It would be hard to prove, and no matter what evidence they can find the Pakistani Gov will deny it; its what they do.
Foxnews
U.S. officials are looking for evidence that directly links elements of Pakistan's powerful spy agency to this week's assault on the U.S. Embassy and coalition headquarters in Kabul, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
The U.S. suspicions are a sign of just how rancorous relations have become between the two allies in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Suspicions are being partly fueled by growing concerns that deteriorating bilateral relations, and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, may be pushing elements of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency to more closely embrace the Haqqani network, the Taliban faction blamed for this week's violence and a spate of attacks in and around Kabul.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
U.S. Suspects Pakistan Link to Kabul Attack
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Musharraf: US Suspension of Aid to Pakistan 'Disastrous'
TFB !
What is truly disastrous, is the fact that the Taliban Along with Al Qaida are such heros to many in Pakistan.
They keep blowing people up because they disagree with others views, yet they are praised as good Muslims.
Disastrous is the Pakistani ISI, aiding the Taliban in their quest for total dominance over everyone.
Disastrous is letting the Taliban have their way.
We as a country should not pay any money towards a terrorist coddling country.
VOA
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he regrets the U.S. decision to stop $800 million in military aid to Pakistan.
Musharraf called the move "disastrous" on Monday, telling an audience at Rice University in Houston, Texas that the aid cut-off is not in the best interest of the United States because it will weaken Pakistan's ability to fight terrorism.
Earlier Monday, Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told VOA that reduced U.S. aid will not hamper operations against al-Qaida and Taliban militants. General Abbas said that defeating terrorism is in the interest of both countries, but he also warned that aid with conditions is unacceptable.
In Washington Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters "the suspension of some aid to Pakistan does not signal a shift in policy but underscores the fact that the partnership with Pakistan depends on cooperation."
Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan said the "hold" on funds was directly tied to those decisions by the Pakistani military to expel American military trainers and put limits on visas for U.S. personnel.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Pakistanis aware of Omar`s whereabouts: US general
Pakistan most likely knows where Mullah Omar is, the ISI probably caters to his monkey ass more than they did for Osama Bin Laden.
Its called Taqiyya People!
Dawn.com
WASHINGTON: The Pakistanis know that Mullah Omar is in Pakistan and are ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifgnoring US requests to find him, two senior US military commanders told Congress on Tuesday.
The two commanders, who will now oversee all US military operations in the Pak-Afghan region, also said that Pakistan was protecting the Haqqani network of militants and had not acted when asked to destroy Taliban weapon factories in Fata.
“We believe he is,” said Admiral William McRaven when Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asked him if Mullah Omar was hiding inside Pakistan.
Lt-Gen John Allen said Pakistan lacked the desire and the capability to act against the militants.
Their responses enabled senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee to demand retaliatory actions against Pakistan if it continued to protect the militants.
“Do we believe Mullah Omar is there with the knowledge of the ISI and the upper echelons of the army?” asked Senator Graham.
“Sir, I believe the Pakistanis know he is in Pakistan,” said Admiral McRaven, President Barack Obama`s nominee to head the US Special Operations Command. Admiral McRaven also was in charge of the May 2 raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Pakistan defends Bin Laden role
Mr Zardari said his country was "perhaps the world's greatest victim of terrorism".
Mr Zardari said Pakistan had "never been and never will be the hotbed of fanaticism that is often described by the media".
The thing that bothers me is that these douchnozzles think we are stupid and we buy this crap, Pakistan has never been a hotbed for Terrorism? Give me a break.
The Pakistani ISI is mostly the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden was living right outside one of their academies, they never really condemn the Taliban.
Your Taqiya no worky here!
Osama is dead, we killed him, Pakistan is clueless, enjoy your riots.
BBC
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has denied that the killing of Osama Bin Laden in his country is a sign of its failure to tackle terrorism.
In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Mr Zardari said his country was "perhaps the world's greatest victim of terrorism".
Bin Laden was shot dead by US forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad - Pakistan was not involved in the raid.
US officials said Bin Laden must have had a support system in Pakistan...
But in his opinion piece, Mr Zardari said Pakistan had "never been and never will be the hotbed of fanaticism that is often described by the media".
"Such baseless speculation may make exciting cable news, but it doesn't reflect fact," he said.
"Pakistan had as much reason to despise al-Qaeda as any nation. The war on terrorism is as much Pakistan's war as it is America's."
What a Joke
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.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Brits to share intel on al Qaeda & taliban with Pakistan
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to provide Pakistan with intelligence on al Qaeda and the taliban.
I don't think that is a good idea. Especially since the ISI, Pakistan's secret service, still supports the taliban. The CIA avoids sharing intel with Pakistan for that very reason.
From Sana News
Addressing a joint news conference along with Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani in here on Thursday, the British Prime Minister said Pakistan has made significant progress in tackling terrorism and the Britain and the international community will help build its capacity in effectively countering the menace.[...]
He said during talks with Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, “we agreed to further step up our efforts in crushing the terrorism which poses a grave threat to the international peace and security.” He said Britain will provide the intelligence information needed to dismantle Al-Qaeda and Taliban.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Predator drone kills 24 taliban terrorist scum in Pakistan
A Predator Drone strike killed up to 24 taliban terrorist scum yesterday during a taliban meeting held in a cave 4 km from the Afghan border. The Pakistani army is denying reports of the Predator Drone strike and instead insist that explosives went off when being loaded onto a vehicle.
