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Musharraf pooh-poohs US military claim |
2007-01-16 |
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday rejected US Maj Gen Benjamin Freakley’s claim that Jalaluddin Haqqani was operating from inside Pakistan to foment violence in Afghanistan, and said that the “baseless allegations” could harm Pak-US cooperation in the war on terror. "Yeah. Don't push it, infidels!" According to Online, Musharraf was addressing a meeting to review the situation on the Pak-Afghan border and the establishment of ‘reconstruction opportunity zones’ in the tribal areas. He said that Pakistan’s “unprecedented sacrifices” in the war on terror could not be ignored. He also declared allegations by several US commanders and others that the Taliban were operating from Pakistan as “baseless”. He said that a United Nations report on the Taliban’s command-and-control infrastructure was enough to prove this. He said that the main objective to fence and mine the Pak-Afghan border was to stop the movement of anti-state elements. |
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