ISI

Will Miliband address torture evidence? | Louise Christian

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

A new report finds the UK was complicit in sickening acts by Pakistan's ISI. The government so far seems unmoved Today sees the release by Human Rights Watch (HRW) of a searing exposé of the evidence against the British government of its complicity in the torture of people held in Pakistan suspected of terrorism. The report, Cruel Britannia, is based on evidence collected by Ali Dayan Hasan,...

ISI had links with Headley, say US sleuths

rediff News (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

The US investigators believe some elements in Pakistan's ISI could be linked to American terror suspect David Headley who is currently in FBI custody for trying to plot attacks in India.

• US zeroes in on Pakistani linked to Headley, Rana - rediff News
• US traces Pak national linked to Headley, Rana - Times of India

ISI had links with Headley, say US sleuths

Bulletin.India (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

The US investigators believe some elements in Pakistan’s ISI could be linked to American terror suspect David Headley who is currently in FBI custody for trying to plot attacks in India.

US in back-channel talks with Afghan Taliban

The Agonist (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Azaz Syed | Islamabad | November 24 Dawn - After fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan for more than eight years, the United States appears to have undertaken a re-think of its policy and has started engaging the Taliban in negotiations through Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies, highly-placed sources told Dawn here on Monday. ‘We have started ‘engagement’ with the Afghan Taliban...

U.S.-Pakistan ties run into snags as both sides trade fresh charges

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pakistan has categorically rejected reports of the Washington Times about presence of Afghan Taliban leader, Mulla Mohammad Omar, in Karachi of the country. Speaking to a private Pakistani TV channel, Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman, Abdul Basit, stressed that Omar was not present in Karachi. The spokesman also denied Pakistan intelligence service ISI's involvement in shifting Mulla Omar to Karachi,...

We Don’t Even Match Up With Pakistan – says Indian Air Force Chief

Haqeeqat.Org (Free subscription) | yesterday

Two days after he said women could be recruited as fighter pilots only if they did not become mothers till a certain age, Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal P K Barbora on Thursday took a swipe at the political class, saying politics over defence purchases impinged “very badly” on the country’s military requirements POSSIBLY RELATED POSTS: ISI Summons RAW Chief over Terrorism in...

Solution to Pakistan’s Precarious Situation

Haqeeqat.Org (Free subscription) | yesterday

Lately, Pakistan has been rocked by unprecedented levels of violence, as the Pakistani army intensifies military operations against the Taliban in the tribal areas. The latest bomb blast near the Afghan border is the ninth in two weeks in and around Peshawar the capital city of Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province (NWFP). Pakistan’s most populous province Punjab has also suffered...

Asif Ezdi, Awami Tehreek, Anjum NIaz, Shaheen Sehbai, Mr. Why Khan

baithak (Free subscription) | yesterday

Photographs from Seven Years with the Roma - What began as a short visit to Hungary finished seven years later with a prize-winning book documenting the lives of the Roma people, from India to Eastern Europe. The photos are now on display in Germany. And with Berlin planning to repatriate up to 10,000 Roma, they are more than just pretty pictures. Asif Ezdi - Gilani should also order investigations...

An Alphabet Soup Of Terror

Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

We view things too simply. These are the guys who taught Marco Polo what he learned about business, negotiations, logistics and operations. http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/29/taliban-isi-let-jem-lashkar-jaish-pashtun-afghanistan-opinions-contributors-pakistan.html Commentary An Alphabet Soup Of Terror Bahukutumbi Raman 05.29.09, 9:30 AM ET An emailed question from an editor at this publication asked...

Who is responsible for terrorism?

publishaletter.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

Dear Editor:I, Zubin Vicky Driver, 11years, studying in VII std in Sister Nivedita English School, Dombivli, have to ask you something. Why we remember a moment on particular day? Why we light candles for those soldiers who fought in terroism, is it only for showing pity to them? Government promised that they will help their families who give their lives in terroist attack on 26/11/08. But did they...

“ISI helped Mullah Omar flee”

Hindu (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Washington: Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targeted by U.S. drones, Pakistan’s ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, where he has established a new Shura ...

The Ugly American in Isloo, Myths of the electronic media —Imran Kureshi, Heroine from Waziristan —Rafia Zakaria, Gideon Polya, Babar Sattar, Arif Niz

baithak (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Myths of the electronic media —Imran Kureshi Political programmes on our television channels are probably the only political institution here noisier than the Assemblies. The fiction they present is better than the soap operas, leaving the viewer on the edge of his seat waiting for the next episode; the crises they cook up have more ingredients than the cookery shows; the superheroes and villains...

Report: Pakistani intel helped Mullah Omar flee Quetta

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update. "EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides in Pakistan," by Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter, and Barbara Slavin for the Washington Times , November 20 Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance...

Mullah Omar moved to Karachi by ISI: US

Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

( Pakistan ) The United States has come perilously close to calling Pakistan a terrorist state by alleging that the country’s spy agency ISI recently spirited Taliban leader Mullah Omar to Karachi to save him from American drone attacks in Quetta. In the most direct charge of its kind, current and former US intelligence officers are saying on background that the one-eyed, illiterate leader of...

Mullah Omar moved to Karachi by ISI: US

Times of India (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

The US has come perilously close to calling Pakistan a terrorist state by alleging that the country's spy agency helped move the Taliban leader to Karachi.