Pak has its own options post-Indo-US N-deal: Musharraf

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Gearing up to ask President George Bushto extend the India-US civilian nuclear technology deal to Pakistan as well, President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said Washington concluded such a deal with New Delhi in its own interest and Islamabad has its own options even if Pakistan failed to get such an agreement for itself.

"Every country has certain national interests, the US has its own interests in the region vis-a-vis India, vis-a-vis China, vis-a-vis everyone. They devise their strategy according to their own interest", Musharraf said while addressing a national security workshop at the National Defence College in Islamabad on Thursday.

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has already discounted the possibility of US extending the nuclear deal to Pakistan on the grounds of concerns over nuclear proliferation.

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