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The foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar of Pakistan has warned the US not to accuse Islamabad of supporting militants. The minister said that US could lose Pakistan as an ally if accusations continued.
She told the media that the US could not afford to alienate the government of Pakistan and its people.
In a recent attack in Kabul, the most senior US military officer Adm Mike Mullen accused Pakistan’s spy agency (ISI) of supporting the militant Haqqani group. He blamed the attack on the US embassy and other buildings directly on ISI and Haqqani group.
Hina Rabbani Khar was attending the UN General Assembly when she told the media, "You (US) will lose an ally."
"You cannot afford to alienate Pakistan; you cannot afford to alienate the Pakistani people. If you are choosing to do so and if they are choosing to do so it will be at their own cost," she added.
Earlier Adm Mike Mullen assured theSenate panel that, "The Haqqani network… acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency". Ms Khar was responding to the testimony of Mullen. As Mullen also said, "With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted a truck bomb attack [on 11 September], as well as the assault on our embassy."
Moreover Mullen said, "We also have credible intelligence that they were behind the 28 June attack against the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul and a host of other smaller but effective operations."
Earlier this month, Washington said if the Pakistani authorities failed to take action against the militants, Haqqani network, then Washington could target the militants in Pakistan.
On the other hand, Pakistan said it had taken very strict actions whenever it received information about certain militant groups.
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