yeah that will help, how about Pakistan just goes after the Taliban and Al Qaida along with us? that would be the smart thing to do.
Foxnews
Pakistan has issued more than three dozen visas to CIA officers as part of confidence-building measures following the U.S. raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden and humiliated Pakistan, officials from both countries said Wednesday.
U.S. officials confirmed the move, saying it was viewed as a positive sign after weeks of what the U.S. had perceived as foot-dragging by Pakistan. The U.S. officials added that not all the visas requested by the Americans have yet been handed out.
U.S. and Pakistani officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
The visas are part of an agreement to rebuild counterterrorism efforts damaged by fallout from the secret bin Laden raid in Pakistan. The CIA officers would be part of an expanded joint counterterrorism force in Pakistan focused on hunting terrorism suspects.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Pakistan Issues More Than Three Dozen Visas to CIA Officers
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Pakistan army officer held for 'links with extremists'
One down, several dozen to go.
Pakistan or should we say Muslim countries are never to quick at getting to the bottom of the obvious, to many issues in the way.
Taqiya,Islam itself, the many goats,prayers five times a day, and the fact that most of these jackass's are considered good Muslims!
They considered Osama Bin Lade a good Muslim.
So how are they supposed to find the corrupt ones in the Military when they can't see the fact that the Taliban are bad guys and Military officers working with the Taliban are the bad guys too.
Islam the Religion of Stupidity.
BBC
A senior officer serving in Pakistan's army has been detained for alleged contacts with banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Brig Ali Khan is being interrogated by military intelligence, the army says.
"We follow a zero tolerance policy of any such activity within the army," a military spokesman said.
Brig Khan, serving at Pakistan's military headquarters in Rawalpindi, was detained last month. His family say he is innocent.
The brigadier is one of the most senior serving officers accused of links with extremists in Pakistan in recent years.
"He is under detention and an investigation is in progress for his contacts with a proscribed militant organisation," military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told BBC Urdu's Asif Farooqi.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid and US drone attacks
Most of us would love to see ties between Pakistan and the U.S. severed, Especially when it comes to aid!
Pakistan has never really been on our side in any of this'
They have never liked or approved the drones, so while we are still in Afghanistan, we can continue with those.
They appear to love the Taliban more than ever so I say let em have em, see how things are in a year of the Taliban still bombing and killing civilians all the time.
BBC
Pakistan's parliament has called for a review of the country's relationship with the US over the American commando raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
During a long joint session held to debate the US operation, MPs called for an independent investigation.
They unanimously passed a resolution urging a ban on Nato transit convoys unless the US ends drone attacks.
The session followed Friday's double suicide bombing that killed 80 people in north-western Pakistan.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Pakistan Vows 'Zero Tolerance' in Bin Laden Probe, Obama Questions Complicity
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States vowed Sunday that "heads will roll" following an investigation into how Usama bin Laden was able to hide out for years in a military city in northern Pakistan
Sorry I could not help Myself.
Foxnews
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States vowed Sunday that "heads will roll" following an investigation into how Usama bin Laden was able to hide out for years in a military city in northern Pakistan, as President Obama said the terror leader must have benefited from a "support network" inside Pakistan.
The comments are the latest developments in the diplomatic dance both countries have been performing since the U.S. raid on bin Laden's compound last weekend.
Top U.S. officials say they have serious questions for Pakistan's government and that an investigation is critical. Pakistani officials continue to criticize the Obama administration for crossing its borders for the raid without first telling Islamabad.
Pakistani Media Reportedly Outs CIA Chief
This happened a few days ago, Pakistan Tried to throw out the name of the CIA Chief of Pakistan; to bad it was the wrong name!
I don't think Pakistan wants to go down this road willingly, they are now trying to save face with their people, and at the same time appease the U.S..
With the U.S. demanding some answers as to how Bin laden was able to live right under the nose of the ISI, this can only get better!
Foxnews
The U.S. is investigating why Pakistani media broadcast the name of a man they said is the CIA’s Islamabad station chief and if it was an attempt to out the agent following the killing of Usama bin Laden.
The raid by U.S. Navy SEALs that resulted in the Al Qaeda leader’s death put further strain on the already tender relationship between the two countries. Pakistan has adamantly denied that it had any knowledge that bin Laden was hiding for years in a military city not far from its capital.
