HONG KONG, Dec 14: President Gen Pervez Musharraf charged India with trying to use Afghanistan to damage Islamabad’s interests and asserted his government was not sponsoring any violence in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

“India just wants one thing. They want to damage us. Anything they want to do in Afghanistan, the purpose is only one: How to do something which will be used against Pakistan, that will damage their cause. That is their sole purpose,” President Musharraf said in an interview to the Far Eastern Economic Review published on Friday.

The interview was conducted before Thursday’s terrorist attack on the Parliament House in New Delhi.

He said India had invited the future Afghan interior minister Younis Qanooni and “they must have planted something in his mouth to say” in a bid to harm Pakistan’s interests.

“We are not bothered. I am very sure we want to play a positive role in Afghanistan,” President Musharraf said.

Gen Musharraf reiterated Pakistan’s known position on the Kashmir issue that it wanted to have a “negotiated settlement” of the “dispute”.—PPI