Pakistan denounces US intel leaks as 'skewed'

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday denounced leaked US intelligence reports accusing its premier spy agency of supporting Taliban insurgents as "skewed" and inconsistent with realities on the ground. Tens of thousands of documents dating from 2004 to 2009 were released by whistleblowers' website Wikileaks to the New York Times, Britain's Guardian newspaper and Germany's Der Spiegel weekly. "These are far-fetched and skewed reports, evidently inconsistent with ground realities," foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said. "If anything these betray the lack of understanding of the complexities involved". "Pakistan's constructive and positive role in Afghanistan cannot be blighted by such self-serving and baseless reports," Basit added.