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Ese atentado no ha sido el típico del barbudo loco que se inmola. Ha sido perfectamente planeado con buena información y en una zona de máxima seguridad.
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Cambios en la cúpula del ISI. Su actual jefe podría ser el sucesor de Musharraf en el mando de las FAS cuando el presidente lo deje, mientras que uno de sus más estrechos colaboradores pasaría a dirigir el ISI.
Musharraf Names Loyalist as New Intelligence Chief

By Kamran Khan and Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, September 22, 2007; A13

KARACHI, Pakistan, Sept. 21 -- With his retirement from the army looming, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Friday named a known loyalist to head the nation's hugely influential military-led intelligence service. Musharraf also cleared the way for the intelligence chief he replaced to possibly take over as army commander.

The announcements came just days after Musharraf's attorney announced that the general would step down from the army if he is elected to a new term as president. The national and provincial assemblies are set to vote Oct. 6.

Opponents argue that Musharraf's army job disqualifies him from running, and the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to his eligibility. But if the court rules that he can run, he is believed to have the votes he needs to win.

Musharraf's appointments are being watched closely in Pakistan, where the military has ruled for more than half the nation's 60-year history.

Amid a flurry of appointments Friday, Musharraf named Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj to lead the Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Taj is considered a moderate and is known to be close to Musharraf, having once served as Musharraf's military secretary. He was also head of a separate intelligence service in December 2003, when Musharraf was twice targeted by suicide attacks later linked to al-Qaeda.

Taj will now be at the forefront of efforts to combat the terrorist organization at a time when insurgents are stepping up attacks and the military is taking heavy losses.

He will replace Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani at the agency. Kiyani is now said to be one of two finalists to succeed Musharraf as army chief. The other top contender is Lt. Gen. Tariq Majeed, who has been the corps commander in Rawalpindi, the garrison city that houses the military's headquarters. Like Kiyani, Majeed was replaced Friday; his next job was not announced.

The selection of a successor will be a critical decision for Musharraf. Analysts say that if he wins a new term and gives up his uniform, he will likely have more of a voice in military matters than most civilian leaders but will still lose much of the power he wields today.

"To say that Musharraf will continue to enjoy the same influence over the army is not true," said retired Lt. Gen. Moinuddin Hyder. "The army chief in Pakistan doesn't like to take orders on professional matters."

Witte reported from Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Estos son los cambios ya confirmados:

Maj. Gen. Nadeem Ijaz Taj nuevo jefe del Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
Maj. Gen. Mohsin Kamal nuevo jefe del poderoso 10th Corp (Rawalpindi)

El hasta ahora jefe del ISI, Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Ahmed Kiani es el nuevo vicecomandante supremo de las FAS (nº 2 tras Musharraf) y el hasta ahora jefe del 10 Cuerpo, Lt. Gen. Tariq Majid es el nuevo Jefe del estado mayor general (es decir, el número 3 en la cadena de mando). Parece ser que ambos están bien vistos por los EEUU.

Según el periodista Gretchen Peters, de ABC News's

...Peters describes Gen. Kiani as "an avid golfer who's considered the most intellectual of Pakistan's senior officers, studied at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas" and Gen. Majid as "Musharraf's star pupil years ago at the Command and Staff College in Quetta...He fits the bill, say insiders, both in terms of his age and past experience, to take over the army."

What will become of the current Vice Chief and the current Chief of the General Staff, who are set to retire next month? The BBC sees this picture as murkier:

The BBC's Sanjay Dasgupta says that this round of appointments is being seen as part of larger move by President Musharraf to place a core group of loyal supporters in key positions before he quits as army chief. Who his successor will be is now the big question in Pakistan's military-dominated politics, he adds.

Next month, two of Gen Musharraf's top deputies in the army retire -- Gen Ehsan Ul Haq, who is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee, and Gen Ahsan Saleem Hayat, who is the vice-chief of army staff.

Some analysts say that one of these two men is being freed up to take over as the army chief after Gen Musharraf.

