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Pakistan's ISI chief heads to U.S. as ties flounder

Pakistan's ISI chief heads to U.S. as ties flounder | Reuters


(Reuters) - The head of Pakistan's powerful spy agency headed for Washington on Wednesday for unscheduled talks, the military said, days after the U.S. suspended a third of military aid over deepening tensions in their relationship.

Few details were immediately available about Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha's one-day trip, but it comes at a time when the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is under intense pressure to sever ties with militant groups including those it has long nurtured as assets in Afghanistan and India.

Relations between the intelligence establishments of the two countries have been on a downward spiral since January after a CIA contractor killed two Pakistanis with joint operations against militants suspended soon after.

Then in May, the killing of Osama bin Laden in a secret raid by U.S. special forces further damaged the relationship, with Pakistan seeing the operation as a violation of its sovereignty.

Pasha was going to Washington to "coordinate intelligence matters," the military said in a one-line statement.

Incensed over the bin Laden raid, Pakistan drastically cut the number of U.S. military trainers allowed in the country and also set clear terms for U.S. intelligence activities in the country.

Washington, responded by saying it was holding back $800 million -- a third of $2 billion in security assistance -- in a show of displeasure over the cutback of military trainers, limits on visa for U.S. personnel and other bilateral irritants.

Despite protests by Pakistan in public, the United States has continued drone strikes in its northwest region, killing at least 48 suspected militants this week, one of the largest death tolls to date in the controversial air bombing campaign.,
 
when they wanted "Raymond Davis", every one was here in Lahore and in Islamabad. I think it wont be an exaggeration that we badly need some CSF rite now to finance the war on terror and thats why we have traveled to Washington this time instead.

Kurram operation is not confined to kurram only. its a strategic offence agains both NWA and Kurram. the peshawar Corp commander Asif Yaseen said that the operation will go beyond EID. what does this mean. its a strategically big operation requiring a lot of funds. other the gasoline and fire arms, the tanks and choppers might get damaged. we need the money to sustain all that. Pasha is there, to get the money.
 
when they wanted "Raymond Davis", every one was here in Lahore and in Islamabad. I think it wont be an exaggeration that we badly need some CSF rite now to finance the war on terror and thats why we have traveled to Washington this time instead.

Kurram operation is not confined to kurram only. its a strategic offence agains both NWA and Kurram. the peshawar Corp commander Asif Yaseen said that the operation will go beyond EID. what does this mean. its a strategically big operation requiring a lot of funds. other the gasoline and fire arms, the tanks and choppers might get damaged. we need the money to sustain all that. Pasha is there, to get the money.

All that is plausible. And the coffers are'nt exactly full and overflowing right now. The only question is whether Uncle Sam will cough up? Without the "pound of flesh"?
 
Here starts the next part of passification and resumption of flared up egos and ties.

I think we can see statements like we never had any problems or that we are working on our differences etc etc.
 

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