Mush has done it again what he's good at doing- Staying in the news but rather through controversies. This time its a book of revelation. His autobiography meant to drop a bombshell on many famous personalities. The timing could have been better but the General seems too desperate to stay in the news. Many are questioning his rephrasing of history and whether he's done that to stir the pot again or to get the sympathy he's loosing back from the West. In a desperate attempt he even accuses India of stealing nuclear secrets from nobody else rather than their disposed nuclear scientist A Q Khan. Thought many personalities including former PM AB Vajpayee have rubbished his claims many are questioning his peculiar ways of promoting the book. Musharaff is one of the few world leaders to have published an account of past events while in the office. Lately he used an official US visit to promote his new book, appearing on various talk shows including a popular CNN comedy show Comedy Central. The cunning host while pouring tea for the General asked him where Osama is. The General initially taken aback confronted him with equal cunningness and replied " I don't know, you know where he is? You lead on, we'll follow you." It was followed by laughter by the crowd present. But the biggest laughter came when the host asked him "George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden -- be truthful -- who would win a popular vote in Pakistan?" to which the General replied "I think they'll both lose miserably". General in not the most famous ruler Pakistan has ever seen but it’s his art of balancing his reputation as the moderate face of Pakistan to his allies in the west and as a "saviour of Pakistan" face to his country that has seen him manoeuvre Pakistan thought the tough times after 9/11. And from what is apparent his book In the Line of Fire is selling well. It sold more than 12,000 copies in the first two days. But what needs to be seen is for how long can he hold his fort with his mix of myth and reality.
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