Its nice to read Mushys point of view but what about others point of view like MR khan, man under house arrest. I wish to read mr khan's book..lets see wat happens next.But one thing is clear Mushy is a clever man he knows how to play his cards he has proved it several times.Seven yrs have passed and nothing has challenged him.Good Luck Mr president

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Aristotle your are right but some things do not need to express. In this book Mr. President have mentioned many things that are totally uncalled for. Like CIA have given millions of dollars for grabing Al-Qaida members. It shows we do not sincere in the war against terrorism and we only hunger of dollars. Many others things are controversial and only depicts one sided point of view.

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Godoo brother actually if u r writting an autobiography then its a very good selling point to unhide things people usually hides.Its factual thing musharraf mentioned in his book.U know 2000+ copies of In the line of fire sold in only two days irrespective of its hi cost.

Well that is what we call business. I was expecting much more sale than 2000 copies !!!

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Best seller doesn't mean that the matter in it contains rational grounds. Secondly many people buy the book to analyse the actual facts. So don't think that if it's a best seller than it must contain the reality.

@Khyber

I totally agree with you that how did mushi manage to write the book, while he had been too busy.


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honorable "IM Possible" latest news according to News group is all bindings of "In the line of Fire" is Islamabad sold.Well u r very right its expectations for sale r much more than 2000.thts y i wrote 2000+

well most honorable qurratulain u didn't get the essence of my words.I said its very good selling point and didn't say its best selling.nwayz in case of Musharraf i clearly acknowledge that action speaks louder than words.Musharraf policies are quite clear what thay are for and on whose demand they are following!...so i would never say In the line of fire contains rational grounds.speically the talk about Kargil issue is still a dispute between Musharraf and PML(N).its time that has to decide whose right whose wrong not Musharruf's book!

IN THE LINE OF FIRE: Nawaz Sharif had long planned to sack me: Musharraf

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: Gen Pervez Musharraf has accused Nawaz Sharif of planning his ouster and “waiting for the right time to strike”, while admitting that “I had already conveyed an indirect warning to the prime minister through several intermediaries, ‘I am not Jehangir Karamat.’” He did not want Sharif to think that he could “violate the constitution so easily again.”

Musharraf writes that Sharif was being fed disinformation to make him paranoid about him by people who stood to gain from his exit. “He was constantly being told that I planned to remove him,” he adds. Musharraf writes that in the third week of September 1999, the prime minister’s attorney general told him that the army was going to remove him that very night but did not identify the source of the intelligence. Sharif confided in his principal secretary Saeed Mehdi who made an effort to identify the source, but did not succeed. This increased Sharif’s “paranoia.” Some days later, Shahbaz Sharif came to see Musharraf in Rawalpindi and was told that he did not care who was made chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, but he wanted to retire Quetta Corps Commander Lt Gen Tariq Pervez who was “ill disciplined” and causing “dissension in the army.” He was also suspected to “plotting” against his chief. When Musharraf met Sharif at a lunch some days later, he was informed of his being made chairman of the JCSC and Sharif also agreed to Gen Tariq Pervez’s retirement.

Next Sharif invited the author and his wife to dinner, earlier having invited them to accompany him for umra. The meal was presided over by Abaji, the Sharif patriarch who dominated the conversation with the two brothers behaving like “little children” and “courtiers”. It was clear to Musharraf that the real decision maker in the family was the father. After dinner, Abaji called Musharraf his son but, according to the general, it was all a “charade” to put his mind at rest while his ouster was being planned.

When the ambitious Gen Tariq’s early retirement was announced in the press, Sharif asked Musharraf’s spokesman to issue a denial but was told that this could only be done with the chief’s permission who was in Colombo.

This infuriated Sharif. Musharraf also learnt that Gen Tariq was planning to make a farewell call on Sharif which he was not required to. By then, according to him, Sharif was in the grip of paranoia. Musharraf then goes on to narrate details of how Gen.Ziauddin was appointed army chief, although the defence secretary had issued no notification and the announcement did not carry the force of the law

26 Sep,Daily times--http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\09\26\story_26-9-2006_pg7_6

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In the Line of Fire: A Memoir is a book written by the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, and first published on September 25, 2006. The book contains a collection of memories of Pervez Musharraf.

