Pak used terror as hedge against India: Clinton

Pakistan used to support terror outfits as a hedge against India and an unfriendly Afghan regime so that its two neighbours do not undermine it, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.

“They (Pakistan) have in the past hedged against both India and an unfriendly regime in Afghanistan by supporting groups that will be their proxies in trying to prevent either India or an unfriendly Afghan government from undermining their position,” she said.

Clinton said things were “changing”, but she could confirm whether Pakistan had stopped use of terror against India and Afghanistan.

“That is changing... Now, I cannot sit here and tell you that it has changed, but that is changing,” she told ABC News in an interview, the transcripts of which was released by the State Department.

Clinton accepted that US had created certain radical outfits and supported terrorists like Osama bin Laden to fight against the erstwhile Soviet Union, but that backing has boomeranged.