Friday, September 29 2006 12:39 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Islamabad: Accusing the Western media of spreading propaganda that Pakistan was not doing enough in the war against terror, President Pervez Musharraf has said suggestions that he dismantle the country's secret service agency ISI for better success on the terror front were 'absurd' and 'ridiculous'.

Addressing the Pakistan media in New York at the end of his ten day tour of the United States, Musharraf recalled a question he was reportedly asked by the BBC suggesting that ISI be dismantled for not succeeding in tracking terrorists.

"It is absurd and ridiculous and what if I say the same about British defense ministry or the MI-6," Musharraf has been quoted as saying by sources.

He said Western media are spreading propaganda that "We are not doing enough in the war against terrorism. They are demanding that the ISI should dismantled and the BBC is leading the propaganda game, but they should not forget that ISI won them the war against USSR and later broke the backof AlQaeda and Taliban in Pakistan".

On the claims in his book that the American Central Intelligence Agency had paid millions of dollars for handing over Al Qaeda suspects, he said it was an 'error' and the money was channeled through 'agencies to those involved'.

Musharraf said there was an error in his book that CIA paid millions of dollars to the Government of Pakistan for help in apprehending terrorists, saying the 'money was channeled through agencies to those involved.'

"However, he made it clear that the money was in the country's economy," the report said.