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NEW DELHI: A vast majority of Pakistan's military leadership is unhappy about the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden and fears that America will conduct similar raids in the future to target the country's nuclear arsenal. An assessment made by Indian agencies suggests that almost three-fourths of the Pakistani military brass is concerned about the way American helicopters crossed into Pakistani territory, carried out a surgical strike and left without informing either the Pakistani government or security establishment, Indian government sources said. The finding, shared with leaders of the Indian government, is significant because of the deep ties Pakistan...

Pakistan’s ‘deep state’ C. Raja Mohan Posted online: Wed May 04 2011, 01:21 hrs Terrorism,” the former ISI chief, Lt General Asad Durrani, wrote last week, “is a technique of war, and therefore an instrument of policy.” Unlike Lt General Hamid Gul, another former ISI chief, Durrani is not bombastic; he is quite precise with words. Durrani is upfront in asserting that the ISI has no reason to be apologetic about using violent extremism in the pursuit of the Pakistan army’s strategic objectives in Afghanistan and India. But a week is a long time in politics. After the US Special...

NEW DELHI: The direct role of Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence in harbouring Osama bin Laden, first elsewhere and then in the cooler climes of Abbottabad where he met his maker, may never be known. But there is growing realization around the world, with some US senators on Tuesday reinforcing the charge against Pakistan security and intelligence agencies of playing "a double game" of staggering proportions in the so-called global war against terrorism, that it will be virtually impossible to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Islamist terror till one of its main benefactors is neutered. From the Haqqani network in Afghanistan to the...

NEW DELHI: It now turns out that Indian agencies had twice warned their US counterparts about the presence of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in an urbanized and heavily populated area not very far from Islamabad – once in mid-2007 and again in early 2008 when they specifically mentioned his likely presence in a cantonment area. On both occasions, the Americans either did not take the Indian intelligence seriously or perhaps were too busy working on their own inputs about Osamas whereabouts. The first time Indian security agencies gave this information to the US authorities was in mid-2007, soon after...

Quite a few people whose intelligence I respect greatly -- including Ace of Spades and Wretchard -- are talking about a theory that makes so much sense, it scares me. Even though it's purely theory and speculation, it hangs together all too well. For years, we've all had our suspicions that the Pakistani intelligence service -- the ISI -- is at the very least infiltrated by terrorists, and may in fact might be cooperating with them. India insists, with considerable justification, that the ISI was linked to some of the more horrific terrorist attacks they've suffered, and far too many...

US feared Pak could mistake American raid to kill Osama bin Laden for India attack Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN | May 3, 2011, 05.51pm IST WASHINGTON: US President Obama and his national security team spent hairy moments in the White House Situation Room on Sunday worrying among other things that Pakistan would mistake the Osama-specific American commando raid on Abbottabad for an Indian attack. In fact, a top US official disclosed in a briefing on Monday that the Pakistanis even scrambled their jets when they realized something was afoot in Abbottabad, but the US commandos finished their operation in 40 minutes...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden lived for the past five to six years in the compound deep inside Pakistan where the al Qaeda leader was killed by U.S. forces, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said on Tuesday. Bin Laden, who was living in Afghanistan before a 2001 U.S.-led invasion helped topple its Taliban regime, was holed up in a compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad in Pakistan before Sunday's operation to kill him. "Well I think the latest information is that he was in this compound for the past five or six years and he had virtually...

India Journal: What If India Raided Pakistan? India’s prime minister greets the Mi-25 helicopters carrying Indian Navy MARCOS commandos. He shakes hands with the returning troops, congratulates and thanks them. For the photographers, he holds up his thumbs, “Mission Accomplished”-style. The MARCOS are returning from Pakistan where they took out some of India’s, and the world’s, most wanted terrorists. That was the story that didn’t happen yesterday or the week before or the month before or the year before or the decade before that. It’s the story that some, perhaps many, Indians have wished to read. It hasn’t happened but...

India on Osama Death: ‘We Told You So’ By Tripti Lahiri and Amol Sharma Indian officials have long been telling their U.S. counterparts that Pakistan can’t be trusted as an ally, that elements of its spy agency are in league with terrorists–or at least aren’t giving it their all to pursue, capture and kill them. India views its neighbor as a major exporter of terror to its cities. In one of the worst attacks in recent years, gunmen trained by the Pakistan-based militant Lashkar-e-Taiba held India’s financial center Mumbai hostage for three days in November 2008, killing more than 160...

