Posted on 11/11/2009 9:27:22 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The ISI has influence over every terrorist group and uses this to its “advantage”, Pervez Musharraf has said in a rare admission that corroborates India’s suspicions of Pakistani hand in attacks.
The former President debunked Pakistan’s oft-repeated position that its ISI had no role in terror activities across the border and claimed that the intelligence agency was effective because of such influence — which he chose to describe by using the word “ingress”.
“Always, in every group, there is an ingress of the ISI. And that is the efficiency, the effectiveness of the ISI. You must have ingress, so that you can influence all organisations. This ingress doesn’t mean they are supporting them. They have some contacts, which can be used for their own advantage,” Musharraf said in an interview to CNN.
The former military ruler was responding to a question on statements by US leaders that the ISI still had contacts with terrorists.
Musharraf, however, stressed the distinction that while the ISI had influence over the groups, it didn’t support them. “They (ISI) will not support (the terrorists). That was not the government policy. That was not the military policy.”
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This has been known all along. Another myth being peddled is that the ISI is some mysterious agency, cut off from the rest while it is really a detachment of the army.
They do have a huge hand in the day to day affairs of the government. The current director of the ISI, Akhtar Abdur Rahman was the architect of the Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union.He may have ties to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. I won’t be suprised if he knows where is Osama Bin Laden.
Umm, my point is that the ISI is PART of the military-it’s the military that does all the stuff. All its senior officials are army men first.
BTW Akhtar Abdur Rahman was ISI chief two decades ago-during Soviet Jihad and was killed along with the US ambassador and General Zia in 1988. The current chief is Shuja Pasha.
You are correct.
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