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Pervez Musharraf addresses a conclave of leaders organised by an Indian media group in New Delhi yesterday. Pic/AP

India and Pakistan must change the way they treat each other and bury a "dirty past" to tackle growing militancy in the region together, Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday.

"The past has been dirty, the past has been bad, but don't put the blame on Pakistan," Musharraf said at a media event in New Delhi late yesterday. "You tried to do damage to us, we were not sitting idle, we tried to damage you."