Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
charged Thursday that arch-rival India seeks to "create an anti-Pakistain Afghanistan" as part of a bid to dominate South Asia politically and economically.
Musharraf said Afghanistan sends its intelligence staff, diplomats and soldiers to Pakistain where they are "indoctrinated against Pakistain," something he said India must stop and the United States should be concerned about.
"In Afghanistan, there is some kind of a proxy conflict going on between Pakistain and India," Musharraf told a leadership forum sponsored by the Atlantic media corporation.
"India is trying to create an anti-Pakistain Afghanistan." It's ambition, he said, is to "have a weak Pakistain so that it can be dominated, so that it doesn't have any confrontationist attitude which doesn't go well with India's vision of dominating the region."
Musharraf said he understood that India does not seek to take over Pakistain militarily, but rather it wants to dominate Pakistain in the area of foreign policy, economic policy, trade and commerce.
"That is how you suppress, you control or dominate another country,"according to the former army chief who seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup and resigned as president in 2008.