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(National Journal) — Pakistan’s foreign minister blasted comments made by the top U.S. military commander, who said that the militant Haqqani network is essentially a “strategic arm” of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, and warned that Washington risks losing a key ally if the accusations continue.

During testimony on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen said Pakistani officials must stop their support for and protection of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, which the U.S. blames for last week’s 20-hour assault on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mullen went so far to say the country was “exporting terrorism.”

In response, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, stressed that the U.S. has never provided any evidence that Pakistan’s military spy agency has been aiding the Haqqani network. “You cannot afford to alienate Pakistan; you cannot afford to alienate the Pakistani people,” Khar said. “If you are choosing to do so, and if they are choosing to do so, it will be at [the United States’] own cost.”

“Pointing fingers at each other will not help,” she told an Indian news channel while in New York for the United Nations meetings this week. “We’ve never ventured into the blame game because we want to be a mature, responsible country.” Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has long claimed to have cut off its ties with the Haqqanis, a group it supported during the 1980s war in Afghanistan, according to The Wall Street Journal.