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Friday, September 30, 2011
Pakistan never backed Haqqani group: ISIISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Intelligence chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha on Thursday denied US accusations that the country supports an Afghan militant group blamed for an attack on the American embassy in Kabul. “There are other intelligence networks supporting groups which operate inside Afghanistan. We have never paid a penny or provided even a single bullet to the Haqqani network,” General Pasha said after a meeting with political leaders on heavily strained US-Pakistani ties. US military action against insurgents in Pakistan would be unacceptable and the country’s army would be capable of responding, Pasha told a meeting of political leaders in Islamabad, according to media reports. “American attack on Pakistan in the name of (fighting) extremism is not acceptable,” he said. Mullen, speaking in an interview aired on Thursday, said the ISI was giving the Haqqani group financial and logistical support and “sort of free passage in the safe haven.” “They can’t turn it off overnight. I’m not asserting that the Pakistan Army or the ISI has complete control over the Haqqanis. But the Haqqanis run that safe haven,” he told National Public Radio. reuters
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk