Musharraf offers to mediate

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.