Karzai making Pak a scapegoat: General

8220;He Mullah Omar is in south of Afghanistan somewhere8212;he is not in Pakistan, although President Karzai and everyone keeps saying he is in Quetta.

8220;8230;Absolute total nonsense8230;He has never been in Pakistan8230;they are trying to make a scapegoat of Pakistan and we don8217;t like that at all,8221; Musharraf said.

Maintaining Pakistan is pursuing the right strategy to fight terror, he said: 8220;Even if we are succeeding 20 per cent, 30 per cent8230;the direction is correct, end goal is correct, strategy is correct.8221;

He ruled out a joint US-Pakistan military operation to flush out insurgents hiding in Pakistan, saying 8220;the whole population of Pakistan will rise against it8221;.

When asked why US, Pakistan and Afghanistan have not been able to trace terrorists despite sharing intelligence, he said: 8220;We are trying to locate them by all possible means and we are not being able to8230;They are in the mountains and we do not know whether they are in Afghanistan or on our side, and they keep moving.8221;