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Explosive: EX-ISI Chief Durrani Aljazeera Interview abt Pak Military, OBL & Policy

"Osama bin Laden was probably in ISI's custody and handed over to US for a quid-pro-quot, If this is indeed the case, then ISI did a good job"
That just sounds illogical and dents what little credibility Gen. Durrani might have.

Handed over? A full-blown US military operation across the Afghan border under the cover of darkness does not sound like handing OBL over. And if that was the modus operandi, then to bracket that as the ISI doing a "good job" is more twisted than it is bizarre.

Nothing would suit us more than handing over OBL to the US to get recognition from the US (and subsequent rewards). Harbouring OBL made no sense on so many levels.

A good family friend from Mansera has a relative in the ISI who said that we had no idea OBL was there. It was in short, an intelligence failure, reeling off all the reasons why it would benefit Pakistan to have caught him and handed him over to the US. I'm inclined to believe him more than someone like Gen. Durrani.
 
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Anti-Pak elements like Hussain Haqqani of failed Zardari govt era, who destroyed Pakistan economically, have started cashing on ex-isi chief Asad Durrani discloses:

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Look at the traitor's wife Faranaz isphani, looking desparte for full transcript of interview: https://twitter.com/...386004464058369

The interview is not even out to world audience on Aljazeera...too much truth is masala for convicted traitors.
 
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Just read an explosive news on Pakdef forum by member Aslan S.: Internal Security Discussion 2015 - Military & Strategic Forum - PakDef.org : Pakistan Military Consortium

Former Pakistani ISI Chief (and self appointed spokesperson) General Asad Durrani spills the beans at HeadToHead with Mehdi Hasan at Oxford Union, not televised out yet, confirming worst nightmares of many in the audience at record studios. Some quotes:

"Pakistan is an abnormal country that believes in [Muslim] Ummah... and has helped [militant Islamic] movements in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Central Asian Muslim Republics and Middle Eastern Arab countries"

"Pakistan has and will continue to support Taliban, who should be applauded for defeating World's sole super power" - "the blow back such as Peshawar School massacre is an inevitable and acceptable 'collateral damage' in a long war" -

"Terrorist groups are useful up to a point after which they can be eliminated" -

"Osama bin Laden was probably in ISI's custody and handed over to US for a quid-pro-quot, If this is indeed the case, then ISI did a good job" - "Pakistanis admire and support Bin Laden and Taliban" -

"After 9/11 US did not pay Pakistan [Military] enough and were only provided minimal services in return"

"There is no morality in state craft, there are no red lines or rules in the strategic games between Intelligence agencies and no amount of loses (collateral damage) makes it too high a price to pay"

"ISI cannot be answerable to the kind of Civilian governments we have in Pakistan, Military rule has proved better than Civilian rule in terms of economic growth and good governance - I attempted to destabilize Benazir Government as ISI Chief in early 90s on the order of the then President"

The Interview will be televised at Al-Jazeera Channel in April 2015.

Link to complete discussion : Internal Security Discussion 2015 - Military & Strategic Forum - PakDef.org : Pakistan Military Consortium
It says custody not being protected so what but what most probably happened was Army had intelligence failure here but when they knew the operation was done jointly.
 
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The former chief of Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani (retd) has said that the Government of Pakistan is likely to have sheltered slain terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and handed him over to the US as part of a deal. "I cannot say exactly what happened but... it is quite possible that they (theISI) did not know, but it was more probable that they did," Al Jazeera quoted GeneralAsadDurrani (retd)as saying.


The ex-Al Qaeda chief and the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US was killed in a US raid on his house in Pakistan's garrison town of Abbottabad in May, 2011. Officially, the ISI maintains that it did notharbour bin Laden and played no part in the US raid.

Durrani told Al Jazeera that he doubted the official line given by the ISI that it was unaware of the Al Qaeda leader's whereabouts until his death, implying that Pakistan would only have exchanged knowledge of his location in a quid pro quo deal.

Durrani, who served as director general of the ISI from 1990 to 1992, asserted that bin Laden was handed over in exchange for an agreement on "how to bring the Afghan problem to an end".

