In a latest move, the US government has decided to suspend $800 million military aid to Pakistan. It is fairly obvious that grounds for this had already been smoothed by the powers that be: The recent statements by senior US…
Tag Archive for Inter-Services Intelligence
An Open Letter by Senator Raza Rabbani
by Masood Raja •
In the name of the people of Pakistan OPEN LETTER This letter is of a concerned Pakistani, who is seeing the State and its constitutional structures rendered helpless at the hands of terrorism. It has brought into question the writ…
Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants in Bin Laden Case
by Juan Cole •
The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence has arrested five Pakistani informants who gave the CIA information leading to the raid on Usamah Bin Laden’s compound at Abbotabad, according to the NYT. The arrests appear to have happened some time ago, and were…
Intelligence overkill?
by Mehreen Zahra-Malik •
We all know what went wrong in the weeks before, and during, the US operation to take out Osama. The bewildering array of Pakistani intelligence groups messed up: no real skills, no good information, no action. We know what went…
Another martyr of conscience!
by Qaisar Abbas •
Pakistan Navy is preparing to award Nishan-e Haider to its brave officer who lost his life defending the PNS base attacked by a militant group, mainly because his institution failed to protect it. Is there any award for the courageous…
Sow Mumbai, Reap Karachi?
by Mehreen Zahra-Malik •
This was irony at its cruelest. Just as David Headley took the stand in Chicago and alleged that the terrorists behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks were trained by Pakistan Navy’s Frogmen, troops in Karachi were almost done retaking the PNS…
Watching a new reality show!
by Qaisar Abbas •
So far Pakistan and the U.S. have been successful in creating the illusion that it was the U.S. that developed and managed the reality show “Obama Got Osama” single handedly. In this age of the internet marvels,…
A tale of two prime ministers
by Mehreen Zahra-Malik •
The year was 1988. The Cold War that Pakistan had helped burn with a deadly heat was coming to a close. Gorbachev had just informed Afghan president Najibullah that Soviet troops were pulling out of Afghanistan and official accords had…
A Pakistani General Resigning?
by Masood Raja •
The Pakistani generals are not famous for resigning, not even when they lose half a country (Yahya Khan) or start a disastrous war without the knowledge of their government (Pervez Musharraf). In fact, when they make huge blunders, they usually…
