Admiral Mike Mullen, outgoing chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has explicitly linked Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, which the US says is responsible for asymmetric attacks on its troops in Afghanistan. In his final appearance in front of the US Senate Armed Services Committee before his retirement next month, Adm Mullen said Pakistan had chosen to "use violent extremism as an instrument of policy" and that "by exporting violence, they have eroded their internal security and their position in the region". Adm Mullen, who will be replaced by US Army Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey, added that "the Haqqani network, for one, acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's intelligence [network]". The US has blamed the Haqqani network, a Taliban-linked group that was formed by Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani in the 1980s, for the 13 September attack on the US Embassy in Kabul that left 27 people dead.
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