ISLAMABAD, March 2: The United States has expressed concern over caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz’s statement that the US was involved in violence in Pakistan. In a statement issued here on Sunday, the US embassy described the claim by the minister as untrue.

Ambassador Anne W. Patterson talked to the minister on phone to communicate her concerns over the statement.

The minister in a recent interview to Arab television had said that the United States, India and Afghanistan were involved in lawlessness in Pakistan and generally it was believed that the US and Afghanistan were backing the organisations involved in terrorism in Pakistan.

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