Having planted a story for Mossad yesterday, The Times now facilitates US/UK intelligence agencies in their continuing propaganda against Pakistani intelligence agencies, in order to retain their own primacy in the Af/Pak theatre. The “report” in question, by a Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs and Defence Adviser based in the UK Parliament from 2004-2006, is not available on the Internet–neither at the London School of Economics nor at the Harvard website. At Afpakwar’s request, the author kindly has provided a copy:

Download [pdf]: CSRC Discussion Paper 18: The Sun in the Sky
See: Rebuttal by Afghan-Taleban

The following comment seems about right:

Coffee House | By Nikos Retsos | 14 June 2010

The story is fishy for these reasons: a) The U.S. suspects -as I do – that the Pakistani ISI doesn’t tell the U.S. everything it does or exactly what its connections with the Taliban are. It is normal. The U.S. intelligent services also don’t tell their allies 100% of what they do. Even here in the U.S., agencies don’t tell share all information with other U.S. agencies, and even withhold critical information from each other. That is why the U.S. Congress created the position of “National Director of Intelligence” to force the merging of all agencies information, but still the old mistrust and antipathy prevails.

The report by Mr. Matt Waldman is quite preposterous. The Pakistani army killed thousands of Taliban, turned thousands of villages into rubble, and created 4-6 million refugees from that scorched land. Now, if the report’s claim that Pakistan is in bed with the Taliban, and that it actually giving the Taliban a monthly salary, then we have to assume that the Waldman report was commissioned to mud-sling the Pakistani establishment, embarrass it, an force them to wipe out any Taliban within its borders. And I don’t care if the report uses the names Harvard, or London School of Economics. History has it that prestigious institutions receive hundreds of millions in government money {as grants} to support the government’s policy – along with similar “Think Tank” groups that spit out only opinions that support U.S. the foreign policy. Those are the paid mercenary loud-mouths that are paid to turn any American war into a democracy crusade!

Does the Pakistani ISI do all it can to help the U.S.? Of course not! The American and the Pakistani Interests are opposite in Central Asia, and the ISI works to make sure that when the U.S. is forced out of Afghanistan – Vietnam style, they will be on control of the situation – not any American puppet!

Nikos Retsos, retired professor

Source: CH