PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has said that army and ISI chiefs should not have met Prime Minister Imran Khan following the ruling party’s shock defeat in Senate’s coveted Islamabad seat as it sends out “wrong signals”
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has said that army and ISI chiefs should not have met Prime Minister Imran Khan following the ruling party’s shock defeat in Senate’s coveted Islamabad seat as it sends out “wrong signals”
that s the way business gets done. do they also arrest the people that help us? sometimes. when they say they are allies? sometimes. pakistani intelligence officials tell our dominic di-natale who is in pakistan that, in fact, the isi chief is not finished rounding up anyone he thinks may have helped the u.s. and cia in that bin laden raid, shep. shepard: speaking of the cia. the cia director leon panetta who is now the nominee defense secretary brought this up during his trip to pakistan last week, didn t he. that s right. he flew out to pakistan after confirmation hearings on friday of last week. we re told it was raised during those meetings with the isi. senator lindsey graham, who sits on the senate armed services committee was asked about the arrest today. he suggested there is more to the story. they did more than arrest him. but. well, tell me more. i m sure that will come out
officially deny thank any army major has been arrested, and u.s. officials are not confirming or denying the no, times story. jon: so leon panetta went to pakistan, i know, to meet with the isa, the inter services intelligence agency chief, that was after the confirmation hearings last week. what happened? that s right. he was facing senate confirmation hearings on thursday, he flew out to pakistan shortly after that, it was a surprise to many when we heard word that he was out there, meeting with the isi chief. we are told that this is an issue that was raised with the pakistanis, there are many strains in the relationship, among those strain, not only the arrest of the five informants but also the fact that the u.s. and the cia, as a test for the isi, shared information about two bomb making facilities in the northwest frontier province of pakistan, in those tribal areas and two days later
security concerns. like dealing with the continuing kashmir questions. but i think as tempting as it is to say we ll cut off foreign aid to these people, that really is cutting off our nose to spite our face. eric: we have to grin and bear it as you say and they talked about maybe tomorrow the isi chief, lieutenant general pasha resigning but will he resign for the right reasons, not that bin laden was there but because the u.s. violated their sovereignty with the raid? well, you know, we have to expect that any pakistani military official, or politician for that matter, is going to express outrage at the raid. nobody is going to say, you know, no big problem, doesn t bother us. now, the real question, though, is, what they are doing internally, within the pakistani government, rather than what they are saying for public consumption and, if knowledge of bin laden s whereabouts goes to the head of isi, general pasha,