ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM

[Lankan Ranger]

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday declared that the country's spy master will not appear in any US court in connection with the Mumbai terror attack. Addressing the National Assembly, he said the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) "is a sensitive agency of the Pakistani military and it is unimaginable that we will force their officers to appear in the US court on foreign dictation".

Gilani was responding to a fiery speech by opposition leader Nisar Ali Khan who took the government to task over what he described as a failed foreign policy.

"The situation has deteriorated so much that the chief of our premier intelligence agency is now being summoned (to the US) without taking our government into confidence," Khan said.

A court in Brooklyn, New York, has summoned ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha and two other officers as well as activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in connection with a case related to the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

The case has been filed under US laws by the family of five American nationals, four of whom were killed in the Mumbai savagery. The fifth was injured.

Foreigners were among the 166 people killed in the attack. Most were Indians.

"Our mission in (the US) is yet to receive the summons and we can't comment before going through its contents," the Pakistani foreign office had said on Wednesday.

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM - Hindustan Times

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

Lets see what US say about this....

 

[Patriotic_Pakistani]

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday declared that the country's spy master will not appear in any US court in connection with the Mumbai terror attack. Addressing the National Assembly, he said the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) "is a sensitive agency of the Pakistani military and it is unimaginable that we will force their officers to appear in the US court on foreign dictation".

Gilani was responding to a fiery speech by opposition leader Nisar Ali Khan who took the government to task over what he described as a failed foreign policy.

"The situation has deteriorated so much that the chief of our premier intelligence agency is now being summoned (to the US) without taking our government into confidence," Khan said.

A court in Brooklyn, New York, has summoned ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha and two other officers as well as activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in connection with a case related to the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

The case has been filed under US laws by the family of five American nationals, four of whom were killed in the Mumbai savagery. The fifth was injured.

Foreigners were among the 166 people killed in the attack. Most were Indians.

"Our mission in (the US) is yet to receive the summons and we can't comment before going through its contents," the Pakistani foreign office had said on Wednesday.

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM - Hindustan Times

 

[Leviza]

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday declared that the country's spy master will not appear in any US court in connection with the Mumbai terror attack. Addressing the National Assembly, he said the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) "is a sensitive agency of the Pakistani military and it is unimaginable that we will force their officers to appear in the US court on foreign dictation".

Gilani was responding to a fiery speech by opposition leader Nisar Ali Khan who took the government to task over what he described as a failed foreign policy.

"The situation has deteriorated so much that the chief of our premier intelligence agency is now being summoned (to the US) without taking our government into confidence," Khan said.

A court in Brooklyn, New York, has summoned ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha and two other officers as well as activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in connection with a case related to the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

The case has been filed under US laws by the family of five American nationals, four of whom were killed in the Mumbai savagery. The fifth was injured.

Foreigners were among the 166 people killed in the attack. Most were Indians.

"Our mission in (the US) is yet to receive the summons and we can't comment before going through its contents," the Pakistani foreign office had said on Wednesday.

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM - Hindustan Times

its just a diplomatic war games----
There is a case in Pakistani court against USA CIA so they are jsut firing back but who cares

 

[graphican]

Lets see what US say about this....

What USA can do about ISI is nothing more than what India can do about ISI! Now question what can India do about ISI..

 

[AHMED85]

i cant understand this vision of US court about ISI.

 

[Renegade]

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday declared that the country's spy master will not appear in any US court in connection with the Mumbai terror attack. Addressing the National Assembly, he said the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) "is a sensitive agency of the Pakistani military and it is unimaginable that we will force their officers to appear in the US court on foreign dictation".

Gilani was responding to a fiery speech by opposition leader Nisar Ali Khan who took the government to task over what he described as a failed foreign policy.

"The situation has deteriorated so much that the chief of our premier intelligence agency is now being summoned (to the US) without taking our government into confidence," Khan said.

A court in Brooklyn, New York, has summoned ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha and two other officers as well as activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in connection with a case related to the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

The case has been filed under US laws by the family of five American nationals, four of whom were killed in the Mumbai savagery. The fifth was injured.

Foreigners were among the 166 people killed in the attack. Most were Indians.

"Our mission in (the US) is yet to receive the summons and we can't comment before going through its contents," the Pakistani foreign office had said on Wednesday.

ISI chief won't appear in US court over 26/11: Pakistan PM - Hindustan Times

The summoning of the ISI chief by the US court, is likely to have major ramifications in the near future.

The US government will be bound by any ruling that the courts give, if they find the ISI guilty (which they most probably will, thanks to Hadley), then the whole agency & the Pakistan army by extension will be guilty in the eyes of US law. This will mean no funding & further cooperation. Not only will it open a Pandora's box for Pakistan, it might go as far as declaring it a pariah state provided the Americans are out of Afghanistan by then.

 

[truthseeker2010]

A very "logical" response by our P.M after a very long time,and yes its in response to the move made by the CIA station chief of PAK.

 

[mjnaushad]

The summoning of the ISI chief by the US court, is likely to have major ramifications in the near future.

The US government will be bound by any ruling that the courts give, if they find the ISI guilty (which they most probably will, thanks to Hadley), then the whole agency & the Pakistan army by extension will be guilty in the eyes of US law. This will mean no funding & further cooperation. Not only will it open a Pandora's box for Pakistan, it might go as far as declaring it a pariah state provided the Americans are out of Afghanistan by then.

And this will also means no more handover of terrorist to USA. No more route to Afghanistan. No more intelligence sharing from our side.

