Washington: Amid a raging controversy over Pakistan's 'memogate', a spokesman for Admiral Mike Mullen has asserted that the former Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee never met or knew a central figure in the controversy. Mullen never met Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who has alleged that Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani, asked for assistance in getting a message from Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to the...
01:24 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan's envoy to US Hussain Haqqani returned to Islamabad on Saturday night to explain the controversial memo that was allegedly written by Haqqani at the behest of Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari. The memo sought US help to counter a possible army coup. The word from Haqqani's backers in Islamabad is not clear but there seems little doubt their sympathies are very much with the flamboyant envoy. On...
07:42 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Islamabad: As the 'memogate' scandal continues to raise a political storm in Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said the entire episode will be investigated to find out how the controversial memo was prepared and who was behind it. "The question rises how this memo was prepared, who is behind it, that is all going to be investigated," Malik said. The scandal exploded into the political space here recently...
06:48 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Washington: Placing the Haqqani Network's tackling at the top of its counter-terrorism agenda, the US is pushing Pakistan to act against the terror group described as "a veritable arm" of Pakistan's spy agency. "We continue to believe that job one between the US and Pakistan on the counterterrorism front is to tackle the Haqqani Network," State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland told on Friday. "We continue to make outreaches at all...
11:22 AM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: US President Barack Obama has refused to endorse his top military commander Admiral Mike Mullen's criticism of Pakistan, while saying that Pakistan must do more to deal with insurgents. The president said Mullen's statement 'expressed frustration' over the insurgent havens in Pakistan. But Obama added that the "the intelligence is not as clear as we might like in terms of what exactly that relationship is." Obama said that...
07:54 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Washington: Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Friday said that there can be no solution to the conflict in Afghanistan without Pakistan. "I continue to believe that there is no solution in the region without Pakistan, and no stable future in the region without a partnership," Mullen told his successor General Martin Dempsey as he stepped down from his post. "I urged Marty to remember...
11:27 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Washington: General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is the most powerful man in Pakistan, according to top US military commander Mike Mullen, who said that the Army chief controls the military run ISI, which supports terror groups like Haqqani network and LeT, using them as proxies. Standing by his statement that Haqqani network is the 'veritable arm' of the ISI, Mullen asserted that Pakistan Army uses terror groups like Haqqani network and...
01:53 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Speaking to Fareed Zakaria, Mike Mullen remained firm on his allegations against Pakistan. ...
01:21 PM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: The United States has accused the ISI of conspiring with the Haqqani network in plotting the attack on the US embassy in Kabul recently. It has demanded that Pakistan cut off all links with the extremist outfit. "The Haqqani network, for one, acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Internal Services Intelligence agency. With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack, as well as...
11:31 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Washington: The United States has accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of using the Haqqani Network to wage a "proxy war", hardening its criticism of Islamabad's ties with Taliban-allied factions fighting NATO and Afghan troops in Afghanistan. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that in a discussion with Pakistan's army chief that lasted about four hours, he had pressed Pakistan to break its links with the militant...
04:56 PM, Sep 21, 2011
Washington/Islamabad: As pressure mounted on Islamabad to move against the Haqqani network, accused by US of carrying out a spate of attacks in Kabul, ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha rushed to Washington to hold a quite meeting with the new CIA head General David Petraeus. It was an "unpublicised" private meeting between the two in Washington on Tuesday, 'The Washington Post' daily said. It also said that Adm...
04:20 PM, Sep 21, 2011
Washington: A top Pentagon official has said that there is a great risk in strategy tied to Pakistan, but not engaging the country, an epicenter of terrorism, is not an option for the US. "There's great risk in the strategy tied to Pakistan. There has been from the beginning," Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing on Thursday. "I think through...
11:44 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Washington: The nation's top military officer and its top diplomat made clear on Thursday that President Barack Obama rejected the advice of his generals in choosing a quicker path to winding down the war in Afghanistan. The Obama troop withdrawal plan, widely interpreted as marking the beginning of the end of the US combat role in Afghanistan, drew criticism from both sides of the political aisle on Capitol Hill. Some...
07:26 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Islamabad: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday gave clean chit to Pakistan over Osama bin Laden's presence in the country. "US expects decisive action by Pakistan against terrorist groups operating from its soil," said Clinton. Aimed at resolving tensions raised by the killing of Osama bin Laden near Islamabad, Hillary Clinton on Friday arrived in Pakistan on a surprise visit. Clinton was accompanied by US joint chiefs of...
11:00 AM, May 27, 2011
Washington: Calling Pakistan as the "epicentre" of global terrorism, a top US military official has said that America can't succeed in Afghanistan unless terrorist safe havens in Pakistan are shut down. "I've said it before and I'll say it again it [Pakistan] is the epicentre of terrorism in the world right now, and it deserves the attention of everybody to do as much as we can to eliminate that threat,"...
03:23 PM, Jan 13, 2011
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