Despite US efforts to make Islamabad shed its traditional conception of New Delhi, the Pakistani people still believes that India is a threat to them, a top US army official has said.

“We can argue about whether or not India is a threat to them — I can assure you that the Pakistani people think India is a threat,” Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in his address to US-based think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“That is his (Pak Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani’s) responsibility to address that. So he’s got that front on the East and he’s also moving forces to the West,” Mullen said in response to a question.