Lets see if US is willing to loose these.


But all this will happen if ISI found guilty.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

Pakistan will brook no dictation, says PM

ISLAMABAD: Reacting to opposition challenges and a controversy fuelled by media reports, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani assured the National Assembly on Thursday his government would not succumb to any foreign dictation about when and where to launch a military operation in the so-called war on terrorism.

And he also said nobody could force any official of the country’s top spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to comply with reported summons from a US court for appearance in a case related to the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had raised the issue of the reported summons from a New York court for the present and a former chief of the ISI and two serving Pakistan Army majors in a lawsuit accusing them of training and facilitating the Mumbai attackers, asking the government not to let it happen or allow any foreign power to make Pakistani institutions hostage despite his own “reservations” about the role of intelligence agencies within the country.

The question of alleged US pressure on Pakistan to launch a military operation in North Waziristan against Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts was raised by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman in an anti-government tirade over his party’s decision last week to quit the PPP-led coalition over the sacking of a party minister for alleged indiscipline.

But the prime minister, in his response, only referred to the speech of the opposition leader — who also complained about alleged humiliation of a grandson of the late Baloch leader Akbar Khan Bugti while being arrested near Quetta on Wednesday for allegedly carrying illegal arms — and seemed to ignore the JUI leader, who had spoken earlier in his absence, accusing the PPP of breaking “a string of friendship” with his party, bowing to perceived American dictates in the war on terror and being a threat to Sharia, which he said his party wanted enforced.

“It will be a fallacy to think that we will take any action under their pressure,” the prime minister said about the alleged US pressure, often reported by western media but denied by American officials, adding that there would be “no compromise on Pakistan’s integrity and sovereignty”.

“This will be a decision of the Pakistani nation where and when we have to launch an operation and nobody can dictate to us (from the outside),” he said.

US court summons
On Chaudhry Nisar’s point about the US court summons, which Pakistani officials have said have not yet been received here, the prime minister said he would not make a policy statement now because of the “extremely sensitive” nature of the ISI, but added: “If they don’t agree to appear before the American court, nobody can send them.”

However, he said whatever the decision, it would be taken with “mutual consultation”.

About the controversial role of intelligence and security agencies in Balochistan, to which Chaudhry Nisar had referred in the context of the arrest of Shahzain Bugti, who is also the president of the Balochistan chapter of Jamhoori Watan Party founded by his grandfather, Mr Gilani assured the house to take the opposition into confidence in framing a future policy for the province, which he said was also facing foreign interference.

However, he said he thought “the agencies should not be so high” (in their role) there although, he added, it was a provincial matter.

He said he would seek information from the provincial government about the circumstances of Mr Bugti’s arrest and would ask Interior Minister Rehman Malik to brief the house about it on his return from a visit to Turkey as a member of President Asif Ali Zardari’s delegation to an Economic Cooperation Organisation summit.

Chaudhry Nisar said although he would not comment on the allegations against Mr Bugti, the way he was arrested — while being in a motorcade carrying heavy weapons — as being shown in pictures published in newspaper being caught by an official by the neck was humiliating.

While demanding a total ban on private motorcades, the opposition leader said the authorities should make “a difference between a political leader and a hired assassin”.

Maulana Fazl, in his speech earlier from his front-row seat on the treasury benches, said all his eight party members’ desks should be considered opposition benches until the implementation of a party request to Speaker Fehmida Mirza to shift their seats to the opposition side.

Chaudhry Nisar avoided making any comment about JUI’s stance or saying whether its members would be welcome to the opposition.

The house passed a government bill providing for a relief of bail for under-trial men after two years’ detention if the offence is punishable with death, one year for lesser offences and after one year and six months, respectively, for women. The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill provides for a similar relief at the appellate stage.

But this relief will not be available in cases where a court thinks the trial has been delayed by “an act or omission of the accused or any other person acting on his behalf”, involving a previously convicted offender for an offence punishable with death or life imprisonment and one who the court thinks is a hardened criminal or involved in an act of terrorism punishable with death or life imprisonment.

Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, while responding to a call-attention notice from five MQM members, said he would call officials concerned of the Karachi Electric Supply Company for a meeting in Islamabad during the current session of the house to sort out complaints of power cut-offs and over-billing.

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[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

I wonder if they will ever summon CIA ( all of it)!

 

[somebozo]

the indians in their typical bollywood fashon envision Pak USA as master slave relation.
Did india have balls to summon CIA cheif after the golden temple incident?

 

[Renegade]

And this will also means no more handover of terrorist to USA. No more route to Afghanistan. No more intelligence sharing from our side.

Lets see if US is willing to loose these.


But all this will happen if ISI found guilty.

Yes all this is bound to happen. The Americans are not doing all that well in Afghanistan & will eventually pull out. and when that happens they will blame the ISI & the PA for not doing enough.

This will only lead to further confrontation with Pakistan & when Pakistan does not enjoy the leverage that it enjoys today what will hold the Americans back from taking action in a no holds barrel approach??

 

[Renegade]

the indians in their typical bollywood fashon envision Pak USA as master slave relation.

It is just not Indians but many Pakistanis look at it the same way. I think that you are rather ignorant to have made such a statement in the first place, but then again this is not the first time is it!?

Did india have balls to summon CIA cheif after the golden temple incident?

Please elaborate.

 

[somebozo]

Please elaborate.

Sikh insurgency was jointly planned by CIA and ISI..India did not summon CIA cheif after golden temple incident.!