Mike Mullen

• Pakistan's Memogate: Never met Ijaz, says Mullen

  Amid a controversy over a secret memo sent to the then US military chief to prevent a possible military coup in Pakistan, the spokesperson of Admiral Mike Mullen said that the former top general never met the Pak-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz and does not know him.

• 'Memogate': Obama's ex-advisor James Jones says he delivered secret memo to Mullen

  Former US National Security Advisor James Jones has said that he was the intermediary who delivered to former military chief Admiral Mike Mullen a secret memorandum that businessman Mansoor Ijaz purportedly drafted on behalf of the Pakistan government. Jones confirmed to the Pakistani media that he received the memo from the Pakistani-American busi...

• Obama won't back Mullen's claim on Pakistan

  US President Barack Obama is declining to endorse strong criticism of Pakistan levelled by the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, while saying Pakistan must do more to deal with insurgents.

• Want to work on stronger ties with Pak: US

  US wants to continue to work to put its relationship with Pakistan on a stronger footing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. At the same time, she said, the Obama administration would like to see an end to terrorist safe havens in Pakistan. She, however, appeared to tone down tempers between the two countries which has reached a new peak ...

• Pakistan using Haqqani, LeT as proxies: Mullen

  Pakistan's Army chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is the most powerful man in Pakistan and he controls the military-run ISI, which supports terror groups like Haqqani network and LeT, using them as proxies, top US commander Mike Mullen has said.

• Don't humiliate Pak, it will be at your own cost: Hina Rabbani to US

  Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has as hit back at the US administration after Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI has provided safe haven to a terrorist group that attacked the US embassy in Kabul last week.

• Haqqani network acts as an arm of ISI, says Mike Mullen

  As the US military marches warily toward the exits in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama administration is on an increasingly uncertain path in Pakistan. Islamabad's suspected ties to Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militants risk drawing the US deeper into conflict in that nuclear-armed nation.

• Bumps remain as military leaders of US and China meet

  The leaders of China's and America's militaries sought on Monday to cast aside decades of hostility between the two establishments, pledging at a joint news conference here to pursue what they separately called a "great opportunity" to create a "shared vision" of cooperation. But neither indicated that his government was willing to alter positions ...

• US Admiral ties Pakistan to killing of journalist

  Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that he believed that the government of Pakistan had "sanctioned" the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of Islamic militants into the country's security services.Admiral Mullen, who is due to retire at the end of September,...

• US fears Pakistan nuclear arms could fall into wrong hands

  The US must keep working to salvage its relationship with Pakistan in order to preserve security in the region and protect against potential proliferation of that country's nuclear weapons, top Pentagon leaders said on Thursday.Amid escalating tensions with Islamabad, Capitol Hill lawmakers have complained that Pakistan is not doing its part to go ...

• Obama chooses Dempsey to be next Joint Chiefs head

  President Barack Obama moved on Monday to complete an overhaul of the national security apparatus, selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as his new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman amid a winding down of the war in Iraq, protracted battle in Afghanistan and American assistance to the NATO-led effort against Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi.Obama announced a new...

• US worried about Lashkar's 'global aspirations'

  The Lashkar-e-Taiba is more than an anti-India terror group as it has "global aspirations" and has extended its reach to the West, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen has said.The US is worried about the growing outreach of terror groups based in Pakistan, including the LeT, Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Tehrik-e-Taliban and their strong li...

• Chance Gaddafi could cling to power: Mullen

  The U.S.-led international military assault on Libya could achieve its stated goals without forcing Moammar Gaddafi from power, the top U.S. military officer said on Sunday as the bombing campaign continued.Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, described the campaign's aims as "limited" saying it "isn't about seeing him (Gaddafi...

• Libya crisis: US warships enter Suez Canal

  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Tuesday played down the possibility of American military intervention in Libya, saying that there was no agreement within NATO about the use of force and that now was not the time for the United States to be entering into another war in the Middle East. Nonetheless, in a Pentagon news conference with Adm. Mike M...

• US has Iran attack plan on the table: Mullen

  The US has a Iran attack plan to prevent the Islamic nation from acquiring nuclear weapons, even as it is "extremely concerned" about the possible repercussions of such a strike, the top US military commander said on Sunday."Military actions have been on the table and remain on the table. I hope we don't get to that but it's an important option," A...