Pakistan is reportedly denying that President Pervez Musharraf said Tehran was keen to obtain a nuclear bomb. This according to the mainstream media.
However, what the mainstream media are currently not reporting are other comments that Musharraf made in the same interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine.
Talking about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the Pakistani president [Pervez Musharraf] said he (Sharon) was a “bold man, a great soldier and a courageous leader, but he needed to put more effort into building confidence between the Israelis and Palestinians. He said the Muslim world’s attitude towards Israel and the West would change with peace in the Middle East – that the Muslim world saw as just. He said, “If the EU were to get involved, if Germany were to get involved, I am sure the Muslim world would see it much more positively.”
It will be interesting to see whether or not Pakistan denies that these comments were made.
