“I am a great supporter of Facebook,” Musharraf said in an interview with CNN television during which he also announced plans to return to Pakistan and to politics.
“And that is why my Facebook was launched and it’s going on very, very successfully,” said Musharraf, whose Facebook page has attracted more than 200,000 fans.
Asked by CNN whether the Pakistani decision to block Facebook was the right move, Musharraf said that “in Pakistan and in the Muslim world generally” there is extreme sensitivity over casting “negative aspersions” on prophets.
“One has to look into, to obviously take some measures, because people were agitating,” Musharraf said.
“These are sensitive issues,” he added. “And for the sake of independence of media, liberty of speech, we cannot hurt sensitivities of millions of people.
“We must not do that. I am against that,” he said.
The Pakistani authorities blocked Facebook on court order after caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed appeared on a Facebook page created by an anonymous member who said he was acting to promote freedom of speech.
Facebook has expressed disappointment at being blocked and said it was considering whether to make the offending page inaccessible in Pakistan.
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