Pakistan denies man hanged by Taliban was one of its spies

[Zarvan]

PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan military denied on Monday that a man shown being hanged in videos released by the Taliban was one of its intelligence officers, as the insurgents had claimed.

In footage released on Sunday, the militant group hanged a man who identified himself as belonging to a Pakistan Army unit and said he had been recruited by the country’s military intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence.

The videos were provided by a Taliban commander in the mountainous border region of North Waziristan who is known to Reuters. He did not comment on when or where the video was shot.

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“It is totally baseless news,” military spokesperson General Asim Bajwa said in a statement.

“The person shown in the video is neither a serving soldier nor an intelligence official.”

A senior government official said that according to intelligence reports, the man who was hanged was an Afghan national who had crossed over into Pakistan a few years ago and been kidnapped by the Taliban.

“When his family did not pay ransom, he was hanged,” the official said, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media about the case.

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The Taliban often claim responsibility for incidents in which they were not involved, and are known to exaggerate fatality figures for attacks on army convoys in Pakistan’s tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistan reinstated the death penalty last December after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 schoolchildren.

“The hanging … is our response to the Pakistani government who are busy hanging our group members,” a masked man in one of the two videos said into the camera. “This is just the beginning and all those who are in our custody or those who have any links with the Pakistan government will face the same treatment.”

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Taliban violence in Pakistan has fallen overall since the military launched an offensive in North Waziristan in June 2014. But the militants have demonstrated that they are still able to carry out sophisticated attacks, including one on an air base that killed 39 people last month.

Pakistan denies man hanged by Taliban was one of its spies - The Express Tribune

 

[third eye]

When was the last time any country admitted to its spy being caught while still in custody of the ' enemy" ?

 

[Sine Nomine]

When was the last time any country admitted to its spy being caught while still in custody of the ' enemy" ?

And someone can catch a spy and he will confess,tell me how many Indian are caught in Pakistan and they confess and how many Pakistanis caught in India confess,the truth is that in both ISI and RAW an officer is very difficult to catch if caught they commit suicide.

 

[Zarvan]

When was the last time any country admitted to its spy being caught while still in custody of the ' enemy" ?

It's TTP who caught it not a country if he would have been our spy we would have admitted it because it's not a country we are dealing with.

And someone can catch a spy and he will confess,tell me how many Indian are caught in Pakistan and they confess and how many Pakistanis caught in India confess,the truth is that in both ISI and RAW an officer is very difficult to catch if caught they commit suicide.

No they don't commit suicide as for ISI we mostly use Indians to do the spy work we hardly sent our officer inside India to do it. As for RAW we have several of their officers which after being released the moment reached India admitted they were spies.

 

[Sine Nomine]

No they don't commit suicide as for ISI we mostly use Indians to do the spy work we hardly sent our officer inside India to do it. As for RAW we have several of their officers which after being released the moment reached India admitted they were spies.

And you work in ISI?

 

[GR!FF!N]

And someone can catch a spy and he will confess,tell me how many Indian are caught in Pakistan and they confess and how many Pakistanis caught in India confess,the truth is that in both ISI and RAW an officer is very difficult to catch if caught they commit suicide.

that is a wrong concept my friend.Spying is a dirty business,as dirty as it gets.In this game,nobody is patriotic enough to kill themselves.and this is a fact.

Most of them doesn't admit a thing as admitting might kill them(Many country awards death to spies).They do their term and gets out,as no country locks them indefinitely.

sometimes they turn and becomes either Enemy agent or double agent.there are multiple aspects of this game.

 

[Djinn]

I wouldn't trust a word from Taliban. They are getting desperate and will spout anything to boost their dwindling morale. Point to note: They claim responsibility for every heli/plane crash in Pakistan and Afghanistan, even when they are entirely on technical basis.

 

[Sine Nomine]

that is a wrong concept my friend.Spying is a dirty business,as dirty as it gets.In this game,nobody is patriotic enough to kill themselves.and this is a fact.

Most of them doesn't admit a thing as admitting might kill them(Many country awards death to spies).They do their term and gets out,as no country locks them indefinitely.

sometimes they turn and becomes either Enemy agent or double agent.there are multiple aspects of this game.

I know them but they are talking about officers who are high value targets and very difficult to crack,they just commit suicide to escape torture and save there work in field from destruction.
In case of India-Pakistan every agents knows very well if he is caught alive.

 

[volatile]

When was the last time any country admitted to its spy being caught while still in custody of the ' enemy" ?

We proudly did even couple of months ago

Authorities in India nab suspected spy pigeon - CNN.com

Police in India nab a pigeon, suspect fowl play from Pakistan

 

[I.R.A]

When was the last time any country admitted to its spy being caught while still in custody of the ' enemy" ?

So now we will believe in terrorists (freedom fighters)? . Come on you can do better than this, it sounds like the other party defending their claims here.

 

[I S I]

Yeah right Taliholes.


I'm still alive.