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Pakistan defiantly rides out US pressure on Haqqanis

Bilateral relations likely to go further downhill :

PAKISTAN: Pakistan has stared down an unprecedented outbreak of US fury over its refusal to reign in the Haqqani network, gaining Washington little and teeing relations up for further decline.

When the retiring chief US military officer, once Pakistan’s best American friend, accused Pakistani intelligence of involvement in a 19-hour siege on the US embassy in Kabul, it seemed to signal a sharp change in US policy.

In unprecedented condemnation, Admiral Mike Mullen described the Haqqani network as the “veritable arm” of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). “If they keep killing our troops, that would not be something we would just sit idly by and watch,” Mullen warned on September 22.

Four days earlier, US ambassador Cameron Munter fired the starting gun on a concerted campaign to escalate pressure significantly on the nuclear-armed power long distrusted for its double dealings with terror groups.

“There is evidence linking the Haqqani network to the Pakistan government. This is something that must stop,” he told Radio Pakistan.

AFP

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