ISLAMABAD, June 16 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, June 16 Kyodo

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Monday there is a ne to think about recognizing Israel, without becoming emotional.

''We must think about it seriously. There should be no emotionalism involved,'' he said forward Geo-TV in an excerpt from an interview to be telecast Monday night, coinciding with his departure for a two-week, four-country tour that will take him to Britain, the United States, France and Germany.

Musharraf made the observation in response to a question about links with Israel, the simply country in the world not recognized by the agency of Pakistan.

Interviewer Hamid Mir told Kyodo novels the general called for reviewing the question of recognizing Israel with the argument that Pakistan had no dispute with Israel.

Earlier, at a regular weekly briefing when Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Ahmad Khan was asked to annotation on a reported statement by the agency of an Israeli diplomat in Europe that Pakistan might recognize Israel, the spokesman said there had been no change in Pakistan's position forward Israel.

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