Pakistan’s ISI from the inside

The best places to meet the world’s most interesting national security and foreign policy personalities are no longer Washington or London or Paris. Rather, highest on the list are Beijing, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha.

Many years ago, I met Lt General Asad Durrani in 
Beijing thanks to a conference organised by Australia’s Monash University. We have been acquainted and communicating since. I remember arriving late to the conference and rushing in as the brash, younger-than-I-am-now ups

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Enemy out to discredit Army and ISI

The US and Western media have intensified propaganda against the Pakistan Army and its security agencies to discredit the defenders of Pakistan and create a situation like the one that had led to the disintegration of what was once the Soviet Union, according to a senior official who knows how the enemies had acted to wipe off the global map the only power that used to challenge the United States. Talking to TheNation on Wednesday, the official said the enemy wanted to demoralise Pakistan’s security forces so that they were unable to play any role in case the Islamic republic faced a situation like the one Libya, Syria and some other Arab countries have been through. 

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Pakistan, China Agree On Intelligence Co-Operation

Pakistan has assured China of full co-operation in providing intelligence about the activities of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Dawn News reported yesterday. The ETIM is said to be working for the separation of Xinjiang, an autonomous region, from China through violence and terror. 

Conversion of all Chinese people in Xinjiang to Islam is one of the stated goals of the ETIM, the report said. 

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Agencies launch countrywide raids

LAHORE – Country’s top intelligence agencies are on their toes, conducting massive raids to investigate the people with extremely religious or violent sectarian background besides ex-military personnel with questionable service record, it has been reliably learnt here on Monday. 
The crackdown has been launched across the country to check the activities of the elements involved in sectarian violence including ex-officials of the Armed Forces, who were either Court Martialled and dismissed from service on criminal charges in the past or they went on missing under mysterious circumstances. 

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USSR used hot asphalt to find an American spy plane

When classified planes were being built in Area 51, the Soviet Union's spy satellites made out their shapes the same way people can tell if a car has been parked in a certain space on a hot day.

Regardless of what else has been housed at Area 51, the OXCART project found a home there in the late 1950s. OXCART's team was building a spy plane that would succeed the U2. During these tests, scientists rolled prototype planes along stretches of asphalt and checked to see if they could duck radar. Those that showed up on radar were scrapped, and the designs that went by unseen were refined.

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Pakistan Shuts Down U.S. ‘Intelligence Fusion’ Cells

Pakistan also tells the U.S. to cut back its troops in the country, in a move amid deepening mistrust after the U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden and a CIA contractor’s shooting of two Pakistani men. Joints Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen heads to Pakistan for talks.

Reporting from Washington— In a clear sign of Pakistan’s deepening mistrust of the United States,Islamabad has told the Obama administration to reduce the number of U.S. troops in the country and has moved to close three military intelligence liaison centers, setting back American efforts to eliminate insurgent sanctuaries in largely lawless areas bordering Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.

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Top 10 Best Intelligence Agencies in the World – 2011

An intelligence agency is basically a governmental agency which is made for information gathering. There purpose is the national security and defense. The information they gather can be about espionage communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with institutions and evaluation of public sources.
An intelligence agency is a national power. These agencies normally work without the knowledge of public even their successes are not remembered by the people but their failure is always the HIGHLIGHTED news of the press, Well, here we have the list of top 10 intelligence agencies of the world and the ranking is based on their rate of success and taking care of the situations efficiently.
So, let us take a look!

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Pakistan's former IB Chief: CIA in collaboration with RAW destabilising Pakistan

Islamabad - In a great game going on in the region, CIA in collaboration with RAW is destabilising Pakistan to ultimately achieve its objectives of having a strong foothold in Afghanistan, containing China, and controlling Iran and oil reserves in the Middle East.In an exclusive interview with Pakistan Observer, Brig (Retd) Imtiaz Ahmed, who has to his credit seventeen years of long experience in intelligence service of the country including his appointment as the top man in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) while giving his views on post-Osama period said Pakistan is passing through a difficult time when CIA has unleashed its onslaught against ISI to malign it in the eyes of the people of Pakistan and the world.Imtiaz said war on terrorism, in fact was war on Osama by CIA in collaboration with Raw. The situation is clearing up now as Osama has been eliminated, who was in fact non-functional. Ayman al-Zawahiri and other top-ranking leaders were in the driving seat carrying out their missions.

