1TV: General Joseph Votel, the commander of U.S. Central Command, was speaking during a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing on Tuesday. The Washington Times citing an intelligence source close to Afghan border region said Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service is providing both protection and material support to the Taliban in areas between Quetta and the Afghan border.
Tolo News: Kandahar’s police chief General Abdul Raziq said that Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada visited Helmand a week and a half ago where he met with Taliban members. Raziq said that the visit had been at the request of Pakistan’s intelligence services, ISI. According to him, the Taliban leader visited Mosa Qala in Helmand after
VOA News / October 3, 2017 Carla Babb WASHINGTON — Afghanistan security forces are fully engaged in offensive combat operations for the first time in their war against al-Qaida and Taliban militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday. “For the first time in 16 years, we have all six Afghan army corps on the offensive
VOA News October 1, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, held “candid and “constructive” talks with Afghan leaders on bilateral relations and ways to enhance mutual cooperation to fight terrorism. Accompanied by the chief of Pakistani spy agency, ISI, the general met Sunday with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 2, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The Spy chiefs of Pakistan and Afghanistan have held official talks in Kabul on bilateral security and counterterrorism cooperation. Director General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, Lt. General Naveed Mukhtar, traveled to the Afghan capital Tuesday in a bid to ease tensions between security establishments of the
Tolo News: Taliban militants are pushing to take control of Dangam district in Kunar in order to reach the provincial capital Asadabad and are doing so with the help of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Kunar Police Chief Juma Gul Himmat told TOLOnews. Click here to read more (external link). Related Helmand suicide bomber claims he was trained
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 12, 2016 Pakistan has named a new head of its military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). The Pakistani military said in a statement on December 11 that Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar was appointed as director-general of the ISI, replacing Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar. The move comes two weeks after the chief
DailyO: A recent conference on regional security issues in the western Afghanistan town of Herat was catalysed by an angry exchange between US political-military analyst on South Asia Christine Fair and retired Brigadier Saad Mohammed from Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, on the nature of the Pakistan army, which Fair variously characterised as being a “hyena” and
Tolo News: On the 20th anniversary of the death of former Afghan president Dr. Najibullah Ahmadzai, an Afghan research center on Monday claimed the former leader was killed based on an intelligence plan, drafted by regional countries and adopted by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI). Deputy chief of Afghanistan’s Strategic and Scientific Research Center, Aimal Liyan,
Tolo News: Thousands of Afghan refugees in Khost province, who recently returned from north Waziristan, have said that Pakistan’s military intelligence agency (ISI) has been issuing false propaganda against Afghanistan and its people. According to one return refugee, Amir Khan: “There was propaganda in Pakistan that said the Afghan people and their government are infidels and Jihad