Pervez Musharraf: “They want the politics backed, democratic politics. They don't want a military dictator, which they feel he's become.”

They want the politics backed, democratic politics. They don't want a military dictator, which they feel he's become.

Afghanistan for centuries has been governed loosely through a social covenant between all the ethnic groups, under a sovereign king. This structure is needed again to bring peace and harmony.

For over a century nobody went inside this area. For the first time in our operation against terrorism we debated with the tribal elders and we were allowed entry.

Pakistan is a victim of what is happening in Afghanistan. The world and the United States and whatever discussion we've had is to work out with Pakistan and everything is in Pakistan. Soon half of Afghanistan is under control of the…