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Credit: Reuters/Mohammad Ismail By Phil Stewart KABUL | Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:25pm EDT KABUL (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer said Sunday Afghan militants of the anti-American Haqqani network were finding it harder to move into Afghanistan but warned that their safe havens in Pakistan still posed a risk to the decade-old war effort. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, travelled earlier in the day to eastern Afghanistan where Haqqani militants are attacking U.S. forces. "The overall goal has been to make it much more difficult for the Haqqani network to penetrate directly in what has previously been called sort of this 'jet stream' between Pakistan, right through Khost (province) into Kabul," Mullen told a news conference in the Afghan capital. "And it is more difficult (now)." Pakistan's intelligence agency has long been suspected of maintaining ties to the Haqqani network, cultivated during the 1980s when Jalaluddin Haqqani was a feared battlefield commander against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Based in Pakistan's wild North Waziristan area on the Afghan border, Haqqani refrains from attacking the Pakistani state, and critics say Islamabad sees the network as a lever to maintain influence in any future political settlement in Afghanistan. Mullen has in the past has accused Pakistani intelligence of having a "longstanding relationship" with Haqqani faction, one of the deadliest groups fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He told reporters in Kabul that Washington continued to press Islamabad to go after the safe havens enjoyed by the Haqqani group and other militants. "The safe havens that exist in Pakistan are a central and great risk in terms of the achievement of the overall strategy," Mullen said. 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