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| India-Pakistan |
| Intelligence accord |
| 2015-05-20 |
| [DAWN] IF both sides are committed to meaningful implementation, the landmark agreement between the ISI and the Afghan intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... , could fundamentally alter the dynamics of a mutually damaging relationship stretching back decades. Consider the history here: from the decades that span Khad to WAD and, in its present form, NDS, the Afghan intelligence set-up has been aligned with powers hostile to Pakistain. Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... the ISI has for decades considered exerting influence inside Afghanistan to be one of its two principal aims, the other being shaping the relationship with India. For the NDS, with its open partiality for India, to seek to formalise and widen its ties with the ISI is nothing short of historic. While details of the MoU have not been revealed, there is a sense that events since December last year have helped make the historic agreement possible. |
| Posted by:Fred |