Posts Tagged ‘Taliban ISI Alliance’
What Pakistan Won’t Do, the World Should – Need for an international pressure ot break the ISI-jihadi alliance in Pakistan
The Sovereignty DodgeWhat Pakistan Won't Do, the World ShouldBy Robert Kagan (The Washington Post)Tuesday, December 2, 2008; A21"We don't think the world's great nations and countries can be held hostage by non-state actors," Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said yesterday. Fair enough. But what is the world to do when (more...)
The hijacking of 13 trucks carrying military and other supplies from Pakistan to Afghanistan: A classical example of the ISI-Taliban collusion…
A tale foretoldWednesday, November 12, 2008The hijacking of 13 trucks carrying military supplies and other items along the highway from Pakistan to Afghanistan, which winds its short way through the Khyber Agency, is hardly a surprise. Predictions that such a raid would be staged had been made weeks and months ago. Indeed, lately, the [...]
Letting someone else rule the Tribal Areas
As Mr Shaukat Tareen, the finance advisor, makes his last-ditch efforts to arrange a $4.5 billion short-term bailout for the economy, PMLN leaders Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Raja Zafarul Haq have spoken at a press conference in Islamabad asking the government to set up a committee to implement the “consensual” resolution on national security. [...]
Book Review: How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Hijacking of Afghanistan – Roy Gutman
BOOK REVIEW: Afghan war’s hidden blunders —by Khaled AhmedHow We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of AfghanistanBy Roy GutmanVanguard Books Lahore 2008 - Pp322 - Available at bookstores in PakistanThe book brings clarity to the Indo-Pak war number four (or five?) relocated to Afghanistan with India firmly [...]
The failure of ISI and Pakistan Army in eliminating Al-Qaeda and Taliban from Pakistan’s tribal areas. Was that failure part of the original design?
A sting in Pakistan's al-Qaeda missionBy Syed Saleem ShahzadAsia TimesKARACHI - The Pakistani military has halted operations in Bajaur Agency in the northwest of the country, saying "the back has been broken" of the militancy there.A military spokesman said that in light of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began on Sunday, all action would [...]
ISI Rogues, Real or Imagined?
Friday, August 1, 2008http://www.riazhaq.com/2008/08/isi-rogues-real-or-imagined.htmlPakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was involved in the recent deadly bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to a report in the New York Times.In response to the NY Times report, Ms. Sherry Rahman, Pakistan's information minister, [...]
ISI WITHIN ISI: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK – By B. Raman
On July 26,2008, the Pakistan Government placed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) under the direct control of the Interior Division.2.A notification issued before the departure of Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani for Washington for talks with President George Bush,said: “In terms of Rule 3(3) of the Rules of [...]
Evidence of ISI’s support for the Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba….Taliban leader killed by SAS was Pakistan officer, report by Christina Lamb
From The Sunday TimesOctober 12, 2008Taliban leader killed by SAS was Pakistan officerChristina Lamb in KabulBritish officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand last year was in fact a Pakistani military officer, according to highly placed Afghan officials.The commander, targeted in a compound in the [...]
ISI is using tribal Shias as cannon-fodder to fight the Taliban menace
ISI is playing a dangerous game by forcing Shias of tribal areas to rise against Taliban. On 10 October, Army forced Shia tribe Alizai to form a lashkar in Orakzai agency while providing little protection and logistic support to the Alizai tribe. As a result, the Alizai jirga was attacked by Taliban and more than 100 people killed. The pro-Jihadi [...]
Aslam Beg: The mouth-piece of Taliban and ISI
In his op-ed in Daily Nawaiwaqt, the mouth-piece of the Taliban, the notorious patron of rogue elements in ISI, General (retired or retarded?) Mirza Aslam Beg suggests that the Taliban attacked the Islamabad Marriott Hotel because the hotel was being used as the control headquarters of CIA. Will General Beg answer if there was a CIA headquarter in [...]
Nothing has changed: ISI is still the over-all real axis of power in Pakistan
Why is PML (N) adopting a dubious role on the war on terror? Does not Chaudhary Nisar Ali know that the real power in Pakistan does not lie with the parliament but with the Pakistan (more...)
Some questions that Pakistani Parliamentarians must ask the Army Chief and the head of ISI – by Syed Talat Hussain
In his op-ed today, Talat Hussain poses some important questions which suggest that why despite the so called intensive military operation against militants, not even a single notable command of terrorist organizations has been captured or killed. Talat also questions the doubts about the (intentional?) failure of intelligence agencies in stopping [...]
Militant activity supported by ISI in the tribal belt
As long as militant activity in the tribal belt was directed outwards, it never attracted our attention. And when these militants turned inwards, we were caught napping.Harmonising interestsTalat Masood..............The result is our security forces turning a blind eye to the activities of Hekmatyar, Haqqani and others who are supposedly hurting [...]
In Pakistan, a Shia-Sunni war to oust Taliban
Nirupama Subramanian, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2008 According to Shia leaders and independent analysts, the Taliban control the Sunni tribes in Kurram and want to battle the Shias until they have control of the region. Kurram is not the average tribal area on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The Pashto-speaking population has higher literacy rates [...]
ISI supported Lashkar-i-Jhangavi and Sipah Sahaba in killing Shias in Pakistan
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-25680.htmlUsman30-08-2007, 11:40 PMDuring his student years, when Mufti Taqi Uthmani sahib got to know that Izhahul Haq Jhangvi was coming to meet him at his house, Mufti sahib used to open the door without even wearing his shoes, for the students back then, you can ask them yourself how Mufti [...]
Safe havens were provided by ISI to Taliban, Jihadis, and sectarian terrorists in Pakistan’s tribal areas
ANP Provincial Chief stresses need for curbing militancyWednesday, August 20, 2008Says issue more important than restoration of judgesBy Khalid KheshgiPESHAWAR: Provincial President of Awami National Party (ANP) and Peace Envoy to NWFP government Afrasiyab Khattak Tuesday said that checking militancy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas [...]
The dubious role of ISI in Pakistan: Some comments by ordinary Pakistani citizens
By Jamshed Khan: The problem in Baluchistan, FATA and Swat is very simple. Pakistan is ruled by ISI and Military. 95 % of the Army is Punjabi and the rest urdu speakers MQM. Punjab elites and ISI has colonized Pakistan. They are taking $ Billions in Aid and under cover fueling and creating religious militancy for their nefarious designs. On one [...]
The much waited change of command in ISI. What about the reforms?
Welcome change of guard at ISI In a “major” reshuffle in the Pakistan Army, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Nadeem Taj has been replaced by newly promoted Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha. The change of guard at the ISI will attract attention because it formally required the approval of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza [...]
US general’s warning – General David Petraeus’s assessment on war on terror and Taliban
MANY Pakistanis will tend to agree with what one of America’s top generals said on Thursday — the extremists threaten the very existence of Pakistan. Gen David Petraeus, who is to take over next month as commander Centcom (US forces in the Middle East and South-West Asia), told the media in Paris that Pakistani and American forces would have [...]
Doublecross: Musharraf and Pakistan Army’s ambiguous stance toward Al-Qaeda and Taliban-
According to the US-based Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Project, the number of Muslims globally supporting suicide attacks and Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has fallen sharply in the past six years. But the think tank still has its red signal on about “significant Muslim minorities in eight countries continuing to endorse suicide [...]
