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Leaked NATO report 'frivolous', says Pakistan
Pakistan committed to non-interference in Afghanistan, says foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit.
FO spokesman says Pakistan committed to non-interference in Afghanistan PHOTO: AFP/FILE
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday hit out angrily at a leaked NATO report accusing its security services of secretly aiding the Afghan Taliban, calling it “frivolous” and “not worth commenting on”.
“This is frivolous, to put it mildly. We are committed to non-interference in Afghanistan and expect all other states to strictly adhere to this principle,” foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP.
A senior security official condemned the leak, as reported by the BBC, which also broadcast a documentary “Secret Pakistan” last year accusing parts of Pakistan’s intelligence service of complicity with Taliban militants.
“The report is not available, leaks not worth commenting,” he told AFP.
“We are also committed to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process,” Basit said.
“Pakistan has suffered enormously because of the long conflict in Afghanistan. A stable and peaceful Afghanistan is in our own interest and we are very much cognisant of this”.
Report not analysis of progress: ISAF
A spokesman for NATO forces in Kabul has said that the leaked report is not an analysis of the progress of the military campaign.
The document “may provide some level of representative sampling of Taliban opinions and ideals but clearly should not be used as any interpretation of campaign progress,” said Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings.
Cummings told AFP: “The classified document is a compilation of Taliban detainees’ opinions and ideals based on their comments while in detention.
“It’s important that this context be understood and extremely important not to draw conclusions based on the Taliban comments.”
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Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil and put your foot in mouth whenever there is an opening!!
Bury your head in the sand and cat will go away!!
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Hostile Agencies is as usual trying to malign ISI by using such tactics as it is only biggest hurdle in their achievement of objectives.
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Its funny isn’t it? The Americans are themselves talking to Taliban now. Talibans have officialy opened their office in Qatar.
Now anyone pointing fingers at Pakistan for talks or links should shove it where sun don’t shine.
Pakistan is gonna stay here and not the invaders from half a world away. We should do what is in our best interest.
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same old language and same old story of denial. where will it finally lead us? sad but true that people of Pakistan do not see what entire world sees loud and clear.
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We Pakistani nation demand that if CIA don’t stop interfering in fragile administration of Pakistan then we must respond them and use any means to stop CIA from these interference.
Long live the people of PAK and US.
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End of memogate is followed by NATO’s leaky gate. What a coincidence.
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“This is frivolous, to put it mildly” To put it strongly, NATO itself is frivolous, and even European scholars are calling for its disbandment or restructuring.
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American intelligence agencies are inefficient
What they have come up with is common knowledge
Or is it that they are after Pasha and kiyani
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First frivolous OBL amd now this frivolouluty!
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@Pundit:
Enough of all these propagandas isnt it…..
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Our own Intel agencies have some questions to answer here too. On whose behalf are you backing a militant group in another country? certainly not mine. Its time to dis-own this fanatic ignorant bunch. you will see that the Pakistani taliban will also disappear overnight as foreign intel agencies (especially afghan with CIA support) will no long feel compelled to organise reciprocal attacks through their proxies.
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Tell you , what is Frivolous ! That Pakistan’s lack of ever producing any reports in relation to any incident within the Nation ! its bit rich to talk about others transparency when one is burying their heads in the sand !!!!
People of Pakistan deserve better than these lot to rule over them !
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We all know that reports from the BBC are the same as reports from Afghanis. All reports about events there cannot be trusted as they are manipulated by Indian agents there. For the last 60 odd years, Afghanistan has functioned as a puppet state for the Indians.
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That’s right! Everyone else in the world is either a liar, frivolous or a puppet/agent of another state. And all of them have ulterior motives. Pakistan, on the other hand, is always truthful and is an innocent victim of foreign conspiracies. Indeed, left to ourselves, we would have solved all our problems (since they were never of our own making) and would by now be one of the world’s leading countries and would even have established a colony on Mars and solved world hunger. Strange, how the rest of the world can’t see how great we are . . .
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@Maria:
And reports from PAK are to be trusted. Oh please! The rest of the world has a much different point of view as to what is believable and what is not.
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@Harry Stone:
And by rest of the world you mean the rest of the corporate world?
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