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* Former president says India fuelling insurgency in Balochistan to destabilise Pakistan
LAHORE: Former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf blamed Baloch leader Shahzain Bugti for being involved in killings of Punjabis in Balochistan and accused Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif of supporting Baloch insurgent groups, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
Speaking in a talk show, the former president, who is also chief of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), alleged that Shahzain and his cousin Brahamdagh Bugti, another Jamhoori Watan Party leader, were getting arms from India through Afghanistan. He added that New Delhi was involved in Balochistan. “India is also supporting various separatists and insurgent groups of the province and fuelling insurgency to destabilise Pakistan,” he said.
Musharraf claimed that Shahzain was involved in killing Punjabis in different areas of Balochistan, adding that he and other factions had even acquired missiles and anti-aircraft guns to battle the Frontier Corps (FC) and the Pakistan Army. Musharraf also criticised the PML-N’s Punjab government and Nawaz Sharif for supporting Baloch nationalists in their cause, describing it an act of ‘political mileage’. “They (Shahzain and his father Talal Bugti) get state protocol, when they come to Punjab and stay at Raiwind House as guests. Nawaz is supporting them just for his political mileage,” Musharraf said.
To a question about summoning of the ISI chief by a US court, the retired general endorsed the government’s stance, saying, “The ISI chief should never appear before any US court.” “This is impossible, we are an independent country,” he affirmed, adding that summoning of the top intelligence agency official by a US court “is just like the Supreme Court of Pakistan summoning head of America’s CIA”, the channel quoted him as saying.
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