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Musharraf accuses India of 'buying' its neighbours

K J M Varma in Islamabad

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, who justified his vicious attack on India at the United Nations General Assembly as a 'language of desperation', further upped the ante on Thursday by accusing New Delhi of 'buying' its neighbours through an 'extraordinary doctrine of bilateralism'.

He said New Delhi through this 'high sounding mechanism unabashedly leveraged' its superiority on its smaller neighbours.

India desires to mould South Asian relations to suit its own great power ambition and has unresolved bilateral differences with practically all its neighbours, Musharraf claimed.

"We need to resolve all the disputes within ourselves. Unless the bogey of bilateralism is ended one cannot imagine bilateral justice in the context of South Asia, when it involves India and each one of the members of South Asia. We have to get involved in multilateral or SAARC-based initiatives," he said.

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