Pakistan rejects leak of Afghan war as misplaced
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, July 27, IRNA -- Pakistan has termed as "misplaced, skewed and contrary to factual position on ground" leak of 90,000 military records, which say that Pakistan’s intelligence agency has direct links with Afghan Taliban.
The documents released by the Wikileaks website claims that representatives of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) met Taliban in Afghanistan to help them organize attacks on American forces and Indian targets.
“The people of Pakistan and its security forces, including the ISI, have rendered enormous sacrifices against militancy and terrorism,” the Foreign Ministry said.
“Our contributions have been acknowledged by the international community, in particular by the United States,” the Ministry’s spokesman said in a statement.
The spokesman referred to the statement by the US National Security Advisor on Wikileaks yesterday, who said that the ongoing counterterrorism cooperation between Pakistan and the US will continue with a view to defeating our common enemies.
The documents also say that Islamabad is organizing plans to murder Afghan leaders.
The reports mention ISI's efforts to ‘control suicide bombers’ that suddenly emerged in 2006 in Afghanistan. The reports insist that Pakistan has allowed the ISI to directly meet the Taliban, and that members of the organization are taking part in Taliban meetings to plan Taliban activities and arrange plots to kill Afghan leaders.
According to the documents, Pakistan's support of the Taliban has given the group access to anti-aircraft rockets that could enable the group to even target NATO planes, something which is an issue of concern for Afghan and NATO officials.
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