Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa are reportedly having disagreements over the appointment of the new director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
what else is to come. molly, can you talk about what things are like where you are in pakistan there, what you re seeing and hearing. reporter: yeah, halle, look, the pakistani government is watching everything extremely closely, after we heard that bill burns was in kabul, the isi chief made a visit. pakistan has two big fears. one, islamists are involved worldwide, including pakistan. if the taliban can overthrow american forces and take over kabul, they can do it here and elsewhere. and too, the instability along the border, 1600 mile border. militants have been moving freely across that border for years. the fear is they ll do that more and come this direction and that there will be a rush of refugees into this country that frankly this country can t afford. as far as secretary of state blinken s visit, talking to pakistani analysts, they hope he changes his tone, that as he approaches allies, qatar,
and pakistan? reporter: yeah, this is the most senior pakistan official, general hamid, the isi chief, pakistan s intelligence chief. there has long and perhaps murky as you would expect with an intelligence investigation relations with the taliban. i don t think anyone really knows quite the depth and length, if you will, of the connections between pakistan s intelligence service and the taliban. but you know, i think it s broadly understood that through historical connections there is some influence or potentially some leverage. i think the importance of this moment is that the isi commander in chief is taking within a delegation of senior pakistani officials. he s the most senior pakistani official to go to kabul at a time when the taliban seem to be at a moment of difficult decisionmaking over their formation of a government. i think certainly the perception here in islamabad among