Kayani terms Mullen's Haqqani accusations as "baseless"

Kayani denies Islamabad or GHQ engaged with proxies.


Express September 23, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in a statement termed the comments by chairman Joint Chief’s of Staff Committe Admiral Mike Mullen as ‘unfortunate’, and ‘not based on facts’.

(Read: Volley heats up: ISI targeted in bitter Mullen tirade)

In the first official reaction to the slew of public statements made by various levels of the US administration against the ISI and suspected links between the Haqqani network and the Pakistan establishment, Kayani said that he had held a constructive meeting with Admiral Mullen in Spain last week.

He termed the statements following that meeting as very disturbing.

On the question of contacts with Haqqani network, Kayani said that Admiral Mullen knows well which countries are in contact with the Haqqanis. Singling out Pakistan as the chief protagonist is neither fair nor productive, he said.

The COAS also categorically denied accusations that Islamabad or the GHQ was waging a proxy war. Kayani wished that the blame game and public statements would give way to a constructive and meaningful engagement bringing stability and peace to Afghanistan, an objective to which Pakistan was fully committed.

Admiral Mike Mullen while addressing a Senate Armed Services committee on Thursday said called the Haqqani network a “veritable arm” of the Pakistani military intelligence organisation, the ISI. Mullen along with Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said that the ISI was engaged with the Haqqanis, using them as their proxies in Afghanistan, there by indirectly linking ISI to the attacks on the US embassy in Kabul on September 13.

COMMENTS (32)

Cyko | 12 years ago | Reply

why Pakistan wants to be used as an israel for China vs America ......... However,The accusations can't be baseless from America but hey what the hell was raymond davis doing in Pakistan, What was he doing in Pakistan, weren't we ally??

I think : Americans got nothing to take from Pakistan except nukes, rest all is a part of American strategy to start another front against China near China.

Owning trillions of reserves makes American Govt. think twice when China says " Attack on Islamabad would be consider Attack on Beijing"; And thats what American Govt. loves to hear, Economically, Americans are trying to move the business to India, face to face Pakistan.

Yasser | 12 years ago | Reply

@Truthbetold

The US has every business to be in Afghanistan. It was from Afghanistan that the 9/11 attack was planned and executed

It is as true as Iraq had weapons of mass destriction. Waging wars to uplift their economy via weapons sale is core business of America and that what it is doing in Afghanistan.

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