ISI Denies Involvement in Shahzad Murder as Govt Orders Inquiry
02 June 2011
The Pakistani intelligence service has made a rare public statement denying any involvement in the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad. The 40-year-old vanished at the weekend after leaving home in Islamabad. His body was found on Tuesday. The intelligence service said that any suggestion that it had a role in his murder was "baseless... and unfounded". But a senior newspaper executive insisted that Mr Shahzad received death threats on at least three...
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Hundreds of Afghan, Pakistan Taliban Continue "Joint" Border Attack
02 June 2011
Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, killing 23 police and five civilians in the deadliest fighting for months. A senior police official told AFP that 500 militants, including Afghan Taliban from across the border and Pakistani Taliban, took part in the attack which began before dawn on Wednesday and continued more than 24 hours later. Officials said the militants targeted...
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Report Calls for Revamp of US Approach to Development in Pakistan
02 June 2011
In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a fledgling democratic government, burgeoning youth population, and shadowy intelligence services are not yet on course. Much of the report focuses on how to improve the U.S. aid program in Pakistan, but a revamped U.S. strategy would start with a greater...
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"ISI Leaders Had No Involvement" in Mumbai Attack: Headley Testimony
02 June 2011
The leadership of Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was not involved in planning the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, self-confessed plotter David Coleman Headley testified on Tuesday. Headley, who pleaded guilty to 12 terror charges arising out of the attacks on India’s financial capital and other unrealised plots, testified that no more than a handful of ISI agents were involved in the Mumbai plot. “The...
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US, Pakistan to Build a "Joint Intelligence Team"
02 June 2011
The U.S. and Pakistan are building a joint intelligence team to go after top terrorist suspects inside Pakistan, U.S. and Pakistani officials said, a fledgling step to restoring trust blown on both sides by the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces during a secret raid last month. The move comes after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented the Pakistanis with the U.S. list of most-wanted terrorism targets, U.S. and Pakistani officials...
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