evidence: Musharraf publicly said that Pakistanis should not be India-centric in their worldview but periodically reasserted the claim that India was a permanent threat to Pakistan’s existence. His proclamations about ‘enlightened moderation’ were contradicted, on one occasion, by the arrest of over a thousand people under a counter-terrorism law for flying kites in the province of Punjab. [...] Let us examine a few examples of Musharraf’s contradictory positions. He asserted that he wanted peace with India and wanted Pakistanis to change their India-centric worldview. But he did little to examine or change the sources of Pakistan’s India obsession. In his mind, India was still the eternal enemy and Jammu and Kashmir the unresolved business from Partition. With that focus, how he expected Pakistanis to change their attitude toward India remains a mystery. [...] The India-centric view of Pakistanis flows from the centrality of the army in their lives and the continuous projection of an Indian threat in almost all public discourse. Musharraf’s deeply held prejudice that the army’s pre-eminence in Pakistani life could not be compromised led to the dichotomy in calling for abandoning the obsession with India and promising to maintain the balance of power against it at the same time.