Islamabad: The Saudi embassy in Islamabad stayed in touch with the Haqqani network and also facilitated medical treatment for militant group’s leader, reveals cables published by WikiLeaks.
The WikiLeaks cables, have provided an insight into the contacts between Saudi officials and the Haqqani network in the recent past. The Saudi foreign ministry had “in a statement released after WikiLeaks started publishing the cables” expressed concern over their public release, but said the information contained in the leaked documents did not contradict Saudi Arabia’s known position on foreign policy matters.
The Saudi government has not acknowledged these cables as authentic. One of the cables, signed by former Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Aziz Ibrahim Saleh Al Ghadeer, details his meeting with Nasiruddin Haqqani, one of the sons of the network chief Jalaluddin Haqqani.
