ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's military on Thursday confessed that its Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has associations to "militants", saying this does not mean it ropes to terrorist organizations, while also affirming that Milli Muslim League — the political group of banned Jamaat-ud Dawa — is free to fight elections.

Milli Muslim League, which has support from Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed's JUD, was deprived of permission months ago from fighting by polls by the Election Commission, which has so far refused to recognize it as apolitical party.

Speaking about US claims of connections between the ISI and militants, Maj Gen Asif Graford, director general Inter-Services Public Relations, told, "There's a difference between have support and having links. Name any intelligence agency which does not have links. Links can be positive, and the US defense secretary James Mattis did not tell there was support. The narrative that I talked about is pertinent here as well. We should not be an element of it. We have our own narrative."

Mattis had told on Tuesday that the US would made an effort "one more time" to work with Pakistan in Afghanistan before President Donald Trump would turn to options to address Islamabad's suspected support for militant groups.

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