Pakistan condemns US spy allegations

BEIJING, Sept. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The politically divided and insurgency-hit Pakistan is showing rare unity at a time when top U. S. military leaders are issuing threatening statements of unilateral military action in Pakistan's tribal region against the armed militant groups, blamed by the U.S. defense officials for the cross-border attacks into Afghanistan.

Pakistani leaders have complained that the senior U.S. officials have unleashed verbal attacks on its intelligence agencies that they supported Taliban-linked groups in recent attacks on the U.S. embassy and a military base in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta and senior top military officials claimed that Pakistan's spy agency is using the Taliban-linked Haqqani-network to export "terrorism" into Afghanistan and that Pakistani agency the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI provided logistic support to the Afghan militants for the Sept. 13 attack in the heart of Kabul on U.S. embassy and the Sept. 11 truck bomb attack on the U.S. base in Maidan Wardak province.   Read More

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