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Q& A: Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan

Terrorism hits home: A Pakistani soldier guards the spot where two suicide bombers rammed President Pervez Musharraf's motorcade on Dec. 25, 2003, the second assassination attempt in 11 days. Musharraf's car was damaged but he was unhurt. Sixteen people were killed. (Associated Press)

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I give proposals, and they don't give counterproposals. They don't comment on my proposals and say I am talking to them through the media.

The Indians say they have not been more forthcoming because of cross-border violence conducted in India by Pakistani-backed terrorist groups.

These are independent groups acting without any guidance or support from anyone, following their own agendas. . . . If the Indians think we sponsor [these terrorist groups], I don't even want to reply to that kind of accusation.

How do you feel you're doing [controlling] the terrorist groups that tried to kill you?

Very well. They have all been eliminated. Either killed or arrested.

Lashkar-i-Taiba and Jaish-i-Muhammad wiped out?

They didn't attack me. Whoever did is gone. And these groups are all banned.

Don't they change their names?

They change their names and they reemerge. . . . We have arrested about 50 percent of them. The rest are underground.

Do you think that Pakistan can eliminate the top [al Qaeda leaders]?

We can, whenever we get targets. We have eliminated their sanctuaries. We have suffered casualties -- about 200 dead soldiers.

People in America can't understand why it's so hard to find Osama bin Laden.

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