For at least two years, though, Musharraf tried to have it both ways, cracking down at America’s behest on the Islamists on Pakistan’s western border with Afghanistan while sponsoring them on the eastern border with India. A Pakistani-sponsored jihadi attack on India’s Parliament in December 2001 nearly provoked all-out war.
但是至少在两年的时间里，穆沙拉夫想要兼得鱼和熊掌。他一方面按照美国的要求在与阿富汗接壤的西部边境上打击伊斯兰分子，另一方面则在与印度接壤的东部边境上扶植他们。2001年12月，巴基斯坦扶植的圣战者袭击印度议会，几乎引发全面战争。