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2008-09-17 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 The ISI has about as much of a chance of reforming itself as a snowball in hell, or Congress, for that matter.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Tok, AK 2008-09-17 03:32|| 2008-09-17 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 The Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) needs reform

The wonderful world of "top US diplomacy".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-09-17 04:14|| 2008-09-17 04:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The ISI is staffed by Army Officers, rotated in for 3 years terms, and is lead by an Army General.

It is the Pakistan Military that needs to be 'reformed'.

Posted by Cherelet and Tenille1095 2008-09-17 04:15|| 2008-09-17 04:15|| Front Page Top

#4 the ISI is viewed with deep suspicion by US for retaining links to the Taliban
That's like saying Disney has links to Mickey Mouse.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-09-17 08:06|| 2008-09-17 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 to continue Alaska Paul's thought -

...or the CIA.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-17 08:52|| 2008-09-17 08:52|| Front Page Top

#6 A few months ago there was in Rantburg a text from an Indian telling: "Pakistan is not a state who has an army, it is an army who has a state".

And I am beginning to believe it is not an Army who has a secret service but a secret service who has its own army.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-17 09:43|| 2008-09-17 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Is this another Obama initiative?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-09-17 11:46|| 2008-09-17 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Re: #7 Is this another Obama initiative?
Unlikely, there has been no flip flopping of position.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-09-17 14:55|| 2008-09-17 14:55|| Front Page Top

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