“Could be,” mind you. “Anti-US feeling could be in Pak Army: Musharraf,” from the Sakaal Times, May 19:
WASHINGTON: Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf today admitted that there could be anti-American feeling among a section of the Pakistan army as well as in the public there.
“There’s anti United States feeling in the public and also may be in the army. Yes, indeed,” Musharraf said in an interview attributing this to the feeling among Pakistanis that Washington had abandoned Islamabad and was not a reliable partner.
The former Pakistani President, who ruled the country for about a decade with full backing of Bush Administration, said the US abandoned Pakistan as crucial juncture in the past from 1989 to 2001, which has created doubts in the mind of the people of Pakistan about US’s reliability….
Out to capitalize on the situation, the wily Musharraf tries to attribute Pakistani anti-Americanism to the notion that the U.S. “abandoned” Pakistan, thereby making Americans feel “guilty,” while exonerating Pakistani hostility. All the while, the truth is much simpler: Pakistani anti-Americanism is merely a product of Islamic hostility to all things infidel, such as Americans.