Waqas 48 Posted May 22, 2009 NEW YORK: U.S. media has claimed that Pakistan and Indian in an unprecedented arrangement were now sharing intelligence on extremists. Wall Street Journal report said that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had arranged for Pakistan and India to share information on Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, blamed for November’s terrorist attack on Mumbai, as well as Taliban commanders leading the insurgency in Pakistan. The US is stressing that the governments in Islamabad and New Delhi face a common threat. It hopes that India will ease its deployments against Pakistan when it sees Islamabad seriously fighting the militants – in turn prompting Islamabad to focus more on the Tribal Areas battle. “We have to satisfy the Mumbai question, and show India that the threat is abating,” a US South Asia-strategy official said. The news report referring to ISI claimed that an Inter-Services Intelligence official said India and Pakistan have exchanged “a lot” of information about the Mumbai attack. He said the CIA was initially used as a conduit but the two countries now work directly with each other. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
