Tag: Isi

Headley to reveal ISI’s alleged role in Mumbai attacks

A former member of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an extremist group with close links to the military, is expected to tell a court in Chicago that...

PM Gilani’s address to the Parliament

Prime Minister said that it was "absurd" to level accusations of complicity or incompetence over the discovery of Osama bin Laden in a garrison...

Pakistan orders investigation on bin Laden presence in garrison city: PM

Pakistan has ordered an investigation into how Osama bin Laden was able to live in the garrison city of Abbottabad undetected, Prime Minister Yousuf...

Allegations over bin Laden ‘absurd’: Pakistan PM

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday rejected allegations that the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. troops in the country showed Pakistani...

Pakistan has full confidence in its military, intelligence: PM

Pakistan has confidence in its military and intelligence services, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Monday, despite the discovery that Osama Bin Laden had...

PM Gilani to speak on bin Laden operation today

Pakistan's prime minister is to brief parliament Monday on the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden which has sparked a furious backlash and...

No proof Pakistan knew of bin Laden, but must investigate: US

A top White House official said Sunday there's currently no evidence that Pakistan knew Osama bin Laden was hiding there, but added the country...

US asks Pakistan to prove commitment

The United States has asked Pakistan to show ‘concrete actions’ to prove commitment in the war against terrorism and sought an explanation from Islamabad...

US demands Pakistan disclose names of operatives: report

The administration of US President Barack Obama has demanded the identities of some of the top Pakistani intelligence operatives as United States tries to...

ISPR rubbishes WikiLeaks report on ISI-Qaeda links

The US military classified the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as a terrorist support entity in 2007 and used association with it as a justification to...

Guantanamo Bay files: Pakistan’s ISI listed as terrorist group

US authorities describe the main Pakistani intelligence service as a terrorist organisation in secret files obtained by the Guardian. Recommendations to interrogators at Guantánamo Bay...

Missing Malir courts staffers: ISI DG ordered to submit statement by...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general (DG) to submit a statement on two missing employees of the Malir District Courts by April 28. A division bench comprising Justices Maqbool Baqar and Ghulam Sarwar Korai was hearing the disappearance case of Shafqat Brohi and Agha Yasir, who were allegedly abducted on February 22.
After Brohi and Yasir went missing, SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam took suo motu notice of

‘CIA no longer needs ISI for FATA operations’

LAHORE - The Central Investigation Agency (CIA) has established its own spy network in the tribal areas of Pakistan, reported The Economic Times newspaper while quoted various sources.
The US said the CIA no longer required any collaboration with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to specify targets for drone strikes. According to a US official, the network was developed during the last two years.
The newspaper says the meeting between the spymasters, CIA Director Leon

ISI wary of American special trainers over spying fears

ISLAMABAD - Request by the ISI for a cut in the number of US Special Forces trainers working in sensitive regions in Pakistan is due to fears they are also spying, according to Pakistani sources with knowledge of the request, illustrating the extent to which growing mutual mistrust is hampering security co-operation, according to a Reuters report. The request was conveyed when ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha visited his counterpart Leon Panetta at CIA headquarters on Monday.

Nisar links Davis’ release with ISI DG’s extension

ISLAMABAD - Opposition leader in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan on Monday linked the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis to the extension in the service granted to ISI Director General Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
Opening the debate on the presidential address to the joint session of parliament, the PML-N leader said, "I think we need to focus who got extension (in employment) after three days of the release of Raymond Davis... the nation needs to know who played what part in his

ISI DG leaves for Washington today

ISLAMABAD - Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha will leave for Washington today (Monday) to iron out ISI's differences with the CIA. Sources told Online that the purpose of Pasha's visit was to remove some misunderstandings between ISI and CIA which arose over the issue of Raymond Davis.
Sources said General Pasha would also raise the issue of drone attacks in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The ISI director general has been invited by CIA

DG ISI to visit Washington

ISLAMABAD - Director General Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI) Lt.Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha would visit Washington from April 11 (Monday) to iron out differences emerging between prime intelligence agencies ISI and CIA.
Sources told Online that the purpose of Pasha's visit is to remove some misunderstandings between ISI and CIA, which appeared between two agencies on the issue of Raymond Davis.
The sources said that General Pasha would also raise the issue of drone attacks on