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Summary The US has again urged Pakistan to clamp down on the Haqqani network.
The Pakistani government must act to clamp down on the Haqqani network, blamed for the attack on the US embassy in Kabul, a White House official said Tuesday.The Pakistani government needs to take action to deal with the links that exist there, said spokesman Jay Carney, adding the Haqqani network is responsible for attacks on the US embassy in Kabul and on ISAF as well as some others.The alliance between Pakistan and the United States in the 10-year war in Afghanistan and against Al-Qaeda hit rock bottom this year in the wake of the unilateral American raid that killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad on May 2.In a series of escalating rows, Washington accused Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence agency of involvement in the September 13 attack on its embassy in Kabul and a September 11 attack on a NATO base in central Afghanistan.The White House has since demanded that Pakistan break any link they have with the Haqqani network, which was founded by former CIA asset Jalaluddin Haqqani and is run by his son Sirajuddin -- based in North Waziristan.Last week, the outgoing top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, bluntly accused Pakistan of exporting violent extremism to Afghanistan through proxies and warned of possible action to protect US troops.Asked whether questions were being raised about the large US aid to Pakistan, Carney told reporters arriving back on Air Force One from a tour of the West with US President Barack Obama that: We obviously are always reviewing our aid programs.I believe the State Department and others have talked about that. I do not have anything new to add on that. We obviously take it seriously and discuss these matters with our Pakistani counterparts.
