LAHORE: General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday warned India not to fund anti-Pakistan elements otherwise both the countries could return to old confrontation, Business Plus television reported. He said there might be a possibility of India funding the insurgency in Balochistan. He said Pakistan needed to review its attitude towards Israel and should try to improve its relations with it. Ruling out the possibility of martial law in the country, he said there was complete harmony between him and newly appointed Vice Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. He said the current political atmosphere didn’t suit martial law. He said the purpose of forming the National Security Council (NSC) was to avoid any confrontation between the army chief and the prime minister. Musharraf said that 30,000 policemen were being commissioned in Balochistan to help counter terrorism and modernise the police force. He said the military operation in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) was underway to eradicate militants’ hideouts in the area. He said Dr Ayesha Siddiqa had given wrong facts in her book “Military Inc”. “She wrote the book in India and has an anti-Pakistan agenda,” he added. He said the army was not usurping the country’s economics, adding that flour, oil and other eatables were cheaper in Pakistan than India. daily times monitor
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