*WASHINGTON- *Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf has said therewas a bias between treatment of India and Pakistan when it came topossession of nuclear assets.
In an interview with Voice of America, Mr Musharraf said the US “ditches”Pakistan when convenient, and favours India instead. “Nobody asks India tocontrol their (nuclear) assets. No one questions India’s possession ofnuclear threats. Pakistan became a nuclear state because India posed anundeniable existential threat,” he said.
“The US should’ve stopped them, we’ve been loyal to them throughout,” headded.
Mr Musharraf has said his country and India were on the path ofreconciliation when he was president but that was no longer the casebecause Prime Minister Narendra Modi “isn’t an advocate of peace talks”.
Mr Musharraf said when he was at the helm, “I spoke to both the PrimeMinisters, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. They both wanted tomove forward from the disputes” between the two countries.
Mr Musharraf recalled how he had worked out a four-point peace formula tosolve Siachen and Kashmir disputes between the two nuclear neighbours.
“We were working on my strategy because both sides wanted to have peace.This is not the case anymore. They want to undo us…Modi wants to enforcesupremacy in India,” he said.