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Pakistan Army rejects reports of involvement in Kunduz attack

Taliban last month stormed Afghan city Kunduz, effectively overrunning it in their biggest triumph since 2001

Web Desk October 06, 2015

A picture shared by the Afghan Taliban spokesperson on Twitter purportedly shows insurgents carrying flags in Kunduz city.

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army rejected on Tuesday media reports in Afghan press, which claimed the country’s security officials were involved the recent capture of Kunduz city of Afghanistan by the Taliban.

“The allegations levelled by an Afghan official are totally unfounded, baseless, uncalled for and mischievous,” said an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement.

Taliban militants last month had stormed the Afghan city Kunduz, effectively overrunning it in their biggest triumph since being ousted from national power in 2001.

Read: Taliban takeover in Kunduz echoes Islamic State rout of Mosul

The ISPR said Pakistan was supporting an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process and condemned Kunduz attack, and such allegations were incomprehensible.

“Such accusations are not a responsible behaviour and need not be repeated in the better interest of addressing the actual threat,” the statement added.

Earlier, Pakistan said it will not accept occupation of any part of Afghanistan by any group.

COMMENTS (12)

Reality Stinks | 9 years ago | Reply If US along with the world can't impose their ideology on a helpless nation in 14 years time, why not change course and let them get what they want, what they believe in, leave them on their own. If one can't do it in 14 years time by spending 1 trillion dollars with the help of whole of the world, one has not the capability to do it. Better to accept the reality and retreat than losing another 5-10 years and few trillion dollars more.

wb | 9 years ago | Reply It is ridiculous to suggest that Pak army is directly involved in the operation. Pak army is misadventurous, but not stupid. At best, Pak army may have provided the intelligence, support, logistics to Taliban for the operation.

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Travis | 9 years ago | Reply Even if some of it is true, there will be serious consequences.

Zahid | 9 years ago | Reply Both Abdullah Abdullah and Ghani are mad, they are getting money from India also they speak Indian language and propaganda Both our political and Established not answering these stupid allegation I think our Army Chief should send stronger msg to Afghan government

stevenson | 9 years ago | Reply @nomi: I think world knows that the real problem is India using Afghans as puppet state. Afghanistan can complain all they want but nobody believes that Kunduz was taken over by Pakistani forces. Afghanistan is just the most corrupt place in the world in a league with Somalia.

Raj - USA | 9 years ago | Reply @samir: Let me sum up what you have said in so many words. You want Afghans to surrender to talibans, hand over Afghanistan to talibans and accept taliban rule in whole of Afghanistan. No wonder Afghans do not trust Pakistan.

Np | 9 years ago | Reply Lies do not have long legs. The attempt to use a dead man's name for fraudulent peace talks has damaged Pak credibility. Selective operations that target TTP but give safe haven to Haqqani despite commitments to the contrary have not helped either.Things are 180 degrees from 3 months back. Will not be long before Ggani starts talking the same language that Karzai did.

A J Khan | 9 years ago | Reply @Gul: Its not that Afghanistan credibility. Vested interests wants to pressurize Pakistan & play its dirty game.

Sayed | 9 years ago | Reply When will Afghan govt start taking responsibility for their country? It's easier to point fingers then to put their house in order despite influx of 700 billion dollars by USA. Why can't they admit that Afghan National Army is demoralized due to sheer corruption, misgovernance, and power struggle between Abdullah and Ghani. Who stopped the Afghan army to defend but they preferred to run for their lives. It is becoming a popular sentiment in US as well that Afghanistan is a bottomless pit and they can keep throwing billions of dollars! Now Afghans complain that their army is not well equipped to defend ( Abdullah Abdullah interview to WSJ at Time of UN convention) as if the Taliban came with some high tech equipment. Disclosure: this is not an endorsement of Taliban but critique of Afghan Govt

samir | 9 years ago | Reply This is becoming a comedy. Saw General Campbell's testimony to US committee today, no reference to Pakistan. On the other hand, he spoke about weekly interlock with Raheel Sharif with an emphasis on political reconciliation as the only solution. US is clear on what they want. Northern Alliance govt is living in fool's paradise... and they have lost all credibility in the world. The word being used is lack of Afghan govt capacity to deal with Taliban.. not that Pakistan supports Taliban. Only a matter of time that Afghans will realize that they are infact prisoners of India.. and need to end their civil war that is being drawn out too long to serve India's interests. Afghanistan's destiny is in Afgans hands.. let there be no doubt.

nomi | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistan army needs to realise that this distrust is the direct result of their own policies that they pursued in 80s.

Gul | 9 years ago | Reply Despite the support of Pakistani nation, externally our credibility is extremely low. Most people in the global community would believe Afghans rather than us. It will take decades of truth speaking and completely stopping support to non-state actors.

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