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Ya en su día hablamos del excelente autor paquistaní Ahmed Rashid. De hecho, sus dos libros, "taliban" y "Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia" son de obligada lectura para el que quiera entender un poco qué es lo que ha pasado en esos lares durante estos años. hay una entrevista de hace unos dias en el SPIEGEL alemán. Ojo a las reflexiones sobre la actitud de los paises OTAN soft...los que dicen que es mejor reconstruir vs combatir la insurgencia. Lo pongo aquí porque considero que el problema estratégico de la insurgencia neotalibán tiene mucho que ver con su vecino del sur.
AHMED RASHID ON THE TALIBAN IN KUNDUZ, May 29.
'Germans Will Have to Go on the Offensive'
Best-selling Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid discusses the recent Taliban attacks on NATO troops in Afghanistan and the elusive prospects of lasting peace in the Hinda Kush.

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Taliban fighters in Afghanistan: "There is no way you can negotiate with these people."
SPIEGEL: Mr. Rashid, was the recent suicide attack against German troops in Kunduz the start of a new series of attacks in the north of Afghanistan?

Rashid: The Taliban are increasingly playing a political game with European members of NATO that are not on the front line. We saw how brilliantly the Taliban manipulated a government in the case of Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo. And I think we will see a stepping up of attacks against all of these countries that have strong domestic opposition to the deployment in Afghanistan.

SPIEGEL: Up until now, the Germans have beleived their their plan for reconstruction, which puts them closer to the people, is working better than the strategies of the Americans and British. Were the Germans just naïve?

Rashid: I think the whole concept of NATO countries carrying out construction while trying to avoid fighting is now a thing of the past. No matter what the policies may be of individual countries, all are at the war's frontline. And in order to prevent other suicide attacks, the Germans will have to go on the offensive to root out Taliban groups in Kunduz.

SPIEGEL:President Hamid Karzai has offered to negotiate with his enemies. But can one really talk to the Taliban?

Rashid: There is a hardcore leadership and following which is very ideological and which will not tolerate any foreign forces in Afghanistan and will not tolerate Karzai and his government. There is no way that you can negotiate with these people.

SPIEGEL: What would you suggest instead?

Rashid: I think you have to defeat them militarily, kill them, capture them. The other lot is that many of those who are being recruited are genuinely there because of joblessness or because some of their relatives have been killed by NATO or American forces. This rank and file is essentially winnable.

Rashid: The Taliban are a cross-border phenomenon. They are Afghans, but they have been educated and brought up in refugee camps and religious schools, the madrassas, in Pakistan. So they have inherited two sets of cultures. One was the war against the Soviets which their fathers waged inside Afghanistan in the 1980s, and the other was the religious extremism that has been promoted in Pakistan in order to mobilize Afghans to fight the Soviets. And that process of radicalization and Islamization has led some of them to very easily adopt the ideology of al-Qaida.

SPIEGEL: It's not only the Taliban who are fighting the government of Karzai and the coalition forces. By now it's a whole bunch of opposing groups.

Rashid: The Taliban have struck up alliances with several key commanders. The first has been Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who bombarded Kabul in the 1990s and later went into exile in Iran after he was defeated by the Taliban. He is now based in Pakistan and his group is allied with the Taliban. They have the capacity to do a lot of urban guerrilla war, because a lot of the suicide bombings and urban attacks that we have seen have been carried out by the Hezb-e-Islami. The second major partner is Jalaluddin Haqqani, who is based in Waziristan in the tribal areas.

Formerly he was a Taliban minister, but he was never really a Taliban. The third major alliance partner is this group of international fighters who are led, at least in part, by al-Qaida -- essentially the Arabs who are living in the tribal areas, but also Uzbeks, Chinese Muslims, Chechens, some Bangladeshis, Sudanese and Africans. So for the first time the Taliban have broadened their movement to strike up alliances, which is something they never did before. The Taliban have also helped mobilize Pakistani Pashtun tribesman against Islamabad for the first time.

SPIEGEL: Why have so many Pashtuns, especially in the south and east of the country, turned against the Afghan government and begun fighting against the Western coalition forces, who actually came to rebuild their country?

Rashid: What has been very critical was that the Taliban has offered protection to the farmers and the chance of continuing to grow poppy, which is far more lucrative than any other crop. The propaganda against the Western forces has been that eventually these people will come to eradicate those crops. So the Taliban have the winning propaganda line.

