President Pervez Musharraf, left, with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who succeeded Mr. Musharraf as chief of the army last year. General Kayani previously led the ISI, Pakistan’s premier military intelligence agency.From The Globe And Mail:
Canadian the first Western diplomat to publicly support Afghan leader's accusation that Islamabad spies are behind recent attacks
KABUL -- Pakistan's intelligence agents are likely responsible for recent attacks in Afghanistan, and the international community should support the Afghan government's complaints about such activity, a senior United Nations envoy says.
Chris Alexander, a former Canadian ambassador now serving as a UN deputy special representative in Afghanistan, says he believes the Afghan authorities, who say their neighbour's spy service is sending terrorists across the border.
President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency of plotting many spectacular attacks in his country in recent months, including an attempt on his life and an embassy bombing that killed at least 41 people in Kabul.
"We have to ask ourselves, was Karzai right on this point?" Mr. Alexander said in an interview. "I think the answer is yes."
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More News On Pakistan's Support Of The Taliban
Time To Rein In Spies And Frontiers -- Globe And Mail
Pakistan must tame its intelligence service -- The Gazette (Montreal)
Opinion: Courage, at last -- Globe And Mail
Decision on Pakistani ISI control reversed -- UPI
ISI back under PM's control -- Daily Times
Afghan Paper Criticizes Pakistan's ISI As Threat to Regional Peace -- iSTock Analyst
Theories abound in Islamabad over ISI fiasco -- Thaindian
My Comment: The international community's silence on Pakistan's involvement in terrorism is costing lives. If history is any indication, the more that Pakistani terror groups feel that they can get away with terrorism, the more destructive their next attack will be.
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