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US considers Pak's ISI as terrorist |
US considers Pak's ISI as terrorist organisation
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-April-2011
13:16:37 PM |
US authorities have described Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency as a terrorist organisation and considered it as much of a threat as al-Qaeda and the Taliban, according to a secret document which also names LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed and HuJI.
Recommendations to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay rank the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate alongside al-Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon as threats, 'The Guardian' reported quoting secret US files obtained by it.
"Being linked to any of these groups is an indication of terrorist or insurgent activity," the documents dated September 2007 said.
"Through associations with these organisations, a detainee may have provided support to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, or engaged in hostilities against US or coalition forces (in Afghanistan)," the document said.
A New York Times report quoted a document as saying that detainees associated with the ISI and the militant groups "may have provided support to al-Qaida or the Taliban, or engaged in hostilities against US or Coalition forces
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