The alleged name of the Islamabad station chief -- one of the CIA’s most significant and sensitive assignments -- was first broadcast Friday by ARY, a private Pakistani television channel, The Wall Street Journal reported. The channel was covering a meeting between the station chief and the director of the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s spy agency.
While the Associated Press learned that the name reported was incorrect, ARY’s Islamabad bureau chief told The Journal that not broadcasting the name would have hurt the story’s credibility.
There are currently no plans to withdraw the chief from assignment, and neither the CIA nor Pakistan’s spy agency would respond to the newspaper for comment.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Pakistan Spy Agency Urging Taliban to Fight U.S.
Nothing new here .
Just wondering when the flow of money that goes to Pakistan supposedly to fight the Taliban will stop ?
And when are we going to actually fight the real war instead of playing the game we are playing now ?
Foxnews
Members of Pakistan's spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, U.S. officials and Afghan militants have told The Wall Street Journal, a development that undercuts a key element of the Pentagon's strategy for ending the war.
The explosive accusation is the strongest yet in a series of U.S. criticisms of Pakistan, and shows a deteriorating relationship with an essential ally in the Afghan campaign. The U.S. has provided billions of dollars in military and development aid to Pakistan for its support.
The U.S. and Afghanistan have sought to persuade midlevel Taliban commanders to lay down their weapons in exchange for jobs or cash. The most recent Afghan effort at starting a peace process took place this week in Kabul.
But few Taliban have given up the fight, officials say. Some Taliban commanders and U.S. officials say militant leaders are being pressured by officers from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency not to surrender.
U.S. officials say they have heard similar reports from captured militants and those negotiating to lay down their arms.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Former Spymaster Rejects WikiLeaks Charges As U.S. Pre-Exit Smear
This is one of those things you just really don't know what to think about .
With Muslims being able to lie in the name of Muhammed (Taqiya) what are you supposed to believe ?
The reports have been around for years about the ISI working with the Taliban , Some say they control the Taliban .
But calling this an effort to ease a disgraced withdrawal is a little far fetched !
Afghanistan News
A former Pakistani general implicated in militant activities by this week's WikiLeaks document dump has refuted allegations of wrongdoing.
Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's premiere intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that he does not support the Taliban and accused the United States of using him to ease a disgraced withdrawal from fighting in Afghanistan. He called the leaked documents "fabricated."
A handful of the tens of thousands of U.S. military incident and intelligence reports leaked by the whistle-blower website name Gul, whom former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardai once famously labeled "the political ideologue of terror," as a key facilitator of Afghan insurgents in Pakistan.
The 73-year-old Gul said he left the Pakistani military 18 years ago and lives in retirement in Rawalpindi, a city next to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, that serves as the military headquarters.
"I am like an open book. Every day scores of people visit me from dawn to dusk," Gul said. "The journalists, media people particularly, international TV crews, come to hear my perspective about American involvement in Afghanistan -- I call it aggression and oppose it on moral grounds."
Reports made public by WikiLeaks accuse Gul of organizing mine attacks against Afghan and international troops. He is also accused of organizing the kidnapping of United Nations officials and attending a meeting in the tribal borderland of Arab jihadists who were planning to send suicide bombers to Afghanistan.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
world Afghan Taliban deny link to Pakistan’s ISI
Of course the Taliban are going to deny these links , It could hurt their Image to the rest of the world !
Ties between the Pakistani ISI and the Taliban will remain unofficial for the duration of the War .
Dawn.com
WASHINGTON: The Afghan Taliban are denying a report that it receives funding, training and protection from Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, a US monitoring group said Tuesday.
A message viewed by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors communications linked to international terrorism, said the Afghan Taliban described the reported link this week as “void of all truth, false and untrue propaganda.”
The comment came in reaction to a report for the London School of Economics (LSE) based on interviews with nine Taliban field commanders in Afghanistan between February and May of this year.
That report claimed the relationship between the ISI and the militants goes far beyond current estimates and that the Pakistani intelligence agency “orchestrates, sustains and strongly influences the movement.”
But the Afghan Taliban, according to SITE, said that “no sound mind” would accept that Pakistan, which supports the United States, would back the jihad against the US presence in Afghanistan.
