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ISPR doesn’t deny Haqqani ties
KARACHI: Major General Athar Abbas, spokesman for the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, has acknowledged that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had contacts with the Haqqanis, Geo News reported."Any intelligence agency would like to maintain contact with whatever opposition group, whatever terrorist organization ... for some positive outcome," he told a foreign news agency in a telephone interview.
However, those contacts do not mean that the ISI supports or endorses the organization, he added.
"If someone is blaming us [as] the only country maintaining contacts with the Haqqanis, there are others, too," Abbas said. There is a huge difference between maintaining contacts with such a group to facilitate peace and supporting it against an ally, he said.
He stressed that this does not mean the ISI supports or endorses the organization.
Abbas also added that Pakistan is not the only country, which maintains contacts with the Haqqanis.He also expressed his shock at Mullen’s assertion that Pakistan was complicit in recent attacks against the US Embassy in Kabul.
Courtesy www.geo.tv