Shaheen Sehbai
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
From Print Edition THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL

The NEWS: WASHINGTON: President Pervez Musharraf launched his memoirs here on Monday revealing that before Kargil, India was about to attack Pakistan, Dr AQ Khan may have leaked Pakistan’s nuclear secrets to India, he (Musharraf) never conceded all demands to Secretary Colin Powell on his first phone call after 9/11 and CIA had paid millions of dollars to the government of Pakistan for handing over al-Qaeda terrorists.

Musharraf has also disclosed that another plot to kill him had been unearthed in April of 2005 which was aborted by the ISI when they arrested the main plotter in Islamabad, sleeping at the back of a bus with his cell phone on.

These startling revelations come in his book “In the Line of Fire” released by publishers Simon & Schuster throughout the world today with a ceremony in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations addressed by General Musharraf.

Some of the shocking facts revealed by General Musharraf in his book could embarrass Washington, New Delhi, London, Tehran and many other world capitals but the book is certain to become a best seller in no time, reaping millions of dollars for the publishers and the writer.

Washington is already stunned with the disclosure that Richard Armitage threatened to “bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age”, a fact which Musharraf recalls with regret in his book (Page 201), but his disclosure that CIA paid millions to the government in Islamabad for handing over Al-Qaeda leaders is already causing more embarrassment.

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