The message from the self-proclaimed Shura leadership in Afghanistan also alleged the report was concocted by the London School of Economics to “protect” American and British interests in the country.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
ISI funding and training taliban
"This goes far beyond just limited, or occasional support," he said. "This is very significant levels of support being provided by the ISI.
"We're also saying this is official policy of that agency, and we're saying that it is very extensive. It is both at an operational level, and at a strategic level, right at the senior leadership of the Taliban movement."
It's an open secret that the ISI supports the taliban (the ISI created the taliban).
The Pakistani's basically have us by the balls when it comes to Afghanistan. Most of our supplies goes through Pakistan. If our payments to Pakistan stop all of a sudden I bet all of our supplies wouldn't get through to our soldiers in Afghanistan.
Pakistan is extorting money from us...pure and simple.
BBC
Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says.
Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested that ISI intelligence agents even attend Taliban supreme council meetings.
Support for the Afghan Taliban was "official ISI policy", the London School of Economics (LSE) authors suggest.[...]
Links between the Taliban and Pakistan's intelligence service have long been suspected, but the report's author - Harvard analyst Matt Waldman - says there is real evidence of extensive co-operation between the two.[...]
Mr Waldman spoke to nine Taliban field commanders in Afghanistan earlier this year.
Some alleged that ISI agents had even attended meetings of the Taliban's top leadership council, the so-called Quetta shura. They claim that by backing the insurgents Pakistan's security service is trying to undermine Indian influence in Afghanistan.
"These accounts were corroborated by former Taliban ministers, a Western analyst and a senior UN official based in Kabul, who said the Taliban largely depend on funding from the ISI and groups in Gulf countries," the report said.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Pakistani Army Major keeps popping up in terror investigations
Surprise, Surprise. A former Pakistan Army Major, Ahsanul Haq, keeps popping up in various terrorism investigations. But Pakistani police cannot question him because the ISI, the Pakistan secret service, claim he isn't involved...end of story.
Haq admits he helped train jihadists during the Soviet invasion, then he joined the ISI to train jihadists in Kashmir. He is a firm supporter of jihad (holy war) against infidels (anyone who isn't a muslim. Seattle Times
A former major who trained fighters for war in Afghanistan and Kashmir keeps cropping up in terrorism investigations in Pakistan. But police say the gray-haired grandfather is shielded by his links to the army and powerful intelligence agencies.[...]
The most recent allegations against him appear in a report by investigators of last year's ambush of the Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore. The document, obtained by The Associated Press, claims Haq gave logistical support to unspecified Taliban and other fighters. It says cell phones used by the attackers were traced to locations close to a large garment factory owned by Haq and his brother.
Senior Lahore police investigator Zulfikar Hameed said the force reported its suspicions to the ISI, which told him the major was not involved. Therefore Haq was no longer wanted by the police in connection with the attack, he said, though other high-ranking officers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they still harbored suspicions about him.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Afghans point finger at Pakistani secret service for CIA bombing
Officials from the Afghan spy agency are claiming the Pakistani spy service, ISI, provided the CIA bomber with a highly explosive material. If true, this wouldn't be very surprising for me since the ISI has a history of aiding the taliban.
Hmmmm...the Pakistanis are complaining (again) that the Predator strikes are counter productive and that the Americans should leave them alone to take care of the taliban. Uh huh, this might be a little far out but maybe the Pakistanis helped the CIA bomber to create an impression that the Predator drone strikes are counterproductive. Daily Beast
Afghan spy officials tell The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner that the chemical fingerprint of the bomb that killed seven CIA agents matches the kind produced by Pakistani intelligence.
Early evidence in the December 30 bombing that killed seven CIA agents suggests a link to Pakistan, two senior Afghan sources, including an official at their spy agency, told The Daily Beast. The pair said that U.S. has already taken a chemical fingerprint of the bomb used by a Jordanian double agent in the attack, and that it matches an explosive type used by their Pakistan equivalents, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI.[...]
