Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said the Haqqani group was the Central Investigative Agency’s (CIA) “blue-eyed boy” for many years.
Khar, who is in New York leading Pakistan’s delegation to the UN General Assembly, rejected US accusations against Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), saying many countries have intelligence links with terror groups.
“If we talk about links, I am sure the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) also has links with many terrorist organisations around the world, by which we mean intelligence links,” The Dawn quoted her, as saying.
“And this particular network, which the United States continues to talk about, is a network which was the blue-eyed boy of the CIA itself for many years,” she added.
Earlier, today, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik had also claimed that the CIA had created the Haqqani network and trained its members, not Pakistan.
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