Obama will not offer formal condolences to Pakistan for the deaths 24 soldiers in NATO airstrikes.

The White House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences — at least for now — to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes on a Pakistani check post in Mohmand Aagency last week, overruling State Department officials who argued for such a show of remorse to help salvage America’s relationship with Pakistan, administration officials said.

On Monday, Cameron Munter, the United States ambassador to Pakistan, told a group of White House officials that a formal video statement from Obama was needed to help prevent the rapidly deteriorating relations between Islamabad and Washington. The ambassador, speaking by videoconference from Islamabad, said that anger in Pakistan had reached a fever pitch, and that the United States needed to move to defuse it as quickly as possible, the officials recounted.

Defense Department officials balked. While they did not deny some American culpability in the episode, they said expressions of remorse offered by senior department officials and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were enough, at least until the completion of a United States military investigation establishing what went wrong.

Some administration aides also worried that if Obama were to overrule the military and apologize to Pakistan, such a step could become fodder for his Republican opponents in the presidential campaign, according to several officials who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

On Wednesday, White House officials said that Obama was unlikely to say anything further on the matter in the coming days.

“The US government has offered its deepest condolences for the loss of life, from the White House and from Secretary Clinton and Secretary Panetta,” said Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, referring to Defense Secretary Leon E Panetta, “and we are conducting an investigation into the incident. We cannot offer additional comment on the circumstances of the incident until we have the results.”

The American and Pakistani accounts of the NATO strikes vary widely. A former senior American official briefed on the exchange said Wednesday that the airstrikes came in the last 15 to 20 minutes of a running three-hour skirmish, presumably with Taliban fighters on one or both sides of the border. That is at odds with the Pakistani account that its troops were in a two-hour firefight with the Americans.

Pakistan, rejecting the American account, has blocked all NATO logistical supplies that cross the border into Afghanistan, given the Central Intelligence Agency 15 days to vacate the Shamsi air base from which it has run drone strikes into Pakistani tribal areas and announced that it will boycott an international conference on Afghanistan’s security and development next week in Bonn, Germany.

With everything at stake in the relationship with Pakistan, which the United States sees as vital as it plans to exit from Afghanistan, some former Obama administration officials said the president should make public remarks on the border episode, including a formal apology.

“Without some effective measures of defusing this issue, Pakistan will cooperate less rather than more with us, and we won’t be able to achieve our goals in Afghanistan,” said Vali Nasr, a former State Department official who specialized in Pakistan.

COAS suspends 'chain of command' system to thwart Nato's aggression

COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has suspended ‘chain of command’ system to counter any aggression.

Sources revealed the Army Chief has deferred the chain of the command system in order to empower the senior officers on the posts to take proper action in case Pakistani forces come under attack.

Sources said that decision would, however, be applicable to eventualities involving Nato troops.

Sources said that General Kayani has also ordered the troops to counter any aggression with full force and defend the motherland against any assailant. General Kayani has furthermore said that the Pak Air Force should have taken action while Nato helicopters had violated our airspace and attacked the Pakistani posts, sources said.

In a letter written to the Armed Forces Chiefs, COAS Gen Kayani has said that the PAF jets must have dashed to the border area after the Nato attack.

General Kayani has also observed that the communication of the attacked posts had snapped after the Nato assault. He said that now the senior officer on the ground would decide about counter measures.

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No to ‘private network’ Pakistan will continue busting private CIA rings, Pasha to tell US

Chief of Pakistan’s premier spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha was due to meet acting CIA Director Michael Morell on Wednesday.

The decision to send Pasha to Washington was reportedly taken at the corps commanders’ meeting on Wednesday, a day after US central command head Gen James Mattis met with top military officials, including the Army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

Sources add that the new US head for international forces in Afghanistan Lt-Gen John Allen is arriving in Islamabad on Thursday.

The flurry of meetings between top military and intelligence officials from Pakistan  and the US are seen as fresh efforts to salvage their ‘shaky’ war on terror alliance after a series of setbacks in recent months.