Asked whether bin Laden's compound was an ISI safehouse, Durrani responded: "If ISI was doing that, then I would say they were doing a good job. And if they revealed his location, they again probably did what was required to be done."

Commentators have questioned how bin Laden could have eluded the ISI in the years leading up to his killing, given the location of his compound in a garrison town.

According to the US, the raid on bin Laden's compound was deliberately conducted without the knowledge of the Pakistani government or its military.

The Abbottabad Commission, which was set up by Pakistan to investigate the circumstances surrounding the raid, charged the military and the government with "gross incompetence" leading to "collective failures" that enabled bin Laden to reside in Pakistan unnoticed.

The ISI had previously helped the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detain a number of high-ranking suspects, including Ramzi Yousef, one of the men who planned the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing in New York, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the alleged masterminds of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Pakistan likely sheltered Osama: Ex-ISI chief - The Times of India
 
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Please someone contact COAS or PM and ask those authorities to gave that attention seeking bitch some seat or shut his mouth for spreading that lunatics about Pakistan...
 
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Doha, 10th February 2015 - Lt.General Asad Durrani (retd), the former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency, has told Al Jazeera’s Head to Head that Pakistan most likely sheltered Osama Bin Laden in the years leading up to the US raid in Abbottabad in May 2011.

He doubts the ISI’s official line that it had been unaware of Bin Laden’s whereabouts until his death, and implied that the Pakistan would have only exchanged knowledge of his location in a quid pro quo deal.

General Durrani was Director-General of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1990-1992, Ambassador to Germany from 1994–1997, and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2000–2002. These comments came in the recording of Head to Head, Al Jazeera’s premier interview programme, which is hosted by Mehdi Hasan and filmed in front of an audience at the Oxford Union. This episode forms part of the brand new series of the show, which will air in April on Al Jazeera English.

General Durrani told Hasan:

“I cannot say exactly what happened but my assessment […] was it is quite possible that they [the ISI] did not know but it was more probable that they did. And the idea was that at the right time, his location would be revealed. And the right time would have been, when you can get the necessary quid pro quo - if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States.

He asserted that Bin Laden was, in his opinion, handed over in exchange for an agreement on “how to bring the Afghan problem to an end”. Asked by Hasan whether Bin Laden’s compound was an ISI safe house, Durrani responded:

If ISI was doing that, than I would say they were doing a good job. And if they revealed his location, they again probably did what was required to be done.”

Officially, the ISI maintains that it did not harbour Bin Laden and played no part in the raid in 2011. However, commentators have questioned how Bin Laden could have eluded the intelligence agency in the years leading up to his discovery, given the location of Bin Laden’s compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad. The Abbottabad Commission, which was set up by the Pakistani government to investigate the circumstances surrounding the raid, charged the military and the government with “gross incompetence” leading to “collective failures” that enabled Bin Laden to reside in Pakistan unnoticed, and that failed to detect the US mission in May 2011.

General Durrani also told Hasan:

The admission of incompetence was probably done on political reasons… As far as the people of Pakistan were concerned, it was going to be very uncomfortable for them that their government, you know, is in cahoots now with the United States and gets hold of Osama bin Laden,” adding that Bin Laden “was an admired figure in Pakistan”.

General Durrani is currently a writer and commentator on regional security. Following his candid statements on the Bin Laden raid, he added, “Except that I do not know what happened, I do not know what happened.”

The full interview, which will air in April 2015, forms part of the fourth series of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan’s hard-hitting interview show on Al Jazeera English. It will be accompanied by interviews with George Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece; Sir Paul Collier, Oxford University Professor and author ofExodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century; and Robert Wistrich, one of the world’s leading experts on anti-Semitism.

Here are two particular exchanges on Bin Laden:

Mehdi Hasan: Do you believe General Durrani, and do you expect the people in this room to believe that the ISI had no knowledge of where Osama bin Laden was before his death. That Bin Laden who was discovered in 2011, in Pakistan, in Abbottabad in a very large building in a military town, near a military base, and the ISI had no clue that he was there. Really?

