Tag: Cia

LAHORE - The release of Raymond Davis is just a green light for more killings and assassinations by the US government and the CIA in Pakistan, Robert Anderson, a former CIA operative has said in an interview with Talkhaba.
Anderson, who operated in Vietnam around 60 years ago, talked about undercover work the CIA did back then and the similarities with it now in terms of running operatives like Raymond Davis working in Pakistan. "The pillage and slaughter of Pakistanis will

LAHORE - Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) City Division Police claimed to arrest 10 members of Waseem alias Bhyia and Saleem Oadh Dacoit Gangs including their ringleaders and recovered Rs 0.2 million cash, two motorcycles, 10 cell phones, three pistols and bullets from the accused on Friday. The police said that the criminals confessed 35 robberies and street crimes during preliminary interrogation. The accused were identified as M Saleem, M Aslam, M Yasin, M Aamir, Billal Ahmad,

ISLAMABAD - Investigations into the case of Raymond Davis, an American arrested in Lahore in January for killing two Pakistanis, have revealed that the US spy agency, CIA is indulged in heavy recruitment of local agents in Balochistan to locate members of the so-called Quetta-based Taliban Shura.
It was the result of a probe into the Davis case that the Pakistani security agencies came to know that around 300 more CIA contractors were present in various parts of the country,

Faisalabad - Divisional Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Engineer Azeem Randhawa has held American intelligence agency, CIA, responsible for the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti. He was killed by the CIA to divert the global attention from the case of Raymond Davis, the US spy who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, he said. Engineer Azeem Randhawa was determined that it was necessary to free Pakistan from the US grip and restore the national dignity, he said and

ISLAMABAD - Around 300 Raymond Davis-like CIA contractors are present in various parts of Pakistan, the revelation of which has further deepened the diplomatic row between Islamabad and Washington over the fate of the American killer of two Pakistanis arrested in Lahore in January. The presence of dozens of CIA-linked Americans is not the only matter of deep concern for Pakistani security agencies but what is alarming is that these Davis-like "dubious characters" are also indulging in

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Pakistan on Thursday came up with a clear and categorical stance on the assassination of Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, saying it was condemnable in the maximum possible terms. "A murder whether it is of a Muslim or a Christian can never be justified. A Muslim cannot even think of killing a Christian on difference of opinion," JI Islamabad Secretary General Khalid Farooq and others said in a statement. They said the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti was a

ISLAMABAD - The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has sought details of Raymond Davis-like CIA agents operating in its territory from the US as a major condition to move ahead leaving behind the Lahore incident, in which two Pakistanis were killed by the detained American spy.
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta made a telephone call to ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha on Saturday to discuss the contentious issue of Davis that has generated a grave

ISLAMABAD - The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency is ready to split with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert US operation involving hundreds of contract spies, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press (AP) and interviews with Pakistani and US officials, The Washington Post newspaper reported on Thursday.