Musharraf meets Afghan government, comments on al Qaida

Описание: (7 Sep 2006)
1. Wide shot of Afghan government and army officials and lawmakers gathered at Foreign Ministry for address by President of Pakistan
2. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, get up, Musharraf goes to speak
3. Camera
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan President
"Did they want Pakistan to be like Taliban, Talibanised? No Sir. Nobody in Pakistan in their right senses ever wanted Pakistan to be Talibanised. Talibanisation is not our future. Even then it was not our future. Because Pakistan mainly is a moderate Muslim country, a moderate Islamic state of Pakistan, but it was our geographic ethnic compulsion that we had to site the Taliban."
5. Mid shot journalists
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan President
"Certainly I completely agree that there are al-Qaida and Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Certainly they are crossing from Pakistan side and causing bomb blasts and terrorist activity in your country. Yes indeed, I agree. It is happening. We are seeing, we are doing. We know that, we know they are doing this, but the question is that this is not sponsored..." (by Pakistan)
7. Over shoulder shot of journalist writing
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan President
"We have to fight terrorism with military force, all the force available, and we will carry on doing this, whether it is al-Qaida or Taliban or anyone. We will fight them with force. Number 2: we have to check Talibanisation. One is the militant Taliban we are fighting with force. But Talibanisation, ladies and gentlemen, as I understand, is affecting the society."
9. Mid shot of audience
STORYLINE:
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday acknowledged that al-Qaida and Taliban militants were crossing from Pakistan to launch attacks inside Afghanistan, but denied Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency was helping them.
Addressing Afghan government and army officials and lawmakers at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Musharraf acknowledged that militants were crossing from Pakistan to Afghanistan, but said it was not state-sponsored and that Pakistan was doing its best to stop it.
"I completely agree that there are al-Qaida and Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Certainly they are crossing from Pakistan side and causing bomb blasts and terrorist activity in your country," Musharraf said.
Musharraf said that neither Pakistan nor the ISI (Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence) was involved such activity, adding that Pakistan had deployed 80-thousand troops along its side of the Afghan border.
Musharraf's speech, also attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, came a day after the two leaders resolved to cooperate to fight the "common enemy" of terrorism and extremism.
The meeting in Kabul came as Afghanistan - particularly in the south - faced its deadliest surge of violence since the U.S.-led invasion after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States that toppled the Taliban regime for harbouring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
In his speech, Musharraf said Pakistan had supported the fundamentalist Taliban in the 1990s but that had changed after the al-Qaida attacks on America.
He said Pakistan was saddened by the accusation that it was to blame for every bomb blast and suicide attack in Afghanistan and that it was supporting terrorism inside the neighbouring country.
Pakistan, a key player in the U.S.-led war on terror, has faced the "Talibanisation" of its own frontier regions driven by local tribesmen and

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