Hectic efforts are being undertaken both in Islamabad and Washington to rescue their relations from the brink of collapse.

No to ‘private network’

The back-to-back meetings of military and intelligence officials follow the US administration’s decision earlier this week to withhold $800 million in military aid to punish Pakistan’s security establishment for expelling several dozen alleged American spies operating in the country.

Top Pakistani military commanders on Wednesday said they would use their own resources to carry forward the war on terror in what appeared to be a ‘mild but defiant’ snub to Washington’s move.

According to senior intelligence officials here, Pasha would tell the American spy chief that the ISI has no objection to anti-terror cooperation between the two agencies but would never tolerate a private ‘network’ the CIA is secretly maintaining in Pakistan.

“We are willing to cooperate with CIA in war on terror … but there is no room for a private network. That is our position and we are going to stick to that,” said an official, giving a hint of what would be discussed during Pasha’s interaction with the Americans.

The Pakistani military has been in the process of busting what is described as an underground human network the US established over the past decade.

These local individuals associated with the CIA are believed to have played a critical role in a secret manhunt that led up to the unilateral raid in which bin Laden was killed.

The US administration has been pushing Pakistani spy agencies to release at least several hundred people who were part of the CIA network and the issue is likely to feature during Pasha’s meetings as well.

But officials here said they believed the decision to dismantle these private clusters was final and there won’t be any second thoughts.

Salvaging US support

The decision to send Pasha to the US was apparently taken at the corps commanders’ meeting on Wednesday because the military still considers American financial support vital for their war on terror campaign.

Experts believe Pakistani military’s policy of still continuing the war on terror cooperation with the US emanates from fears that Washington might keep them out of the loop on any endgame in Afghanistan.

American troops start their partial withdrawal from Afghanistan in a month’s time.

There were already signs of Pak-US cooperation getting back on track when Gen Kayani visited the embattled Mohmand tribal region on Wednesday where more than a thousand terrorists surrendered to political authorities.

Local operational commanders also informed the army chief that seven factories of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the border area were destroyed by troops after being tipped of by US intelligence.

Releasing the doctor

Washington is pressing Islamabad to release a doctor – said to have helped in tracking Bin Laden using DNA samples – in the wake of bitter diplomatic relations, the Guardian reported.

Dr Shakir Afirdi is being held by ISI after it discovered that he was recruited by the CIA for carrying out a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad, trying to track down al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

According to the report published earlier in the Guardian, Afridi, a senior government employee, was initially taken into custody in Peshawar but may have been transferred to Islamabad.

Pakistani and US officials say that American authorities are trying to rescue the Pakistani doctor, his wife and children, and take them to the US.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2011.

The Pakistan Embassy's decision to issue 67 visas to CIA officials came after talks in Islamabad earlier this month between ISI chief Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha and top CIA officials, including CIA Director Leon Panetta. —TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON, June 22: The Pakistan Embassy here has issued 67 visas to CIA officials for deployment in Pakistan, embassy sources told Dawn on Wednesday.

The decision, according to these sources, followed an understanding between the two governments on CIA deployments and postings in Pakistan.

“Under the new arrangement, the CIA has accepted Islamabad’s demand that all intelligence postings in the country should be fully disclosed, and shared with the Pakistani government,” the sources said. “Pakistan agreed to issue the visas only after an understanding on full disclosures.”

The agreement was reached after talks in Islamabad earlier this month between ISI chief Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha and top CIA
officials, including CIA Director Leon Panetta.

“Now the ISI will be fully aware of who is doing what and where he is posted at,” a diplomatic source said. “There will be no room for misunderstanding and suspicions.”

Several ‘CIA moles’ detained in Pakistan over the last few months.

The major, Amir Aziz, was a doctor in the army’s medical corps and lived just a couple of hundred yards from the compound where Bin Laden was picked up.

Though the military’s information wing has denied that an army major was picked up by intelligence agencies, the source said that the agencies had picked up Aziz and others living close to the compound as a standard precautionary measure for interrogation after they heard about the Bin Laden raid.

