Musharraf denies govt involvement in attacks

Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf today acknowledged al-Qaida and Taliban militants were crossing from Pakistan to launch attacks inside Afghanistan, but denied Pakistan’s powerful military intelligence agency was helping them.

“You blame us for what is happening in Afghanistan,” Musharraf said in an address to Afghan government and army officials and politicians at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul.

“Let me say neither the government of Pakistan nor ISI (Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence) is involved in any kind of interference inside Afghanistan.”

Musharraf’s speech, also attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, came a day after the two leaders resolved to cooperate to fight the “common enemy” of terrorism and extremism.