Musharraf to address SAARC leaders in India

[A.Rafay]

KARACHI - Former president and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Chairman General (R) Pervez Musharraf would deliver key-note speech on “Uniting South Asia: The Way Forward” at “HT Leadership Summit 2012” today (Saturday) in India.
The summit is being attended by international leaders, think tanks, policy-makers, law-makers, intellectuals and students of politics. According to a statement issued by central information secretariat of APML, this international conference organized by Hindustan Times, was continued since November 16, inaugurated by Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatira.
The schedule of summit’s second day mentioned that following the key-note speech of APML chief Pervez Musharraf, Kapil Sibal, Indian minister for communication and information technology, Professor Sunil Kumar, Dean University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, AkhileshYadav, Chief Minister for Uttar Pardesh, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister of Indian Punjab and others would discuss the various issues mentioned in schedule of the summit. The international political experts are seeing this conference with important eye, terming it the solution-making event. This international event would give the road-map for the peaceful and developing South-Asia.

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[darkinsky]

i want him to come bac and contest the elections

 

[Tridibans]

I don't know why the Paskistanis in general hate him, but personally, I think he was your best leader in terms of control over the social/ economical situation in Pakistan. Actually from an Indian perspective also, I guess he was better. He did started to dismantle the terrorist infra. in Pakistan (albeit under immense US/Ind pressure).
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[Skull and Bones]

Is he coming to India?

I will not visit India ever: Musharraf – The Express Tribune

 

[KS]

I dont even know why the loudmouth is being allowed into India.

 

[A.Rafay]

I don't know why the Paskistanis in general hate him, but personally, I think he was your best leader in terms of control over the social/ economical situation in Pakistan. Actually from an Indian perspective also, I guess he was better. He did started to dismantle the terrorist infra. in Pakistan (albeit under immense US/Ind pressure).
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Only pakistani politicians hate him not public or people of good mentality and civilized, those jiyalas(party workers) of Nawaz and PPP hate him cuz they are corrupt and he exiled them!

India should make concessions: Musharraf

NEW DELHI: Seeking a new start to relations, former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said, between India and Pakistan, India had to be the one more accommodative because it was the bigger country, as a packed house at the HT Leadership Summit 2012 listened in rapt attention.

Musharraf was delivering the keynote address, "Uniting South Asia: The Way Forward."

No stranger to statesmanship, Musharraf harped on both countries displaying the right ‘niyat’, or intention, a word he uttered 11 times, and better leadership.
"Compromise should come from the bigger party. India should have a big heart because it is the bigger country. When the smaller party makes the compromise, it can have negative connotations," he said, suggesting that the latter scenario could be misconstrued as the "bigger party" dominating the other.

"It's doable," he said, talking of resolving Indo-Pak disputes, adding, "There are three essential pre-requisites."

One, a "sincere niyat", he said again. Two, he called for downsizing the roles of bureaucrats and intelligence agencies, since they "find it difficult to break from the past". And three, all of this required a "leadership function".

Musharraf also cautioned India on extremism, saying: "In India, one feels extremism among Muslim youth may be on the rise. Action would be required to neutralise it."

Television journalist Karan Thapar, who chaired the session, introduced Musharraf as, among other epithets, a former dictator. To this, the former Pakistani military chief who took over his country's presidency in a bloodless military coup in 1999 said: "I wasn't a dictator. Just because you wear a certain dress doesn't make you one.

Dictatorship is a state of mind. I don't agree I was a dictator…let's agree to disagree."

He said India-Pakistan relations took the biggest hits whenever both the nations' intelligence agencies got into confrontation and, according to him, sponsored proxy wars. "This lead to a total breakdown of trust and, may I say, we became enemies."

He alleged that because India was in the eastern camp during the Cold War era, its external intelligence agency R&AW and KGB created problems in Balochistan. "But that is a thing of the past. It should not be repeated. That can lead to confrontation again."

In a new prescription for the two countries that have fought three wars, Musharraf said: "A step-wise progress doesn't work because I may want a different step."
Musharraf called Siachen a "minor issue". "We had identified solutions for both Siachen, it's just about fixing a line, and Sir Creek issue".

Both India and Pakistan have disputed territorial claims in Siachen in Kashmir, and Sir Creek, a water strip off India's Gujarat coast.

The former president, who now alternates between residing in London and Dubai and lives off international paid-for speaking engagements, said Afghanistan could face two scenarios when US troops pull out in 2014. "Either Afghanistan goes back to 1989, when the Soviets left and warlords began fighting, or it goes back to 1996, when the Taliban came. If the US leaves a minimum force, then the situation should be maintainable."

He rejected the view among many that Pakistani intelligence knew al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden was in hiding in Pakistan. "There was no complicity. I am 500% sure. There was negligence." So, was Pakistan's intelligence sleeping, Thapar asked. "Even CIA could not see 9/11 happening. Were they sleeping? You should allow the ISI to sleep once (in a while)," Musharraf replied in his wry humour.

 

[Jade]

I know what he is going to say: solve Kashmir everything will be solved

 

[darkinsky]

I don't know why the Paskistanis in general hate him, but personally, I think he was your best leader in terms of control over the social/ economical situation in Pakistan. Actually from an Indian perspective also, I guess he was better. He did started to dismantle the terrorist infra. in Pakistan (albeit under immense US/Ind pressure).
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he also blamed india for supporting terrorists in balochistan through afghanistan, did you took some concrete steps on it?

 

[Tridibans]

he also blamed india for supporting terrorists in balochistan through afghanistan, did you took some concrete steps on it?

Name one Pakistani poiliticain who does not BTW he did more good for India than bad. He was the one who made Pakistan involved in this wot more and more (giving bases to US, transit, etc.). And the result is for everyone to see. So yeah, as an Indian, I am not complaining.

 

[darkinsky]

Name one Pakistani poiliticain who does not BTW he did more good for India than bad. He was the one who made Pakistan involved in this wot more and more (giving bases to US, transit, etc.). And the result is for everyone to see. So yeah, as an Indian, I am not complaining.

i said did you do something about the terrorism india was supporting in balochistan, if you cant take concrete steps then why do you even complain if your terror weapon you use hits you back in return

 

[sachin@india]

LoL .. another shameless general

Musharraf said: “I believe in my honour and dignity. When Indian and Pakistani forces were eyeball-to-eyeball in 2002, I went to attend the Saarc summit in Kathmandu, for which I was permitted to fly over the Indian airspace … I chose to route my plane via Beijing instead.”

I will not visit India ever: Musharraf – The Express Tribune

 

[darkinsky]

LoL .. another shameless general



I will not visit India ever: Musharraf – The Express Tribune

maybe indian embassey apologised him afterwards who knows

 

[sachin@india]

maybe indian embassey apologised him afterwards who knows

do u have any better explanation ?

 

[darkinsky]

do u have any better explanation ?

yeah, india begged him to participate in saarc conference and apologised for inconvenience caused earlier

 

[Parul]

People RANT there Foolish Conspiracy Theories about India's Involvement in Baluchistan Unrest. Is there any Proof, Link or Source which proves India's Involvement?????