At the time, they were more worried whether Aziz had helped out Bin Laden himself, and that any such link between the army and the al Qaeda chief would hurt the military’s reputation.

The source also added that Aziz’s house in Abbottabad had his nameplate on the door and that this was removed only a day after the raid. Had he been a CIA informant, said the source, he would not have been living so openly. Journalists who were in Abbottabad the day Bin Laden’s killing was announced did report that Aziz’s nameplate was present on his door.

The US, according to the source, has been desperately trying to get access to these men but had been rebuffed by the military. The official feels that leaking to the international media that the men were informants may pressurise the agencies into handing over the men. The government official did not know the identity of the other men who were picked up but said that that Aziz was the only army official.

A part of a larger crackdown?

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s security agencies have rounded up several people who are believed to be working for the US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a move that indicates serious tensions between Islamabad and Washington.

The nationwide crackdown against the suspected CIA informants was first launched earlier this year following the arrest of ‘American spy’ Raymond Davis over the killing of two Pakistanis, a military official told The Express Tribune.

However, the official, who requested not to be named, said that the drive against the ‘CIA spies’ was accelerated following the death of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a top-secret US commando operation last month.

“Yes, I can confirm that several suspects have been arrested in recent months. Some of them have been released after they were cleared by the authorities while others are still being interrogated,” he added. He would not give the exact number of arrests though some sources put it at 40.

However, no serving or retired military official was amongst those held by the security agencies, said a statement issued by the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR).

One military official insisted that the story is part of an ongoing campaign to ‘malign’ the country’s security agencies.

With additional reporting by our correspondent in Islamabad

Published in The Express Tribune, June 16th, 2011.

Mumbai-Style Attack On PNS Mehran: Pakistani Military’s Multiple Enemies

This is not the first Mumbai-style attack in Pakistan. Pakistani military is not an easy target for bandits based on the Afghan border. The sophisticated attacks inside Pakistan after 2005 reveal formal training and superior equipment for fighting and communication. Pakistani military is under attack by several powers in the region since 2002.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—What happened at a Pakistan Navy aviation base in the past few hours is something that could normally result from an attack by one country on another. An enemy would have to come from across international borders to destroy P-3C Orion surveillance aircrafts parked at a high-security navy aviation base. And not any enemy would do. This enemy would have to possess quality military and intelligence skills to execute such a hit. Up to 15 terrorists can sneak into a maximum-security navy base but cannot simultaneously hold themselves up against commandos from the police, navy marines and the army while still finding time to attack and destroy two major assets in the arsenal of Pakistan Navy.

What is unfathomable is how a ragtag army of bandits, supposedly based in barren mountains on the Afghan border, could have pulled off such a feat against one of the top seven militaries of the world.

This is an impressive feat. The terrorists are still holed up inside the base at the time of writing this report [8:40 AM Monday], nearly ten hours into the attack. They have managed to target several Pakistan Navy assets, create a major hole in Pakistani war capability, shake the national morale, and give a boost to protracted propaganda in mainly US media about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and sites. Not to mention causing a loss of tens of millions of US dollars to Pakistani treasury, and much more in terms of reputation and self-confidence.

This incident is particularly damaging to the morale of the Pakistani nation, coming on the heels of a major security breach on 2 May, when an internal collusion or security compromise at some level of government was probably responsible for allowing the United States military to conduct a major operation on the outskirts of the federal capital for nearly two hours without getting caught.

The only way a group of 15 terrorists could have pulled off PNS Mehran is for them to have been top-notch commandos or trained by such commandos. Some analysts, especially in the United States, claim that terrorists on the Afghan border fighting Pakistan are well trained thanks to the training imparted by Pakistani military or intelligence to them before they rebelled post-9/11. But this does not make sense. Pakistani military trained the mujahideen in the 1980s. Most of them are old now whereas most of the terrorists gathered on the Afghan border are too young to have seen fighting in Afghanistan.