SALMAN RUSHDIE: It's Time To Declare Pakistan A Terrorist State Salman Rushdie, The Daily Beast Are we really supposed to believe that Pakistan didn’t know Osama bin Laden was living there for five years? Salman Rushdie on why it’s time to declare the country a terrorist state. Osama bin Laden died on Walpurgisnacht, the night of black sabbaths and bonfires. Not an inappropriate night for the Chief Witch to fall off his broomstick and perish in a fierce firefight. One of the most common status updates on Facebook after the news broke was “Ding, Dong, the witch is dead,” and...

American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why they had failed to find bin Laden was that Pakistan’s security services tipped him off whenever US troops approached. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID) also allegedly smuggled al-Qaeda terrorists through airport security to help them avoid capture and sent a unit into Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban. The claims, made in leaked US government files obtained by Wikileaks, will add to questions over Pakistan’s capacity to fight al-Qaeda. [....] In December 2009, the government of Tajikistan warned the United States that efforts to catch bin Laden were being...

After Osama: Stop feeding the beast Bin Laden's discovery in a wealthy suburb of Abbottabad raises questions over US military funding to Pakistan. Leila Hudson After years of former Pakistani military dictator General Musharraf assuring the world that bin Laden was either dead or in Afghanistan, he was found and dispatched by US special forces in the town of Abbottabad, a mere 30 miles - 50km - as the crow flies from the capital Islamabad. Abbottabad is a colonial era army "cantonment" or garrison town and home to the Pakistan Military Academy PMA Kakul, less than two miles from the...

This is a copyleft PDF book , 206 pages long, specifically reporting on the Pakistan military, which has their military academy in Abbottabad, and the area is reportedly similar to Amelia Island in the US, where CIA retirees congregate in great numbers, Abbottabad is the Hamptons , or Vail of the Pakistani military and intelligence machinery. Been reading the book for 20 minutes, it's pretty good reading to understand what has been explained repeatedly but haphazardly for years, that the Pakistani military and intelligence service controlled the Taliban and the AlQaeda operatives in Afghanistan. Pakistan Failed State Shiv Sastry This...

WASHINGTON: The finger of suspicion is pointing squarely at the Pakistani military and intelligence for sheltering and protecting Osama bin Laden before US forces hunted him down and put a bullet in his head on Sunday. The coordinates of the action and sequence of events suggest that the al-Qaida fugitive may have been killed in an ISI safehouse. Within hours of the news of bin Laden's killing, speculation raged about Pakistan and its spy agency's role in the momentous episode. President Obama made it clear that the operation to hunt down bin Laden was conducted exclusively by US forces --...

Suspicions grow over whether Pakistan aided Osama bin Laden The fact that the Al Qaeda leader was caught in the heart of the nation may add to the questions in Washington over how much Pakistan's security forces knew about his whereabouts. By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times May 2, 2011, 12:23 a.m. Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan –— The fact that Osama bin Laden was killed not in the tribal badlands of northwestern Pakistan but in a small city just north of the capital is likely to raise new suspicions in Washington about how much the country's security establishment knew of...

Osama death: An embarrassment Pakistan can't live down May 02, 2011 11:26 IST Seema Mustafa on bin Laden's death and its repercussions for Pakistan. 'Osama bin Laden is dead,' US President Barack Obama [ Images ] declared from the White House. He could as easily have said Al Qaeda [ Images ] is dead, as without Osama, his organisation does not have the leadership to strike the same kind of terror across the world. The announcement was dramatic, but what was of even greater significance is that the killing of bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan, will be a precursor to...

ISLAMABAD - A senior Pakistani intelligence official confirmed on Monday that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, had been killed. "Yes, I can confirm that," he said, but declined to give further details.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan's ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert U.S. operation involving hundreds of contract spies, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with U.S. and Pakistani officials. Such a move could seriously damage the U.S war effort in Afghanistan, limit a program targeting al-Qaida insurgents along the Pakistan frontier, and restrict Washington's access to information in the nuclear-armed country.

Pakistan's powerful intelligence service has been accused for years of playing a "double game:" acting as a front-line U.S. ally in the fight against terror while supporting selected terrorist groups which serve Pakistani interests. Now, for the first time, there is a detailed inside account of how that game is played. The U.S. investigation of the 2008 Mumbai attacks has built a strong case that officers in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) collaborated with the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group in the plot that killed 166 people, six of them Americans. U.S. and Indian investigators say their understanding of the ISI-Lashkar alliance...

The CIA has recalled it top officer from Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened. The alleged name of the CIA's station chief in Islamabad was revealed by a Pakistani man, Kareem Khan, who has threatened to sue the intelligence agency over the death of his son and brother in a U.S. missile strike. Khan and his lawyers told a news conference in November that they would seek a $500 million payment for his family members' deaths and warned they may sue CIA director Leon Panetta, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and the man they identified as...