SPIEGEL: What can NATO do to win over the farmers and villagers in the south?

Rashid: It's not easy. NATO went there to do development and reconstruction. But until security improves, the NGOs are not going to be willing to go in there to help create alternative livelihoods.

SPIEGEL: So you're saying that the Americans and NATO need to defeat the Taliban before the real reconstruction work can begin?

Rashid: The issue in the south is that you have this very strong Taliban presence which you have to fight and resist. And if you don't do that then, frankly, you're not winning over the people. People will use you, they'll take your money, maybe, but they won't be won over by you. A lot of these NATO countries, even in the south, are still persisting with this idea of, 'We can do reconstruction and development differently from the Americans'. From my point of view, that's an illusion.

SPIEGEL: How are al-Qaida and the Taliban organizing the resistance, and how do they communicate with each other?

Rashid: We know that Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri, bin Ladens deputy and doctor, are most likely living in Pakistan. The extremist groups in Pakistan have provided al-Qaeda with a very solid logistical base since 9/11 that includes safe houses, travel, transport and communication. I don't think bin Laden is using those facilities, but other members of al-Qaeda certainly are. As do many Aghans and their intelligence services, I believe that Mullah Omar lives in Quetta. I think he's been kept there very carefully by Pakistani intelligence services and I think the other top commanders are coming and going quite easily as they meet and coordinate.

SPIEGEL: The Pakistani government strongly denies the presence of leading Taliban and al-Qaeda commanders in Pakistan.

Rashid: For a guerrilla army with thousands of fighters it is absolutely impossible to be able to arm and clothe, feed, pay and supply that number of forces without a safe sanctuary. After 9/11 the military really adopted a dual-track strategy. They went after al-Qaeda, the Arab component. What the army did not do, though, was to run down the Taliban and the Pakistani extremist groups fighting with the Taliban.

And of course they were indirectly helped in this strategy by the Americans because the Americans were only interested in catching al-Qaida and not the Taliban. And this is not a rogue policy carried out by some former agents or some extremists within the military. It's a state policy.

SPIEGEL: What Pakistani interests lie in the background?

Rashid: The military perceives it to be in the national interest to maintain a proxy in Afghanistan and that, traditionally, has been the Taliban. The military also believe the foreign forces will soon leave Afghanistan and that India must be denied any foothold in Kabul. The denial of having strategic interests in Afghanistan is part of the Pakistani foreign policy, and this tradition of denial has been a historical fact ever since we came under military rule.

SPIEGEL: To what extent does President Pervez Musharraf steer foreign policy?

Rashid: He gives strategic direction to the policy, but I don't think he would get personally involved in the day to day. What I mean by strategic direction is that the Taliban are a pro-Pakistani force, they will oppose the Indian presence in Afghanistan. The thinking is that they should be supported just in case the Karzai government falls, the Americans pull out or NATO is defeated.

But I think, unfortunately, that the ISI has taken great liberties in interpreting its original mission. If the message to the ISI has been to turn a blind eye as the Taliban regroup and reorganize, then the tendency of the ISI has been to say, 'We don't just turn a blind eye, we actually go and help them'. And the governments of Balochistan and the North-West Frontier Province are supporting the Taliban. These two provinces are ruled by an alliance of religious parties. So, for example, the Taliban has been importing weapons and ammunition from the Gulf. But they have been able to import them officially through Karachi as part of the imports of the Balochistan government.

SPIEGEL: President Musharraf himself seems to be a prisoner of domestic politics. How is he supposed to be able to operate against his own security apparatus?

Rashid: The army has always relied upon the fundamentalists to be the front line of their foreign policy, whether in Kashmir, whether in Afghanistan or in Central Asia. The extremist groups have always provided the manpower, the cannon fodder. You have to remember that Musharraf won an election in 2002 that was rigged, in which the army allied itself with the MMA, the alliance of religious parties. If Musharraf were to move tomorrow against the Taliban in Pakistan he would also have to move against his political allies -- the fundamentalists. Can he afford to do this in an election year like this?

SPIEGEL: What steps would you take in order to strengthen the moderates, who represent the majority of Pakistanis. And how can the fundamentalists be isolated and weakened?