But others disagree, saying the pair have been around long enough to have developed clout and influence within the military establishment in their own right. Hence they have the potential to become alternative power centres, and Gen Musharraf would prefer a new face, who would owe his promotion, and therefore his loyalty, solely to him.
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Ya hablé del atentado contra la Embajada de la India en Kabul, el 7 de julio, y comenté que varios medios de prensa, además del gobierno afgano, acusaban al ISI pakistaní de estar detrás del asunto. Pues bien, ahora TNYT comenta que:

-Según fuentes de inteligencia americana, el ISI estaría involucrado en el atentado del 7J en Afganistán contra la Embajada de la India. Murieron 54 personas.

-La conclusión se fundamenta en comunicaciones interceptadas entre agentes de inteligencia y los miembros que realizaron el atentado.

-Los miembros que realizaron el atentado pertenecen además a una red que dirige el Mauluvi Yalaluddin Haqqini, en alianza con una célula de Al Qaida.

-También informa TNYT que el director adjunto de la CIA, Stephen R. Kappes, viajó en julio a Pakistán para conversar con sus homólogos paquikistaníes sobre la participación de los agentes en el ataque terrorista.

El Gobierno de la India no es la primera vez que acusa al ISI de atentados.

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C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants

By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: July 30, 2008

WASHINGTON — A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront Pakistan’s most senior officials with new information about ties between the country’s powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to American military and intelligence officials.


The C.I.A. emissary presented evidence showing that members of the spy service had deepened their ties with some militant groups that were responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan, possibly including the suicide bombing this month of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the officials said.

The decision to confront Pakistan with what the officials described as a new C.I.A. assessment of the spy service’s activities seemed to be the bluntest American warning to Pakistan since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks about the ties between the spy service and Islamic militants.

The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

The C.I.A. has depended heavily on the ISI for information about militants in Pakistan, despite longstanding concerns about divided loyalties within the Pakistani spy service, which had close relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11 attacks.

That ISI officers have maintained important ties to anti-American militants has been the subject of previous reports in The New York Times. But the C.I.A. and the Bush administration have generally sought to avoid criticism of Pakistan, which they regard as a crucial ally in the fight against terrorism.

The visit to Pakistan by the C.I.A. official, Stephen R. Kappes, the agency’s deputy director, was described by several American military and intelligence officials in interviews in recent days. Some of those who were interviewed made clear that they welcomed the decision by the C.I.A. to take a harder line toward the ISI’s dealings with militant groups.

Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, is currently in Washington meeting with Bush administration officials. A White House spokesman, Gordon D. Johndroe, would not say whether President Bush had raised the issue during his meeting on Monday with Mr. Gilani. In an interview broadcast Tuesday on the PBS program “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” Mr. Gilani said he rejected as “not believable” any assertions of ISI’s links to the militants. “We would not allow that,” he said.

The Haqqani network and other militants operating in the tribal areas along the Afghan border are said by American intelligence officials to be responsible for increasingly deadly and complex attacks inside Afghanistan, and to have helped Al Qaeda establish a safe haven in the tribal areas.

Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the acting commander of American forces in Southwest Asia, made an unannounced visit to the tribal areas on Monday, a further reflection of American concern.

The ISI has for decades maintained contacts with various militant groups in the tribal areas and elsewhere, both for gathering intelligence and as proxies to exert influence on neighboring India and Afghanistan. It is unclear whether the C.I.A. officials have concluded that contacts between the ISI and militant groups are blessed at the highest levels of Pakistan’s spy service and military, or are carried out by rogue elements of Pakistan’s security apparatus.

With Pakistan’s new civilian government struggling to assert control over the country’s spy service, there are concerns in Washington that the ISI may become even more powerful than when President Pervez Musharraf controlled the military and the government. Last weekend, Pakistani military and intelligence officials thwarted an attempt by the government in Islamabad to put the ISI more directly under civilian control.

Mr. 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.

