Narendra Modi does not want peace with Pakistan, says Pervez Musharraf

Connecticut, April 25

Amid already strained ties between the two neighbours, Pakistan’s former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf (retd) further added fuel to the fire by stating that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not interested in making peace with Pakistan, while adding that New Delhi is now run by a “hardcore religious party”.

“Indian Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) doesn’t want peace with Pakistan. In Pakistan people are religious but never elected a religious party; on the contrary, India has elected a hardcore religious party,” Musharraf said at an interaction with journalist Bob Woodward at Yale University.

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Commenting on concerns over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the former President said if Islamabad is not worried about the US-India relations, then Washington should not be worried about the growing Pakistan-China relations.

“If economic value is coming to Pakistan why should we be concerned? As far as Pakistan is concerned we need to look at the CPEC as per our point of view,” he added.

He also claimed that his regime was serious about fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants groups as it was in the interest of the country.

He noted that it was due to the actions of US-Pakistan that religious militancy was born.

“In 1979 the US wanted to stop the expansion of the Soviet Union and Jihad was initiated unitedly by the US and Pakistan,” he said. ANI