Rashid: A discreet but clear ultimatum to Pakistan with the threat that the West could end cooperation, aid -- all those kinds of things. The military has to be made aware that this support to the Taliban is not acceptable and the lives of European soldiers are more important to Europe than anything else. And the Western forces in the south of Afghanistan must have a common strategy to get the balance right between aggressive action and reconstruction and development. NATO last year hung on by the skin of its teeth, literally, in the south. The only reason it hung on was through the use of air power. We now know, according to some estimates, that air strikes may have killed up to 1,000 civilians.

SPIEGEL: The Germans don't want to deploy troops in the south and they don't want to engage in combat in general. Do countries like Germany bear responsibility for the possible failure in Afghanistan?

Rashid: The Germans have failed completely with their police training program. They were sending local, provincial policemen, aged 45 or 50 years old, who had no concept of Muslim culture and no concept of training. That has been a disaster. But we need the police to provide security, keep the peace, fight drugs, establish the writ of the state and to establish the writ of Karzai. Now the Americans have taken over, they are training an 80,000 member police force. This failure has been very critical.

SPIEGEL: If the mission fails and peace and stability are not established in Afghanistan, what consequences could that have for the Western world?

Rashid: If Afghanistan fails, it will provide a base for international terrorism in a much more sophisticated and advanced way than what we saw before 9/11. Look at what has happened to Waziristan, the tribal area, which I today consider to be the center of (the) international terrorism. These international extremist groups have been able to operate there and they still do. Can you imagine that being duplicated on a much larger scale?

SPIEGEL: What would the consequences be for a region that already includes three neighboring nuclear powers -- Pakistan, India and China -- and may soon see a fourth with Iran?

Rashid: The real danger would be the break up of Afghanistan. The Talibanized Pashtun in the south could split away from the non-Pashtuns. As a consequence you would have a state of permanent instability, which it could not develop economically. It would be a region which no one could control anymore and it would be a much more brutal kind of civil war.

SPIEGEL: What can be done to prevent this scenario from happening?

Rashid: Unfortunately, the indiscriminate use of air power has turned the population against NATO in the south and has changed the situation. NATO used air power to protect its troops. You need more troops on the ground, both Afghan and foreign. If NATO continues with a similar use of air power to fight the Taliban in 2007, it will lose the war of hearts and minds.

SPIEGEL: Mr. Rashid, many thanks for this interview.
Interview conducted by Susanne Koelbl.
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Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, 58, lives in Lahore and is the author of the bestselling books "Taliban" and "Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia." SPIEGEL: The Taliban behead traitors in front of the camera, they kill policemen and soldiers who are collaborating with the Western forces. How did the Taliban pick up these merciless practices -- even against Muslims?
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Un exagente de la CIA, destinado anteriormente en Paquistán acusa al general Gul de estar detrás del apoyo a los talibanes.
Ex-CIA man accuses Gul of backing Taliban

By Rauf Klasra

LONDON: Former CIA officer Art Keller, who was posted to Pakistan last year, has claimed that former ISI chief Hameed Gul along with other retired army officers secretly supported the Taliban, Guardian reported.

Mr Keller alleged that Hamid Gul and other retired army officers were secretly supporting the Taliban “to the degree that they aren’t arrested or forced to cease and desist, they are tacitly tolerated,” he said.

Gen Gul told the Guardian: “I morally support the movement to end the American occupation of Afghanistan. But there is no physical dimension to it, no hidden agenda.”

The report said Keller’s comments come at a sensitive time in US-Pakistani relations. Since 2001 Washington has given Pakistan $10b (£5b) in exchange for counter-terrorism cooperations. Although hundreds of al-Qaida figures have been arrested, Osama bin Laden remains at liberty and Taliban attacks in Afghanistan have soared.

Soldiers posted to Waziristan, a tribal area that hosts an estimated 2,000 al-Qaida fighters, are “huddling in their bases, doing nothing”, said Art Keller.

“Their approach was to pretend that nothing was wrong because any other approach would reveal that they were unwilling and unable to do anything about Talibanisation,” said Keller, who has visited Waziristan.

The report said the Pakistani military insists it is doing its best.

Keller said behind the scenes the fight was driven by divisions among the officers.

“There are moderates who fear Talibanisation, the professional jihadis who want to embrace the Taliban again, and the middle group who aren’t too fond of the Taliban but resent doing anything under pressure from the US out of sheer bloody-minded stubbornness,” he said. “Because of [that], the Pakistani military remains paralysed.”