Lt. Gen Asad Durrani: On the 2nd of May I was tracked down, 2011 was attending an Af-Pak meeting in Abu-Dhabi and BBC Hard Talk, Stephen Sackur. He had people track me down and said “Look, you have been saying that Osama bin Laden was likely to be found in a big city, it seems you have been proven right”, I said I’m glad, so? Do you think that I knew about him? They won’t admit that, and till today I cannot say exactly what happened but my assessment. I mean here it’s about giving your assessment. My assessment was it is quite possible that they did not know but it was more probable that they did. And the idea was that at the right time, his location would be revealed. And the right time would have been, when you can get the necessary quid pro quo - if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States. The quid pro quo to my mind, until today I am not going to say that it was, that I have known about it, that I am absolutely sure about it, and that was, you get your Osama bin Laden, provided that, now let’s agree, let’s agree on how to bring the Afghan problem to an end.

[…] AND

Mehdi Hasan: Just to be clear, when you say we may have known where he was and we may have produced him. Does that mean you actually know where he is or actually you’re sheltering him, it’s an ISI safe house.

Lt. Gen Asad Durrani: If ISI was doing that, then I would say they were doing a good job. And if they revealed his location, they again probably did what was required to be done. Except…

Mehdi Hasan: [Interrupting] Are you going to ask us now to give a round of applause to Bin Laden as well?

Lt. Gen Asad Durrani:[LAUGHTER] Except that I do not know what happened, I do not know what happened.

Ends:
 
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He was not the head of ISI at the time so that is his personal opinion, to which he is entitled as much as everyone else. On the face of it though, it looks more like a publicity stunt.

I would be more interested in what General Pasha or General Kiyani has to say about this episode.
 
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Here goes Obama's 'theory'. :D

We did what was best for the US. They needed a saving grace and we gave it to them. Democrats and Obama won another election, a US President saved from impechment, Afghan exit strategy announced and republicans given a sock in their mouth.

Pakistan is the best ally US can have.
 
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Here goes Obama's 'theory'. :D

We did what was best for the US. They needed a saving grace and we gave it to them. Democrats and Obama won another election, a US President saved from impechment, Afghan exit strategy announced and republicans given a sock in their mouth.

Pakistan is the best ally US can have.

Ok.....no problems there.

But, what did we get in return????
 
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Doha, 10th February 2015 - Lt.General Asad Durrani (retd), the former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency, has told Al Jazeera’s Head to Head that Pakistan most likely sheltered Osama Bin Laden in the years leading up to the US raid in Abbottabad in May 2011.

He doubts the ISI’s official line that it had been unaware of Bin Laden’s whereabouts until his death, and implied that the Pakistan would have only exchanged knowledge of his location in a quid pro quo deal.

General Durrani was Director-General of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1990-1992, Ambassador to Germany from 1994–1997, and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2000–2002. These comments came in the recording of Head to Head, Al Jazeera’s premier interview programme, which is hosted by Mehdi Hasan and filmed in front of an audience at the Oxford Union. This episode forms part of the brand new series of the show, which will air in April on Al Jazeera English.

General Durrani told Hasan:

“I cannot say exactly what happened but my assessment […] was it is quite possible that they [the ISI] did not know but it was more probable that they did. And the idea was that at the right time, his location would be revealed. And the right time would have been, when you can get the necessary quid pro quo - if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States.

He asserted that Bin Laden was, in his opinion, handed over in exchange for an agreement on “how to bring the Afghan problem to an end”. Asked by Hasan whether Bin Laden’s compound was an ISI safe house, Durrani responded:

If ISI was doing that, than I would say they were doing a good job. And if they revealed his location, they again probably did what was required to be done.”

Officially, the ISI maintains that it did not harbour Bin Laden and played no part in the raid in 2011. However, commentators have questioned how Bin Laden could have eluded the intelligence agency in the years leading up to his discovery, given the location of Bin Laden’s compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad. The Abbottabad Commission, which was set up by the Pakistani government to investigate the circumstances surrounding the raid, charged the military and the government with “gross incompetence” leading to “collective failures” that enabled Bin Laden to reside in Pakistan unnoticed, and that failed to detect the US mission in May 2011.

