Pakistan's games with the Mumbai attacks
I'm not really sure what to make of this, but it doesn't seem to bode well for the state of the India-Pakistan relationship coming out of these attacks.
You gotta figure that Pakistan has their own intel developing on this, so why send a junior rather than a previously announced senior? Is the shift from something the Pakistanis now know?
Or, is it the optics. Is the change an effort to not give credence when the Indians do eventually blame Pakistani elements? Are they denying the photo op?
(Understand that sending the intel chief is more about appearances and politics than any functional intelligence cooperation which would likely take place at a staff level.)
It just seems unforgivably shocking from where we sit right now for the Pakistanis to be playing a political/intelligence game so close after this attack. They know something that we don't within the facts or within coming Indian response that is informing this decision to downgrade their visible participation.
Something's tickling at my news bone. What do the Pakistanis know that made them step back from the appearance of cooperating fully?
"Preliminary evidence indicates elements with links to Pakistan are involved," Indian foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee said. He added, however: "Proof cannot be disclosed at this time."
(Pakistani PM) Gilani accepted Singh's request to send the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's premier spy agency, Lt.-Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha , "for exchange of information." Later, Pakistan decided to dispatch a more junior ISI official instead, news reports said.
You gotta figure that Pakistan has their own intel developing on this, so why send a junior rather than a previously announced senior? Is the shift from something the Pakistanis now know?
Or, is it the optics. Is the change an effort to not give credence when the Indians do eventually blame Pakistani elements? Are they denying the photo op?
(Understand that sending the intel chief is more about appearances and politics than any functional intelligence cooperation which would likely take place at a staff level.)
It just seems unforgivably shocking from where we sit right now for the Pakistanis to be playing a political/intelligence game so close after this attack. They know something that we don't within the facts or within coming Indian response that is informing this decision to downgrade their visible participation.
Something's tickling at my news bone. What do the Pakistanis know that made them step back from the appearance of cooperating fully?
posted by mikevotes at
6:07 AM
2 Comments:
hey i m from karachi
we condemn these attacks as we still suffering from this...
the news moving around that indo-pak war gonna take place..
if it happens then surely ruin for both states.....
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Unknown, at 2:45 PM
I agree. Because India can't accomplish its goal of stopping terror by attacking Pakistan, if anything it's incentive for it to get worse, and Pakistan, with so many troops in the west and all the other strains on the country, is in no state for war with a larger enemy.
It's a lose-lose, and, despite the tensions, I don't think it'll happen. There's no real achievable objective for either side.
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mikevotes, at 4:01 PM
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