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Cada vez hay más rumores de que el Mulah Omar estuviese bien protegido en Qetta, donde por cierto el otro día se cargaron a unos cuantos agentes de inteligencia que a lo mejor estaban metiendo las narices en sitios peligrosos.
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Acerca de la inestabilidad en Paquistán, el propio Consejo de Seguridad Nacional (NSC) ha alertado al presidente sobre el riesgo de talibanización de sus provincias federalmente administradas.
Talibanisation imperils security, NSC warned: Immediate action urged

By Ismail Khan

PESHAWAR, June 22: Describing ‘Talibanisation’ as a potential threat to national security, a high-level presentation made to President Pervez Musharraf is reported to have called for an immediate action before it is too late.

“Time is of essence. We must act before it is too late,” is how it was summed up at the National Security Council meeting early this month. The NSC that met on June 4 with President Musharraf in the chair held exhaustive discussions on Talibanisation in Fata and the NWFP.

NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani, who until very recently, has been in total denial of the creeping Talibanisation in the MMA-ruled NWFP, was also in attendance and, according to one source, was in total agreement with the assessment made at the NSC meeting.

“He was equally concerned,” the source, who was privy to the discussions at the NSC, said of the chief minister.

The 15-page presentation at the NSC speaks of the Taliban of having regrouped and reorganised, bringing about serious repercussions for Pakistan.

“Talibanisation has not only unfolded potential threats to our security, but is also casting its dark shadows over Fata and now in the settled areas adjoining the tribal belt,” it was informed. “The reality is that it is spreading,” the participants were told.

In its assessment of the ‘rapidly’ deteriorating law and order situation, the NSC was told that militancy and extremism had risen with an increase in the number of suicide attacks and there was unhindered movement of militants to the settled areas.

In contrast, the NSC was informed that there was inaction on the part of law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) and morale of the agency personnel had declined. “Resultant vacuum has been filled by militants and non-state actors.”

The NSC was told that while the situation had marginally improved in South Waziristan after the flushing out of the Uzbek militants, a top militant commander continued to call the shots by harbouring foreigners and sponsoring terrorist activities throughout the country.

It was told that the North Waziristan agreement was holding but it remained fragile with Mirali, a sub-district of the restive tribal region, emerging as the hub of militant activities.

The situation in the Kurram tribal region remained precarious because of sectarian clashes and it had also become a major transit point for cross-border movement into Afghanistan.

In the Khyber tribal region, the Lashkar-i-Islami and the Ansar-ul-Islam continued to clash while one factional leader was asserting and attempting to use state authority.

The NSC was also informed that while the recent undertaking by tribes in Bajaur might help restore the government authority, foreign and local militants were operating there with the support of some local clerics.

The participants were told that while Mohmand and Orakzai, the remaining two of the seven federally-administered tribal regions, were relatively peaceful, there were signs of militancy creeping into the region as well.

Recounting the “gravity of the problem” in the settled districts of the NWFP, the council was informed of the rising militancy manifesting itself in the shape of suicide attacks, harassment of NGOs, bombings of barber and video shops, threats to religious minorities, girls schools and politicians and attacks on law-enforcement personnel.

It was told that Tank district and Frontier Region Tank, Lakki Marwat, Bannu district and Frontier Region Bannu, Kohat district and Frontier Region Kohat, Hangu, Dera Ismail Khan in south of the NWFP, Peshawar, Mardan and Charsadda in the central NWFP and Mansehra, Swat, Malakand and Dir in the northern NWFP had been affected by varying degrees of militancy and extremism.

It was told that foreign occupation of Afghanistan, Pakistan’s alliance with the United States in the war on terror; long festering political disputes in the Muslim world and a growing feeling among Muslims that they are under attack from the West were major contributory factors behind the growing militancy in the region.

The source said the NSC was also briefed on specifics and was told that while the police were outnumbered and outgunned, there was almost total inaction on their part to take on militancy in the settled districts.

The meeting was told that there was a general policy of appeasement towards the Taliban while the police in Bannu and Tank were patronising the Taliban and had abdicated their own role.

The militants had easy and unchecked access to the settled districts because of lack of security infrastructure along the border with tribal regions and no serious effort had been made to arrest militant leaders who had been identified, the NSC was told.Clerics were making full use of illegal FM radio channels to preach extremism and militancy and some madressahs were involved in recruiting young boys for ‘jihad’ and the LEAs appeared to be unconcerned.

