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ManuT wrote:Riedel on Pakistani Intelligence’s Relationship to Terrorism

By Spencer Ackerman
06.04.09 | 3:35 pm

shiv wrote:

ManuT wrote:Riedel on Pakistani Intelligence’s Relationship to Terrorism

By Spencer Ackerman
06.04.09 | 3:35 pm

That article is 2 years old.

ManuT wrote: Yes sir, it was not known 2 years ago that OBL will get bumped off by US. He is saying this (Riedel) 6 months after Mumbai attacks.
I am only establishing a time line. His comments should have been known to the interviewer who interviewed him recently and should have held him to account.

Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, about the release of that Lashkar-e-Taiba leader, Hafiz Saeed. Haroon defended Saeed and denied that he’s a terrorist:

Are you familiar in any way with the work of Hafiz Saeed? He’s not LET. He’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah [a front group for the LET], and it’s a purely social organization.

the ever-so erudite [b]Hafeez Sayeed who postulated "Killing Hindus is the way to move forward"[/b]

BTW, snake oil salesman if ever there was one.

Kanishka wrote:

BTW, snake oil salesman if ever there was one.

Pakis like to talk big and this scum is no different.
What is astonishing however is the amount of lecturing in this video.
Perhaps he is forgetting that he represents the most violent nation on earth, an international pariah state and an out caste which also
happens to be the most backword in terms of education, religious freedom, social justice, economy ...

Delusional scums!

It is a known fact that the roots of present extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan can be traced back to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, when the Mujahideen were being provided help against the communists. The dangerously armed Mujaheeden were left alone by all to fight among themselves for Kabul after the Soviet Union withdrew. Many of those who fought against the Soviets are dead by now but their part of the land remains very much the same as it was during the soviet invasion.

The war ragged Afghanistan could not make its way out of economic ditch it had fallen into because of the Soviet invasion. Pakistan being a neighbor of Afghanistan could not have escaped the effects of Afghanistan’s destruction.

Pakistan preoccupation with the war has brought Pakistan into a net of chronic problems. The successive governments have been utilizing large amounts of national resources in a protracted conflict landing the country in a plethora. {So aids and alms received by fooling unkil is now pakinational resources hainji?} Pakistan now has an ailing economy, energy shortfall and a diminishing trust for foreign investment. Diplomatically efforts are being made to bog down Pakistan and put the blame of a failing Afghanistan on Pakistan.

The law enforcement operations conducted by Pakistan army in its tribal region have been more successful than those of U.S and allied forces operations in Afghanistan. Pakistan has been paying a heavy price for its commitment in the war against terror. Pakistan has suffered more than thirty five thousand casualties in terrorist violence from the year 2003 to 2011 along with an economic cost of more than $68.9 billion.

The Government of Pakistan is most sincere in rooting out extremism. Remarkable gains made by the Pakistan army against extremists are being supplemented by government efforts to socially uplift the people. The 2010 summer floods and the recent floods in Sindh have shattered the already fragile economy of Pakistan. Pakistan’s vital role in helping achieve a safer world can only be enhanced if Pakistani efforts are acknowledged. The recurrent U.S and Afghan blames against Pakistan and its armed forces would not help improve the situation in Afghanistan. Ten years of Allied and Afghan failures are not because of Pakistan but because of Afghanistan’s political and economic problems and their solution lay in Afghanistan.

FT: Time to take on Pakistan’s jihadist spies

By Mansoor Ijaz

October 10, 2011 7:58 pm

Early on May 9, a week after US Special Forces stormed the hideout of Osama bin Laden and killed him, a senior Pakistani diplomat telephoned me with an urgent request. Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, needed to communicate a message to White House national security officials that would bypass Pakistan’s military and intelligence channels. The embarrassment of bin Laden being found on Pakistani soil had humiliated Mr Zardari’s weak civilian government to such an extent that the president feared a military takeover was imminent. He needed an American fist on his army chief’s desk to end any misguided notions of a coup – and fast.

Gen Ashfaq Kayani, the army chief, and his troops were demoralised by the embarrassing ease with which US special forces had violated Pakistani sovereignty . Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s feared spy service, was charged by virtually the entire international community with complicity in hiding bin Laden for almost six years. Both camps were looking for a scapegoat; Mr Zardari was their most convenient target.

The diplomat made clear that the civilian government’s preferred channel to receive Mr Zardari’s message was Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff. He was a time-tested friend of Pakistan and could convey the necessary message with force not only to President Barack Obama, but also to Gen Kayani.

