Washington: Pakistan’s military officials are increasingly concerned that their ranks are penetrated by Islamists who are aiding militants in a campaign against the state, Washington Post reported.
The newspaper noted that worries have grown since this week’s naval base infiltration by heavily armed insurgents in Karachi.
A security official requesting anonymity told the WP that “We are under attack, and the attackers are getting highly confidential information about their targets,” .
The newspaper reported that it was unclear how authentically committed Kayani and other top military leaders were to cleansing their ranks. US officials analysts say support by the nation’s top military spy agency for insurgent groups, particularly those that attack in India and Afghanistan, is de facto security policy in Pakistan, not a matter of a few rogue elements.
But Kayani is under profound pressure, both from a domestic population fed up with the constant insurgent attacks and from critics in the U.S. government, who view the bin Laden hideout as the strongest evidence yet that Pakistan is playing a double game.
U.S. officials say they have no evidence that top Pakistani military or civilian leaders knew about bin Laden’s redoubt, though they are still examining intelligence gathered during the raid. Some say they doubt Kayani or Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, head of the military’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, had direct knowledge; others find it hard to believe they did not, particularly because Kayani was head of the ISI in 2005, when bin Laden is believed to have taken refuge in Abbottabad.
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