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Pakistan's top commanders hold emergency session

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Sept. 25,IRNA -- Pakistan’s top military commanders were holding an emergency session on Sunday to discuss the ‘prevailig security situation’, the army said.

The session was called at a time when several top US military commanders have directly accused Pakistan’s mainstream intelligence agency of supporting the Haqqani network for carrying out two attacks on the US embassy in Kabul and US military base in Afghanistan’s Wadak province this month.

US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta threatened unilateral action against the Haqqani network and other Pakistan-based militant groups.

Pakistan has angrily reacted to the US statements and warned that Washington can loose an ally if it adopted aggressive posture.

“A Special Corps Commanders Conference will be held at the GHQ (General Headquarters) Sunday to review the prevailing security situation in the country,” an army statement said.

The army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will chair the meeting which will be attended by all Corps Commanders and Principal Staff Officers, it said.

The statement did not give any more details. But the media is reporting that the emergency meeting was called on Sunday, weekly holiday in Pakistan, in view of the threatening statement by the US military leaders.

The US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen came up with blunt remarks on Thursday that Pakistan’s spy agency ISI supported the Haqqani network in September 13 militants’ attack on the US embassy in Kabul and the September 11 truck bomb attack on the US military base in Wardak which had injured 70 US soldiers.

Pakistan’s army chief had dismissed remarks by Mike Mullen as unfortunate and said Pakistan is neither supporting the Haqqani network nor conducting a proxy war in Afghanistan.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Saturday snubbed the US military leaders and said Islamabad is not responsible for the security of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Gilani in his address to the Islamabad-based diplomats also regretted attacks on Pakistani border posts by militants from Afghan territory despite the presence of thousands of the US and other foreign forces.

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