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Pak rejects secret US report on backing al-Qaeda in Afghan
Islamabad, Sept 14: Pakistan today dismissed as baseless a US intelligence report claiming that Pakistan helped al-Qaeda members launch their operations in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Islamabad, Sept 14: Pakistan today dismissed as baseless a US intelligence report claiming that Pakistan helped al-Qaeda members launch their operations in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
"This is a baseless report. The document itself says the information is raw. It does not seem to be founded on hard evidence," a senior foreign ministry official told a news agency.
The US intelligence documents made public in Washington claimed Pakistan helped al-Qaeda members launch their operations in Afghanistan in the 1990s and even secretly ran a major training camp used by Osama bin Laden's terror network. The documents, produced by the defense intelligence agency in the fall of 2001 and declassified in a censored version last week, also indicate that legendary Afghan guerrilla commander Ahmad Shah Masood may have been killed two days before the September 11 attacks because he had learned something about bin Laden's plan and "began to warn the west."
In its secret dispatches the Dia warns that the documents represent only Raw intelligence.
The Pakistani foreign ministry official said Pakistan had not yet officially received the report, but said its "contents seems to be absurd and baseless."
"We don't know what the level of clearance is," he said, referring to the declassified censored version of the documents.
Bureau Report
The US intelligence documents made public in Washington claimed Pakistan helped al-Qaeda members launch their operations in Afghanistan in the 1990s and even secretly ran a major training camp used by Osama bin Laden's terror network. The documents, produced by the defense intelligence agency in the fall of 2001 and declassified in a censored version last week, also indicate that legendary Afghan guerrilla commander Ahmad Shah Masood may have been killed two days before the September 11 attacks because he had learned something about bin Laden's plan and "began to warn the west."
In its secret dispatches the Dia warns that the documents represent only Raw intelligence.
The Pakistani foreign ministry official said Pakistan had not yet officially received the report, but said its "contents seems to be absurd and baseless."
"We don't know what the level of clearance is," he said, referring to the declassified censored version of the documents.
Bureau Report