Candid as it may seem coming from a Pakistani head of state, India cannot take such honest confessions at face value.
We have heard this time and again that there are extremists on both sides including Pakistan, who given half a chance, would do anything to derail the peace process. On the wake of the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan's foreign minister did not make a responsible statement in tune with the ongoing peace initiatives.
Well, if Musharraf feels there are extremists who are against his peace initiative with India, he can track, if he wants to, and hand over or convict Dawood Ibrahim and arrest members of groups suspected of terror attacks in India. For that he can use the information available with Indian authorities, instead of creating unnecessary legal and diplomatic bottlenecks and finding loopholes in proofs among proofs.
Unless Musharraf literally goes on an overdrive as he usually does to safeguard his mentor Bush and Blair's nations from attacks conceived and planned in Pakistan by overseas and resident Pakistanis, he cannot be seen here as a Pakistani military ruler with honest intentions of peace with India.
