If Pakistan’s Foreign Office means business and seeks to prove Prime Minister Imran Khan wrong (who said FO bureaucracy is not up to the mark), here is the task cut out for them: improving Pakistan-EU relations and they have to start with France. Yes, you heard it, France, yes, you might be thinking of the […]
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The method in madness
The geostrategic significance of both India and Pakistan, the shared past and a bloody partition makes them bitter rivals. Almost as early as the independence, both countries maneuvered and fed into the engines of war—their militaries and intelligence organisations. Today, these competing neighbours have amassed one of the largest and sophisticated war machines to counter […]
FIA once again recommends closure of Asghar Khan case
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday once again recommended the closure of the Asghar Khan case for lack of evidence. A three-member bench, headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, heard the case. The investigation agency submitted a report in the Supreme Court, saying it could not find enough proof or evidence to take the […]
When crowns fall upon undeserving heads
Whatever those who voted for him, saw in him, I didn’t. But, Imran Khan is now our PM, deservingly or undeservingly. It behooves us, his Riyaya, to inform him if we feel he could improve on his performance. Imran, or Im the Dim, as he was fondly known to his friends at Oxford, has an […]
Former ISI Chief Lt-Gen (retd) Asad Durrani’s name on ECL
RAWALPINDI: Director General (DG) Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) Maj Gen. Asif Ghafoor said that Ex ISI Chief Asad Durrani’s name is listed in exit control list (ECL). Asad Durrani is co-author of of a book, ‘The Spy Chronicles, with Amarjit Sindh Dulat, former chief of Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). DG […]
COAS, ISI chief call on PM Imran
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has held a meeting with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. General Naveed Mukhtar in the Prime Minister House today. The meeting is being considered important in the context of Indian Army Chief’s recent threats to Pakistan. According to a […]
Is ISI behind Quantico’s ‘anti-India’ episode?
Indian social and mainstream media is abuzz with imagery of people protesting in the streets with signs carrying Priyanka Chopra’s crossed-out portraits and claims that American network ABC’s popular spy drama Quantico’s Hindu terror plot episode was a conspiracy by Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). https://twitter.com/RasasViKa/status/1005153782752145409 https://twitter.com/Chandra_Sarath1/status/1004761772966866944 The backlash and protest got to the point that […]
Infographic: Key points of Faizabad dharna intelligence report
On Monday, Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) agency submitted a comprehensive report in Faizabad Dharna case before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. In the comprehensive 46-page document, it is stated that the ISI had recommended the federal government to avoid the use of force and resolve the issue peacefully through negotiations with Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasul Allah (TLYR). […]
Pakistani media channel involved in blasphemy campaign against govt called out by ISI
Pakistani media channel 92 News has been alleged of supporting the Faizabad sit-in – which had ended with the resignation of the federal law minister of the country last November – by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. The sit-in had been organised by a religious-political outfit Tehreek-e-Labbayk Ya Rasool Allah (TLYR), led by Maulvi Khadim […]