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CIA bounty dropped from Musharraf book

Nirupama Subramanian

ISLAMABAD: The Urdu translation of President Pervez Musharraf's book "In the Line of Fire" has dropped the part about the CIA paying bounty money to the Government of Pakistan in exchange for the capture of Al-Qaeda suspects.

The Dawn reported that while the Urdu version keeps the part about capturing the suspects in the chapter called Taaqub or Manhunt, the bit about earning "millions of dollars" and the CIA prize money had been dropped.

When confronted with this controversial line from his autobiography by journalists in New York two days after launching his book, Gen. Musharraf said he had made a mistake, that the money did not go to the Government and that he would rectify it in the next edition.

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