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All three did, Musharraf ruled for 8 years and offered friendship in the early time of his rule, the fact that India could not form a good friendship in all those years, is a undeniable proof of India's incompetency/unwillingness to maintain peace with Pakistan. And India's recent behavior with NS and Zardari also solidify this claim.
Wrong. Musharraf only changed his position post 2003-04. He worked first with Vajpayee & then with Manmohan Singfh & came the closest to some sort of compromise (Musharraf-MMS formula). However by 2007 when the agreement was close to being finalised, Musharraf got into a lot of domestic trouble with the lawyer's agitation etc & quickly lost leverage.
When Zardari came to power, it coincided with some protests in Indian Kashmir and the PPP government decided to pull back on some of Musharraf's proposals & wanted more concessions from India. Gen. Kayani ,who during Musharraf's time was said to be on board, pulled back his support for the proposals saying that he didn't want to/couldn't antagonize the Islamic groups. 26/11 happened & then everything became history. That incident, more than anything else severely damaged India-Pakistan peace hopes because it changed India's view towards Pakistan completely. Zardari had very little to offer & there was nothing that could be offered by Manmohan singh either because after 26/11, there is not much of a constituency left in India who looked at peace talks with Pakistan favourably. This was even commented about by the former Indian NSA, Shivshankar Menon.
Sharif came in but quickly ended up playing a cat & mouse game with his army. The killings by beheading on the border during Manmohan Singh's term was meant to derail any talks & it did. The same happened when Sharif & Modi tried their part. Sharif's internal troubles with the marches & his compromise with the army means he is not about to be taken very seriously as someone who can hold on to his part of any bargain. Nothing India can do, especially since Pakistan has now released Lakhvi. There is hardly any meeting point.