Inter-Services Intelligence

General Asad Durrani Discusses Strategy

Hamid Hussain’s red-text comments on a long paper by a former ISI chief, Asad Durrani, on how Pakistan makes strategic decisions, in which Hussain disagrees especially with Durrani’s view of…

Brown Pundits Archive8 July 20140 comments
Hilary, ISI and Osama

Snippets from Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices on why the US did not tell Pakistan about the bin Laden raid, citing ISI ties to extremists, with the poster mocking her book…

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments
The Master Spy comes in from the cold

Contrasting India’s bumbling image with Pakistan’s focused military, the poster argues Indian successes are rare exceptions, and profiles Ajit Doval, who spent six years in Pakistan’s Indian High Commission, as…

X.T.M1 June 20140 comments
India: controlled by (kosher) remote?

Admitting poor political instincts, the poster recalls expecting a BJP win in 2009, argues Congress won partly because voters wanted Pakistan pacified and feared the ISI, and says the Modi…

Brown Pundits Archive23 May 20141 comment
Sponsoring Terrorism in Afghanistan; the early days..

Posts Ikram Sehgal’s Pakistan Today column on the army and the ISI, whose first half the poster finds a source of little-known tidbits about recent AfPak history while unsure what…

Brown Pundits Archive21 May 20140 comments
The Officer’s Advice

Reproduces Waseem Altaf’s column arguing the army and ISI’s campaign against Geo TV is immature and will make the channel a hero, illustrated by an anecdote of a pre-partition Lahore…

Brown Pundits Archive21 May 20140 comments
Mrs Menon goes to (two) Pakistan(s)

Reading Meena Menon’s closing report from Pakistan, the poster notes Indian journalists were expelled, asks why she says little on Pakistan’s Hindus, cites a lawmaker that thousands leave yearly, and…

Brown Pundits Archive21 May 20141 comment
The honorable Maulana is a traitor

Reports that the JUI-F’s Maulana Fazlur Rehman alleges an ‘ISI within the ISI’ behind kidnappings and killings, with the poster wondering whether Nawaz Sharif prompted the remark and asking readers…

Brown Pundits Archive20 May 20140 comments
Geo TV ordered off air by ISI (not yet)

After Pemra disowned three members’ decision to cancel Geo’s licences, the poster sees a tussle between Nawaz Sharif and the Deep State, bets Geo will return stronger, and hopes the…

Brown Pundits Archive20 May 20140 comments
“I accept being called a traitor”

Wishing a wounded Geo TV journalist a full recovery, the poster reproduces his statement rejecting the ‘traitor’ label and the ‘good and bad terrorists’ distinction. The poster adds that the…

Brown Pundits Archive9 May 20140 comments