Pakistan’s president offered to visit Israel and mediate a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority. “If I were accepted as a neutral mediator by all sides, I would most certainly be able to play a big role,” Pervez Musharraf said Saturday in an interview broadcast by Al Arabiya television. “I would go to Israel and meet leaders there or maybe in a third country,” he said. “Let us wait and see if there is a possibility to visit Israel.” Pakistan, an Islamic Asian country that has made efforts to close ranks with the United States in its war on terror, in recent years has warmed ties with Israel. But it has conditioned full normalization on an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
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