Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks on Monday began publishing more than five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, the anti-secrecy group said. The messages, which date from between July 2004 and December 2011, will reveal Stratfor's "web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods," claimed a WikiLeaks press release. "The material s ...

By Abdul Zahoor Khan Marwat The Mehrangate scandal has hit the headlines once again. As per details of the case, a PPP leader, retired Major General Naseerullah Khan Babar, had told the National Assembly in 1994 how the ISI had disbursed funds among politicians and various political parties to manipulate the 1990 elections by setting up the IJI. This was done to bring about the defeat of the PPP, whose gove ...

By S. M. Hali The curious case of the Mehran Bank scandal, which is now commonly known as the Asghar Khan case has taken an important position in Pakistan's judicial history. Air Marshal Asghar Khan, in 1996, had written a letter to then Chief Justice Nasim Hasan Shah against former army chief, General Mirza Aslam Baig, former ISI chief Lieutenant General Asad Durrani and Younis Habib of Habib and Mehran Ba ...

By Mohammad Jamil The Supreme Court is set to initiate proceedings on 29th February in a case filed by Air Marshal (R) Asghar Khan in 1996 following a statement of former interior minister Naseerullah Babar in the parliament alleging that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had distributed Rs 140 million to the political opponents of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in the 1990 general elections. In 1996 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan It would not be wrong in saying that Pakistan is passing through its political transaction phase since three decades. Though, political elite took over government after the fall of Dhaka but political maturity remained far-off from them, which again resulted into military coup. It was late Prime Minister Bhutto who introduced political wing in Inter Service Intelligence with a view to con ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At this critical juncture, while Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is countering the sinister designs of secret agencies like American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad which have continuously been supporting suicide attacks, target-killings, abductions, bomb blasts etc. in Pakistan, it is most regrettable that without knowing the ground realities and services of this agency, just like th ...

By Elizabeth Flock Here we go again. A government ad in Pakistani newspapers Thursday calls for bids for a national firewall for "filtering and blocking" of content on the Web, the technology and culture blog Boing Boing reports. For many Pakistanis, the ad — posted by the Ministry of Information Technology's R & D department — prompted flashbacks to the last major incident of Internet censorship in the ...

By Associated Press LONDON—U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Thursday for the resumption of a full range of formal contacts with Pakistan after its parliament completes a review of strained ties between the two countries. At a meeting on the sidelines of an international conference on Somalia in London, Mrs. Clinton outlined to Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar a series of steps the ...