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The Haqqani network is a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence agency, the top US military officer has said, adding that the agency supported the group in its attack last week on the US embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul. "The Haqqani network ... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency," Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, said on Thursday in prepared remarks to the US Senate Armed Services Committee. The Haqqani network, which is distinct from the Afghan Taliban, is a member of the allied factions that are fighting the United States and NATO troops in Afghanistan. "With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted [a September 11] truck bomb attack, as well as the assault on our embassy," Mullen said. "We also have credible intelligence that they were behind the June 28 attack against the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul and a host of other smaller but effective operations." Pakistan has denied the allegations.