In the tribal region, the NSC was told, the erosion of the authority of maliks and political agents had had a negative effect and the loss of administrative capacity had provided space to the Taliban to become a parallel authority.

The source said that the interior ministry laid out a comprehensive strategy before the NSC to deal with the situation, suggested political and administrative measures and made recommendations regarding law enforcement, blocking of illegal FM transmission and launching a media campaign to create awareness and counter militant propaganda.

“Swift and decisive action is required to turn the tide of what in time can become a threat to the rest of Pakistan,” the NSC was told at the end of the presentation.

One senior official said it was for the first time that the issue was so comprehensively discussed in the NSC meeting and some important decisions were taken to deal with the deteriorating law and order situation in the NWFP and Fata.

But, the official said, it would be wrong to assume the prevailing situation as a law and order problem. “This is militancy and in some cases a low-intensity insurgency. It requires urgent and concerted effort. I just hope that the passing of the buck and blame-game between the centre and the province would stop and they would sit together to implement all the good decisions taken at the NSC.”
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Parece que las advertencias del NSC se van a plasmar en una acción ejecutiva en las provincias conflictivas del cinturón tribal paquistaní.
Plan ready to curb militancy in Fata, settled areas

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By Ismail Khan

PESHAWAR, June 25: The government is considering deploying unmanned reconnaissance planes and strengthening law-enforcement agencies with advanced equipment and sending in more troops to stem the tide of Talibanisation in the NWFP and tribal regions, credible sources told Dawn.

The sources said the NSC in its crucial meeting on June 4 had taken a number of political and administrative decisions to control the creeping Talibanisation in the NWFP and Fata.

The meeting, chaired by President Gen Pervez Musharraf and attended by chief ministers and governors of the four provinces, discussed the deteriorating law and order situation and the threat posed to state authority.

On the administrative front, the NSC decided to launch an operation against militants on a fast-track basis, and undertake ‘focused operations against militant commanders’.

The sources said the ministry of interior had prepared a list of militant commanders operating in the tribal region and the settled districts of the NWFP. The military was also decided to take action against madressahs preaching militancy. The ministry of interior has prepared a list of such seminaries for monitoring.

The most significant and crucial decision, however, was the appointment of regional coordinators (RCOs) for southern, central and northern districts of the NWFP, something akin to the defunct offices of commissioners, to liaise and coordinate between the settled districts and the adjoining tribal regions.

The sources said it had taken a lot of effort to convince Gen Musharraf that Gen Naqvi’s controversial devolution plan had done away with the vital and most critical link between the settled districts and the tribal regions.

“Gen Naqvi’s plan had completely ignored taking the peculiar geography of the NWFP into account. Nobody had realised what it would do. The plan was enforced throughout the country taking it as a homogeneous entity. This was one of the disastrous decisions,” said a senior government official.

President Musharraf had in the past resisted attempts by the NWFP as well as other provinces to reverse some of the changes brought about by the so-called devolution plan and, according to officials, it was not easy to convince him to revive the old commissionerates.

In order to address presidential sensitivities with regard to the devolution plan, the new term of regional coordinators was coined.

Officials said a regional coordinator would be posted in Dera Ismail Khan to coordinate with political agents in North and South Waziristan and district coordinating officers in Tank, Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu.

A regional coordinator would also be posted in Kohat to liaise between the DCOs in Kohat and Hangu and political agents in Kurram and Orakzai.

Similarly, a regional coordinator would be posted for Mohmand and Bajaur tribal regions. Officials said that this would facilitate coordination and information sharing between the settled districts and the tribal region and create the vital link between the regions.While the provincial government is framing rules for the new offices, it is still not clear who the RCOs would be answerable to in the present arrangement.

Law and order in Fata and the NWFP is at present being looked after separately by the Fata Secretariat and the NWFP Home Department for the tribal regions and the settled districts respectively. Before the devolution plan, law and order was the sole domain of the NWFP Home and Tribal Affairs Department.

Perhaps realising the mistake in the devolution plan, the NSC also decided to bring the Home Department into the loop in terms of law and order situation prevailing in the tribal region.

On law-enforcement, the NSC decided to let the NWFP government make fresh recruitments in police force to make up for the shortfall.

It is ironic that the NWFP has to put up with the same size of police force of roughly 35,000 personnel as was in 1947 – the force strength has not changed whereas the population of the province has ballooned manifold.

It was decided that the finance-sharing formula for the fresh recruitment would be decided by the prime minister and NWFP chief minister.

