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It was a guess: Musharraf

WASHINGTON, FEB. 14. The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, has said his belief that the abducted American journalist, Daniel Pearl, was alive was just a ``guess.''

Asked on what basis he had said he was ``reasonably sure'' that Pearl was alive at a news conference after his meeting with the U.S. President, George W. Bush, Gen. Musharraf said in an interview to PBS Newshour on Wednesday, ``well, it was a guess. Well, I can't be 100 per cent sure of it. But since we have closed on, honed on, on all those people involved in the crime and it's only those who have kidnapped him who are left now, I thought that we are closing in on him.''

- PTI

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