Musharraf says in his memoir that he had no choice after the September 11 attacks but to switch from supporting the Taliban to backing the U.S.-led war on terror groups or face an American “onslaught.” Fearing a return to the stone age, Pervez Musharraf agreed to back the U.S. led war against terror. The book also criticizes the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, saying it has made the world “more dangerous.”

Unusual in publishing a memoir while still in power, Musharraf says Pakistan, the United States, and Saudi Arabia created an extremist "monster" by supporting Islamic groups fighting the Soviet Union's 1979-89 occupation of Afghanistan. "We had assisted in the rise of the Taliban after the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, which was then callously abandoned by the United States," Musharraf says. It was within this vacuum that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terror network strengthened, thanks to the support of the Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar, he adds. Pakistan saw the Taliban as a means to end years of chaos in Afghanistan, which peaked during the 1992-96 civil war, says Musharraf, who came to power in a 1999 coup. He says Islamabad also saw the Taliban as a counter to Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, which favored Pakistan's rival, India.

But after the Sept. 11 attacks, Musharraf says, he realized continuing to support the Taliban and have ties with militant groups would set Pakistan on a collision course with Washington. "America was sure to react violently, like a wounded bear," Musharraf writes. "If the perpetrator turned out to be al-Qaida, then that wounded bear would come charging straight toward us." The day after the suicide plane attacks, Musharraf says, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell telephoned with an ultimatum: "You are either with us or against us." The next day, he says, Powell's then deputy, Richard Armitage, telephoned the chief of Pakistan's top spy agency, the Directorate of Inter Services Intelligence, with an even sterner warning. "In what has to be the most undiplomatic statement ever made, Armitage . . . told the director general not only that we had to decide whether we were with America or with the terrorists, but that if we chose the terrorists, then we should be prepared to be bombed back to the Stone Age,"


He also worried about nuclear-armed India, with which Pakistan has fought three wars since their 1947 independence from Britain, including two over the disputed Himalayan region of now divided Kashmir. "The Indians might have been tempted to undertake a limited offensive there (Kashmir); or more likely they would work with the United States and the United Nations to turn the present situation into a permanent status quo," Musharraf writes. "The United States would certainly have obliged." He adds: "It is no secret that the United States has never been comfortable with a Muslim country acquiring nuclear weapons and the Americans undoubtedly would have taken the opportunity of an invasion to destroy such weapons." Musharraf says he thus cut Pakistan's support for the Taliban, despite a possible backlash from radical Islamic groups in his country.

Why should we put our national interest on the line for a primitive regime that would be defeated?" he asks. "Self-interest and self-preservation were the basis of this decision." But Musharraf disputes Bush's argument that the world is safer following the invasion of Iraq, saying he opposed the war because he "feared it would exacerbate extremism, as it has most certainly done. . . . The world has become far more dangerous." Musharraf details some of the 670 arrests of al-Qaida suspects in Pakistan, including the killers of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. But he also concedes al-Qaida and Taliban militants still operate in his country, while repeating his insistence that he has no knowledge of the whereabouts of top fugitives, including bin Laden and Omar. "If I had to guess, I would assume that he (bin Laden) is moving back and forth across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border somewhere," Musharraf writes.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_...Fire:_A_Memoir

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Musharraf reveals how a former top US diplomat threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age if Islamabad did not support Washington's war on terror after 9/11.

On Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Musharraf said, "the initial signs of sincerity and flexibility that I sensed in Manmohan Singh seem to be withering away.

"I think the Indian 'establishment'- the bureaucrats, the diplomats and intelligence agencies and perhaps even the military has had the better of him".

Musharraf also talks about the failed Agra Summit of 2001, which he says humiliated both him and then Prime Minister Vajpayee. After two drafts of the Joint Declaration failed to materialize, which he blames on India backing out.