It was also decided that the NWFP police would be provided with weapons, bullet-proof jackets and night-vision devices.

The paramilitary Frontier Corps would be provided with artillery and APCs and a state agency has been tasked to study ways of blocking illegal FM radio channels and examine the feasibility of deploying unmanned drone aircraft to monitor militant activities and movements.

The NSC also decided to redeploy 46 platoons of the Frontier

Constabulary from other provinces to the NWFP to help police and control the borders between settled districts and tribal regions.

Officials said the ministry of interior had already issued necessary instructions in this regard.

Another source said the federal government had decided to move fresh and additional force to the troubled North Waziristan and Malakand division.

However, a spokesman for the military said troop movement was a routine matter, and he denied that reinforcements were being made in the area.

North Waziristan, where the government had entered into a peace agreement with militants in September last year, has come under attack from coalition forces resulting in several casualties.

In Malakand, the government is increasingly worried about the rejuvenation of the defunct Tehrik-i-Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammadi and the activities of other jihadi outfits.

On the political front, the NSC decided to take all political parties in the NWFP on board to combat militancy, ensure public participation and hold jirgas under political leadership in the affected districts.

The NSC decided to let the local bodies’ representatives to play a proactive role. A review committee meeting would be held on a monthly basis to review the law and order situation in the province.

It directed all intelligence agencies to ensure sharing of intelligence and better coordination at the tactical level.

But most importantly, the NSC decided that the blame-game between the MMA-led NWFP government and the federal government would be stopped.

This decision was taken in view of the allegations levelled by the provincial government that state intelligence agencies were responsible for fomenting Talibanisation, while some federal ministers blamed the MMA government for encouraging militancy in the province and the tribal areas.
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Visto lo que ha pasado tras el asalto a la mezquita roja y las represalias terroristas de los islamistas, no cabe duda que las advertencias del NSC tendían muy serios fundamentos.

Otra noticia que en principio no le habrá gustado a Musharraf; la Corte Suprema restituye en su cargo al Juez Supremo Iftikhar Muhammad. De todas formas, a corto plazo podría permitir a las autoridades paquistaníes cerrar un frente, el de las protestas de la sociedad civil por el cese de este magistrado. Cuando vengan las elecciones ya se verá qué pasa. Ahora el problema debería ser enfrentarse al islamismo radical.
Pakistan Chief Justice reinstated as SC gives historic decision
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ISLAMABAD: A 13-member full court of the Supreme Court on Friday gave historic verdict to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and quashed misconduct charges filed against him by President Pervez Musharraf.

The announcement sparked massive celebrations by lawyers who had spent the day waiting outside the court for the verdict.

Chaudhry was suspended in March, following allegations that he abused his position, notably to obtain a top police job for his son and other privileges for himself.

"The reference of the president dated March 9, 2007 is set aside," presiding judge Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday told the court, announcing the panel of judges had reached a 10-3 decision in Chaudhry's favour after a 43-day hearing.

"As a further consequence, the petitioner, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, shall be deemed to be holding the said office and shall always be deemed to have been so holding the same," he said.

The Supreme Court started hearing of an appeal of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry against his suspension by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on April 18.

Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry had challenged Musharraf's decision to suspend him and he was under trial for alleged misconduct.

The lead counsel for the chief justice Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan had filed a petition against presidential reference under article 184-III of constitution.

Aitzaz Ahsan had completed his arguments during the hearing today after which head of a 13-member full court bench of Supreme Court Justice Khalilur Rahman Ramday announced the brief verdict.

On this occasion, special security arrangements were made outside the Supreme Court by posting heavy contingents of police.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said the government accepted the Supreme Court's decision to reinstate the country's top judge but added it was "not the time to claim victory or defeat."

"I have just learnt of the Supreme Court decision. I have always maintained that the decision by the honourable court must be accepted by all sections of the people including the government itself," Aziz said in a statement.

"This is not the time to claim victory or defeat. The constitution and the law have prevailed and must prevail at all times," he added.
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Interesante reunión entre Musharraf y Benazhir Bhutto para intentar negociar las próximas elecciones; la jefatura de las FAS paquistaníes y el decreto anti-Bhutto podrían haberse discutido. Curiosamente, Benazhir acudió con un exFIA de confianza, y Musharraf con sus hombres del ISI, servicio que se cargó a la exprimera ministra en su segundo mandato.
Amid turmoil at home sparked by the Lal Masjid stand-off, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf last Friday met former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto apparently to clinch a deal to ensure his re-election and her return home from self-exile.

