ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Muslim nations should have nuclear weapons to deter their enemies, Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday in Islamabad, but added that his ideal would be global nuclear disarmament.

Mahathir, addressing a seminar in the Pakistani capital, flayed U.S. foreign policy and Israel, and said Muslims were enjoined by their faith to defend themselves.

"They need to have nuclear nuclear weapons too, because only (through) the possession of such would their enemies be deterred from attacking them," Mahathir said in a speech titled "Clash of Civilisations or Clash of Interests".

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