New Delhi, July 10: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has "blatantly lied" to the United States about the supply of Pakistani nuclear technology to North Korea, a leading South Asia expert has said. "Musharraf had blatantly lied to US Secretary of State Colin Powell that no Pakistani nuclear technology had been supplied to North Korea," renowned American expert Selig S Harrison told a Pak web magazine.
Harrison, who is the Asia director at Washington-based Center for International Policy, was also quoted as saying, "British intelligence contacts at the Pakistani high commission in London last year obtained incriminating documents that Musharraf was fully involved in supplying uranium enrichment technology to Pyongyang." He told the magazine that the idea of "lionising" Musharraf was wrong as the Pakistani General was "badly isolated at home and was totally dependent on US economic life support for his political survival".
Harrison, a former bureau chief of Washington Post in South Asia, "expressed concern that some of the latest Nodong missiles from North Korea may have been purchased by Musharraf through hard cash originally meant for social uplift," the magazine said. The wearing of caps of the army chief and the President was "a mockery of democracy", he added in the interview. Bureau Report