ISLAMABAD: Pakistani officials on Monday rejected a German newspaper
report that the country’s secret service spied on German security forces
in Afghanistan, media reported.
Without citing its sources,
mass-selling weekly Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday that Germany’s
BND foreign intelligence agency warned its interior ministry that
Pakistan had spied on 180 German police officers deployed in Afghanistan
to train locals, reports said.
Pakistani foreign ministry
described the report as "ridiculous" and "useless". Pakistan military
spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas said the report was not worth
commenting on, sources told media.
Bild am Sonntag said private
telephone calls, messages to the German interior ministry, military
mission orders and lists of police officer names had been intercepted,
raising fears sensitive information could end up in the hands of the
Taliban.
The German interior ministry told Reuters the BND
suspected a German email had been intercepted but could not give
confirmation. The ministry added it was not aware of any comprehensive
interception of German police data.
The BND declined to comment on the report.
Pakistan
says it has sacrificed more than any other country that joined the U.S.
war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Online