Everything about the daring attack on PNS Mehran stinks: the timing, the execution, and the target.

A key observation after this attack is that Pakistani military is under attack by friends and foes alike. The overlap is amazing. From the start of the US occupation of Afghanistan, American media and CIA’s PSYOPs turned focus on Pakistani military and intelligence, discrediting both at every opportunity. In the same vein, it seems that al-Qaeda forgot about the Arab world and Israel and focused only on Pakistan for bombings and mayhem. Even the TTP, the self-designated Pakistani Taliban, ignored US occupation in nearby Afghanistan until recently and focused solely on attacking and killing Pakistanis.

The attacks from both sides against Pakistani military are determined and multifaceted.

US diplomats, military officers and CIA agents have spent years convincing us that ‘extremists’ inside Pakistan have ‘turned against the country’ and are responsible for sophisticated attacks. But the evidence suggests that almost all major terror attacks in Pakistan since 2004 are the work of terrorists belonging to a single place: the Afghan border. Call them TTP, bandits, or guns-for-hire. Whatever you call them, they have the best intelligence, the best training, and very good equipment to fight and communicate.

In November 2007, after weeks of sifting through the record from Pakistan’s ‘war on terror’ since 2002, a small group of Pakistani analysts reached the conclusion that, for Pakistan, the war by the United States in Afghanistan was a sideshow. The real war, we felt, was a simmering one against the Pakistani military that sought to reduce its large footprint in the region.

Evidence has accumulated since 2006 that CIA has been encouraging several allied spy outfits, including that of India, to meddle inside Pakistan.

The group of Pakistani analysts concluded that the United States, while cooperating with the Pakistani military very closely, was pursuing a parallel policy of pushing Pakistani military to transform itself over the short and long terms. The short term goal was to fully assist the US military mission in Afghanistan. The long term goal was for Islamabad to drop its interests in Kashmir, Afghanistan, China and Central Asia and firmly get in line behind US objectives in all four areas.

If we put the daring attack on the Pakistani navy aviation base in Karachi aside, one can see a long list of daring Mumbai-style attacks that have targeted the Pakistani military. Some of them include:

1. The attack on GHQ, the headquarters of Pakistan Army, Rawalpindi, 2009.
2. The attack on a mosque on a Friday in Parade Lane, a military-dominated residential area, Rawalpindi, 2009.

Both attacks involved commando-style operations at maximum-security military sites, engaging highly trained regular forces and taking hostages where possible. A third attack, on the visiting cricket team of Sri Lanka in March 2009, was also eerily similar to Mumbai.

A common denominator in all three attacks is Mumbai, meaning that all these attacks were similar to the attack on Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai in November 2008, where 10 or 11 attackers carried out a sophisticated operation, taking hostages and successfully engaging the highly-trained commandos of Indian military for three days. India accused Pakistan of training the attackers. An American newspaper later revealed that at least one of the planners of the attack was a CIA informant, raising the specter that the American spy agency knew of the attack beforehand to the extent of taking part in planning it, but failed to warn the Pakistanis or the Indians for unknown reasons.

From assessing the available info so far, one thing is obvious: Pakistani military is under attack from multiple directions and players. I’ve been saying this for 3 years now: Pakistan’s military is the target. Different attackers. The same target.

[This analysis must be read in conjunction with two relevant reports discussing current CIA PSYOPS in Pakistan, and how Pakistan can use Russia and China to counter US].

AHMED QURAISHI | Monday | 23 May 2011 | Attack On Pakistan Navy
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In US, anger over leaks on Bin Laden raid

WASHINGTON: The White House faced criticism Friday that it had failed to safeguard secrets about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound and that the leaks could jeopardise future operations.

Information about the US raid and what was found at the al Qaeda leader’s hideout in Pakistan has steadily leaked out since Bin Laden was killed by at team of Navy commandos on May 2.

CIA Director Leon Panetta was the first to reveal some details to a hungry media, confirming that US Navy SEALs led the assault and that his spy agency had only circumstantial proof beforehand that Bin Laden was inside the walled compound.

