I know that The Daily Show isn’t the place for serious talk, but the way Pervez Musharraf has been going on a “yes-I-said-this-no-I-didn’t” trip regularly these past few days, this was worth a chuckle for me.

Everyone and their dog knows that Musharraf appeared on the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Tuesday night. Jon Stewart blasted him with a poker-faced question out of the blue to start off the interview…

As a gesture mirroring Pakistani hospitality, Stewart welcomed Musharraf with a cup of jasmine green tea, and offered the more American delicacy of a Twinkie. Musharraf chuckled and thanked the host, though Stewart promptly changed the subject.

“Where’s Osama bin Laden?” he asked suddenly.

“I don’t know,” replied Musharraf. “You know where he is? You lead on, we’ll follow you.”
[Source: The Norman Transcript. Emphasis mine.]

And this is what Musharraf had to say in an interview. And it was on the same day as the appearance on The Daily Show!

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he believes fugitive Osama bin Laden to be hiding in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, and has rebuffed French intelligence reports that Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan.

‘It is not a hunch,’ Musharraf told The Times, London’s correspondent in New York
[Source: Rediff.com. Emphasis mine.]

As the saying goes, all in a day’s work for the back-stabbing General!!

Well ok… there’s no such saying. But there could be! ;)