In a flurry of phone calls and emails over two days a memorandum was crafted that included a critical offer from the Pakistani president to the Obama administration: “The new national security team will eliminate Section S of the ISI charged with maintaining relations to the Taliban, Haqqani network, etc. This will dramatically improve relations with Afghanistan.”
The memo was delivered to Admiral Mullen at 14.00 hours on May 10. A meeting between him and Pakistani national security officials took place the next day at the White House. Pakistan’s military and intelligence chiefs, it seems, neither heeded the warning, nor acted on the admiral’s advice.
On September 22, in his farewell testimony to the Senate armed services committee, Admiral Mullen said he had “credible intelligence” that a bombing on September 11 that wounded 77 US and Nato troops and an attack on the US embassy in Kabul on September 13 were done “with ISI support.” Essentially he was indicting Pakistan’s intelligence services for carrying out a covert war against the US – perhaps in retaliation for the raid on bin Laden’s compound, perhaps out of strategic national interest to put Taliban forces back in power in Afghanistan so that Pakistan would once again have the “strategic depth” its paranoid security policies against India always envisioned.

Questions about the ISI’s role in Pakistan have intensified in recent months. The finger of responsibility in many otherwise inexplicable attacks has often pointed to a shadowy outfit of ISI dubbed “S-Wing”, which is said to be dedicated to promoting the dubious agenda of a narrow group of nationalists who believe only they can protect Pakistan’s territorial integrity.

The time has come for the state department to declare the S-Wing a sponsor of terrorism under the designation of “foreign governmental organisations”. Plans by the Obama administration to blacklist the Haqqani network are toothless and will have no material impact on the group’s military support and intelligence logistics; it is S-Wing that allegedly provides all of this in the first place. It no longer matters whether ISI is wilfully blind, complicit or incompetent in the attacks its S-Wing is carrying out. S-Wing must be stopped.

ISI embodies the scourge of radicalism that has become a cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy. The time has come for America to take the lead in shutting down the political and financial support that sustains an organ of the Pakistani state that undermines global antiterrorism efforts at every turn. Measures such as stopping aid to Pakistan, as a bill now moving through Congress aims to do, are not the solution. More precise policies are needed to remove the cancer that ISI and its rogue wings have become on the Pakistani state.

Pakistanis are not America’s enemies. Neither is their incompetent and toothless civilian government – the one Admiral Mullen was asked to help that May morning. The enemy is a state organ that breeds hatred among Pakistan’s Islamist masses and then uses their thirst for jihad against Pakistan’s neighbours and allies to sate its hunger for power. Taking steps to reduce its influence over Pakistan’s state affairs is a critical measure of the world’s willingness to stop the terror masters at their very roots.

The writer is an American of Pakistani ancestry. In 1997 he negotiated Sudan’s offer of counter-terrorism assistance to the Clinton administration

ISLAMABAD — Hundreds of demonstrators have rallied in support of a Pakistani man convicted of assassinating a liberal governor in the name of Islam.

Tuesday’s rally took place as Mumtaz Qadri appealed his death sentence before a high court.

Khwaja Sharif, Qadri’s lawyer, said the court in Islamabad halted his client’s execution until it rules on the appeal — a common procedural step.

KALAYA (Reuters) - Militants fired two missiles at a rally led by the governor of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four, but the governor was not hurt, security officials said.

Governor Masood Kasur was to address ethnic Pashtun tribal leaders when the rally was attacked in Kalaya, a town in the Orakzai region, the officials said.

"The governor was receiving a briefing before the start of the function when the rockets struck. He is safe," senior government official Fazal Qadir told Reuters.

"One rocket fell near the helipad while the other landed inside the ground where the rally was being held."

Orakzai is one of the seven agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the northwest. All but Orakzai shares a border with Afghanistan.

Some contacts I have touched base with have indicated that following the Mullen talk with Kayani, the S-Wing was indeed closed. Kayani issued a clear directive, which pretty much all external agencies detected (and friendly ones were passing around the English pdf accordingly). But the attacks continued.

In mid-September it was discovered that a new wing of the ISI had emerged. This was not easily detected, as only a couple of agencies intercepted communications referring to an FU-wing.

In provocative comments, Pakistan on Tuesday claimed that Jammu and Kashmir has never been an "integral part" of India and sought a United Nations-led plebiscite to determine the will of the Kashmiri people, evoking an angry rebuttal by India which termed the remarks as "unwarranted".

"Jammu and Kashmir is neither an integral part of India, nor has it ever been so," Tahir Hussain Andrabi, counselor at Pakistan's Permanent Mission to the UN, said during a debate at the General Assembly.

Raising New Delhi's hackles, Pakistan's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Raza Bashir Tarar said, "In South Asia, the inalienable right to self-determination of the people of JK had been recognised by a number of Security Council resolutions. Indeed, the UN decolonisation agenda would be incomplete without the resolution of the JK dispute."

