As they say "Never explain! Your friends don't need it and your enemies wouldn't beleive it. Anyway it's purposeless!" Do you sincerely believe that the Americans (with all their technical expertise and satellite spying) and the Chinese (a closed society in whose hotel Musharraf was staying then) aren't in the know as to what was the reality? Wouldn't it be naive to believe that the American intelligence system did not pervade the Pakistani set up and possibly to a lesser extent in comparison the Indian State? Then for whose knowledge the Vajpayee Govt played these tapes- to Congo? to Maldives? or like those who do not matter either way? Like Morarji Desai who blurted out to Zia thereby finishing off the Indian mole, Vajpayee Govt would only have succeeded in getting the Indian moles in the Pakistani set up finished or they played it to their own people. Whatever we may say, the old Cong Govts, like anglosaxons know how to govern, these JPs and BJPs are good at rhetoric and worse in delivering the goods!
