Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has criticised the United States for leaving his country 'high and dry' after 10 years as strategic ally in the war against Soviet Union in Afghanistan and then embracing India in a strategic relationship.
In an interview with Time magazine, being published in its upcoming issue, Musharraf admitted that the man on the street in Pakistan did not have a good opinion of the US, though the vast majority supports his policies because they consider them to be in the national interest.
"Before 1989, we were a strategic ally of the US and fought a war in Afghanistan for 10 years. Then we got left high and dry. The United States then started to have a strategic relationship with India, which was in the enemy camp," he charged.
"What would the man on the street think," Musharraf asked the interviewer.
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