Leaked US document can be "disregarded": Khar
[Dawn] Pak Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Wednesday that a leaked US military report claiming Pakistain supported the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan can be "disregarded".
"We can disregard this as a potentially strategic leak...This is old wine in an even older bottle," she told news hounds during an official visit to the Afghan capital Kabul.
The US military said in a secret report the Taliban are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO
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-led forces withdraw from the country, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy after a costly war.
Khar, whose visit was the first high-level meeting in months between officials from both countries, added that the neighbours should stop blaming each other for strained cross-border ties.
"We must start engaging in the end of blame games," she said.
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