" I met PM Vajpayee at about 11 o clock that night in an extremely somber mood. I told him very bluntly that there seemed to be someone above the two of us who had the power to overrule us. I also said both of us had been humiliated. He just sat there, speechless. I left abruptly, after thanking him in a brisk manner"

US attack threat

On the US threat, Musharraf writes that he was forced to look at his options, but found that he had none if he took on the United States.


--Our military would be destroyed.
--We had no oil and we did not have the capacity to sustain our economy in the face of a US attack.
Worst of all, we lack the homogeneity to galvanise the entire nation into an actively confrontationist stance.
--Musharraf felt there was more to gain by falling in line with the US.

"We would be able to eliminate extremism from our society and flush out foreign terrorists in our midst. We had been victims of Taliban and al-Qaida and their associated groups for years."

Adverse reaction

But in reality the General was licking his wounded ego. He writes: "Needless to say I felt very frustrated by Armitage's remarks. It goes against the grain of a soldier not to be able to tell anyone giving him an ultimatum to go forth and multiply, or words to that effect."

President Musharraf writes about being hedged in at home while aligning with the US in 2001.

"The mullahs would certainly oppose joining the US. There would be an adverse reaction too in the NWFP. Sindh, Karachi and Balochistan would be lukewarm. The Punjabis would understand me."

9/11 attacks

Terming September 11, 2001 as the day that changed the world, Musharraf writes: "America was sure to react violently, like a wounded bear. If the perpetrator turned out to be al-Qaida, then that wounded bear would come charging straight towards us. Powell was quite candid: You are either with us or against us."

Musharraf also writes about how US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage warned Pakistan.

"In what was to be the most undiplomatic statement ever made, Armitage added, if we chose the terrorists then we should be prepared to be bombed back to the Stone Age."

Al-Qaida suspects

In another startling revelation, President Musharraf in his book has apparently also said that CIA has secretly paid the Pakistan government millions of dollars for handing over hundreds of al-Qaida suspects to America.

The US government has strict rules banning such reward payments to foreign powers involved in the war on terror.

General Musharraf does not say how much the CIA gave in return for the 369 al-Qaida members that he ordered should be passed to the US.

India-Khan links

Musharraf made yet another claim that could make many in the Indian establishment very angry.

He has claimed that India's uranium enrichment programme has connections with Pakistan's rogue nuclear scientist Dr A Q Khan.

India's Department of Atomic Energy in its reaction said, "we developed our nuclear technology on the basis of indigenous research and development.

Musharraf has written in his memoirs:

In early 1999 I started seeing the first signs of some suspicious activities by Dr AQ Khan. I was concerned that Dr Khan might have been involved in illicit activities prior to March 2001, but I strongly believe that we have now ensured that he could not get away with anything more, and that once he was removed, the problem would stop. I was wrong.

Khan carried out secret nuclear transfers to Libya, Iran, North Korea and other countries.

In September 2003 CIA Director George Tenet showed Musharraf a detailed blueprint of Pakistan's P-1 centrifuge that had been seized from Khan's nuclear network.

Investigations revealed that AQ Khan had started his activities as far back as 1987 primarily with Iran. In 1994-95 Dr AQ Khan had ordered the manufacture of 200 P-1 centrifuges that had been discarded by Pakistan in the mid-80s.

These had been dispatched to Dubai for onward distribution. Dr Khan was running a very personalized underground network of technology transfers around the world with his base in Dubai.

The irony is that the Dubai-based network had employed several Indians, some of whom have since vanished.

There is strong probability that the genesis of the Indian uranium enrichment programme may also have its roots in the Dubai-based network and could be a copy of the Pakistani centrifuge design.

This has also been recently alluded to by an eminent US non-proliferation analyst.

The chapter on nuclear proliferation describes in detail how Khan built his nuclear proliferation network with bases in Dubai and Europe - from 1975 when he first offered his services to Pakistan till March 2001 when he retired as chairman of Khan Research Laboratories.

Accusations that India's nuclear programme was based on Pakistan's could very well have ramifications on the Indo-Pak peace process, if included in the published version of Musharraf's memoirs.

Source:http://www.ndtv.com/

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