Pakistan's Intelligence Services Have Broken All Ties With The CIA

Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (far right). Reuters

Osama bin Laden Dead: Angry Pakistan Drops Intelligence Sharing With West -- The Telegraph

Pakistan's intelligence services are refusing to share details of suspects or plots with their American counterparts in protest at the US operation to kill Osama bin Laden, raising the potential threat of attacks on Western cities.

In the past, Pakistani agents have been credited with helping identify targets for drone strikes and providing data to the CIA on plans being hatched in its lawless tribal areas.

Now buffeted and embarrassed by being kept in the dark for months as the US closed in on the al-Qaeda leader's bolthole, little more than 30 miles from the Pakistani capital Islamabad, agents with the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate have begun to withhold crucial operational details about militants on its territory.

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More News On The Break In Cooperation Between The CIA And Pakistan's ISI

ISI drops intelligence sharing with CIA: report -- The International News
ISI stops intelligence sharing with CIA -- Hindustan Times
ISI refuses intelligence-sharing with CIA: Report -- Express Tribune
Berating General Pasha: Pakistan's Spy Chief Gets a Tongue-Lashing -- Time Magazine
Pakistan's army chief refuses to cooperate in rooting out Islamists -- Rick Moran, American Thinker

My Comment: From the outside the impression is that Pakistan's ISI is busily running around in trying to explain what is obviously a massive intelligence failure on its part. While blaming the U.S. is easy, the reality on the ground is that it is obvious that Bin Laden had an extensive support structure in Pakistan, and both he and this support structure were actively involved in planning terror attacks against the U.S.

Who was involved in supporting Bin Laden is the big secret right now .... and this is information that the U.S. is not sharing with anyone. This lack in sharing of information .... and not knowing what the U.S. knows .... is probably what is causing this break in relations between the two countries. As time goes by, I expect these relations to get even worse .... and what is an intelligence breaking of relations be translated into a political break in relations, starting with cutting back U.S. military aid to the Pakistani government and Pakistan threatening to cut NATO supply lines to Afghanistan.