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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44666)	9/22/2003 4:35:18 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Pakistan needs Iraq, OIC support for sending troops to Iraq: Musharraf (Updated at 1650 PST) UNITED NATIONS: The president of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said that his government needs more military and intelligence help from the United States to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and more political support from Iraqis and the Islamic world before it can send troops to help stabilize Iraq. The idea of contributing forces to a multinational contingent authorized by the United Nations in Iraq, General Musharraf said, is extremely unpopular among Pakistanis. General Musharraf spoke in an interview with a US daily after his arrival in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting here this week. He reacted testily to criticism that his government had not done enough in the two-year-old campaign against Al Qaeda and the remnants of the former Taliban government of Afghanistan. He also argued that progress had been made toward controlling the mountainous tribal regions on Pakistan's northwestern border with Afghanistan but said his government needed more resources - specifically helicopters - to tighten its control and act on reports of terrorist movements. But General Musharraf said there was good coordination with Americans. speaking of the vast, mountainous border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said one cannot sweep the area with a military operation. Nobody can do that. The U.S. forces are not doing that on the Afghanistan side also, he said. They select areas where they launch operations, and these operations are launched with our coordination on this side. Coordination between the Pakistani and American intelligence agencies is continuing, he said. He also reiterated that Pakistan had full control of its nuclear abilities and was not, to his knowledge, transferring its nuclear technology to Iran or North Korea.