Kayani cancels London visit

Kayani was due to meet the Britis­h Defenc­e Secret­ary Liam Fox.


Afp September 26, 2011

LONDON: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has cancelled a visit to London for talks on Monday, the British Ministry of Defence said, amid growing US allegations of Pakistani links to insurgents.

Kayani had been due to meet with British Defence Secretary Liam Fox.

"My understanding is that the meeting was cancelled due to diary commitments," a defence ministry spokesman told AFP, adding that the meeting had been due to cover an "overview of defence matters."

The spokesman would not say when Britain received notice that the meeting had been cancelled.

US officials last week accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) of involvement in the September 13 attack on its embassy in Kabul and a September 11 attack on a NATO base in central Afghanistan.

Kayani, a former ISI chief, on Friday said the US accusations that the agency was supporting the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network were "very unfortunate and not based on facts".

Kayani called his top generals for an extraordinary meeting at the weekend.

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COMMENTS (28)

observer | 12 years ago | Reply

@Maulana Diesel

Pakistan is no Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army will fight man to man and alter the game in the region. If America thinks Pak Army a Republican Guard or Rag Tag Taliban Militia, they are mistaken.

TTP has been hitting targets in Pakistan at will, including Army HQ and PNS Mehran. TTP at best has 5000 fighters, no tanks, armoured vehicles or air support. US presence in Afghanistan has about 100000 fighters,tanks,armoured vehicles and air support.

You draw your own conclusions.

Sultab Ahmed | 12 years ago | Reply

I am watching dark clouds,rising up on the western sky the same moving toward Pakistan,be alert every one ,God is with us.

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