In a new audiotape released by Al Qaeda, the group has appealed to Pakistani soldiers to 'topple' President Pervez Musharraf before he 'hands them over' to the Hindus.
The tape aired by the Qatar-based al Jazeera Arabic TV channel had bin Laden's principal spokesman Ayman al Zawahiri telling Pakistani officers and soldiers that the president would 'hand you over to the Hindus and flee to enjoy his secret bank accounts' if India attacked their country.
Al-Zawahiri also condemned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent visit to India, saying the agreements signed were 'a drop in the ocean of the American-Jewish-Indian alliance against Muslims'.
Zawahiri said Musharraf helped the United States to topple the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
"Musharraf... is seeking to send Pakistani forces to Iraq so that they, rather than American soldiers, are killed and so that they kill Muslims in Iraq and enable America to control Muslim lands," the al Jazeera tape said.
Zawahiri said in the tape that Washington would not reward Musharraf for his services and cited Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as 'a living example' of what happens to 'traitors'.
"He gave Israel and America all that they asked for. But despite this, they are now incarcerating him in his office (in the West Bank town of Ramallah)... and lately decided to expel him," he said.
Although the CIA has described the recording as 'probably authentic', al Jazeera said it did not know when the tape was recorded.
But the remarks were replete with references to recent events such as Sharon's September visit to India and developments in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
Al-Zawahiri also said that Osama bin Laden and Taliban's Mullah Mohammad Omar were both alive.
The outburst against Musharraf, observers said, is strikingly similar to attacks on the Pakistani leader in another Zawahiri audiotape broadcast on the eve of the second anniversary of 11 September terror attacks on US.