Abdali
July 30, 2008, 12:05pm
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Not really. This news also published in Dawn newspaper.
**CIA cites Pakistan ISI’s ties to militants **NEW YORK, July 30 (AP): The CIA has confronted senior Pakistani officials with evidence showing that members of Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have deepened their ties with some militant groups responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported. A top CIA official traveled to Islamabad this month with new information about ties between the ISI and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, the newspaper said on its website late Tuesday. Its sources were American military and intelligence officials it did not identify. The Times said the CIA assessment pointed to links between the ISI and the militant network led by Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The visit to Pakistan by the CIA official, Stephen R. Kappes, the agency’s deputy director, was described by several American military and intelligence officials in interviews in recent days, the Times said. In an interview broadcast Tuesday on PBS television show “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said that to say that some in the ISI are “sympathetic to the militants, this is not believable. … We will not allow that.” CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf refused to comment on the Times report late Tuesday. Kappes made his secret visit to Pakistan on July 12, joining Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for meetings with senior Pakistani civilian and military leaders, the Times said. (First Posted @ 10: 00 PST, Updated @ 11:55 PST)
Oh this is nothing new CIA has been blabbering for quite some time it has been reported all over the place several times but what i find quite amusing is Indian spin on the tale… e.g.. Obama warns Pak, two different stories reported by Indian and Pak media but could not tally Indian side from any other source.