New Delhi: Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto has accused former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of not keeping his "promise" in 1988 to withdraw Indian troops from Siachen.
Reacting strongly to National Security Adviser M K Narayanan's comments that she had not kept "a number of promises" made to the late Prime Minister during their meeting in Pakistan that year, Bhutto said that she had been "very, very surprised and extremely hurt" by them. "If anyone kept their word, it was me. Not Rajiv," the former Pakistani Prime Minister and PPP leader told Outlook magazine in an interview.
Gandhi had gone back to India after meeting her and "then called me on his way to the Commonwealth (Summit) to say that he could not keep his promise to withdraw from Siachen and that he would do it only after the elections (1989)", she said.
