Pakistan is ready for a joint operation with the US to destroy the Haqqani Network if it provides evidence about the presence of safe havens of the dreaded terror outfit in the country, foreign minister Khawaja Asif has said. His remarks came after US President Donald Trump, in August, had accused Pakistan of harbouring “agents of chaos and terror” and the “very enemy US forces have fighting in Afghanistan” for the past 17 years. Asif, who recently visited Washington and met senior Trump administration officials, told Express News, “We have offered American authorities to visit Pakistan with evidence of Haqqani network’s safe havens in the country. The group is also blamed for several deadly attacks against Indian interests in Afghanistan, including the 2008 bombing of the Indian mission in Kabul that killed 58 people. The foreign minister also said Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa had made the same offer to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani during his Kabul visit earlier this month.

Source: Hindustan Times October 10, 2017 08:48 UTC