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| Wary of Pakistan, US has stepped |
| Wary of Pakistan, US has stepped up surveillance: report
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 3-September-2013
10:37:38 AM |
| While US intelligence agencies spend billions monitoring enemies like Al-Qaeda and Iran, they pay just as much as attention to ally Pakistan, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The United States has intensified surveillance of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, is concerned about biological and chemical arms sites there and tries to evaluate the loyalty of Pakistani counter-terrorism agents recruited by the CIA, the Post said.
It quoted a 178-page summary of what it called the US intelligence community's "black budget" and said the documents were provided by fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
The paper said the documents reveal broad new levels of mistrust in an already fragile security partnership.
And US efforts to gather intelligence on Pakistan are more extensive than previously disclosed by US officials, the paper said.
America has delivered nearly $26 billion in aid to Pakistan over the past 12 years, with the money aimed at stabilizing the country and ensuring its cooperation in counterterrorism efforts, according to the paper.
But now that Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaeda is weaker, US spy agencies appear to be shifting their attention to dangers that have surfaced outside Pakistani areas patrolled by CIA drones.
"If the Americans are expanding their surveillance capabilities, it can only mean one thing," said Husain Haqqani, who served as Pakistan's ambassador to the US until 2011. "The mistrust now exceeds the trust."
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