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.
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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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Raazi: RAW Agent Penetrates Pakistan Military
This Indian spy thriller, said to be based on a true story, is the story of a woman RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) agent, who is sent to Pakistan to spy on their military officials. Directed by Meghna Gulzar, the film stars Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles.
