Former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief General Hamid Gul (Retd) said on Wednesday that neighbouring country India besides Embassy in Kabul had opened ten Consulates in various other cities, set up 45 terror training camps while keeping 20 intelligence units in war-torn Afghanistan.
"Why she had kept so many intelligence people there and what are they doing in Afghanistan who is giving training, suicide jackets and money to our these teenager children to carry out terrorist attacks on our security institutions to destabilise Pakistan?" said General Hamid Gul in a TV program in the wee hours of Wednesday, while referring to India.
India, than the US, was more concerned about it. When the work on the Gawadar port started, the Indian gave us a note inquiring the reasons to build this port, the former ISI chief replied in fluent Punjabi when program anchor Dr Ajmal Niazi asked him whether the US wanted to seize the newly developed Gawadar seaport.
India in fact, he said, aspire to see Pakistan the weakest, the feeblest and the smallest and at last a failed state. General Gul suspected the statement of President Pervez Musharraf in which the latter had claimed that the US after 9/11 had threatened him to sent Pakistan into a stone age if the co-operation for war on terror was not offered.
General Musharraf, he said, sold himself very cheap just for uniform and power. The US, otherwise, was pleading for co-operation in certain areas, but Musharraf put everything into her lap. "When we ourselves got blackmailed, the US made us a butt," he said, adding: "We are not just a country of only 170 millions people, rather we are an Ummah (a Muslim fraternity held together with the force of religion Islam).
Giving other reasons besides foreign hand in the terrorist attacks in Pakistan, former DG ISI said when the ruler at the behest of the US bombed hundreds of male and female students, including minor children, in Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid in Islamabad and President Bush stated the bloodshed was a part of their policy after that the situation at "our internal front has gone out of control." He believed the small and young girls who fortunately chose exit from Jamia Hafsa during the last year's military operation; after returning to their houses and villages had taunted and scolded their brothers and cousins urging them either die or take revenge of massacre of "our friends and class fellows". This factor, he said, was also contributing to the spree of unabated terror attacks here.
Asked about Pakistan Interior Minister Lieutenant General Hamid Nawaz's seeing the US and Afghanistan behind terror attacks in Pakistan, Gul said such talk didn't matter after siding with them for eight years. "It was too late to say such things".
He alleged that America had launched missiles and bombs in the Tribal areas. In Bajour she killed 86 children while twenty-six of them were Hafiz-i-Quran. General Gul was of the view that America was a 'stubborn' and 'unbridled' power, which was committing blunders after blunders while the 'Nature' had its own arrangement for such 'rampant'.
He recalled that after the then USSR intervened in Afghanistan in late 1970s, he at a stage visited China and asked Chinese friends for 'practical' support. Though the Chinese held the request against their policy but still they said: "You will win" which gave us a lot of consolation and with the blessings of Allah Almighty "we won at last."
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