Islamabad: President Pervez Musharraf said on September 24 that Pakistan would not freeze its nuclear programme unilaterally under any circumstances until New Delhi froze its nuclear arsenal.

"Why isn't the world asking Indians to freeze their programme. If they freeze we will also freeze," Musharraf told CNN in an interview.

We have a threat on our eastern border from a country that is about seven times our size. We maintain a strategy of deterrence - conventional and unconventional - to guard ourselves, to ensure that there is a no win situation for our big neighbour", he said.

"There will be no war if there is a no win situation (for India) and we want to ensure there is a no win situation through a strategy of deterrence," said Musharraf, who is currently in the United States to attend the UNGA session.

"We will maintain that deterrence level in conventional as well as in unconventional weapons," he said.

To a question he said it is necessary to resolve the issue of Palestine and Kashmir to remove the prevailing anti-West and anti-US feelings among the Muslims all across the world.

"Why is it that, the perception in the Muslim world is so much anti-West and anti-US," he said observing that the route forward is the resolution of political disputes.

PTI