Pakistan rejects claims of involvment in terror attack

Pakistan on Friday rejected claims in the declassified documents of the United States government that the country's intelligence agency may have provided the funding for a 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan.

"Allegations in the media on Pakistan's involvement are preposterous," Pakistan's foreign ministry said.

Seven CIA officers were killed when a Jordanian intelligence operative, Hammam Khalil Mohammed, who was playing the role of a double agent, carried out the attack.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan had claimed responsibility for the attack. Then Taliban chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, was appeared in a video along with the suspected bomber.

"In fact, we were shocked and deeply saddened when precious American lives were lost at the Chapman facility in 2009 in an unfortunate attack that was later claimed by TTP in a publicly available video, featuring the suicide bomber with the leader of the TTP," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

The spokesman recalled that over the past years, Pakistan has through a series of military operations, severely damaged and weakened the TTP and other militant and terrorist organizations.

"We wish to remind that Pakistan is among the biggest victims of terrorism, having lost tens of thousands of innocent lives, including over five thousand valiant personnel of law enforcement agencies, and economic losses to the tune of a hundred billion dollars."

The spokesman said Pakistan is determined to eradicate the scourge of terrorism and has taken action against all terrorist elements, without discrimination. Enditem