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Pak started war with India in 1965, but achieved nothing: Durrani | The Indian Army crossed the international border to launch
full-fledged war against Pakistan in 1965 because "low-level skirmishes were started from this side," said Pakistan's former National Security Adviser Mahmood Ali
Durrani. "We started the intrusions on the borders, and I think we should think
about the Indian response at that time," said Durrani. He said the high-level
military command was not involved in "a strategy to disturb India", but politicians
knew about what was happening along the border. Durrani told Najam Sethi on his
Dunya News programme on Sunday that the then Foreign Affairs Minister Zulfikar
Ali Bhutto also had no idea that India would cross the international border. Durrani
said he had participated in two wars, and "I now think Pakistan did not achieve
anything from these wars". "We should extend (a hand of) friendship towards India,
and start peace talks to settle disputes," he said. Durrani said former US Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice had arranged negotiations between Pervez Musharraf and
Benazir Bhutto. He said he was "very sad" over Benazir's assassination in Rawalpindi.
Durrani said he accepted President Asif Ali Zardari's invitation to join his government
as the National Security Adviser after taking Musharraf into confidence. He said
he had floated an idea in India that the neighbours should soften their visa regimes,
but the Indians had some "security-related reservations". Durrani, also a former
ambassador to the US, said there had only been speculation about Israeli and Indian
involvement in Zia-ul-Haq's plane crash. He also rejected the statement by former
president Ghulam Ishaq Khan that the presidential plane was blown up in the air,
and said Zia's plane was destroyed while landing. |
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