New Delhi: Former president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, who fought against India in 1965 and 1971 and was at the helm in the 1999 Kargil conflict, has said that Pakistan and India should “bury the hatchet” and focus on poverty and other concrete issues within their countries.
“We need to resolve the long-standing disputes between India and Pakistan because these are the causes of hatred, causes of conflict and the wars,” Musharraf told a media conference in Indian capital New Delhi.
“It’s doable,” he said, talking of resolving Indo-Pak disputes.
Musharraf ruled Pakistan as a military dictator and later as a civilian president between 1999 and 2008. Since then he has lived in exile in Dubai and London.
He said the issues need to be resolved to improve the “socio-economic development” of South Asia, home to hundreds of millions of poor, AFP reported.
“We need to bury the hatchet.” But “compromise should come from the bigger party. India should have a big heart because it is the bigger country,” he said.
Of Kashmir issue, he said: “This is actually the root cause which spawns not only war” but also “religious militancy in Pakistan.”
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