Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani recorded a strong protest
to top American military commander General James Mattis in a meeting on
Saturday and discussed military relations between the two countries.
The security situation in North Waziristan and on the Pak-Afghan border was also discussed during the meeting.
General Kayani demanded a joint investigation into cross-border
attacks launched inside Pakistan from Afghanistan General Mattis, head
of US Central Command, arrived late Friday, a US Embassy spokesman said.
According to a private TV channel, General Kayani recoded a severe
protest to US officials and said that intelligent sharing between both
countries is very necessary.
It is worth mentioning here, that ties between Islamabad and
Washington are in crisis after American officials stepped up
accusations that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was
aiding insurgents in Afghanistan, including those who took part in an
attack on the US Embassy last week in Kabul.
Kayani said on Friday that the charges were baseless and part of a public “blame game” detrimental to peace in Afghanistan.
The row began when Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, on Thursday accused the ISI agency of supporting Haqqani
insurgents in planning and executing last week’s 22-hour assault on the
US Embassy and a truck bombing that wounded 77 American soldiers days
earlier.
Kayani said the allegations were “very unfortunate and not based on facts”. SANA