“It was a very pointed message saying, ‘Look, we know there’s a connection, not just with Haqqani but also with other bad guys and ISI, and we think you could do more and we want you to do more about it,’ ” one senior American official said of the message to Pakistan. The official was briefed on the meetings; like others who agreed to talk about it, he spoke on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic delicacy of Mr. Kappes’s message.

The meetings took place days after a suicide bomber attacked the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing dozens. Afghanistan’s government has publicly accused the ISI of having a hand in the attack, an assertion American officials have not corroborated.

The decision to have Mr. Kappes deliver the message about the spy service was an unusual one, and could be a sign that the relationship between the C.I.A. and the ISI, which has long been marked by mutual suspicion as well as mutual dependence, may be deteriorating.

The trip is reminiscent of a secret visit that the top two American intelligence officials made to Pakistan in January. Those officials — Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, and Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director — sought to press Mr. Musharraf to allow the C.I.A. greater latitude to operate in the tribal territories.

It was the ISI, backed by millions of covert dollars from the C.I.A., that ran arms to guerrillas fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It is now American troops who are dying in Afghanistan, and intelligence officials believe those longstanding ties between Pakistani spies and militants may be part of an effort to destabilize Afghanistan.

Spokesmen for the White House and the C.I.A. declined to comment about the visit by Mr. Kappes or about the agency’s assessment. A spokesman for Admiral Mullen, Capt. John Kirby, declined to comment on the meetings, saying “the chairman desires to keep these meetings private and therefore it would be inappropriate to discuss any details.”

Admiral Mullen and Mr. Kappes met in Islamabad with several high-ranking Pakistani officials. They included Mr. Gilani; Mr. Musharraf; Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the army chief of staff and former ISI director; and Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj, the current ISI director.

One American counterterrorism official said there was no evidence of Pakistan’s government’s direct support of Al Qaeda. He said, however, there were “genuine and longstanding concerns about Pakistan’s ties to the Haqqani network, which of course has links to Al Qaeda.”

American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months sounded an increasingly shrill alarm about the threat posed by Mr. Haqqani’s network. Earlier this year, American military officials pressed the American ambassador in Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, to get Pakistani troops to strike Haqqani network targets in the tribal areas.

Gen. Dan K. McNeill, the senior NATO commander in Afghanistan until last month, frequently discussed the ISI’s contacts with militant groups with General Kayani, Pakistan’s military chief.

During his visit to the tribal areas on Monday, General Dempsey met with top Pakistani commanders in Miramshah, the capital of North Waziristan, where Pakistan’s 11th Army Corps and Frontier Corps paramilitary force have a headquarters, to discuss the security situation in the region, Pakistani officials said.

North Waziristan, the most lawless of the tribal areas, is a hub of Al Qaeda and other foreign fighters, and the base of operations for the Haqqani network.

On Tuesday, Pakistani security forces raided an abandoned seminary owned by Mr. Haqqani, Pakistani officials said. No arrests were made.
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Para que os hagais una idea del buen artículo que nos presenta Esteban sobre el ISI, dicho artículo fue publicado en una revista del Ejército argentino:

http://www.manualdeinformaciones.ejerci ... 12008.html
El Poderoso ISI Paquistaní.

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Hoy día hablamos mucho del ISI y su papel en relación a al Qaeda y el movimiento talibán, intentaremos explicar un poco el panorama de la inteligencia paquistaní.
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A la carga contra el ISI:
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence

Oct 2nd 2008 | ISLAMABAD
From The Economist print edition

Getting Pakistan’s spies to stop dabbling in jihad

THE Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), Pakistan’s notorious military spooks, deserve credit for the audacity of their covert support for the Taliban, the enemy of Pakistan’s greatest ally. But America’s patience with the ISI’s double-dealing in Afghanistan is running thin. Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has given assurance that he will tame the ISI. But a civilian with a dodgy past will find it hard to tackle what Pakistanis call Invisible Soldiers Inc.

In July the prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, tried to bring the ISI under the control of the interior ministry. His decision was reversed within hours. But the army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, who has said the ISI is trying to purge itself of pro-Taliban elements, has appointed a new ISI chief, General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, to replace a loyalist of the former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf. The appointment, part of a broader top-brass shuffle, consolidates General Kayani’s grip on the army. General Pasha has supported his chief’s efforts to withdraw the army from politics and to fight militants on the Afghan-Pakistan border.

