[Dawn] Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar late Tuesday said that whoever calls the Haqqani network "an asset for Pakistain" did not represent the Pak government, a report from BBC Urdu said.She further said that army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
did not hold such opinions in the present circumstances.
The foreign minister was addressing a discussion titled "Pakistain's Democratic Journey" held by Asia Society, a renowned think-tank, in New York on Tuesday evening. The discussion was moderated by a political columnist of Time, a weekly magazine in the United States.
The moderator asked Khar about an interview given by General Kayani to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
four years ago in which he allegedly stated that he considered the Haqqani network an "asset" for Pakistain.
In response, Khar she did not know who had said it, adding that whoever calls the Haqqani network an asset to Pakistain could not be a representative of the Pak government.
She further said that General Kayani no longer held that opinion.