Tag: Spy

Interior Minister Rehman Malik believes that the US had a mole right inside Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout which enabled it to track the...

The Iranian intelligence ministry said on Saturday that it had made 30 arrests as it dismantled a network suspected of spying for the United...

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Islamabad Wednesday for talks with Pakistan's top general expected to address concerns over official links with militants in the region.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) has long-been held to keep contact with militants operating in the wild tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border who plague US-led forces fighting the Afghan war.
Admiral Mike Mullen's trip follows a visit to

ISLAMABAD - Defending the role of Pakistan's intelligence agencies, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told the National Assembly that ISI DG Lt Gen Shuja Pasha had visited the US with the consent of the government and Islamabad would fully support Afghan President Hamid Karzai's initiative for reconciliation in his country. "We should not doubt and cast any aspersion on the roe of our intelligence agencies as they watch Pakistan's interest," he said in response to leader of opposition

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court on Monday issued directives to intelligence and law enforcement agencies to investigate the murder of Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) official Muhammad Arif Noor and submit the inquiry report in court within a month. A division bench comprising Justices Gulzar Ahmed and Shahid Anwar Bajwa was hearing a constitutional petition filed by Arif Noor's brother Abid Noor, seeking to locate the whereabouts of his brother when he had gone missing on October 31

MANAMA - Bahrain has put two Iranians and a Bahraini on trial on charges of spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the state news agency said on Tuesday. "They are accused of contacts with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to give them military and economic information from 2002 to April 2010... with the intention of damaging the national interest," the Bahrain News Agency said. It said the men requested money from Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard force in return for the information.

ISLAMABAD - The head of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is visiting his counterpart at the CIA, the agency said on Monday, in an attempt to patch up an alliance considered crucial to winning the war against al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban.
Lieutenant-general Ahmad Shuja Pasha's visit comes at a time when U.S.-Pakistan joint intelligence operations have been disrupted over a series of disputes, particularly the case of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who

LAHORE - An Indian national, who was held by Pakistani intelligence agencies and charged with spying and sentenced to life imprisonment around 24 years ago, was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail on Thursday on special directives of President Asif Ali Zardari.
Gopal Das, one of Pakistan's longest-serving Indian prisoners, crossed the border for spying in 1984 but was arrested by intelligence agencies from Azad Kashmir. On March 27, President Zardari ordered Das' release late last

DUBAI - A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced three people to death for being part of an alleged Iranian spy ring in the Gulf Arab state, Dubai-based Al Arabiya television said on Tuesday.
The station did not give further details on a case that has strained relations between Kuwait and Tehran. Kuwait, which banned media coverage of the case, has said only that several people were detained in an unspecified security probe.
Kuwaiti media said in May 2010 authorities had

WASHINGTON - US national security officials say progress is being made to persuade Pakistan to free a CIA contractor held on murder charges but that Washington could take punitive diplomatic and financial action if the case is not resolved soon.
The officials said they believed private discussions between Islamabad and Washington have cooled anti-American rhetoric that erupted in Pakistan after the arrest of Raymond Davis, a former US Special Forces soldier employed by the CIA

ISLAMABAD - The judicial commission for the recovery of missing persons has suggested legislation to bring the functioning of spy agencies within the ambit of law.
The commission, led by Justice (r) Kamal Mansoor Alam and consisting of Justice (r) Nasira Javed Iqbal and Justice (r) Fazlur Rehman, said this in its report submitted to the Supreme Court and the Interior Ministry on Monday, before a bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice Raja

TEHRAN - Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to Israel's Mossad intelligence service that it blames for the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, its state television reported on Monday.
"The network of spies and terrorists linked to ... Mossad was destroyed," state television quoted a statement issued by the intelligence ministry as saying.
"The network was behind the assassination of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi." A remote-controlled bomb killed the

YEREVAN - Armenia on Friday denied that a US woman reportedly detained in Iran for alleged spying after entering the country from Armenia had ever been to the former Soviet republic.
The woman, identified as Hal Talayan, was initially reported by Iranian media to have been detained after entering Iran with espionage equipment hidden in her teeth.
But later reports contradicted this, saying that she had not been allowed to cross the border between Armenia and Iran because she

TEHRAN - Iranian officials have arrested an American woman on spying charges after she tried to enter the country from Armenia "with spying equipment in her teeth," Fars news agency reported on Thursday.
"About a week ago an American spy woman whose name is said to be Hal Talayan was arrested by customs officials at Nordouz" border area in East Azarbaijan province, Fars said, quoting an unnamed source. "The 55-year-old American woman was arrested while she had entered Iran from

OSLO - The US and Germany are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Monday.
The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size of just 50 centimetres (about 1.5 feet), according to classified cables from US embassy in Berlin leaked to

TEHRAN - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have shot down two "Western spy" drones in the Gulf, the Fars news agency quoted a top commander of the elite military force as saying on Sunday.
"Westerners have a series of capabilities which cannot be ignored, especially satellites, or for example they have spy planes which can take pictures in some places," Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the air force wing of the Guards said.
He said the drones were mainly being used in Iraq and

NEW DELHI - India's intelligence agency wants internet service providers (ISPs) to keep a record of all online activities of customers for a minimum of six months, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
In a communication to the Department of Telecom, India's Intelligence Bureau has sought that addresses of websites visited with date and time and financial transactions of all customers be stored by the internet operators for six months, the Times of India newspaper reported.