Army Officer Said to be Caught in ISI Sex Trap
By Tom Wright
Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence allegedly attempted to blackmail an Indian army officer to spy for them by setting him up with a woman and taking videos of them together, according to an Indian defense official.
The lieutenant colonel, who was training at staff college in Bangladesh, allegedly declined to spy for Pakistan and instead went to the Indian High Commission in October to explain the situation and was immediately sent back to India. A military enquiry in to the incident is ongoing, the Indian defense official said.
The official declined to name the man involved or to give details about the nature of exactly what the videos showed or whether the officer was married. Attempts to reach an ISI spokesman were not successful.
The episode illustrates that Pakistans relations with India , while making slow progress on the level of trade and other technical issues, are still mired in distrust at times bordering on slapstick comedy at the level of the countrys militaries and spy agencies.
Pakistans spy agency continues to view India, and especially New Delhis growing ties with Afghanistan, as a major security threat. Indian and the U.S. officials have tried to persuade Pakistan to change its strategic calculation and focus more resources on beating Taliban militants that shelter on the countrys border with Afghanistan.
Its not the first time an Indian military officer has been caught in a compromising position. In 2009, Commodore Sukhjinder Singh, a married naval officer who was posted in Moscow, was photographed with a Russian woman. The photographs made it in to the public domain but there was no suggestion they were related to a blackmail attempt. The Navy fired him earlier this year for the affair.
Wall Street Journal
By Tom Wright
Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence allegedly attempted to blackmail an Indian army officer to spy for them by setting him up with a woman and taking videos of them together, according to an Indian defense official.
The lieutenant colonel, who was training at staff college in Bangladesh, allegedly declined to spy for Pakistan and instead went to the Indian High Commission in October to explain the situation and was immediately sent back to India. A military enquiry in to the incident is ongoing, the Indian defense official said.
The official declined to name the man involved or to give details about the nature of exactly what the videos showed or whether the officer was married. Attempts to reach an ISI spokesman were not successful.
The episode illustrates that Pakistans relations with India , while making slow progress on the level of trade and other technical issues, are still mired in distrust at times bordering on slapstick comedy at the level of the countrys militaries and spy agencies.
Pakistans spy agency continues to view India, and especially New Delhis growing ties with Afghanistan, as a major security threat. Indian and the U.S. officials have tried to persuade Pakistan to change its strategic calculation and focus more resources on beating Taliban militants that shelter on the countrys border with Afghanistan.
Its not the first time an Indian military officer has been caught in a compromising position. In 2009, Commodore Sukhjinder Singh, a married naval officer who was posted in Moscow, was photographed with a Russian woman. The photographs made it in to the public domain but there was no suggestion they were related to a blackmail attempt. The Navy fired him earlier this year for the affair.
Wall Street Journal
, the indian side is just sitting peacefully. RAW is involved in the Baluchistan unrest and obviously the indian army is'nt playing marbles in Afghanistan... 