Citing unnamed officials, media reports soon presented a blow-by-blow account of the operation, including identifying the SEAL unit that carried it out, the use of a secret helicopter, the role of a CIA safe house nearby, an estimate of the number of flash drives and hard drives found and a plethora of details about Bin Laden’s correspondence.

The leaks in the Obama administration are “out of control,” said Michael Scheuer, a former CIA officer who once worked in the unit that tracked Bin Laden.

“The information about the stealth helicopters, the information about the CIA safe house, the details about Bin Laden’s habits, his planning, his contacts. All of that compromised further operations,” he said.

The leaks will “make further operations harder, more difficult, probably more bloody.”

Fears that the leaks may have gone too far have triggered a round of finger pointing in Washington, with some blaming the White House and others suspecting members of Congress and their aides.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a veteran of the intelligence world and former CIA chief, joked with a heavy dose of sarcasm Thursday that there had been an agreement among top deputies meeting at the White House that no details about the assault would be made public.

“Frankly a week ago Sunday, in the (White House) situation room, we all agreed that we would not release any operational details from the effort to take out Bin Laden,” Gates told an audience of Marines.

“That all fell apart on Monday, the next day.”

The Pentagon chief’s press secretary, Geoff Morrell, said Gates was not criticising any particular person or office but was worried about the effect of divulging secrets vital to national security.

Gates “was indeed voicing his concern about the breakdown in operational security after the killing of Bin Laden,” Morrell told AFP on Friday.

“Anonymous sources revealing secret information about the tactics, training, and equipment of covert forces put at risk our ability to successfully mount similar missions in the future,” he said.

Gates also said the government was looking at stepping up security for the Navy SEAL team after some of the commandos expressed concerns about the safety of their families.

The daring raid has sparked an avalanche of media interest in the secretive SEAL “Team Six” that carried out the operation, as well as the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and its chief, Vice Admiral William McRaven, who oversaw the assault.

A veteran of the special forces, Roland Guidry, a retired colonel, said “the visibility the administration has allowed to be focused on JSOC and (the SEALs) will make their job now more difficult.”

He accused Obama’s team of “bragging” about the raid and divulging details that should have been kept secret, including what was discovered in Bin Laden’s compound and how the al Qaeda architect communicated with his deputies.

“The pre-mission Operational Security was superb, but the post-mission OPSEC stinks,” he told the National Journal, which first reported details of the raid.

Details have leaked out partly because spy and law enforcement agencies share information much more widely more than they once did, after being heavily criticised for holding back intelligence before the September 11 attacks.

The CIA and at least nine other agencies are poring over the vast trove of material found at the compound, and officials said information gleaned from the review is sometimes shared across the government to help head off possible attacks.

US intelligence officials agreed that too much had been revealed, but would only express their concern anonymously.

“The United States Intelligence Community deplores the unauthorised disclosure of classified information,” an intelligence official said in an email.

Govt asked to review relations with US

The lawmakers also warned the US against conducting unilateral operations in Pakistani territory, including drone strikes, failing which the government may consider withdrawal of transit facility to Nato/Isaf forces in Afghanistan.

After a heated debate, parliamentarians also agreed to appoint an independent commission on the Abbottabad operation to fix responsibility and recommend necessary measures to ensure that such an incident does not recur.

The composition of the commission would be settled after consultations between the leader of the House and the leader of the Opposition, the resolution said.

Generals answer questions

Friday’s joint session set a rare precedent in Pakistan’s history,

wherein beleaguered military authorities offered themselves for accountability before the Parliament as head of the country’s most powerful intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) offered to resign in the aftermath of the Abbottabad debacle.

Director-general (DG) ISI Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha and deputy chief of air staff (operations) Air Marshal Mohammad Hassan briefed the parliamentarians and responded to their questions while heads of three armed forces – army, navy and air force – sat in the officials’ galleries during Friday’s closed-door session that continued late night.

“If people think that the situation can improve in case of my resignation I am ready to step down right now,” Pasha is reported to have said.

