through the
Iranian port of Chahbahar, and this has triggered fears in Pakistan that it is
being encircled. Pakistan is also consistently alleging Indian spy agencies for
fomenting trouble in restive Balochistan province. The issue also figured in the
India- Pakistan joint declaration issued by Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan
at Sharm-al-Sheikh earlier this year. Hussain said if India doesn't stop playing
games, the corridor of terrorism might end up in India as well. "There is a corridor
of terror which is now stretching from Iraq and it may end up in India if India
does not stop playing those games. This issue is too serious to be confined to
gloating or exulting to problems faced by neighbours. We are at the same boat,"
he added. Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, in a recent interview to
a television channel, had alleged that India was encouraging unrest within his
country by funding Taliban fighters based along the border with Afghanistan. However,
Defence Minister A K Antony today refuted Pakistan's charge of India funding Taliban
and terms the claim as "baseless". |
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