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Security breach: Foreigners visiting restricted areas without permission

LAHORE: 

Foreign citizens, including diplomats, have been visiting military installations and other prohibited areas without obtaining permission from the government.

According to sources inside the interior ministry, reports issued by intelligence agencies indicate that diplomats, foreign employees of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and other foreign nationals have been visiting – and photographing – areas that non-Pakistani citizens are not permitted to enter, including some military installations, as well as larger areas such as the city of Quetta or much of southern Punjab, which have been deemed too dangerous for foreign citizens to visit.

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British and American diplomats caught spying near Kahuta day before Abbottabad attack

Four western diplomats, including Britons and an American, were caught hiking in the prohibited surroundings of the restricted Kahuta atomic plant.

Interior ministry sources while quoting an intelligence report said that they were taking photographs of the area and carrying electronic gadgets including cameras and a laptop.

These sources said that they were intercepted, questioned and later escorted back to Islamabad by the Pakistan security officials with the clear warning that they were crossing the red-line. Their cameras were confiscated; however, they were not formally arrested or thoroughly probed after they proved their diplomatic status.

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Pakistan: Intelligence agencies seize record of two ministries

Khaleeq Kiani [DAWN]

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies seized on Friday the record of at least two federal ministries to investigate an alleged institutional lapse in raising objections over Indian aggression on the country’s water rights and securing international carbon credits on hydropower projects disputed by Pakistan.

According to sources, the agencies came into action after receiving reports that the ministries of water and power and environment had absolved themselves of negligence in the matter. They said arrests of some officials could not be ruled out.

While inter-ministerial correspondence over the lapse continued for over nine months, the crucial objections over adverse environmental impact of the projects nearing completion on the Indian side had not yet been officially taken up with New Delhi, the sources said.

They said the ministry of water and power had said it was not responsible for the lapse because it was the job of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency to conduct an environmental impact assessment.

The ministry said it had no role in ratification of trans-boundary impact assessments, whose documents had not been shared with it.

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ISI chief reaches Turkey, made covert visit to France‎

Online News Network

ISLAMABAD: Inter Service Intelligence Chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha has reached Turkey on his way from US while he also made a secret visit to France.

Defence sources told Online that on his way from US ISI Chief made a stopover in Turkey where he met President Asif Ali Zardari and briefed him on his talks with US Intel CIA chief Leon Panetta regarding national security and drone attacks. 

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Released spy Gopal Das expresses anger on Indian government and RAW

Punjab Newsline Network

ATTARI (AMRITSAR): Angry Gopal Das who was repatriated by Pakistan here today, exhausted his anger on Indian Government while reaching on Indian Territory.

 

Talking to media he said, “Yes I was the man of Indian intelligence and went to Pakistan on spying mission where I was arrested for espionage. But after my arrest Indian intelligence Agency never bothered to get me released from Pakistan’s jail. Even the Government of India also never bothered to save my youth”.

 

Adding further he said, “I suggest everybody never go to Pakistan for spying, since the intelligence agency (RAW) always uses the poor people and if arrested, the agencies never bother to get them released from the prison of Pakistan”.

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Pakistan: Intelligence Agencies Warn Next Target Could Be Islamabad

Online News Network

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence Agencies on Tuesday warned Interior Ministry that after Dera Ghazi Khan, terrorists could target Islamabad. 

According to Intelligence Sources, Intelligence Agencies informed Interior Ministry that they have got information that five persons would try to sneak into capital, out of which two persons will be on motorcycle and the rest three on car while their ages are said to be in between 18-25 who could target Islamabad. 

Sources told Online that following such threats, Federal Capital Security is kept on a high alert hence metropolis is said to be envelope in security blanket. 

