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...Washington, a New York Times report that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency is directly assisting militant groups fighting against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has barely raised an eyebrow. Veteran Pakistan watchers here have known - or suspected - as much for several years. "It confirms what a lot of us have been saying for a long time," says Lisa Curtis, South Asia expert at the Heritage Foundation. In the area of cooperation with the U.S. on counterterrorism, Curtis says, "the Pakistanis have the initiative - they play us." Adds Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution: "The problem from...
...Long-standing differences could also erupt over the relationship of Pakistan's shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency with militant groups. Malik emphasized on Thursday that the suspects were "non-state actors" - a perspective shared by Washington and London. But Shiv Shankar Menon, India's Foreign Secretary, bluntly accused the military-led ISI of involvement. "The perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organizers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI," he told a conference last week in Paris, provoking fury among the Pakistani establishment...
...triumph after undoing the military leadership of former President Pervez Musharraf. Now Zardari has to deal with Indian charges not only that the Mumbai assailants used Pakistan as their base to organize their attacks but that Pakistan's shadowy but powerful military spy outfit, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), may once again be linked to the radicals allegedly behind the late November assault on India's financial center. The old, poisonous contest between civilian and military leadership seems to be emerging again...
...lack of concrete evidence linking the group, which has strong ties to the Pakistani military intelligence community, to the terrorist attacks, despite intercepted mobile-phone conversations between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Taiba was founded with the assistance of the directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in 1990 to serve as a proxy fighter in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The ISI has been repeatedly accused by U.S. officials of maintaining links to the terrorist group, which was involved in an attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001. That incident brought the two countries...
Indian security analysts, meanwhile, were not only reticent but also skeptical of both the Pakistani authorities' ability and their willingness to crack the whip on the many terrorist groups operating on Pakistani soil. Mistrust of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) runs deep among Indian intelligence and security circles - far more than in the U.S. - particularly since the late 1980s, when the ISI was accused of aiding a fierce insurgency in India's border state of Punjab. Many believe that the ISI-Pakistani-army nexus holds the country in a vise, severely curtailing any civilian government's power to take...