BERLIN: Former President Pervez Musharraf has said he felt there was conspiracy to weaken Pakistan but nothing could happen to the country as long as the armed forces were intact and strong. In an interview with German Magazine, he said anyone who wanted to weaken and destabilize Pakistan just had to weaken the Army and their intelligence service, ISI, and that was what was happening. Lots of articles have been written claiming that Pakistan will be divided, that it will fall apart or become Balkanized. Musharraf said he was totally against the Obama’s term “AfPak”. He said he did not support the word itself for two reasons: first the strategy puts Pakistan on the same level as destabilized Afghanistan, second there was an Indian element in the whole game. “We have the Kashmir struggle, without which extremist elements like Lashkar-e-Taiba would not exist,” he added. He said there were many Indian extremists who had links with extremists in Pakistan. So if the world was serious about combating terrorism, he said, they should not leave India out. Originally, he said, Richard Holbrooke was supposed to be the US special representative for all three countries, but the strong Indian lobby in America prevented that. To another question Musharraf said Indian intelligence service RAW was interfering in Pakistan. One of the most brutal insurgents against Pak forces, Brahamdagh Bugti, the grandson of the late Nawab Bugti, was sitting in Kabul, protected by the Afghan government and provided with weapons and money by the Indian intelligence agency RAW, he said. He said he had his own training camps and sent his fighters to Balochistan where they terrorized people and damaged the civil infrastructure. “RAW is also interfering in the Swat Valley,” he said adding all these Taliban fighters in Swat got their arms and money from Afghanistan.
