<i>Pakistan denounces US intel leaks as 'Skewed'</i>

Pakistan on July 26 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 whistle-blowers' website WikiLeaks to the New York Times, Britain's Guardian newspaper and Germany's Der Spiegel weekly.
They carry allegations that Iran is providing money and arms to Taliban and detail how widespread corruption is hampering a war now in its ninth year.
"These are far-fetched and skewed reports, evidently inconsistent with ground realities," Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said.
The leaks reportedly link the ISI, Pakistan's secret service, to an assassination plot on Afghan President Hamid Karzai - which never got off the ground - attacks on Nato warplanes, a plot to poison the beer supply of Western troops and the 2008 Indian embassy bombing.
Pakistan last year launched major operations against Taliban threatening its own people, although US officials have long called for direct action on the Haqqanis and Afghan Taliban.

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