Back in 1984, when Soviets had invaded Afghanistan, a very interesting event took place. Both the ISI and CIA were supporting the freedom fighters in Afghanistan. The then CIA director William Casey wanted to visit the training camps of Mujahideen along the western front.
ISI had kept CIA officers away from the border camps where Afghan fighters trained, but Casey insisted that he be allowed to visit. In early 1984, the first time he asked, ISI turned to the Islamabad CIA station for help in dissuading him.
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Soviet special forces had become active across the Pakistani borders, and ISI feared the Russians might pick up word of Casey’s movements or accidentally encounter him in an ambush. It was hard to imagine a more nightmarish scenario for Pakistan’s national security than...
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the prospect, however slim, that the CIA director might be kidnapped by the KGB on Pakistani soil. But Casey refused to be put off.
In the end ISI collaborated with the Islamabad station to set up a temporary—essentially fake—mujahedin training camp in the hills...
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that sprawled to the north behind Islamabad, far away from the Afghan border. They loaded Casey in a jeep at night, declined at least initially to tell him where they were going, and bumped in circles along rough roads for about the time that would be required to...
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reach the Afghan frontier. Then they unpacked him from the convoy and showed him a small crew of Afghans training on 14.5-millimeter and 20.7-millimeter antiaircraft guns. The Afghans made a lot of noise, and Casey wept ‘tears of joy’ at the sight of his freedom fighters.
Reference:
1. Interviews with Howard Hart, November 12, 26, and 27, 2001 (SC). His account is corroborated by several other sources, including Yousaf (ISI officer) 2. Steve Coll, Ghost Wars
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In 1933, jews were 12% of the total Palestinian population and held 3% of the land but ended up capturing more than 80% of the area in 1948 after more than half of Palestine's native population close to 800,000 was uprooted. When Palestine...
..was partitioned by the UN in 1947 without the consent of Palestinians, the Jews, who owned less than 6% of the total land area of Palestine and constituted no more than one third of the population at the time of partition, were handed more than half of its overall territory.
Within the borders of the UN-proposed state, jews owned only 11% of the land, and were the minority in every district. Palestine was proposed to be divided into three parts by the UN.
On 42% of the land, 818,000 Palestinians were to have a state that included 10,000 Jews..
Whatsapp will start forcing users to share personal data with Facebook which is it's parent company. It doesn't come as a surprise since all the major giants of Silicon valley; Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft etc are deeply integrated with US intelligence agencies.
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In 2013, Edward Snowden, an employee of National Security Agency, revealed that the US govt was running a vast Internet surveillance program and tapping every major Silicon Valley platform and company— Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon including mobile games like Angry Birds.
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The most astonishing program revealed by Snowden’s disclosures is called PRISM, which involves a sophisticated on-demand data tap housed within the datacenters of the biggest and most respected names in Silicon Valley: Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.
Few months before the demise of #KarimaBaloch, Canada unfolded an Indian espionage operation in which money and disinformation were used to influence Canadian politicians. Indian agencies used the chief editor of an unnamed publication for the operation which began in 2009.
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That Indian national had met intelligence officials of R&AW and IB more than two dozen times over a period of six years. The operation was disclosed in Federal Court proceedings involving the editor. He was indentified as ‘AB’ by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
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The @DisinfoEU report further exposed that India was running 350 fake media outlets to undermine Pak in 119 countries through fictitious characters. #KarimaBaloch was also a part of the Indian propaganda and worked for an organisation AFRACA which was started by Ankit Srivasta.
There's alot of confusion when it comes to Afghan Taliban and Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Are they the same? Was it the Afghan Taliban who carried out the APS massacre? Is TTP part of peace process in Afghanistan?
In this detailed thread, I will answer these questions.
Before I start, it’s important to understand the difference between Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda because TTP was formed by the ideologues of AQ.
Afghan Taliban was an indigenous movement which erupted in 1994 when Mullah Umar along with 53 students waged a war against the...
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rapacious warlords of Kandahar in 1994. He rescued two abducted girls and emerged as a robin hood figure. The Afghans were fed up because of the internecine war between Hikmetyar and Massoud. Many would be surprised to know that the northern allaince supported Mullah Umar..