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http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/09/26/musharraf-interview.html
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/09/26/musharraf-interview.html
Musharraf defends war effort, downplays Canadian losses
Last Updated Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:27:08 EDT
CBC News
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf told CBC Tuesday that the Canadian military casualties from fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan have been insubstantial compared with those suffered by Pakistan.
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf told CBC's Carol Off on Tuesday that his government is doing all it can to root out the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and that Pakistani military losses have been much more substantial than those suffered by Canada. (CBC) Musharraf reacted angrily to the question of whether his government was doing enough to root out the Taliban and al-Qaeda and their sympathizers.
"We have suffered 500 casualties," he said. "Canadians may have suffered four or five."
Musharraf said any nation that enters a war-torn area must be prepared to suffer casualties or get out of the operation.
"You suffer two dead and you cry and shout all around the place that there are coffins," he said. "Well, we have had 500 coffins."
Since deploying in Afghanistan in 2001, 36 Canadian troops and one diplomat have been killed.
'In the line of fire'
Musharraf made his comments in an interview from New York, where he was promoting his memoir titled In the Line of Fire.
He dismissed the suggestion that Canadian soldiers could help alongside the Pakistani military in his country, made by Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor recently.
"Nobody comes on our side," he said. "I would not like to challenge the Canadian troops, but I can assure you, our troops are more effective and we have more experience at war, and this shows a lack of trust in Pakistan."
Musharraf alleged in an interview that aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday that American officials had threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age unless it assisted with the U.S.-led war on terror after the Sept. 11 attacks.
President George W. Bush, during a press conference with Musharraf, said he was unaware of any such threat.
Musharraf supported the Taliban when they arose in the 1990s in Afghanistan, claiming they brought much-needed stability to a region ravaged by decades of conflict.
Earlier this month, his government signed a peace agreement with tribal leaders in the northwest region of Waziristan after years of fighting.
Critics have expressed concern that the deal would only further facilitate cross-border raids that the Afghan government has heavily criticized.
Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will meet with Bush on Wednesday.
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