The ISI helped round up hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters after September 11th 2001. It has been the target of terrorist attacks and has picked up senior Taliban commanders at NATO’s behest. But it has never kicked the old habit of using the Taliban and other jihadist militants to keep alive Pakistani ambitions in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir.

American officials believe that the ISI’s agents tip off militants ahead of missile strikes. They claim it was involved in the bombing in July of the Indian embassy in Kabul; and that it supports Soviet-era veterans such as Jalaluddin Haqqani, who is believed to have close ties to al-Qaeda. Asked about demands for the ISI to be reformed, Mr Zardari replied: “We don’t hunt with the hound and run with the hare, which is what Musharraf was doing.” The trouble is, he is not the master of the hunt.
Pues eso, que al nuevo presidente de Pakistán le va a costar uno y parte del otro "domesticar" al ISI, y a los EEUU (y aliados) se les está agotando la paciencia.

Por ahora tenemos nuevo jefe en el ISI, el General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, supuestamente partidario de quitar al ISI de la política y luchar combatir a los talibán en la frontera afgano-pakistaní
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Nuevo jefe del ISI
Ahmed Shuja Pasha, New ISI Chief

Monday, September 29th, 2008
By Arif Rafiq
Posted in Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Nadeem Taj |

Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha has replaced Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj as director general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

The Australian reports that Washington had been pressing Islamabad/Rawalpindi hard to replace Taj as late as Sunday night. President Asif Zardari reportedly met with CIA Director Michael Hayden this weekend in New York. What they discussed specifically is unclear — but Hayden reportedly provided Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will a proposal for “ISI reform” in July.

Taj, a Musharraf relative and appointee, is depicted as the face of the organization’s alleged double game vis-a-vis militants along the border with Afghanistan. He will now head Gujranwala’s XXX Corps.

Pasha, just promoted from major general, had been director general of military operations (DGMO). In this capacity, he headed the Pakistan Army’s operations in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and so his appointment provides no indication of a change in the military establishment’s war on terror policy.

He has represented Pakistan at the tripartate commission meetings and served as UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s adviser on peacekeeping operations.

MAJOR CORPS COMMANDERS CHANGES

The Pakistan Army announced a host of other major personnel changes, most important of which is the appointment of Lt. Gen. Tahir Mehmood as corps commander in Rawalpindi — the second most critical position, behind chief of army staff, for any coup.

The new corps commanders for Bahawalpur and Karachi are, respectively, Lt. Gen. Muhammad Yousaf and Lt. Gen. Shahid Iqbal. Lieutenant General Mohsin Kamal, formerly Rawalpindi corps commander, has been appointed military secretary at GHQ.

Several senior officers were scheduled for retirement this Saturday.

Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani met with Prime Minister Gilani today in Lahore, after his return from a week long visit to China. The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei is also in Islamabad, making the rounds.

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Dawn writes that Kayani “has put in place a new team to implement his vision for reviving the prestige of the armed forces and for enhancing the security of the state.”

And so with his own ISI chief and Rawalpindi corps commander in place, one could say this is now, at last, Kayani’s army.
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Siguen las delicadas relaciones con el ISI
Beware Of Working With Pakistan's ISI

As noted Monday, elements within Pakistan's dysfunctional Inter-Services Intelligence agency (or ISI) continue to support the Taliban and al Qaeda inside Afghanistan. The ISI also supports the extremists inside Pakistan. U.S. intelligence and the leadership of the ISI plan to dismantle the extremist support network inside Pakistan, according to the Asia Times.

The main targets are former ISI chief Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, who is considered the father of the Taliban, and Squadron Leader Khalid Khawaja, a retired ISI official:

High-level meetings between US intelligence and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have already been held at different levels to devise plans to cripple the support systems of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

Two prominent names came under discussion at these meetings: retired Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul and a former ISI official, retired Squadron Leader Khalid Khawaja.

