ISLAMABAD: Senator Lt. Gen (R) Abdul Qayyum Thursday said India wanted to sabotage China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project by creating tension in the region.
Talking to PTV News, he said India could not see Pakistan developing and prospering, so its leadership was issuing provoking and threatening statements to confuse foreign investors and achieve their nefarious design.
The CPEC, he said, would usher a new era of progress and prosperity for Pakistan, which India could not digest.
He regretted that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that his country had supported the Mukti Bahini movement against Pakistan in 1971.
In 2002, the Senator reminded that Modi was Chief Minister of Western Indian State of Gujrat when he (Modi) had led the communal violence and shed blood of innocent Muslims.
He said the hostile statements issued by Indian politicians had exposed the real face of India, which never accepted Pakistan as an independent state since it came into being on August 14, 1947.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was taking up the issue at all appropriate forums effectively; he said adding that the entire nation was united to give a befitting response to India if it opted for any adventure against Pakistan.
