Monday, January 28, 2008

Report: Barak met secretly with Pakistan's Musharraf last week

By Haaretz Service, 27/01/2008

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (left) and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. (Archive)












Defense Minister Ehud Barak met last week in secret with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Channel 2 reported Sunday.

According to the report, the officials held two meetings in Paris - the first one brief, and the second one approximately an hour long.

Barak expressed to the Pakistani president his concern over the growing strength of extremist Islamic movements in Pakistan, and said he feared Pakistan's nuclear weapons would fall into the hands of extremists.

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