Exclusive interview with Imran Khan

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[VCheng]

from: Communication lines remain open with Pakistan, says US military | World | DAWN.COM

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said on Friday communication lines with Pakistan’s military remain open despite acrimony over US accusations that Islamabad is behind violent extremists targeting American troops.

Despite serious disagreement, the US military had no intention of cutting off dialogue with Pakistan, press secretary George Little told reporters.

“The lines of communication with our Pakistani counterparts remain open,”Little said. “This is a relationship that’s complicated but essential.”

In talks with Pakistan’s government, the United States has presented solid evidence of ISI’s links to the Haqqani militants, a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

Mullen made his views clear to General Kayani last Saturday in a meeting in Spain, his spokesman, Captain John Kirby, told reporters.

Mullen has spoken before about links between the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and militants but his sharp comments on Thursday came after a surge in attacks on US troops and interests by the Haqqani network, Kirby said.

“It’s gotten worse. Their activities have become more brazen, more aggressive, more lethal and the information has become more available that these attacks have been supported or even encouraged by the ISI,” he said.

Mullen has not spoken to Kayani since Thursday’s congressional hearing, he added.

“We still want to pursue a working, productive partnership with the Pakistani military, and that in large measure depends on their willingness and their ability to disconnect themselves from extremist groups like the Haqqani network,” Kirby said.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

In talks with Pakistan’s government, the United States has presented solid evidence of ISI’s links to the Haqqani militants, a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

So your excuse of 'intelligence sources, informants etc' being compromised don't apply any more, since evidently the US has 'shared evidence' with the 'accused', of all entities. Surely some of this evidence can also be put on the public domain to substantiate US accusations, or is there some other excuse that can be offered to hide the lack of substantiation behind US accusations?

 

[Yeti]

Imran Khan is a politician he has to be seen as being anti-american due to feelings of the masses the last thing he wants to become his another Musharraf.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Imran Khan is a politician he has to be seen as being anti-american due to feelings of the masses the last thing he wants to become his another Musharraf.

And Obama is a politician, and with the election season coming up, the economy still struggling, and Afghanistan little better than before, he needs a scapegoat and needs to tap into the anti-Pakistan sentiment the US Establishment has perpetuated domestically and find an excuse for US failures to help his re-election.

 

[muse]

In talks with Pakistan’s government, the United States has presented solid evidence of ISI’s links to the Haqqani militants, a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP

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You have the wrong thing high lighted -- if there was real evidence, and if it was actually presented, what better opportunity to show pakistani officials out to be liars? Of course an anonymous source.

 

[Yeti]

And Obama is a politician, and with the election season coming up, the economy still struggling, and Afghanistan little better than before, he needs a scapegoat and needs to tap into the anti-Pakistan sentiment the US Establishment has perpetuated domestically and find an excuse for US failures to help his re-election.

Yep that's how democracy works if things are not going well for you why not put the attention onto something else at least it will bide you some time. In all credit to Obama though it is not him making these statements but the US military, I don't think Obama drummed this idea lying awake at night thinking how he can get back the voters this has to have come from the CIA, Neo-cons and the US military.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

what a pathetic idiot that news caster was, using heavy worded and loaded questions and talking the worn out catch phrases but completely cut to pieces by Imran khan

well done and thanks for uploading.

this news caster aka wanna be news analyst should be given a choosni (dummy) and a Chankana instead as this jobs is too much for him.
bloody miserable

I would just add
if the tens of thousands of American troops can get their act together they should be able to handle these so called Haqqanis in Afghanistan and if the drones that are flying over NW 24/7 stop attacking weddings and tribal gatherings and target so called Haqqani camps instead then this will be all over, but no ,there should be someone to blame for all this farce.

the American Tax payer should demand the stoppage of these useless drones that are failing to attack the Haqqani ghosts in NW. don’t know how much difference the ground troops will make when they have done

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You have the wrong thing high lighted -- if there was real evidence, and if it was actually presented, what better opportunity to show pakistani officials out to be liars? Of course an anonymous source.

