Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday accused India of trying to “destabilise’’ Pakistan and said that if the West did not come to its rescue “then Pakistan has to take its own measures’’.
"Pakistan has to be protected. If you don't help, if no-one helps and instead is helping the other side, the side which is trying to disturb and destabilise us, well, then Pakistan has to take its own measures," he told Sky News in an interview from his home in United Arab Emirates.
Mr. Musharraf also alleged that India was creating an “anti-Pakistan Afghanistan’’ and said “America has to realise that’’.
The interviewer said that he was “most concerned over the threat he sees coming from the developing relationship between America, India and Afghanistan’’.
Asked what he thought Pakistan should do and whether it meant working with the Taliban, Mr. Musharraf said: "We must understand the protection of Pakistan is everything as far as I’m concerned. If someone is disturbing that I will go to any extent to protect Pakistan, because that's what I'm meant for. So you can see the answer yourself."