Gul, a former head of the ISI, is suspected of providing political and moral support to the Taliban-led resistance in Afghanistan. Last year, former premier Benazir Bhutto named him as a suspect for the October 18 attack on her life in Karachi. She was subsequently assassinated in December.

Khawaja was the first person in the country to assist the displaced families of Arab fighters who fled to Pakistan after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He fought their cases in court, arranged temporary housing for them and assisted them in departing to their countries. Khawaja is active in the cause of missing people (those detained without trial for years) and wants to register cases against the former chief of army staff and president, General Pervez Musharraf, and his military aides for abuses allegedly committed during their eight years in power.

While the removal of Gul and Khawaja, two senior former ISI officials who have been eyeballs deep in extremist activates in Afghanistan and Pakistan, would likely help the effort, the idea of working with the ISI to take them down is fraught with risk. The ISI remains riddled with officers with competing loyalties. The ISI purges conducted by the Musharraf regime and the Zardari goverment largely targeted the high-level officers in bed with the Taliban. Lower-level officers, many loyal to Gul, Khawaja, and others are still in the ranks, and will sabotage these efforts.

The ISI-Taliban-al Qaeda nexus is quite capable of killing those who oppose them. Just yesterday, Major General Amir Faisal Alvi, the former commander of the Special Services Group, was gunned down while driving to Islamabad.

The Special Services Group is Pakistan's elite counterterrorism force that conducted the assault on the Taliban Red Mosque in Islamabad in July 2007. While police are unsure if this attack was an assassination or a criminal act, good money is on the latter.

The Taliban and their allies have pulled off several high profile assassinations, including the murder of Pakistan's Surgeon General in Rawalpindi, the supposed secure garrison city adjacent to Islamabad.

Another suicide strike in Rawalpindi occurred right outside the military general headquarters; the target was a bus carrying ISI personnel. There have been numerous attacks like these throughout Pakistan, in areas only those with assistance from the ISI or the military should be able to access.
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Sobre Hamid Gul hay mucha bibliografía. Sin duda, uno de los personajes más siniestros del ISI, siempre relacionado con las tramas protalibanes.
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Pakistan's spies 'quit politics'
By Haroon Rashid
BBC Urdu service

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the controversial "political wing" of the top secret service agency has been disbanded.

A senior security official used the term "made inactive" when asked about the Inter-Services Intelligence wing.

The political wing is widely believed to have been engineering domestic politics to safeguard what it considers national security interests.

This has led to the sacking of several elected governments, analysts say.

Mr Qureshi made the disclosure to the media in his home city of Multan on Sunday. The news was welcomed in political circles.

Civilian control rejected

A senior security official, requesting anonymity, told the BBC Urdu service on Monday: "The ISI is changing, it wants to keep out of politics and concentrate on counter-intelligence."

However the official said that the wing had only been rendered inactive and its staff had not been given any new assignments.

[The ISI] is not screening ministers and governors for their eligibility anymore

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Historians say the ISI has been heavily involved in Pakistani politics since the 1950s, when the bureaucracy and the military emerged as the top power brokers.

But its activities to engineer domestic politics became more pronounced in the 1980s and 1990s.

The service is widely believed to have created an anti-Pakistan People's Party alliance before the 1988 general elections to ensure that the PPP, which it considered to be a security threat, would not win a comfortable majority.

In 1996, two ex-military politicians placed documents before the Supreme Court suggesting that the ISI funded anti-PPP factions before the 1990 elections, but the case never reached a verdict.

The ISI is also believed to have created a pro-army faction of the Pakistan Muslim League which came to power after the 2002 elections.

The ISI is also reputed to have been given the final say on the appointments of ministers and governors under political governments.

The senior security official confirmed on Monday that the ISI was "not screening ministers and governors for their eligibility anymore".

Western powers have recently blamed some in the ISI for offering clandestine support to Taleban militants to destabilise Afghanistan.

An attempt by this year's elected government to bring the service under civilian control backfired due to resistance from military circles.

