US left Pakistan high and dry: Musharraf

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf [ Images ] 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 [ Images ] 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.

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"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.