Pakistan rejects report on Afghan Taliban cooperation
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, June 18, IRNA -- Pakistan on Thursday rejected a report that the country’s major intelligence agency provides funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban.
The London School of Economics (LSE) said in a report this week that support for the Afghan Taliban was "official policy” of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit at a press conference rejected the LSE report and said the report doesn't meet the basic standards of research and is not worth attention of Pakistan.
To another question he said Pakistan is supportive of Afghanistan-led process of reconciliation and reintegration in that country and wants the process to be genuine.
He hoped that the international community would give due consideration to the recommendations evolved by the peace Jirga or council in Kabul held early this month.
The spokesman said Pakistan is fully prepared to play its role for peace and reconciliation because peace and stability in Afghanistan is in our long-term interest.
The LSE author had claimed that Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested that ISI intelligence agents even attend Taliban supreme council meetings.
Afghan Taliban has also dismissed the report as a ‘drama’ staged at the suggestion by Western nations.
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End News / IRNA / News Code 1183712
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