Showing posts with label CounterIntelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CounterIntelligence. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

US Ambassador Failed to Propagate Haqqani Evidence


 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—US ambassador Cameron Munter tried to use an interview with the Pakistani state-run radio to peddle a theory linking an Afghan group, the Haqqanis, to the brazen attack on US embassy and NATO office in Kabul. 


But what Mr. Munter did not expect is robust counter-questioning by Murtaza Solangi, the director of the government’s largest media organization, Pakistan Broadcasting Corp.
The US government was quick to accuse Pakistan citing alleged links to the Haqqanis. US officials and think-tanks have long peddled this conspiracy theory without evidence.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Is Pakistan's Army As Islamist as US Think?


The following article in Foreign Policy magazine is no doubt a foreigner's failed try to comprehend us. It discusses about the penetration of Islamism in the Pakistan Military. C. Christine Fair, an assistant professor at the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, relied heavily on the statistical data of Army officer to base the opinion.