The Afghan and Pakistani spy agencies have a tense relationship, due to the latter’s intricate ties to Taliban leaders. Amrollah Salih, Afghanistan’s spymaster, has publicly accused Pakistani spooks of helping Taliban militants carry out suicide attacks inside Afghanistan, and also protecting the Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, within its borders.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Drug dealer with ISI connection arrested for smuggling heroin
During his stay in Dharam Pura in Lahore, Sabir came in contact with Aslam Katora, a suspected ISI agent. And on Katora's direction, Sabir started smuggling heroin from Pakistan,"
Is the ISI helping the taliban sell heroin to help fund their terrorist activity? Times of India
NEW DELHI: A drug smuggler with alleged links with Pakistan's ISI was arrested by the crime branch of Delhi Police near Welcome Metro station on
Friday afternoon. The accused, identified as Sabir Ali (32), hails from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. He was wanted in connection with heroin smuggling and a red corner notice was also issued against him.
Police nabbed Sabir following a tip-off that he was hiding in the city and would come to Welcome locality. During interrogation, Sabir said he had been residing in Lahore for the past two years and came to Delhi only recently, police said. "This time, he entered India via Nepal and was trying to strengthen and reorganize his network in Delhi and other parts of the country," police said.
CIA avoids sharing intel with Pakistan
Gee, I wonder why.
From Pak Observer
Islamabad—The American intelligence agencies have evaded sharing of “actionable intelligence” on Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists with Pakistan while U.S. defence officials and diplomats continued to claim presence of “dangerous terrorists” in Quetta, Waziristan and other tribal areas.Hmmmmmm....isn't it interesting that most of the Predator Drone strikes that killed big fish have come after the CIA stopped sharing info with Pakistan? Coincidence, I think not.
Senior Pakistani officials engaged in operations against terrorists are complaining that “no actionable information” was shared in recent past. The lack of confidence among allies in war on terror is believed to be a primary reason for the failure to crush the terrorists and their network.
A Pakistani official speaking on condition of anonymity said that “We believe that U.S. intelligence has lots of information on TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) terrorists but they rarely share solid information on their locations and activities.” The officials also added that “US intelligence has also failed to trace the continued supply of arms and ammunitions being used by TTP militants against Pakistan since 2007.
ISI still supporting the taliban
The taliban is a creation of the ISI. Pakistan's secret service will always aid and support the taliban. Telegraph
Pakistan's intelligence agency is directing Taliban attacks on Western targets in Afghanistan, Davood Moradian, a senior government official has claimed.
The policy adviser to foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, said the British and American governments were fully aware of the ISI's role but lacked the courage to confront Islamabad.
He said his government had given British and American intelligence agents evidence which proved ISI involvement in bombings, but they had failed to act.[...]
He claimed General Stanley McChrystal, commander of Nato forces in the country, shared his views and "publicly and openly stated the ISI role" in a report written in August.
In that report Gen McChrystal said the Taliban were "reportedly aided by some elements in Pakistan's ISI" but did not list specific cases.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
ISI to surrended taliban: Go to jail or wage jihad in Kashmir
Well the ISI originally created the taliban in order to counter Indian influence in Afghanistan after the Soviet army left. I guess it's only natural that the ISI would direct the taliban to Kashmir to fight against India.
How long before India is dragged into the war against the taliban and ISI? Times of India
NEW DELHI: In a new shift in tactics, Pakistan is planning to push as many as 60 "surrendered" Taliban into Jammu and Kashmir to become part of
the "jihad" against India. The ISI is said to have offered the extremists the option of either going to jail or crossing the Line of Control. ( Watch Video )
The "jail or jihad" option offered to the Taliban seems a useful diversion for ISI. The Pakistan military establishment has had to fight the Taliban, once its close allies in Afghanistan, but is looking to turn the situation to its advantage.
Apprehensions in Indian security circles that the crackdown by the Pakistan army on Taliban — seen as a last resort after the jihadis turned their guns on the Pakistani state — could mean trouble in Kashmir are being proved correct. Not only have infiltration attempts by regular jihadi outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba gone up, the presence of Taliban poses a new threat.
Friday, September 25, 2009
ISI and taliban still working together
Shocker. The ISI is still providing aid and sanctuary to the taliban. Breaking News
WASHINGTON - Taliban leaders, aided by Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), are using their sanctuary in Pakistan to stoke a widening campaign of violence in northern and western Afghanistan, the New York Times reported.[...]
