Thursday, October 9, 2008

PAKISTAN: New spymaster briefs MPs on security

The new chief of Pakistan's intelligence service Ahmad Shuja Pasha on Wednesday briefed members of the Parliament on the government's fight against terrorism in militant strongholds along the Afghan border. Sources said MPs attending the special closed-doors session were made to take an oath, swearing they would not divulge information given to them by Pasha on operations in the Bajaur tribal area or in the Swat Valley in restive North West Frontier Province...

Pasha told MPs that most of Bajaur has now been cleared of militants and that the state would re-establish the rule of law there within the next few weeks. He accused foreign intelligence agencies of conducting a proxy war in the volatile Swat Valley and Kuram tribal area, with the complicity of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. Pasha also stated that several Afghan intelligence agents had been arrested in anti-Taliban operations in the northwest in recent weeks...(AKI).

Full Article: http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.2559030825

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