General Durrani also told Hasan:

The admission of incompetence was probably done on political reasons… As far as the people of Pakistan were concerned, it was going to be very uncomfortable for them that their government, you know, is in cahoots now with the United States and gets hold of Osama bin Laden,” adding that Bin Laden “was an admired figure in Pakistan”.

General Durrani is currently a writer and commentator on regional security. Following his candid statements on the Bin Laden raid, he added, “Except that I do not know what happened, I do not know what happened.”

The full interview, which will air in April 2015, forms part of the fourth series of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan’s hard-hitting interview show on Al Jazeera English. It will be accompanied by interviews with George Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece; Sir Paul Collier, Oxford University Professor and author ofExodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century; and Robert Wistrich, one of the world’s leading experts on anti-Semitism.

Here are two particular exchanges on Bin Laden:

Mehdi Hasan: Do you believe General Durrani, and do you expect the people in this room to believe that the ISI had no knowledge of where Osama bin Laden was before his death. That Bin Laden who was discovered in 2011, in Pakistan, in Abbottabad in a very large building in a military town, near a military base, and the ISI had no clue that he was there. Really?

Lt. Gen Asad Durrani: On the 2nd of May I was tracked down, 2011 was attending an Af-Pak meeting in Abu-Dhabi and BBC Hard Talk, Stephen Sackur. He had people track me down and said “Look, you have been saying that Osama bin Laden was likely to be found in a big city, it seems you have been proven right”, I said I’m glad, so? Do you think that I knew about him? They won’t admit that, and till today I cannot say exactly what happened but my assessment. I mean here it’s about giving your assessment. My assessment was it is quite possible that they did not know but it was more probable that they did. And the idea was that at the right time, his location would be revealed. And the right time would have been, when you can get the necessary quid pro quo - if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States. The quid pro quo to my mind, until today I am not going to say that it was, that I have known about it, that I am absolutely sure about it, and that was, you get your Osama bin Laden, provided that, now let’s agree, let’s agree on how to bring the Afghan problem to an end.

[…] AND

Mehdi Hasan: Just to be clear, when you say we may have known where he was and we may have produced him. Does that mean you actually know where he is or actually you’re sheltering him, it’s an ISI safe house.

Lt. Gen Asad Durrani: If ISI was doing that, then I would say they were doing a good job. And if they revealed his location, they again probably did what was required to be done. Except…

Mehdi Hasan: [Interrupting] Are you going to ask us now to give a round of applause to Bin Laden as well?

Lt. Gen Asad Durrani:[LAUGHTER] Except that I do not know what happened, I do not know what happened.

Ends:


LOL when same person say anything against India and USA, these guyz never share anything ? ustime fake hojati hey hahahhahaha
 
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Isn't Haqqani an American buttboy or something? I find it amusing seeing these American buttboys ranting about Pakistan's foreign policy while having no problem sitting all nice and cozy with Uncle Sam. We live in a bizarre world.
Had the rants of such buttboys been listened to, we wouldn't have been in the current sorry state of affairs. The problem of Pakistani public and establishment is that they even consider themselves as self-righteous even in their wrongdoings. The state's blind eye and tacit support of private Jihadist is responsible for a bad name in Afghanistan and the weakening of Kashmir cause. We ourselves are the creators of the bizzar world we live in.

Already traitor dogs like Hussain Huqqani are cashing on this disclose:

Disclosure? Do you think that whatever the Pakistani Establishment has been doing was not known to outside world?

It says custody not being protected so what but what most probably happened was Army had intelligence failure here but when they knew the operation was done jointly.
I hope next time Haqqani and Mullah Umar is not found living close to Kurram and Quetta Cantonment and we would be forced to participate in another "Joint Operation".
 
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Whether the users here admit it or not, a great majority of people in Pakistan consider the Afghan Taliban as 'Mujahideen' and 'Martyrs' and the Pakistan Taliban are 'Khawarij'.

Really!!!!!!!!!!! Religious parties have never ever won more than two percent of the votes period. How did you come up with the figure majority?
 
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