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A Planned Sectarian Wedge By Foreign Intelligence Agencies In Pakistan

Ashraf Javed [The Nation, Pakistan]

LAHORE – Days after leading religio-political leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman survived two bomb attacks within 48 hours in the northwest, foreign-funded terrorists struck the shrine of renowned Sufi saint in Dera Ghazi Khan on Saturday, which left more than three dozen devotees dead and injured over 100 others.

During background interviews, intelligence sources and police investigators revealed that “it seemed a well-thought-out plan hatched by anti-Pakistan elements to create sectarian strife among the people of this country”. Three suicide bombers struck the shrine of Sakhi Sarwar near DG Khan District of southern Punjab, where thousands of devotees had converged to celebrate the annual Urs of the Sufi Saint. The far-flung area is considered a stronghold of militants. Security experts say some foreign forces are openly funding the terrorist and militant outfits to destabilise nuclear-armed Pakistan as the security forces are at war to flush out militancy from the country.

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India Unleashes Menacing Campaign Against Pakistan

Pakistan Observer

Islamabad—Living under a threat, Pakistani community in Bahrain is confronting a menacing campaign unleashed by Indian officials and intelligence agencies by cleverly turning the Shia-Sunni tension against them in the unrest in the Kingdom. 

According to reports revealed by leaders of Pakistani community on telephonic contact and expatriates visiting Pakistan , houses of Pakistanis are being marked for attack and hatred is being created against them by Indians using some leaders of Shia community. 

The Indians are spreading the propaganda that Pakistanis working in security establishments of Bahrain had been deployed to attack Shias. This poisonous and dangerous move has two objectives – to “demonstrate” that Pakistanis are not wanted in Bahrain and second is to damage Pak-Iran relations. This is the Indian agenda being carried out in Bahrain cleverly, the leaders of Pakistani community said.

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Samsung laptops may have spyware pre-installed

  MSNBC

The South Korean electronics giant Samsung may be spying on its own customers, using a program pre-installed on laptops that secretly monitors every keystroke.

In a guest posting on NetworkWorld, Toronto security researcher Mohammed Hassan described how he found keylogging software on a brand-new Samsung laptop he bought last month. He deleted it and continued to use the laptop, until it developed other problems.
 

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India: RAW officer under CBI scanner for spying

Express Buzz

NEW DELHI: A preliminary inquiry is underway by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the role of a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer in passing commercial information to a private company participating in a bid to sell surveillance equipment for two spy planes.The deal, in which US company Raytheon and Israel’s Elta Systems were competing, has already been put under review by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after discrepancies in the bidding process were flagged.The officer has been repatriated to the parent cadre but the tussle over the contract has stalled strengthening of spy agency’s air wing - Aviation Research Centre. 

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A New Tool For U.S. Intelligence: Google?

Traditionally, intelligence agencies have relied on top-secret information to track changes in other countries. But wiretaps and secret intercepts didn't help U.S. officials predict the Arab Spring that has brought revolution across the Middle East and North Africa.

In hindsight, officials say there could have found some clues about what was about to happen if they had read open sources more closely. Now they are searching for systematic ways to do that.

The uprisings in the region have shown intelligence officials that they need new ways to understand what motivates people around the world. While traditional intelligence tools can help, they are limited in their ability to put their fingers on the pulse of society or anticipate fickle human behavior.

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Pakistan: SECP Registers US Intelligence & Security Agency Garda World Illegally

South Asian News Agency

ISLAMABAD, (SANA): It is revealed in a secret report that Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has registered the notorious US intelligence and security agency Garda World (GW) working in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries of the world, as a business consultancy firm.

According to the sources the agency after paying millions of rupees as bribery through a law firm of Islamabad secured the membership of SECP.

GW is working in the field of security in Pakistan but the work of said agency is also termed dangerous for the country like Black Water.

It is also revealed that after the information of deporting the Country Manager of the agency Anthoni Gerald Maganti, he is still present in Pakistan.

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