“I have already submitted my resignation to my chief (chief of army staff) and if the prime minister and the Parliament want so, I will walk out from here as a retired officer,” sources quoted DG ISI as having said in response to questions from lawmakers, mainly belonging to the opposition, over the Abbottabad fiasco.

World’s most wanted man and al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 2 in a US operation in the garrison city of Abbottabad.

The civilian and military leadership of the country claim that the US carried out this covert operation unilaterally, in violation of the country’s sovereignty.

Stealth technology

The US used stealth technology to enter into Pakistani territory and their helicopters made their way deep inside the country without being detected by country’s radar system, Air Marshal Hassan told the parliamentarians, disclosed sources privy to the briefing.

The technology, currently used only by US military, allows stealth aircraft to prevent conventional radars from detecting or tracking it effectively.

Hassan added the US flew their helicopters at much lower altitude than usual during the operation using the nap-of-the-earth flight course, also known as terrain hugging, and used the hilly terrain to remain elusive.

He claimed that the US choppers were already out of Pakistan’s air-space when the air force fighter jets were sent to intercept them.

When asked if the country’s air force has the capability to detect aircraft in case the US uses the same stealth technology, he said ‘no.’

Installing a large number of low detection radars on the western border would be very costly, and may not be possible in the near future due to financial constraints, he said.

However, he added, Pakistan has the capability to target unmanned aircraft, commonly known as ‘drones,’ used by the US in the tribal areas of the country.

Accepting failure

Most of the questions during the session, especially from the opposition benches, were directed to DG ISI.

When the ISI chief was asked about Bin Laden’s presence in the garrisoned city of Abbottabad and why the intelligence agencies failed to detect him for this long, he admitted it was his agency’s failure. However, he said, the ISI was never aware of Bin Laden’s presence in the area.

Pasha evaded questions regarding information obtained from Bin Laden’s family currently in the custody of Pakistani authorities.

He said investigations were still under way and it would not be appropriate to disclose the details at this point.

Pasha reportedly also told lawmakers that the nation has to shrug off the perception that dependence on US is vital for the country’s survival.

During background interaction, lawmakers from both the treasury and opposition appeared irked at the unsatisfactory answers provided during the briefing.

It would have been better to open the session to media since hardly any classified information was given by the military authorities, lawmakers said.

Previous briefings

Friday’s briefing was the third instance in Pakistan’s history whereby military authorities appeared before the Parliament for an in-camera session.

The scenario this time around, however, was markedly different from the previous two instances.

The first in-camera briefing was given in 1988 by the then-ISI chief Lt Gen (retd) Hameed Gul after the signing of the Geneva accord.

He had reportedly said that it was due to ISI’s successful strategy that the Soviet Union suffered a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.

Veteran parliamentarians who were part of General Zia ul Haq’s assembly say that Gul predicted the fall of Soviet Union during the briefing and claimed the USSR would shrink to Moscow and its surrounding areas after suffering defeat at the hands of CIA and ISI trained Mujahideen.

The second in-camera session was held in 2008 when military authorities needed support of public representatives before launching the operation in Swat against the Taliban.

Addressing the media after adoption of the resolution, Nisar revealed that discussions over the content of joint resolution had terminated four times due to government’s resistance to incorporate opposition’s demand.

He said his party wanted an even more strongly worded resolution but government had certain reservations on a number of issues.

Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan termed the joint session which culminated into passing of a unanimous resolution as a new chapter in the history of the country.

She appreciated the commitment of all the parties represented in the parliament for passing of this resolution. She called it a success of whole nation and said that the political parties have resolved to defend the sovereignty of the country.

DG ISI accepts failure, apologises and offers to resign

Deputy air chief says US used stealth technology, Pakistan lacks capability to detect stealth aircraft

Also says Shamsi airbase not under Pakistan’s control

Lawmakers bemoan ‘unsatisfactory’ answers, say hardly any classified information divulged

Published in The Express Tribune, May 14^th, 2011.