First CIA director WIlliam Burns met with the Taliban. Now, Faiz Hamid, the chief of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence is visiting Kabul. Intelligence chiefs now do the job that foreign ministers used to do.
Category: Pakistan
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The Afghan Intelligence Agency Was Raided: Who Got the Files?
The people who seized the files at the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Communications may not have even been Taliban: The men did not speak Afghan languages, the officials said, and may have been agents of Pakistan’s military intelligence agency working in tandem with Taliban forces. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has long supported...
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With the Taliban Ascendant, Nuclear Pakistan Is Only Getting Stronger
Today’s posting by the non-profit National Security Archive In Washington DC follows the recent admission by Pakistani President Arif Alvi that the country had already developed a “nuclear deterrent” by 1981, long before the underground nuclear tests of 1998. Alvi may have exaggerated in claiming that Pakistan had “joined those nations which were … equipped with...
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Why We Lost in Afghanistan
Via CounterPunch.org, a veteran Washington military analyst Winslow Wheeler breaks it down. The Afghan government’s war effort was riddled with corruption at every level of the society, but mostly at the top. It was fueled by American plane loads of cash and bottomless economic handouts (with too little oversight too late — very informing but...
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Pakistan’s ‘Deep State’: پاکستان: انٹر- سروسز انٹلی جینس (آئی ایس آئی)
From Top World Intelligence Agencies In English: پاکستان: انٹر- سروسز انٹلی جینس (آئی ایس آئی) جائزہ آئی ایس آئی کو عمومی سطح پر ریاست پاکستان کے ریڑھ کی ہڈی تصور کیا جاتا ہے۔ یہ ایک طاقتور لیکن خفیہ انٹلی جینس سروس ہے جو پاکستان کی منتخب حکومت کو سنبھالتی ہے اور ملک کے جوہری ہتھیار کو...
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