The fate of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and of stability in this neighboring country may depend to a great extent on efforts to reform Pakistan's controversial spy agency, known in the past for "hunting with the hounds and running with the hares. S. officials have long criticized Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for a dual policy of cracking down on Islamist militancy while supporting militant groups in Afghanistan and Kashmir and allowing al Qaeda and the Taliban to maintain sanctuaries in tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
THE assault on Osama bin Laden -- as quick and ruthless an operation as you would see in any spy movie -- shows that the CIA and the military's super-secret Joint Special Operations Command have combined to create what amounts to a highly effective killing machine. The shorthand for these operations is "find, fix, finish." The CIA and other intelligence agencies typically provide the first two, and the bin Laden attack shows that this process can take years of patient detective work. JSOC warriors then come in for the finish. A reconstruction of how this operation was put together shows how the pieces of America's counterterrorism policy fit together. It also illuminates one of the CIA's biggest puzzles, which is whether it can work effectively with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligenc...
Pakistan's intelligence agency helped terrorists plan and conduct an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, last week, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday. The comments marked the first time a senior U.S. official has publicly linked Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to an attack on U.S. interests in Afghanistan.
Osama bin Laden established close bonds with Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) agency during the Soviet occupation of . Al Qaeda ("the Base") was set up by bin Laden to keep track of volunteers flocking in from all over the Arab world to fight the Soviets. After the 1989 Soviet defeat and withdrawal from , bin Laden went home to Saudi Arabia where he quickly fell afoul of the royal family for objecting to the arrival of U.S. troops in 1990 to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
There were signs Wednesday that Pakistan might free a doctor it had jailed for helping the CIA track Osama bin Laden, as Pakistan's spy chief flew to Washington to try to rescue the badly strained intelligence ties between the countries. Talks between senior CIA officials and Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, would include the fate of the jailed doctor, Shakil Afridi, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
As U.S. forces routed the Taliban in Afghanistan in October 2001, a Pakistani two-star general with the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) toured the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to warn tribal leaders, "We are next. One tribal leader in attendance, who was also a member of Parliament, recalled the ISI general explaining that "America has invaded Afghanistan to get a launching pad for the invasion of Pakistan. They want to seize our nuclear arsenal to facilitate an invasion from India."
CONTRARY to initial U.S. suggestions that it signals reduced Pakistani support for the Taliban, the detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the operational leader of the Afghan Taliban, represents a shift by Pakistan to more open support for the Taliban in preparation for a peace settlement and U.S. withdrawal. Despite ostensibly close cooperation between the CIA and its Pakistani counterpart, the Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] Directorate, against Islamic militants in Pakistan, ISI officials are deeply distrustful of the CIA, as Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid observed in an article in The New York Review of Books published in February.
A group of senior Afghan lawmakers says the Obama administration is wasting its time in trying to make peace with the Haqqani Network, a Pakistan-based terrorist group that U.S. officials have accused of killing Americans and attacking the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan. Washington should instead increase pressure on Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to cut its ties to the Haqqanis, withhold millions of dollars of aid to Islamabad and attack the militants in their safe havens, the lawmakers told The Washington Times this week.
The killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces in a helicopter assault on a sprawling luxury mansion near Islamabad is consistent with the past capture of other al Qaeda leaders from Pakistani cities, highlighting that the real terrorist sanctuaries are located not along Pakistan's borders with Afghanistan and India but in the Pakistani heartland. This, in turn, underlines another fundamental reality - that the fight against international terrorism cannot be won without demilitarizing and deradicalizing Pakistan, including by rebalancing civil-military relations there and reining in the rogue Inter- Services Intelligence agency.
WASHINGTON - For years, the Pakistani spy agency funneled millions of dollars to a Washington nonprofit group in a secret effort to influence Congress and the White House, the Justice Department said Tuesday in court documents that are certain to complicate already strained relations between the U.S. and Pakistan. FBI agents arrested Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, the executive director of the Kashmiri American Council, on Tuesday and charged him with being an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Under the supervision of a senior member of Pakistan's spy agency, Inter- Services Intelligence, Fai donated money to political campaigns, wrote newspaper op-eds, organized congressional trips and met with White House and State Department officials.
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