ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan military has broken the back of militants linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, powerful head of the country of the army, said in a speech Saturday that followed criticism on the part of the United States it was not done enough to combat militancy.
Washington, struggling to subdue a 10-year Afghanistan insurgency, said this month that Pakistan was missing a solid plan to defeat the militants, and intelligence agents have been maintaining links with the Afghan Taliban militants.
Without any reference to concerns of the State of Washington, armed Kayani Director General Ashfaq said armed Pakistan was fully aware of internal threats and external that face the country.
"In the war against terrorism, our officers and soldiers have made great sacrifices and were a huge success," he said in a speech to the army cadets at the Military Academy in Kakul, North of Islamabadbroadcast by State television.
"Backbone of the terrorists was broken and Inch Allah (if God wants) we will shortly prevail.".
Pakistan is essential to U.S. efforts to stabilize the Afghanistan, but relations between the two allies have been strained since the fatal shooting of two Pakistani by Raymond Davis, a CIA Contractor, in the city of Lahore in January.
Us and Pakistani representatives exchanged barbs publicly, reflecting the deep mistrust between the two countries.
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army, said Pakistani media during a visit this week that the links between the officers of the Agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan and the Haqqani faction, one of the most brutal Taliban afghans, was "into the heart" of problems between the two countries.
Hours after criticism from Mullen, dismissed army suggestion that Pakistan was not enough to combat the militants as "negative propaganda".
However, despite the rise in the level of rhetoric, both parties have sought to repair ties because the other two need for their own reasons.
(Reported by Zeeshan Haider;) (Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
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