Admiral Mike Mullen

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Admiral Mike Mullen

The relations between Pakistan and the United States of America is about to worsen further considerably as the American chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen told the Senate on Thursday that Pakistani intelligence services have aided the insurgents who attacked the American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Admiral Mullen went further than any other American official in accusing the Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence of undermining the efforts of the United States in Afghanistan.
The United States has long said that the ISI had ties with Afghan insurgents, especially with the Haqqani network, but Mullen’s affirmations are the bluntest. His words carry a lot of weight because he is about to retire at the end of the month.
Admiral Mullen has been for years the one to attempt to improve the relations between the USA and Pakistan. He said that Pakistani intelligence has long aided the Haqqani network in an attempt to gain influence over Pakistan. He said that at a point the support began directed against some American objectives.
“With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted the track bomb attack in September 2010, and the assault on our embassy,” the admiral told the Senate Armed Services Committee. He said that the army had evidence of the involvement of ISI in the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul on June 28.
Mullen summarized that it was safe to say that Haqqani network acts as a armed force of ISI. Public opinion demands that the coalition in Afghanistan takes on the Haqqani network before the US army is expected to pull out of Afghanistan.
On Thursday, the Pakistani interior minister said that Pakistan would not allow the coalition act on her territory against the Haqqani network in north Waziristan.
The minister seems to indicate that the Obama administration threatened during the meeting on Tuesday with the ISI chief that the American troops were going to enter Pakistani soil to engage the Haqqani.
He demanded the Americans to give Pakistan the information about Haqqani and the Pakistani authorities would deal with them, but “no boot on the ground” of Pakistan will be allowed.
The interior minister said in a meeting with the FBI chief Robert Mueller that Haqqani were not on the Pakistani territory, which the FBI found unsubstantiated.
Pakistan and the United States have been allies in the war against terror, but doubts about Pakistani involvement in the conflict in Afghanistan arouse after the WikiLeaks documents on Afghan war were published.
The documents showed that some of the Pakistani officials had ties with insurgents that were fighting in Afghanistan. Pakistani president Ali Zardari went to great lengths to complain about the release of the documents.
The ties began corroding soon after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The fact that the most wanted terrorist in the world was living in Pakistan compelled the Obama administration to cut off the military support for the Pakistani army.
Mullen’s statement on Thursday is the most serious accusation against Pakistan after the killing of Bin Laden.

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