ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday hearing the Adiala Jail missing prisoners case observed that unnecessarily the matter was mishandled, saying the ISI and MI counsel are playing hide and seek with the court.A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and ...

ISLAMABAD  - Former head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Asad Durrani has said that Rs 140 million were collected while Rs 70 million were distributed to certain politicians during the 1990 polls.In an interview with a private TV channel, he said that the remaining funds were transferred ...

LAHORE - Despite the announcement that the political cell in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been shut, no executive order to this effect has been issued, reported BBC on Friday. The political cell of the ISI was established in 1975 on a notification purportedly signed by the then prime ...

ISLAMABAD – The political cell of the Inter-Services Intelligence was disbanded five years ago and no such cell is operating within the agency since, a media report said Monday, citing Defence Secretary Asif Yasin Malik. “At present the ISI does not have any political cell,” the ...

Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Asif Yasin Malik on Monday said that the political cell of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had been disbanded five years ago and since then no such cell had operated within the ISI and the agency was not interfering in political matters.During an ...

LAHORE – Heads of the ISI and Military Intelligence have asked the Punjab Police chief to quash an FIR registered against them at a local police station, stating that the allegations made therein are completely baseless. However, the Inspector General Police has expressed his inability to ...

WASHINGTON - In a surprise move, Pakistan’s intelligence agency is now claiming credit for helping the CIA track down al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US commandos nearly a year ago, The Washington Post reported.“The lead and the information actually came from ...

WASHINGTON - US Senator John McCain on Wednesday said that ISI was still in contact with the  Haqqani Network, involved in attacks on US soldiers, which is condemnable act. Addressing a gathering at Carnegie Institute in Washington, McCain said that if Pakistan would not stop its support for ...

DHAKA - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid could not digest Bangladesh’s defeat at the hands of Pakistan in Asia Cup Cricket tournament and is still busy in mud throwing.In an interview with a local daily Amardesh, the pro-Indian Bangladeshi premier went on saying that her country ...

BRUSSELS  — The United States and Pakistan will resume talks on the possible reopening of supply routes to Afghanistan after Pakistan completes its probe into an airstrike that killed 24 of its soldiers, a senior US official said Friday.Marc Grossman, US special envoy to Afghanistan and ...

In the TFT editorial “ISI has taken over GHQ“ Najam Sethi in his immense wisdom says, "intelligence services must consciously be kept at arms length from GHQ because "field commanders must not get contaminated" or tainted by cloak and dagger operations in grey zones".  And then ...

ISLAMABAD - The newly-appointed director general of country’s premier intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Zaheerul Islam assumed charge of his office on Sunday amid challenges threatening the national security.He has replaced Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha who retired on ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday appointed Lt-General Zahirul Islam as new director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), bringing to a halt the rumours about the extension in the tenure of the incumbent chief of the country’s top intelligence agency.A brief ...

DHAKA  – Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia of receiving money from Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ahead of 1991 general elections in the country.“You (Zia) sold the country (interest) by ...

ISLAMABAD –The wife of Major (r) Osaid Zahidi, a former officer of Military Intelligence (MI), has accused the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of keeping her husband in illegal detention for the last year and a half, reported the BBC.Osaid was posted in Karachi while working for the MI till ...

LONDON  - Pakistan’s security services are secretly aiding Afghanistan’s Taliban, who assume their victory is inevitable once Western troops leave, a secret NATO document says, according to reports Wednesday.Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led ...

MIAN DAWOODLAHORE–Syed Zahid Hussain Bookhari, counsel for Hussain Haqqani in memogate scandal, on Saturday endorsed the request to summon ISI chief, if the star ‘witness’ Mansoor Ijaz fails to come in Pakistan for recording his statement before the judicial commission.A ...

LAHORE – The wife of under-fire former Pakistani ambassador to US Husain Haqqani has fled to Washington, saying she feared of being kidnapped by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan.The Sunday Times report quoted Farahnaz Ispahani, who herself is President Asif Zardar’s ...

ISLAMABAD - Ruling out any possibility that Norwegian intelligence operatives were present in Pakistan with the permission of the government, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that it was the duty of ISI and IB to look into such matters.Responding to the queries of senior PPP leader ...

ISLAMABAD - Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan on Wednesday termed the stance of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani flawed over the manner in which the Chief of the Army Staff and Inter Services Intelligence Director General submitted their replies to the Supreme Court in connection with the memo case.In an ...

NEW YORK - A former chief of Indian intelligence agency has claimed that Mansoor Ijaz has links with ISI and was working for it.“My guess is he may have been working for many agencies. But he was certainly working for the ISI. There is no doubt about it,” former R&AW chief A. ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies): Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday said any official action by a government functionary without the approval of the government is unconstitutional and illegal.In an interview to China Online television, the prime minister referred to the observation of the Chief Justice ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) – Senior officials of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have told Senate committee on defence that they will continue seeking guidance from the parliament, but will never compromise in the matters of national security.A meeting of Senate Standing Committee on Defence and ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) - Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production would on Tuesday (today) visit Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Headquarters. Officials would brief the committee about the activities of ISI, pattern of working, jurisdiction and role in the ongoing war on terror. ...

ISLAMABAD - Judicial Commission investigating the murder of Saleem Shahzad, a journalist, on Wednesday completed cross-questioning the high-ups of top spy agency ISI regarding the matter. The meeting was held in the chair of Justice Saqib Nisar, a judge of Supreme Court, and participated by Chief ...

Our Staff Reporter MULTAN/ TOBA TEK SINGH - Strong reaction sparked against America on her allegations levelled against Pakistan and ISI as a string of protests and rallies took place in Multan here on Friday. The activists of Muttahidda Shehri Mahaaz, Jago Pakistan Tehrik, Jamaat-e-Islami, ...

WASHINGTON Amid heightening Islamabad-Washington tensions, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen told a US Senate committee Thursday that Pakistans intelligence agency aided the insurgents who attacked the American Embassy in Kabul last week. In comments that were the first to ...

ISLAMABAD - The commission empowered to probe the May 2 incident in Abbottabad will summon Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) during the upcoming week for questioning, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. Chairman of the commission Justice Javed Iqbal said Lt Gen Ahmed ...

ISLAMABAD The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday issued notices to the DGs ISI and MI and the Islamabad Superintended Police (SP) in a missing person case and sought reply on July 29. A single member bench comprising Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman resumed hearing of a petition filed by ...

ISLAMABAD - ISI Director General Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha during his one-day visit to the United States has conveyed to his CIA counterpart that Pakistan does not need military trainers for counter-terrorism operations. Well-placed sources told TheNation on Saturday that General Pasha rejected ...