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Pak must clamp down on Haqqani: US
The Pakistani government must act to clamp down on the Haqqani network, blamed for the attack on the US embassy in Kabul, a White House official has said.
Aboard Air Force One: The Pakistani
government must act to clamp down on the Haqqani network,
blamed for the attack on the US embassy in Kabul, a White
House official has said.
"The Pakistani government needs to take action to deal with the links that exist there," said spokesman Jay Carney, adding "the Haqqani network is responsible for attacks on the US embassy in Kabul and on ISAF as well as some others." The alliance between Pakistan and the United States in the 10-year war in Afghanistan and against Al-Qaeda hit rock bottom this year in the wake of the unilateral American raid that killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad on May 2.
In a series of escalating rows, Washington accused Pakistan`s Inter-Services Intelligence agency of involvement in the September 13 attack on its embassy in Kabul and a September 11 attack on a NATO base in central Afghanistan.
The White House has since demanded that Pakistan "break any link they have" with the Haqqani network, which was founded by former CIA asset Jalaluddin Haqqani and is run by his son Sirajuddin -- based in North Waziristan.
Amid the mounting tensions, Pakistan`s army chief General Ashfaq Kayani on Monday scrapped a visit to London as Islamabad refused to bow to mounting US demands for action against the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani.
Pakistani army spokesman General Athar Abbas said the visit had been "postponed indefinitely" but would be rescheduled. Abbas put the decision down to "the current situation at home" but refused to elaborate further.
PTI
"The Pakistani government needs to take action to deal with the links that exist there," said spokesman Jay Carney, adding "the Haqqani network is responsible for attacks on the US embassy in Kabul and on ISAF as well as some others." The alliance between Pakistan and the United States in the 10-year war in Afghanistan and against Al-Qaeda hit rock bottom this year in the wake of the unilateral American raid that killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad on May 2.
In a series of escalating rows, Washington accused Pakistan`s Inter-Services Intelligence agency of involvement in the September 13 attack on its embassy in Kabul and a September 11 attack on a NATO base in central Afghanistan.
The White House has since demanded that Pakistan "break any link they have" with the Haqqani network, which was founded by former CIA asset Jalaluddin Haqqani and is run by his son Sirajuddin -- based in North Waziristan.
Amid the mounting tensions, Pakistan`s army chief General Ashfaq Kayani on Monday scrapped a visit to London as Islamabad refused to bow to mounting US demands for action against the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani.
Pakistani army spokesman General Athar Abbas said the visit had been "postponed indefinitely" but would be rescheduled. Abbas put the decision down to "the current situation at home" but refused to elaborate further.
PTI