Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday described as "worrisome" reports that Indian Consulate General in Jalalabad was the target of a terror plot in Afghanistan.
Indian investigators say that for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence the 26/11 mastermind is a friend who furthers their policy against India. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Till now, the ISI, the premier external counter-intelligence outfit, was working under the Defence Ministry but Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani relocated the agency by placing it under the Interior Ministry, headed by his adviser Rehman Malik, The News daily said.
Former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Asad Durrani on admitted in Supreme Court that he had distributed millions of rupees among Pakistani politicians in 1990 on the instructions of then army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg and late president Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
The ISI's overwhelming involvement in national politics has weakened the mainstream political parties, given a boost to horse-trading and arrested the growth of the political culture in the country. Amir Mir reports from Islamabad.
A decade before 9/11, plans to use aircraft for terror strikes were mooted by the ISI-backed Punjab terrorist group to target India, a former top intelligence official said.
Maj Hamza of the Inter-Services Intelligence and his assistant Subedar Saeed were killed when their car came under attack in Rashakai area by suspected pro-Taliban militants.
The Dawn of Karachi reported on February 25, that the government of Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani has reportedly decided against extending the tenure of Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who has been the Director General of the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate since October,2008, says security expert B Raman.
Union Home minister P Chidambaram has said that the Bangladesh government has handed over names of some persons who allegedly took part in the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman who fell victim to the conspiracy hatched by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.
In the wake of the confession by Canadian Pakistani Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the Bhartiya Janata party asked the government to not hold any talks with Pakistan.
An architect regularly employed by the Inter Services Intelligence worked on the compound in which Osama bin Laden sheltered for years in Abbottabad and the slain Al Qaeda chief communicated regularly with Lashkar-e-Tayiba from his hideout, a media report said on Saturday.
The activities of ISI were assuming serious dimensions and increasing nexus between fundamentalist and criminal fringe elements are creating problems in the hinterland areas.
The Memogate scandal in Pakistan has taken a turn for the worse, with the central character in the controversy Manzoor Ijaz's refusal to appear before the judicial commission investigating the issue. Amir Mir reports from Islamabad.
According to the reports, America's Defence Intelligence Agency was aware that Pakistan's ISI was sponsoring the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani said that the judicial commission investigating the memogate was trying to coerce him to confess that President Asif Ali Zardari had urged him to draft the memo to former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Admiral Mike Mullen.
Hours after controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz failed to turn up before a judicial commission probing the memo scandal, a Pakistani parliamentary committee on Monday summoned him to appear before it on January 26.
Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Friday pledged a transparent and impartial probe into the rigging of the 1990 general election by some politicians and military officers, in line with a Supreme Court order and to punish the guilty according to the law.
The United Liberation Front of Asom, led by self styled commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah, has reportedly established close operational links with Naxal elements to carry out destructive activities in different parts of the country. Highly placed sources told this correspondent that apart from the Inter-Services Intelligence wing of Pakistan, some Chinese elements are also guiding these anti-Indian insurgent outfits in a bid to intensify their 'destabilise India' campaign.
Two people were arrested in Ahmedabad on Monday for allegedly passing on confidential information related to the Indian Army's base in Bhuj to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, said the police. Sirajuddin Ali, 22, and Mohammad Ayub, 23, both residents of Jamalpur, have been charged with espionage. While Ali used to supply eggs to the army canteen, Ayub is a student, said the police.
The revelation was made by ISI officials during a three-hour briefing behind closed doors for the Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production on Thursday.
Two years after his role in terror activities surfaced, the National Investigation Agency on Saturday chargesheeted Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley, Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed and two Inter-Services Intelligence officers for plotting terror attacks in India including the 26/11 strikes.
A Pakistani parliamentarian has demanded that Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha should resign following the claims that he travelled to Arab countries to discuss a move to oust President Asif Ali Zardari.
In the first such known case in United States's history, an American citizen -- Srinagar-born, Kashmiri separatist leader Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai -- has admitted that he acted as an operative of the Inter Services Intelligence. Fai, 62, admitted to acting on the Pakistani spy agency's specific instructions and funneling thousands of dollars to try and influence US policy -- particularly through illegal lobbying in the US Congress -- towards Kashmir.
Intelligence sleuths have started probing the links of Shailesh Jadhav, an ex-armyman arrested by the Pune police for involvement with the Inter Services Intelligence.
It was a rare event for the Pakistani experts and strategists dealing with India when former chief of Research and Analysis Wing A S Dulat went to Lahore in the last week of January. He was there to attend a closed-door seminar to discuss range of issues concerning India and Pakistan.
Ordering a "time-bound" probe into the 'memogate' scandal, Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses within 15 days from President Asif Ali Zardari, army and Inter-Services Intelligence chiefs besides others in connection with petitions before it seeking an investigation in to the controversy.
Some operators said the channel was blocked for airing the two-part documentary "Secret Pakistan", which highlighted links between the Inter-Services Intelligence agency and Taliban fighters.
There is no move by the United States to begin the process of designating Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, officials said, after the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informed the Congress that the Haqqani network is being designated as a global terrorist organisation.
Aziz Haniffa finds out why few people are upset about the Pakistani ambassador's ouster and what the outlook on his successor is.
A top Inter-Services Intelligence official had a narrow escape in an attempted suicide attack outside the Pakistani spy agency's headquarters when the bomber's explosive vest failed to detonate, sources said on Thursday.
A total of 32 espionage modules backed by the Inter Services Intelligence have been neutralised in the country in the last three years and 50 people, including 40 Indians, were arrested in this regard, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
A colonel in the Pakistan's spy agency -- the Inter-Services Intelligence -- had provided vital help to the Central Investigation Agency in tracing Osama bin Laden, a new book has claimed.
After accusing Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence of supporting the Haqqani terror network, the Obama administration is now relying on the spy agency to help it organise and begin "reconciliation talks" aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan, a media report said in New York.
There have been three interactions between R&AW and the ISI before reveals B Raman, warning of the perils of dealing with the treacherous Pakistani spooks.
The United States has the right to target the Haqqani network that not only kills American troops in Afghanistan, but also sponsors Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, said Senator Carl Levin, who chairs the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee.
The fact that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence shows a lot of interest in the operations in India is no secret. Abu Jundal, who is now being questioned by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad has told his interrogators that two senior ISI officers are exclusively in charge of the Indian operatives of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The details of the telephonic conversation between the militants and ISI officials came to light earlier this week during a raid by Intelligence Bureau sleuths.
Newly formed United Muslim National Army suspected to have played a key role in the recent ethnic violence in Assam is likely to be linked to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. Vicky Nanjappa reports
However, replying to another question, he said the available inputs did not confirm direct presence of the al-Qaeda in the country.
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