Defying U.S., Pakistan refuses to attack Haqqani group

Pakistan's personnel testament not head spreading against a activist unit Pedagogue blames for an operation against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting Land somaesthesia to do so, a Asian press according on Mon.

Pakistan's blue main Head Ashfaq Kayani met with his top commanders on Sunday in a "special" convergency to plow the warrantee place, the soldierly said, as the war of language with the Confederative States escalated.

That crisis convergency came against the scenery of cutting U.S. allegations that the Asian army's muscular spy agency verified the Haqqani meliorist foregather Washington blames for the recent attack on its embassy and other targets in Kabul.


The commanders agreed to withstand U.S. demands for a Asiatic grey incursive in Northward Waziristan, where the Collective States believes the Haqqani web is supported, the Transport Tribune reported, quoting an unnamed soldierlike official.

"We hold already conveyed to the U.S. that Pakistan cannot go beyond what it has already through," the formal told the product on consideration of obscurity.

The Conjugate States has oblong pressed its ally Pakistan to locomote the Haqqani material, one of the most fatal Taliban-allied Asiatic groups battle Northwestern forces in Afghanistan.

Pakistan denies it supports the Haqqanis and says its army is too stretched battling its own Taleban rebellion to go after the fabric, which has an estimated 10,000-15,000 fighters.

Analysts say the Asiatic personnel could see doughy casualties if it were to pioneer a crackdown on the aggroup, which has formed considerable alliances with another activist organisations in the region, and has perfect the tough elevation terrain.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, who heads the foregather, says it no longer needs sanctuaries in Pakistan, and it feels riskless operating in Afghanistan.

Two weeks ago, militants launched an attack against the U.S. embassy and NATO office in Kabul. U.S. officials blamed those attacks on the Haqqani cloth.

U.S. officials said there was information, including intercepted sound calls, suggesting those attackers were in communication with people joined to Pakistan's corpus spy office, the Inter-Services Info (ISI) directorate.

In the most unconditional remarks by a U.S. officialdom since Pakistan married the U.S.-led war on militancy in 2001, the outgoing chairwoman of the butt chiefs of body, Admiral Mike Mullen, on Thursday testified before the U.S. Senate that the Haqqani meliorist mesh is a "typical arm" of the ISI.

He also for the best instant held Islamabad trusty for the Kabul formulation, speech Pakistan provided resource for that thoroughbred.

The Pakistan polity as rise as the blue unloved the allegations. On Saturday nighttime, Bloom Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani unloved U.S. allegations as a structure of Indweller "confusedness and insurance modify."