Terror threat top priority with Pakistan: Victoria Nuland

Ties between Washington and Islamabad soured after an elite team of US military forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at his hideout inside Pakistan territory.Ties were strained further following accusations the Pakistani intelligence agency had ties to the Haqqani network, a militant group that Washington blamed for a series of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan.Despite the growing acrimony, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the issue at hand was counter-terrorism.“Job one” in the United States’ relationship with Pakistan is to work on the terror and the problem that the Haqqani network is posing to both nations as well as Afghanistan, the State Department has said.When asked to comment on media reports that the Haqqani Network’s leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, had said the US had approached him about joining the Afghan Government, State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said: “I will say to you, again, what we’ve been saying for some two weeks very firmly with regard to the Haqqani Network.”