Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has criticised the United States for leaving his country “high and dry” after 10 years as a strategic ally in the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and then embracing India in a strategic relationship.In an interview with Time magazine that is being published in its upcoming issue, President Musharraf admitted that the man on the street did not have a good opinion of the US though the vast majority supports his policies because they consider them to be in the national interest of Pakistan. “Before 1989, we were a strategic ally of the US and fought a war in Afghanistan for 10 years. Then we got left high and dry. The United States then started to have a strategic relationship with India, which was in the enemy camp,” he charged. “What would the man on the street think,” he asked the interviewer.