Musharraf air-dashed to Abu Dhabi earlier in the day and held the meeting with the PPP Chief.

While officials close to Musharraf informally told the media here that the two would be meeting at the instance of a third country, believed to be the United States, Bhutto cancelled a parliamentary party meeting of her Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) in London and reached Abdu Dhabi. She was accompanied by former Director General of Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Rehman Mallik, while Musharraf 's delegation included top officials of the ISI.

According to officials here, this was reportedly their second meeting and the two were in regular touch over telephone.

The meeting comes after Bhutto's recent remarks that her party would lose votes in the polls due to be held later this year if she aligned with Musharraf in the aftermath of the recent supreme court judgment reinstating suspended Chief Justice Iftikar M Chaudhry.

The meeting also took place against the backdrop of attempts by militant students to re-occupy the Lal Masjid which was captured in a military raid. Its capture resulted in a spate of suicide bomb attacks mostly in the tribal areas targeting Pakistani troops.

"If Musharraf-Benazir meeting has been held it could be the final round of PPP-government talks and it is hoped that this meeting will have long-term positive impact on the politics of Pakistan," said Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.

The meeting lasted for about 55 minutes though it was expected that the two would confer for two to three hours.

Reports were also afloat that President Musharraf would also hold a meeting with former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab Shahabaz Sharif in Saudi Arabia during the second leg of his visit.However, the PML (N) sources rejected reports of such a meeting.
Es interesante el giro de Musharraf. En las últimas elecciones bastante imperfectas, se alió con partidos religiosos, frente al PPP y tal vez al PML-N de Sharif, que representan sectores más moderados y de clases medias del país. Ahora parece que busca ese apoyo de la sociedad civil en Paquistán, en vez de los partidos religiosos, que obviamente no están muy felices con él tras el asalto a la mezquita roja. Al mismo tiempo, aproximándose al PPP, debilita la alianza que este partido mantenía con el PML-N en el bloque opositor a Musharraf.

Veremos cómo evoluciona esto.

Precisamente Musharraf se acaba de reunir en Rawalpindi con los Comandantes de Cuerpo en el CG de las FAS para evaluar la situación en términos de seguridad y defensa. Seguro que las fanfarronadas de los candidatos USA habrán sido comentadas en la reunión.

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Benazir Bhutto está últimamente muy locuaz. El otro día aseguró que Musharraf había aceptado dejar en breve el cargo de comandante de las FAS paquistaníes (cosa quee le lleva exigiendo la oposición democrática desde hace meses). Ahora recuerda que su "bestia negra", el ISI, continúa apoyando a talibanes e insurgentes tribales. Hay que recordar que fue precisamente durante su mandato cuando aparatos del estado paquistaní apoyaron a los entonces desconocidos talibanes, mientras que en aquellos momentos el ISI apoyaba a Hikmetyar, el cual ahora es un líder más en el movimiento neotalibán :shock:
ISI still supports al Qaeda and Taliban, says former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has alleged that elements of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) “continue the alliance with both the Taliban and al Qaeda to this very day” on the premise that Pakistan’s security requires “strategic depth” in the shape of a friendly or pliant Afghanistan, Daily Times reported.

In an interview to YaleGlobal, Bhutto said that the ISI was continuing to adhere to the old arrangement, “even if it means supporting fanatics.” She claimed that it was not a premise she or her party shared. “We believe it is essential for Pakistan to support democracy in Afghanistan. We want an end to that policy of strategic depth. Afghanistan has traditionally been viewed either as a buffer state or as a forward policy state where there is strategic depth... I think for us it is much better to have an Afghanistan that is peaceful, that allows us to trade with it, that has good relations with all its neighbours,” she added.

Asked about the US criticism that President Musharraf was not doing enough to capture al Qaeda suspects hiding in Pakistan and if it was fair criticism, she replied, “As a Pakistani, it certainly hurts me very much when I see that inevitably the trail of terrorists leads back to my country... We feel that our tribal areas have been ceded to the foreign elements, to Afghan Taliban and Arab and Chechen militants. And now those groups actually administer parts of our territory, holding our people hostage. They dispense their own form of justice. They teach little 12-year-old boys to behead those they accuse of being spies.”