Responding to the statement, Indian representative R Ravindra (First Secretary) said the reference made by the Pakistani official to Jammu and Kashmir "is unwarranted and completely irrelevant to the work of this Committee."

"I would like to remind the distinguished representative of Pakistan that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. The Indian Constitution guarantees fundamental rights to all its citizens. The people of Jammu and Kashmir have expressed their free will by participating in free and fair elections held at regular intervals," Ravindra said in exercise of the right of reply.

sum wrote:Next US will ask TSP to disband ISI and then they will rename it to some "Pakistani peace lovers org" or something similar and US will buy that too...

Pakistan's Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim today said any decision on giving India transit trade rights to transport goods to Afghanistan will be made after a meeting of the Commerce Secretaries of India and Pakistan next month.

"The Commerce Secretary-level talks are being held in India next month and the issue of granting a Pakistani trade corridor (to India) for exports to Afghanistan will be discussed in that meeting, and any decision will be taken after that," Fahim said.

"India has assured us that it would support our case for (duty-free) access to EU markets," Fahim told the reporters.

SSridhar wrote: After the Indo-Afghan Strategic Security Pact, what chance does the transit trade have ?

sum wrote:

Responding to the statement, Indian representative R Ravindra (First Secretary) said the reference made by the Pakistani official to Jammu and Kashmir "is unwarranted and completely irrelevant to the work of this Committee."

anmol wrote:

FT: Time to take on Pakistan’s jihadist spies

By Mansoor Ijaz
More precise policies are needed to remove the cancer that ISI and its rogue wings have become on the Pakistani state.

Sen_K wrote:Pakistan wants 50 Indian engines, Railways says no

Over 300 of Pakistan Railways’ 500 locomotives are out of order, leading to a loss of Rs 25 billion a year, authorities said.

The Indian Railways has 4,214 electric and 6,000 diesel engines. Two hundred engines roll out of each of its two public sector manufacturing units every year. It is massively short of its Vision 2020 target of 1,200 engines annually.

In India, railway officials are not in favour of the deal with Pakistan, for the “corporate risk” it entails. “Relations with Pakistan being what they are, there will always remain the apprehension that India will not get its money back,” a railway ministry official said.

But despite this, tenders for the supply of engines to Bangladesh and Myanmar are currently being processed.

Prem wrote:How long before their whole rail system collapse? Let Pathan Bhais give few jolts and hasten the shutdown. IMHO, Poak rail is ripe for ripping like their Musharraf in 2001.

It’s pretty well known that the ISI has blood all over its hands from assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan, and works against supposed allies as much as it works with them.

If catching bin Laden goes against the national interests of Pakistan, Pakistan must have placed itself outside the community that views terrorism as an international crime. Which means Canada would no longer have much interest in being its friend.

Pakistan, dishonor is thy name.

sum wrote:More Aman-ki-Asha from TSP, this time at UN:
Kashmir is NOT an integral part of India: Pakistan

The fact remains Pakistan annexed half of Kashmir and gained an area of territory in excess of 86000 sq km (larger than Austria) in the 1948 war, It then also defended itself in 1965 and India was forced into a soviet back Declaration called the Tashkent Declaration, The Indian PM Sashtri died within hours of signing the Tashkent Declaration in the overwhelming defeat that India had endured.

You can view that Tashkent Declaration here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGe6L3oIllw

Thats not even talking about the Chinese invasion of India in 1962 where it took Aksai Chin from India.

India has a long tradition of being invaded and loosing territory, Aryans, Muslims, Pakistan, Chinese, SIkhs and ofcourse the British!

Cup of tea!

Sen_K wrote:Pakistan wants 50 Indian engines, Railways says no

RajeshA wrote:

Prem wrote:How long before their whole rail system collapse? Let Pathan Bhais give few jolts and hasten the shutdown. IMHO, Poak rail is ripe for ripping like their Musharraf in 2001.

Indians will definitely pay a fair price for the scrap metal from rails, wagons and engines they have.

Next-Stop-is-Pakistan
by Wayne Madsen
It looks as if Syria will have to wait now that - as Wayne Madsen points out - Washington’s priority is seizing Pakistan’s nuclear booty before, as the story goes, it falls into radical islamist hands. The only obstacle remaining was to create an environment acceptable to world public opinion that would justify a multinational intervention in Pakistan. Over the past year and a half, Washington has been attempting to do just that through a crescendo of uninterrupted provocations.

The CIA and Blackwater (now Xe Services) have two major designs in Pakistan – to control the entire business of the Gwadar port and to carry out colossal suicide attacks across central Punjab and north-western areas of the country to tell the world that the first atomic Islamic power is ungovernable.