ISLAMABAD, June 23: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the report of a US investigation into the 2001 attacks in the United States which said Islamabad helped the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to shelter the Al Qaeda.
"We think this view by the 9/11 commission is biased, partial and completely unscientific," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan told a weekly press briefing. In its report last week the commission said Pakistan broke with the Taliban only after September 11, 2001 even though it knew the hardline Islamic militia was hiding Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
"The Taliban's ability to provide bin Laden a haven in the face of international pressure and UN sanctions was significantly facilitated by Pakistani support," the report released on Wednesday said.
The Pakistani spokesman Wednesday said: "They have processed their data in a very non-scientific manner. "They can go back to the decades of the 1990s and they could go back to the genesis of Al Qaeda," Khan said, alluding to the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan backed by the West and the Muslim world. "We have had no truck with Al-Qaeda and its associates," Khan said. -AFP
