ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The CIA has paid Pakistan millions of dollars for catching Al Qaeda fighters during the five years since the Sept 11 attacks on the United States, President Pervez Musharraf wrote in a memoir published on Monday.

“We’ve captured 689 and handed over 369 to the United States. We’ve earned bounties totalling millions of dollars,” wrote the president in his book titled In the Line of Fire.

“Those who habitually accuse us of ‘not doing enough’ in the war on terror should simply ask the CIA how much prize money it has paid to the government of Pakistan,” he added, while ruing a failure to capture Osama bin Laden, who carries a $25 million reward.

—Reuters