Osama bin Laden was Pakistan's hero, says Musharraf

Musharraf's revelation is proof that Pakistan which claims to have no interference in Kashmir has been training terrorists and giving them a safe haven to fuel terrorism in the region.

Islamabad: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf in an interview admitted that Kashmiris were trained in Pakistan as Mujahideen to fight against the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir.

He called jihadi terrorists as Pakistan's heroes. He also said that terrorists Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Jalaluddin Haqqani, and others were Pakistan's heroes.

In an undated interview clip shared by Pakistani politician Farhatullah Babar on Wednesday on Twitter, Pervez Musharraf can be heard saying, Kashmiris who came to Pakistan received a hero reception here. We used to train them and support them. We considered them as Mujahideen who will fight with the Indian Army. Then, various terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba rose in this period. They were our heroes.

• Gen Musharraf blurts that militants were nurtured and touted as 'heroes' to fight in Kashmir. If it resulted in destruction of two generations of Pashtuns it didn't matter. Is it wrong to demand Truth Commission to find who devised self serving policies that destroyed Pashtuns? https://t.co/5Q2LOvl3yb

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  Gen Musharraf blurts that militants were nurtured and touted as 'heroes' to fight in Kashmir. If it resulted in destruction of two generations of Pashtuns it didn't matter. Is it wrong to demand Truth Commission to find who devised self serving policies that destroyed Pashtuns? https://t.co/5Q2LOvl3yb

  — Farhatullah Babar (@FarhatullahB) November 13, 2019

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  Gen Musharraf blurts that militants were nurtured and touted as 'heroes' to fight in Kashmir. If it resulted in destruction of two generations of Pashtuns it didn't matter. Is it wrong to demand Truth Commission to find who devised self serving policies that destroyed Pashtuns? https://t.co/5Q2LOvl3yb

  — Farhatullah Babar (@FarhatullahB) November 13, 2019

During the interview, Musharraf also said that terrorists like Osama bin Laden and Jalaluddin Haqqani were Pakistani heroes.

In 1979, we had introduced religious militancy in Afghanistan to benefit Pakistan and to push the Soviets out of the country. We brought Mujahideen from all over the world, we trained them and supplied weapons to them. We trained the Taliban sent them in. They were our heroes. Haqqani was our hero. Osama bin Laden was our hero. Ayman al-Zawahiri was our hero. Then the global environment changed. The world started viewing things differently. Our heroes were turned into villains, he stated.

Musharraf's revelation is proof that Pakistan which claims to have no interference in Kashmir has been training terrorists and giving them a safe haven to fuel terrorism in the region.