Pakistan on Sunday said that President Pervez Musharraf had been incorrectly quoted by a German magazine, which reported him as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons. "The President has not been correctly reported," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani told AFP.
He said that President was asked whether Iran was anxious to develop a nuclear bomb, to which the President replied that he "did not know", Jilani said. Earlier, Iran had demanded that President Musharraf should explain his claim that Tehran was keen to obtain a nuclear bomb, and repeated its assertion that it only wants to generate electricity.
Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said he believed it was "very unlikely that Mr. Musharraf said such a thing, because he knows better."
"We hope that the Pakistanis explain that this report was distorted," Asefi said. "I would say there was a distortion, and it is unlikely that such comments were made. "We are insisting we are not seeking such weapons," he added.
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