New York, Sept 18(ANI): The forthcoming meeting between Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will reportedly focus on Islamabad's alleged links to the Haqqani network.
Khar is due to meet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York on Sunday afternoon.
The Pakistan delegation meeting Clinton will also include Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, and Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir.
The agenda of the meeting was originally supposed to be on the subject of putting the strategic dialogue back on track, The Express Tribune reported, attributing to diplomatic sources.
However, following the recent militant attack in the Afghan capital, the agenda of the meeting is expected to have a narrow focus, with the United States blaming Pakistan for the Kabul attack," the sources added.
The meeting comes days after the 20-hour militant assault against the US Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, which left at least four people dead.
On Saturday, the US Ambassador to Islamabad, Cameron Munter, blamed the Haqqani Network, believed to be based in North Waziristan, for the attack and said that there was evidence linking the Pakistan government to the Haqqani Network.
"There is evidence linking the Haqqani network to the Pakistan government. This is something that must stop," Munter told Radio Pakistan in an interview.
Earlier, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry reacted sharply to to US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's warning that America is 'going to do everything it can to defend US forces' in the wake of the Kabul attack.
"Time and again we've urged the Pakistanis to exercise their influence over these kinds of attacks from the Haqqanis, and we have made very little progress in that area," Panetta said. "I'm not going to talk about how we're going to respond. ... We're not going to allow these types of attacks to go on," Panetta had told reporters travelling with him to San Francisco for meetings with Australian officials. (ANI)
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