It cited American officials as saying they believe that the Taliban leadership in Pakistan still gets support from parts of the ISI, Pakistan’s military spy service.[...]
The issue of the Taliban leadership council, or shura, in Quetta is now at the top of the Obama administration’s agenda in its meetings with Pakistani officials.
At the same time, American officials face a frustrating paradox: the more the administration wrestles publicly with how substantial and lasting a military commitment to make to Afghanistan, the more the ISI is likely to strengthen bonds to the Taliban as Pakistan hedges its bets, the Times said.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Pakistani secret service funding islamic militants
Business as usual in Pakistan New York Times via Jihadwatch
What is more, the country’s intelligence agencies have a long history of nurturing militants as proxy forces over the heads of the police. Few civilian victims, judges or even police officials dare to buck what Pakistanis take for granted as an untouchable network of support.
Such was the case with Hafiz Saeed, a cleric who was freed from house arrest in June, despite abundant evidence that his group was behind the attacks in Mumbai, India, that killed more than 160 people last year.
Mr. Ishaq is no exception. Pakistan’s spy agency, hedging against the Shiite revolution in neighboring Iran and in favor of the fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan, began pouring money into hard-line Sunni groups like his in the 1980s.[...]
The police are corrupt, asking for money to pursue cases and fulfilling illegal orders from higher-ups to make deals with criminals. Intelligence agencies also interfere by seizing a militant, taking him out of circulation for months and then dumping him on the police when his crime is long cold.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
ISI playin both sides
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the ISI is "playing both sides" and "Look, their maintaining of contact with this group [al Qaida & the taliban], in my view, is a strategic hedge,".
In my view the ISI wants the taliban to win. Times of India
WASHINGTON
: Accusing the ISI of engaging in "strategic hedging" and "playing both sides" in Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials have said that
getting rid of the al-Qaida "safe haven" in Pakistan is the "top priority" for the US to win the war against terrorism in the region.
The Pakistani intelligence agency is "playing both sides", US defence secretary Robert Gates said, adding that though Islamabad has committed itself to be part of the US-led war against terrorism in the region, it continues to maintain links with the extremist elements.
"Look, their maintaining of contact with this group, in my view, is a strategic hedge," Gates told the CBS news responding to a question that parts of Pakistan's ISI was still supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
"They (Pakistanis) are not sure who's going to win in Afghanistan. They're not sure what's going to happen along that border area. So to a certain extent they play both sides," Gates said.
Friday, May 15, 2009
US still worried about ISI - taliban links
Admiral Mike Mullen stated that he is still worried about the links between Pakistan's secret service, ISI, and the taliban. Then in the next breath he proclaims that he is confident in the security of Pakistan's nukes.
Am I the only one who thinks that the two statements are conflicting in nature? Times of India
WASHINGTON: A top US military leader on Thursday acknowledged that Washington is still worried about the "links" of ISI with Taliban, but said as
of now he is "comfortable" about safety and security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
"Yes, sir," Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said when Senator John McCain specifically asked him 'Do you still worry about the ISI cooperating with Taliban?'[...]
"I've believed over the last year, since I've been involved and visited Pakistan, that the ISI, in the long run, has to change its strategic thrust and get away from working both sides," Mullen asserted.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
ISI Chief friends with Baitullah Mehsud
Good thing Obamam wants to start consulting the Pakistanis before launching any Predator strikes against al Qaida and the taliban. Daily Times
LAHORE: Baitullah Mehsud, the brazen Taliban chief based in Waziristan, has been able to escape several attempts to kill and capture him because he has friends in Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, according to a Newsweek report. An “increasingly-emboldened” Mehsud has claimed credit for several attacks in Pakistan and also threatening to attack the US. "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world," he told the Associated Press last week. An unnamed Pakistani official told Newsweek that senior US officials had even shared with their counterparts in Islamabad “some intelligence indicating that renegade ISI elements helped Mehsud's group train for the December 2007 assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto”. But despite that and Pakistan's purported knowledge of his whereabouts, “it's a puzzle why they're ignoring and avoiding any strike against him,” one tribal elder in the region told the magazine. “On several occasions over the past couple of years, security forces in Pakistan have launched operations to kill or capture him, and each time he has vanished without incident,”....
