Are the Western Intelligence Agencies Using the NGOs in Pakistan?

In the shadows of the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the fate of a small-town Pakistani doctor recruited by the CIA to help track the Qaeda leader still looms between the two countries, a sore spot neither can leave untouched. Picked up by Pakistani intelligence agents days after the Bin Laden raid a year [...]

American Terrorism in Pakistan Continuing with Rulers’ Consent

Covert operations are nothing new in American history, but it could be argued that during the past decade they have moved from being a relatively minor arrow in the national security quiver to being the cutting edge of American power. Drone strikes, electronic surveillance and stealth engagements by military units such as the Joint Special [...]

Mansoor Ijaz Had Advised Benazir Bhutto to Divorce Zardari

Efforts at resolving Kashmir have often involved people who never exist in public imagination, and they are used to achieve informally what is impossible or difficult to defend publically for the governments. Iftikhar Gilani profiles the role Mansoor Ijaz, who is at the center of a controversy in Pakistan, may have played during the NDA [...]

US and Pakistan Enter the Danger Zone

By M K Bhadrakumar  The air strike by NATO at the Pakistani military post at Salala in the Mohmand Agency on the Afghan-Pakistan border is destined to become a milestone in the chronicle of the Afghan war. Within hours of the incident, Pakistan’s relations with the US began nose-diving and it continues to plunge. NATO [...]

Americans Are Clueless About Handling the Haqqani Clan

By Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane andAlissa J. Rubin/ NYT The Haqqani clan are the Sopranos of the Afghanistan war, a ruthless crime family that built an empire out of kidnapping, extortion, smuggling, even trucking. They have trafficked in precious gems, stolen lumber and demanded protection money from businesses building roads and schools with American reconstruction funds. They safeguard their [...]

Is CIA Responsible For Introducing Dengue in Pakistan?

The history of the dengue epidemic in Pakistan dates back to the era when Pakistandecided to give free hand to the CIA to use its land for its activities. During the engagement inAfghanistan through the mujahideen, CIA started a “project” inLahore under the name of the ‘Malaria Eradication Centre’ — headed by one David Nalin [...]

Is the Kashmir American Council’s Fai’s Arrest a Reflection of Tense Relations Between ISI & CIA?

According to NYT, ISI spent $4 million over two decades in a covert attempt to tilt American policy against India’s control of much of Kashmir — including funneling campaign donations to members of Congress and presidential candidates, the F.B.I. claimed in court papers unsealed on July 19, 2011. The allegations of a long-running plan to influence American elections [...]

ISI Arrests Doctor Working for the CIA Who Took Osama’s Childrens’ DNA

The CIA organised a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad where it believed Osama Bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader’s family. As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Osama in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to organise the vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting [...]

Pakistan Pledge Three Dozen Visas to CIA Officers

Pakistan has pledged to grant more than three dozen visas to CIA officers as part of confidence-building measures following theUSraid killing Osama bin Laden. An Associated Press report says that the visas are part of an agreement to rebuild counterterrorism efforts by forming what Pakistani officials call a joint intelligence team. The agreement was reached after talks [...]

CIA Instigating Mutiny in Pakistan Army

By M K Bhadrakumar, a former Indian ambassador TheUnited Statesis confronting the Pakistani military leadership of General Kayani. An extremely dangerous course to destabilise Pakistanis commencing. Can the outcome be any different than in Iran in 1979? But then, the Americans are like Bourbons; they never learn from their mistakes. The NYT report quotes US [...]