Washington: US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner says American government was committed to its relationship with Pakistan and wants to work constructively with Pakistan on the Haqqani network.
Responding a question that why the Haqqani group had not yet been declared as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO), Toner said that leaders of the Haqqani network had been targeted and designated as terrorists through executive orders and through the Treasury Department (a form of official sanction against organisations, groups, individuals and countries).
Toner says that the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and Admiral Mike Mullen had raised the issue of the Haqqani network and that the USG wanted Pakistan to take action against them.
Toner declined to respond to a question about whether Pakistan’s support for the Haqqani network could be considered an act of war.
Regarding the attack on the US Embassy in Kabul earlier in the day, Toner confirmed that one US citizen had been killed while one had been injured, but said he had no information on whether a CIA employee had been killed. He also did not comment on the perpetrators of the attack, saying the matter was under investigation.
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