Musharraf was someone who was easy to hate across the border. He had, after all, risen to the top of the military on the back of the Pakistani army’s Islamist elements, who came into their own (in what had previously been a rather Anglophile, British- and American-trained officer corps) during the decade-long reign of a fundamentalist military ruler, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
穆沙拉夫很容易遭到两国的憎恨。毕竟，他仰仗着巴基斯坦军队中的伊斯兰势力掌握了军权。这些伊斯兰势力在原教旨主义军事统治者齐亚哈克将军长达十年的统治中称雄一时(他们原先则是经过英国和美国培训的亲英美派军官)。