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...quite successful in collecting intelligence data from different parts of the world, it has failed to discover and foil the plans of many criminals and terrorists. Certainly, 9/11 is an example of an attack the CIA did not prevent. In fact, the agency has often been misled. Syedfahad Akhtar Karachi...
SYEDFAHAD AKHTAR Karachi...
...Aziz must also act firmly to restore law and order to Pakistan, ideally starting with the country's largest city and main economic driver, Karachi. This cannot be done merely by deploying troops and paramilitary forces whenever the killing gets out of hand. It will require substantial, long-overdue investment in our courts and police. Otherwise, Pakistan will remain a country that drives its own middle class into exile, and one where officials, elected or not, habitually abuse their powers...
...were unaware he had been arrested, allowing investigators to pinpoint the coordinates of key operatives. Khan's cover was blown when press reports last week revealed he was in custody. "We would have preferred it if his name had remained undisclosed by the Americans," says a Pakistani official in Karachi who was involved in monitoring Khan...
...Qaeda terrorists. A Western law-enforcement official in Kabul who is tracking Khan says agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan, after a tip-off in May, turned up evidence that Khan is employing a fleet of cargo ships to move Afghan heroin out of the Pakistani port of Karachi. The official says at least three vessels on return trips from the Middle East took arms like plastic explosives and antitank mines, which were secretly unloaded in Karachi and shipped overland to al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Khan is now a marked man. "He's obviously very tightly tied to the Taliban...