Bless you Muse, that was classic :rofl

And Obama is a politician, and with the election season coming up, the economy still struggling, and Afghanistan little better than before, he needs a scapegoat and needs to tap into the anti-Pakistan sentiment the US Establishment has perpetuated domestically and find an excuse for US failures to help his re-election.

very well put, everyone board the Anti-Pakistan wagon.
whenever there is a terrorist attack near a government or military installation, the western media Mongols suddenly become fortune tellers and start predicting the demise of the Pakistani state but this gracious and regal commentary is always missing whenever the Taliban stage a similar attacks in the most protected and security zones patrolled and monitored by the world’s most advanced and powerful military.

 

[VCheng]

So your excuse of 'intelligence sources, informants etc' being compromised don't apply any more, since evidently the US has 'shared evidence' with the 'accused', of all entities. Surely some of this evidence can also be put on the public domain to substantiate US accusations, or is there some other excuse that can be offered to hide the lack of substantiation behind US accusations?

Even the information provided in private is appropriately scrubbed. And you can see the effect of it in Kayani's statement, where he could not deny involvement, but made a pathetically weak case of begging not to be singled out.

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You have the wrong thing high lighted -- if there was real evidence, and if it was actually presented, what better opportunity to show pakistani officials out to be liars? Of course an anonymous source.

When will you guys learn: there is NO concept of lying or loyalty in diplomacy.

 

[VCheng]

from: Official: "Top" Pakistani intel officials support for terror network – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs

03:30 PM ET

Official: "Top" Pakistani intel officials support for terror network

By Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr

The United States believes that the leaders of Pakistan's intelligence services are directly supporting the Haqqani terrorist network, which has increased its attacks against U.S. troops and other targets in Afghanistan, a U.S. military official told CNN Friday.

The accusation goes even further than declarations this week by U.S. officials like Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence provided support for the Haqqani network in its attack last week in Kabul against the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters.

Until now American officials, when asked, generally indicated that it is only elements of the Pakistani intelligence service that are involved in supporting terrorism.

But the official told CNN, "I am not caveating this. We believe this support goes right to the top of the ISI."

CIA Director David Petraeus met this week with Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, chief of the ISI, to warn him against supporting the Haqqanis.

"We have credible intelligence obtained through a series of methods that directly implicate the ISI" in having "knowledge or support" for Haqqani activities, the official told CNN. "The ISI is providing financing, safe haven, advice and guidance" to the Haqqanis.

He noted the ISI uses retired senior officers as proxies in some cases, but he was adamant the latest intelligence shows support from the highest level of current serving ISI personnel.

On Thursday, Mullen minced few words in accusing the intelligence service of supporting terrorists responsible for recent attacks, and more broadly, the Pakistani government of supporting terrorism.

"In many ways ... the support of terrorism is part of their national strategy to protect their own vital interests," Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "In choosing to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy, the government of Pakistan, and most especially the Pakistani Army and ISI, jeopardizes not only the prospect of our strategic partnership, but Pakistan's opportunity to be a respected nation with legitimate, regional influence."

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta repeatedly this week has said the Haqqani attacks, which are often against U.S. troops in Afghanistan are cannot be tolerated.

Pakistan officials denied the claims.

"I'm completely denying that our intelligence or our military service would be helping them," Pakistan's foreign minister said in an interview on CNN's "Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."

A statement from the Pakistani military said the Mullen accusations were "not based on facts" and said the head of the military, Chief of Army Staff

Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was "categorically denying the accusations of proxy war and ISI support to Haqqanis."

The spate of public U.S. criticism this week is a "manifestation of our frustration" with Pakistan's failure to act, the U.S. military official said.

American officials have been careful so far not to spell out what military action, if any, the United States would take against the Haqqani network inside Pakistan, but CNN reported earlier this week that the CIA has conducted drone strikes in Pakistan aimed at Haqqani network members.

 

[Leader]

events cast their shadows before they occur... is it more about Haqqani network that was there for the last ten years or is it more about strong sense of failure in high corridors ?

I wonder what made the Americans raise all this hype in media at this point of time?

scapegoat for their failure in Afghanistan ?? if not then why this Monkey Parade ?