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Musharraf again with Fareed Zakaria CNN
Jan 28th
View CNN Video (here) Read interview below: This is a rush copy and may be updated. Interviewed 8 November 2009. ZAKARIA: As we try to make very clear on this program, you can’t talk about the United States’ problems in Afghanistan without talking about the problems with Afghanistan’s next-door neighbor, Pakistan. Now, for almost 10 [...]
Chris Cuomo interviews Musharraf
Jan 27th
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sat down for an interview with “Good Morning America” co-anchor Chris Cuomo Sept. 23, 2009. The following transcript of their interview has been edited for clarity. CHRIS CUOMO: Mr. Musharraf, let’s start with you and your future. Have you given thought yet to returning to Pakistan, returning to power? PERVEZ [...]
Musharraf on Frontline with Kamran Shahid and related controversy
Jan 27th
Interview given on 13th September 2009 A particular section of this interview by General Musharraf, was misquoted and misinterpreted by the international, Indian and Pakistani media. Indians including the Indian Minister for external affairs Shahsi Tharoor , accused General Musharraf and Pakistan of misusing the US aid, and cited these media reports as proof of Pakistan’s mala-fide intentions in its [...]
Musharraf interviewed by SPIEGEL
Jan 27th
7 June 2009 – In a SPIEGEL interview, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, 65, discusses the dramatic situation in Pakistan, where army troops are fighting Islamist extremists in the Swat Valley, his people’s ambivalent relationship with the United States and his country’s failures in combating the Taliban. SPIEGEL: Mr. Musharraf, there’s a bon mot that states [...]
War on Terrorism in Pakistan’s National Interest
Jun 23rd
Written by: Afreen Baig War on Terrorism (WoT) did not start with the advent of 9/11, rather it started in 1980’s when Russia was defeated in Afghanistan, and the USA pulled out abandoning the hundreds of thousands of equipped and trained guerillas. Those guerillas and militants integrated in small pockets in various regions of Afghanistan [...]