UPI
DAMADOLA, Pakistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. drone reportedly killed 24 people in northern Pakistan, including Taliban members meeting in an underground hideout, witnesses and officials said.From Bill Roggio, according to an unnamed US intelligence official, Faquir might have been tipped off by the ISI. "We've seen Taliban and al Qaeda leaders leave meetings minutes before the hit far too often for this to be a coincidence," the official said.
Twelve people were reported wounded in Saturday's attack in Damadola, Bajaur, about 4 miles from the Afghan border.
"I heard two loud explosions when a meeting of the Taliban was in progress," Damadola resident Hazrat Gul told Sunday's edition of Dawn.
Two relatives of Maulvi Faquir Mohammad, a Taliban commander in Bajaur, were among the dead, Dawn reported. Mohammad had left the meeting just minutes before the attack, local officials said.
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.
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.
Monday, October 12, 2009
India warns of danger from Pakistan terrorists
"The international community and indeed the people of Afghanistan face a clear and present danger from the perpetrators of such wanton acts of terrorism and their patrons residing across the border," Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said.
Indian Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao, called the taliban and their allies in Pakistan a clear and present danger to the international community. Roa made the statement after he toured the bombed Indian embassy in Kabul.
This was the second time in the past year that the Indian embassy was bombed. After the first bombing, India accused Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, of orchestrating the bombings.
From Reuters
MUMBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - India's top diplomat has warned of a clear and present danger to the international community from militants in Pakistan after a bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul that it has hinted may have come from across the border.....
Thursday's blast, for which the Taliban claimed responsibility, killed 17 people but harmed no embassy staff.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Pakistan wants to muzzle US diplomat for speaking out against terrorists hiding in Pakistan
"Public statements on sensitive issues like countering terrorism, would be tantamount to embarrassing the government," Feierstein was told.
Right, tell Pakistan what we know so that the ISI can pass the information to the terrorists themselves.
H/T: Palmach's Musashi
From Top News
slamabad, Oct. 9 : Perturbed by the recent remarks of US Deputy Chief of Mission Gerald Feierstein, that top Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, including the one-eyed Taliban chief Mullah Omar are presently hiding in Quetta, Pakistan has asked the US diplomat to avoid discussing intelligence issues in media.
Sources said Feierstein was summoned by the Foreign Office and was told not to discuss important issues in public.
Chief of Protocol, Ghalib Iqbal, who met Feierstein at the Foreign Office, reportedly told the US diplomat that if there was information regarding the presence of Taliban leaders on Pakistani soil, then it should be shared with the government rather than being discussed in the media.
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, October 2, 2009
Pakistan to US, provide details on taliban
Pakistan has demanded that the US provide Pakistani officials with information regarding the location of top taliban leaders. So that Pakistan can help the taliban flush out the spies hunt them down themselves.
Any information provided to the Pakistanis will undoubtedly be forwarded to the taliban via the ISI. It would be too time consuming to list all the post detailing the cooperation between the ISI and the taliban so I'll just give you a link to 'ISI taliban' search.
From Reuters
ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The United States should provide information about top militants in Pakistan, a government minister said on Thursday, as Washington stepped up pressure on Islamabad to go after Taliban leaders.
The United States, struggling to contain rising insurgent violence in Afghanistan, says top Islamist militants, including Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, are in Pakistan.
U.S. ally Pakistan rejects that.
"They have given only apprehension that some of the Taliban like Mullah Omar and all that, they might be in Quetta," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.[...]
"We categorically told them that they are not in Quetta, and if they have any real-time information, they should give it to us and we will take action," Malik said.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Musharraf admits truce with taliban backfired
No shit. Times of India
LAHORE: Ex-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has admitted that his government’s secret agreement with the Taliban had
backfired.
The Taliban had misled Musharraf’s administration, the Daily Times quoted him as saying.[...]
Earlier, Musharraf had fiercely denied playing a double game of supporting the Taliban while receiving US funding to fight them when he was in power.
“Get your facts correct, I have never double-dealt. There is a big conspiracy being hatched against Pakistan, to weaken the Pakistan army and the ISI, to weaken Pakistan,” Musharraf told New York Times journalist David Sanger, who had alleged Pakistan of duplicity.
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.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Mullen: Safe haven in Pakistan allowed taliban to grow stronger
No sh*t. The aid, training, information given to the taliban by the ISI didn't hurt either. Press Trust of India
Washington, Jun 16 (PTI) Taliban against whom US-led forces are fighting in Afghanistan grew "more effective" in the last three years because they had "safe haven" in the tribal areas of Pakistan to "rest" and "train" before returning to fight, US' top military commander has said.
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military offensive launched by the Pakistan army has helped obstruct the Taliban's "flow to Afghanistan".
"For the last three years... The violence level has gone up. They have also become much more effective because they have had a safe haven in which to reside in Pakistan so they can train there, they can rest there and then they can return to the fight in Afghanistan," Mullen said in a podcast.
Despite objections by former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the term 'Af-Pak', Mullen said Afghanistan and Pakistan are part of the same war theatre and are both linked.
