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Musharraf, who arrived in the US earlier in January for a lecture tour, spent three days last week in Washington and attended a reception hosted by the Middle East Institute.
The Institute's head, former US Ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlain, urged Musharraf, a former commando, to be the next Scholar-in-Residence on Pakistan.
The Middle East Institute is willing to create a special Pakistan chair should Musharraf accept the offer, the Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday.
Sources close to Musharraf said the former military ruler "seems interested in the offer, which will give him the chance to write another book on his experience as the head of a country considered key to US security".
Only a few Pakistanis were invited to the reception hosted by the Middle East Institute. Musharraf did not address the gathering and the guests talked to him in small groups.
Besides Pakistan's US envoy Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan's Ambassador at large Riffat Mahmood, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, former State Department officials Robin Rafael and Daniel Markey, and scholars Stephen Cohen and Marvin Weinbaum attended the reception.
Musharraf met American scholars, think tank experts and friends in Washington before leaving for Pakistan on Saturday evening. The US State Department has indicated that Musharraf might also have met senior officials in the Pentagon during his stay in the US capital.
The US administration provided full protocol and security to Musharraf. The Pakistan embassy in Washington, however, said it did not pay for Musharraf's security during his visit to the US.
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u r the greatest man ever
i think, now the time has come that pakistan should be identified not as a terrorist country but should be recognised as acivilized country. we have lot of universities, we are producing scientists, doctors, engineers , economists, journalists, etc but still we dont have recognition. i think it will be an excelent step for pervez musharaf to accept this position and work for pakistan.
from his speech given to middle east institute, it is clear that musharaff has double standards when it comes to terrorism. while he acknowledges the menace of terrorism in pak and afganistan, he misled the audience by saying that terrorism in india is due to kashmir situation, implying LeT and similar organizations are freedom fighters. middle east institute should not give any scholarship to such a person. it wont serve its purpose. plus, musharaff appears to be an incoherent thinker to say the least.
They basically want to keep him away from Pakistan where he can cause mischief
Mush has found a way to smoothly and honourably quit Pak before things hotted up for him in Pak - a situation he clearly anticipates will arise very soon for him. The talks he was to give in the US did not materialise. Obviously, he feared he would have to face unpleasant reactions and be exposed as one who harmed Pak. The bold and brave soldier and general chickened out, it seems.
holding politicl positions have become lucarative career after retirement, including Maragaret Thatcher and clinton made millions which was a sort of bribery that they could not get in office,but liberally get and official, after they retire. long live political corupption and short live poor citizens poverty and the oppression of the weak by the strong
If you are nice to the US while you are in power, then US will reward you in return with a place on the US soil ! This simple message is meant for all those despots , dictators and powerful leaders around the world !!
With this new found opportunity, Musharraf will again start distorting history and facts with his "straight faced lies" as he has done in his last book. Lies- Is that a parameter of being recognised as Scholar?
The Author of "kargil war" and all type of terror against India following "Zia Ul Haq" knows everything about this topic. He should explain the difference between terrorism against India or another country? How terror against India is justified by him? How terror in Afghanistan is justified by him? He is only a beggar asking for money in the name of fighting his "self produced" terrorism.