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| Can Pakistan clean up its intelligence agency? |
| 2008-08-09 |
| As Pakistan faces mounting pressure from its neighbors and the United States to clear pro-Taliban elements from its intelligence service, its weak government is struggling to respond in a convincing way. Last week, American officials alleged that members of Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had helped plan the bombing of the Indian consulate in Kabul, Afghanistan, last month. The claim echoed those lodged by both affected neighbors, India and Afghanistan. On top of these accusations came reports that a top CIA official had confronted Pakistani leaders with evidence of the ISI's support for militants that the Pakistani Army has been battling in the country's restive northwest tribal areas. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Its so far gone the only way to clean it up is to dismantle it and rebuild it from scratch. Funny, that's how I feel about Dar in its entirety. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-08-09 14:38 |
| #5 Its so far gone the only way to clean it up is to dismantle it and rebuild it from scratch. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-09 11:43 |
| #4 I'd like to voice a contrary opinion here: The reason the ISI is so "difficult to clean up" is because there's nothing to clean up. The large majority of ISI officers are career officers from other branches on a 2 year rotation. The claim that the ISI is a rogue agency is complete horse manure. These officers have no separate identity and no separate interests from the rest of the Paki military. When diplomats talk about the "rogue ISI" they are really talking about the rogue military. Our relations with the paki military right now reminds me of US-Japanese relations in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor: Both sides knew war was coming, but each side was waiting for the right moment. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-08-09 11:40 |
| #3 Will the Donks purge their party of limousine and neo-Marxists? No. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-08-09 09:18 |
| #2 Does Pakistan desire to? No Then - No |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-08-09 01:13 |
| #1 "Can Pakistan clean up its intelligence agency?" Short answeer: No. Long answer: Hell, no. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-09 01:02 |