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Otro ilustre exPM exiliado, Nawaz Sharif, a quien Musharraf depuso con su golpe, anuncia que volverá a Paquistán. Probablemente maniobra rápidamente ante las negociaciones que está llevando a cabo Bhutto con los enviados de Musharraf-
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced Thursday he will return to Pakistan on September 10 after Pakistan's top court last week lifted the exile order imposed against him.

Supporters of deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as a Supreme Court verdict ruled he can return home.

Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, ousted Sharif from power in a bloodless coup in 1999. Sharif, who retains his Pakistani citizenship, had been in exile in Saudi Arabia since 2000 and has not been allowed to travel or directly take part in Pakistani politics.

He has hinted that he may try to retain his position as prime minister and has blasted fellow opposition leader Benazir Bhutto for negotiating with Musharraf on a power-sharing deal.

In a speech on Wednesday, Musharraf indicated he might block Sharif's return, according to a report from Pakistan's official news agency.

Musharraf said Sharif was told by an unidentified "friend of Pakistan" to "abide by the agreement of not returning to the country before the end of ten years of his exile," the Associated Press of Pakistan (APA) reported.

"Therefore, I also urge him to abide by the agreement," Musharraf was quoted as saying.

In an interview with CNN's Nic Robertson last week, Sharif said he had no concerns that he will be jailed upon returning to Pakistan because "I am absolutely clean and clear."

"There are no charges of corruption against me," he said. "If Musharraf tries to fabricate false cases against me, we will face them." Sharif said Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau "has acquired an expertise of fabricating cases against politicians" and "has lost its credibility."
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Aunque en principio no tiene relación directa con el ISI, por proximidad estratégica creo adecuado comentar un tema, y es la próxima realización de ejercicios aeronavales de países aliados en las proximidades de la isla de Cocos, en Myanmar, que como comentaba en la exposición del ISI, es pieza clave del cinturón de inteligencia chino que se prolonga desde esta localización a Gwadar, Golfo Pérsico, Cuerno de África y África negra buscando el Atlántico.
India to host five- nation naval exercises close to Chinese naval base

NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (APP): India will host a 5-nation naval exercise close to Myanmar’s Coco Islands, where the Chinese Navy is reportedly building a naval base.

Media reports quoting naval officials said the 4-day exercises being commenced from Tuesday, will be participated by 26 Warships from the US, India, Japan, Australia and Singapore in the Bay of Bengal.

Despite strong protests by the Left parties against presence of US warships close to Indian coastal areas, nine of the 13 US warships will be in action during the exercises.

These warships will include nuclear-powered carrier USS Nimitz, conventional carrier USS Kitty Hawk and nuclear submarine USN Chicago.

During the exercises aircraft carriers, missile frigates and destroyers will be in action.

Eight Indian warships led by the sole Indian aircraft carrier INS Viraat have reached the exercise point while a missile frigate from Singapore is close to the spot.

Media reports quoting naval officials said two warships, one each from Australia and Japan are about to reach the spot.
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Dado que se cree que gran parte de los cometidos de esa base china es el espionaje electrónico, no es de extrañar el potencial en este campo de los buques que desplaza la USN.

Recuerdo la cita sobre este asunto en la exposición del ISI
CHINA. El gran país asiático ha sido siempre un aliado de Pakistán, y un contrapeso frente a su común vecino, la India, a quien China derrotó fácilmente en una guerra fronteriza en 1962. China siempre ha proporcionado armamento y tecnología a Pakistán, y ambos comparten intensos lazos económicos. Como parte de su estrategia de penetración en el Golfo Pérsico, China firmó en 2002 un acuerdo valorado en 250 millones de dólares con Pakistán para ampliar el puerto de Gwadar (cerca de la frontera iraní) y usar así las instalaciones de su base naval y puerto tanto para su uso por la Marina y la inteligencia china (que ya posee instalaciones en las islas Coco, situadas en el Golfo de Bengala, pertenecientes a Myanmar), como para vía de salida del comercio procedente de la región de Xinjiang, donde por otra parte se encuentra la belicosa minoría islamista uighur. El puerto tendrá capacidad para recibir petroleros de hasta 200.000 toneladas y tendrá régimen de puerto franco
Habría que ver dónde tienen los chinos su punto de apoyo en la península arábiga. ¿Yemen o Arabia Saudí?
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Parece que en el atentado del día 4 murieron algunos miembros de los SS pakistaníes. La fuente es The Guardian.
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