Nicosia: Launching a scathing attack on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on October 7 dubbed him as a "dictator of a kind not seen anywhere in the world" and said "I don't think this can last long".

Lashing out at Musharraf for not having any value for Democracy, he said he has usurped all powers and prevented former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif from entering the country to participate in the coming general elections.

"I don't think this can last long," the Prime Minister said.

The Prime Minister said India still wants friendship with Pakistan and that was why he had gone by bus on a peace mission to Lahore. "But the bus got punctured."

"We took the Agra initiative but there again Musharraf kept insisting on freedom struggle in Kashmir which we rejected outright," Vajpayee said.

He sought to allay apprehensions about his coalition government completing its term. "It's running smoothly and will do so."

Vajpayee said while he was talking of peace with former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after his bus journey to Lahore in 1998, Musharraf was plotting Kargil. "Such a big betrayal of trust."

PTI