New Delhi: As US-Pakistan ties plunges to a new low, Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has cancelled his visit to Britain, where he was expected to meet UK Defence Minister Liam Fox.
Pakistani officials say the visit has been called off because Kayani is a part of crisis talks over the freeze in US-Pak relations.
Last week, Pakistan had rejected America's charge that the intelligence agency, ISI is supporting the Haqqani network of Afghanistan.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik also said that the US should share the blame for the rise of the Haqqani network as the CIA created the Taliban faction during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and trained its members.
"The Haqqani network was trained and produced by the CIA," he said. The group did not originate in Pakistan and the US should not now speak about "things which happened 20 years ago", he told reporters during an interaction on Sunday.
Malik was responding to accusations by top American officials that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence had supported the Haqqani network for carrying out a string of attacks, including one on the US Embassy in Kabul.
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