Pakistan Army Celebrates Victory but ISI Asset Escapes
As Pakistan army celebrates the capture of a key Taliban complex in the Bajaur tribal region on the Afghan border, terrorism experts suspect that the Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence, ISI, allowed one of the most dangerous terrorist slip through the crack. Interviews in Islamabad, Peshawar and Washington DC in last two days suggest that Maulavi [...]
Pakistan Army Confirms Capturing Taliban Leader
A day after Pakistan’s Interior Minister categorically denied ISI-CIA joint operation to capture Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, country’s military leadership confirmed that the Taliban’s second in command is in their custody. In a written statement to press, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas stated that the Taliban leader was arrested 10 days ago in a [...]
ISI Chief Approved Operation To Arrest Taliban Leader
Head of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence, Lt. General Pasha approved the joint operation that led to the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi earlier this month, highly placed sources in Islamabad told Examiner Tuesday. Our source who requested anonymity claims that Americans had shared some evidence of mid-level link between ISI and Taliban. [...]
ISI Abducted Me: Aafia Siddiqui Tells Her Lawyer
If Pakistanis honestly consider Dr. Aafia Siddiqui “daughter of the nation,” they must demand structural changes in how ISI operates and demand their government to demonstrate political will to trace all the disappeared.
Pakistan Gags Aafia Siddiqui Family
Sharp told reporters that her client, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was picked up by Pakistani Intelligence officials on March 29, 2003 outside of her home in Karachi. They arrived in two black cars and placed Siddiqui in one car and the children in another car. Siddiqui says that she was immediately hooded and drugged and when she woke up she was tied to a gurney in a place that could not have been Karachi because the air was very dry.
Ibrahim Sajid Malick is a Pakistani-American writer, technologist, and social entrepreneur. He has been writing on Pakistani society and politics since 1986. He has held several media, communications, and technology positions for organizations large and small. Mr. Malick graduated from New School for Social Research with a master’s degree in anthropology. He holds several technology and management certifications. He works for a leading technology firm and blogs at www.ibrahimsajidmalick.com