It had to withdraw a move to place the ISI under the interior ministry.

ISI insiders believe the agency's over-indulgence in politics has cost the service the trust of the public.

Nevertheless, analysts say that if the political wing is not actually disbanded, the threat of its revival will remain.
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Ante todo, saludar a todos. Llevo un tiempo leyendo este foro pero no me he decidido a aportar nada hasta ahora.
Islamabad tries to take military out of politics

By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad and James Lamont in New Delhi

Published: November 24 2008 19:15 | Last updated: November 24 2008 19:15

Pakistan’s government has disbanded the political wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence, the notorious military-run spy agency, in a bold move intended to reduce sharply the military’s influence in politics.

The effort to refocus the intelligence agency came a day after Asif Ali Zardari made one of the strongest overtures of any Pakistani president to India. He offered to abandon Pakistan’s first-strike nuclear threat, sign a South Asian nuclear non-proliferation treaty and join India in an economic union.
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The ISI is one of the most powerful forces in Pakistan. Often described as a “state within a state”, it has a domestic and international remit that has helped the army tighten its grip on the country.

The agency played a role in supporting insurgents in Kashmir and militants in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation of the country. However, military rule during much of Pakistan’s short history has encouraged its political wing to expand its role deep into domestic affairs.

“The ISI is a precious national institution and it wants to focus fully on counter-terrorism activities,” said Shah Mehmood Qureshi, foreign minister, in a statement. He described the change as a “positive development”.

Mr Zardari’s latest initiative will be welcomed in Washington, where the incoming administration of president-elect Barack Obama is preparing for a renewed engagement with Islamabad to counter the Islamist threat. A senior US official this year appealed to the newly elected Pakistani government to bring the ISI under greater control to prevent it aiding terrorist attacks and supporting the ­Taliban.

Mr Qureshi’s announcement coincided with the arrival of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military ruler, in London. His visit has fuelled speculation that he may be scouting for residence outside Pakistan.

“The direct consequence of this decision [on the ISI] should be the evolution of democracy without interference from the military,” said Nasim Zehra, a Pakistani newspaper columnist.

However, Tariq Azim, a former minister and now leader of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid e Azam, warned that a permanent end to the military’s role in politics would only be achieved when civilian governments were more robust and effective.

“The quality of governance remains very weak in Pakistan and the government today has failed to take charge on a number of fronts,” he said.

“We must always remember . . . that every time a civilian government has become weak and controversial, the military has used that as a pretext to take charge in the name of improving the country’s outlook.”

Indian officials have met the reforming mood in Islamabad with caution. They are doubtful of the extent to which the fragile democratic government can exert authority over a military establishment that is hostile to the country’s eastern neighbour.

“The [Pakistani] army realises it’s taking a battering within the country. Now it is saying ‘If anything goes wrong, don’t blame us’. And there’s plenty that could go wrong,” said G. Parthasarathy, a former Indian high commissioner to Islamabad.

India suspects the ISI’s hand in the bombing of its embassy in Kabul in July, when 41 people were killed and 140 injured.
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Estos días en los medios españoles estan hablando constantemente de que los ataques en Mumbai son claramente un mensaje a Obama, lo cual no es descartable para nada, pero dada la reciente sucesión de acontecimientos en torno al ISI, yo me decantaría por pensar que es un mensaje para el señor Asif Ali Zardari por parte de lo que los americanos suelen llamar "rogue factions" dentro del ISI.

Cambios estructurales internos, relevos de algunos generales próximos a los taliban y la propuesta para firmar un tratado de control de armamento nuclear con India.... Y de repente un gran ataque en India contra occidentales, un ataque diferente a los anteriores (no olvidemos que India tiene una elevadísima incidencia de ataques terroristas), más espectacular, contra objetivos más llamativos, en definitiva, un ataque concebido para ser portada mundial (un ataque de "marketing terrorista").

Demasiadas cosas coincidentes en el tiempo y demasiados pakistaníes poderosos cabreados como para que todo esto sea una casualidad.
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