Inter-Services Intelligence

Imran Khan boarding the wrong train…as usual

The author argues that Imran Khan is backing the wrong side in joining the campaign against Geo, since the army’s grip on politics has been weakening for years and Geo’s…

Brown Pundits Archive29 April 20140 comments
Why Hamid Mir was shot..

A comment on why the Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was shot, crediting him for publicising Balochistan while allowing that he was haughty and nationalist at times, followed by extracts including…

Brown Pundits Archive29 April 20140 comments
“We love Pakistan army and ISI”

A comment on Geo TV’s unprecedented public defiance of the ISI after the attack on Hamid Mir; the poster expects little to change except Geo’s demise, but thinks breaking the…

Brown Pundits Archive28 April 20141 comment
Deep State Fatwa: shut down Geo TV (or else)

A comment, with a news extract, on the Pakistan Army’s demand that Geo TV be shut after it accused the ISI of ordering an attack on Hamid Mir; the poster…

Brown Pundits Archive23 April 20141 comment
Did ISI order the hit on Hamid Mir?

A comment, with news extracts, on claims by Hamid Mir’s brother that the journalist had named ISI elements to blame if he were attacked, which the poster links to Balochistan…

Brown Pundits Archive19 April 20140 comments
Dog fight dog days for Indian Mujahideen

A report on leaked chats showing Indian Mujahideen chief Riyaz Bhatkal quarrelling with ISI handlers who want the group kept on the eastern front while its cadres want to fight…

Brown Pundits Archive10 April 20140 comments
Sardar Ahmad

A note on the killing of Afghan journalist Sardar Ahmad and his family in Kabul, with the poster’s bitter comment on the Taliban and the Afghan suspicion of the ISI.

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
Carlotta Gall

A note on New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall’s account of being assaulted in Quetta, tied to her book alleging Pakistani generals knew of Osama bin Laden’s presence.

Brown Pundits Archive21 March 20140 comments
Who betrayed whom?

A note on Carlotta Gall’s book The Wrong Enemy, which claims Pakistani generals knew of Osama bin Laden’s presence, with the official Pakistani rebuttals.

Brown Pundits Archive20 March 20141 comment