mehr politik: ISI

eine schlüsselfigur im bhutto-pakistan problem ist der ISI (Inter Services Intelligence), der pakistanische geheimdienst:

hier ein best of:
- The ISI lost its importance during the regime of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was very critical of its role during the 1970 general elections, which triggered off the events leading to the partition of Pakistan and emergence of Bangladesh. The ISI regained its lost glory after Gen. Zia ul-Haq seized power in July 1977. [ul-Haq hat Bhutto dann auch zum tode verurteilt]
- Under his reign, the ISI was expanded by making it responsible for [...], as well as monitoring various political parties such as the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
- Critics of the ISI say that it has become a state within a state, answerable neither to the leadership of the army, nor to the President or the Prime Minister. The ISI has been deeply involved in domestic politics of Pakistan since the late 1950s. The 1990 elections for example were widely believed to have been rigged by the ISI in favor of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) party,[...] to ensure the defeat of Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the polls
- ISI's Internal Political Division has been accused by various members of the Pakistan People's Party in assassinating Shahnawaz Bhutto, one of the two brothers of Benazir Bhutto, through poisoning in the French Riviera in the middle of 1985 in an attempt to intimidate her into not returning to Pakistan for directing the movement against Zia's Military government, but no proof has been found implicating the ISI.

- zur verbindung mit islamisten, in der NYT: The Pakistani military and intelligence services have for decades used religious parties as a convenient instrument to keep domestic political opponents at bay and for foreign policy adventures, [...]
The religious parties recruited for the jihad in Kashmir and Afghanistan from the 1980s, when the Pakistani intelligence agencies ran the resistance by the mujahedeen and channeled money to them from the United States and Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
In return for help in Kashmir and Afghanistan the intelligence services would rig votes for the religious parties and allow them freedom to operate. [...]
The Inter-Services Intelligence once had an entire wing dedicated to training jihadis. Today the religious parties probably have enough of their own people to do the training, but the I.S.I. so thoroughly monitors phone calls and people’s movements that it would be almost impossible for any religious party to operate a training camp without its knowledge.

- zwei alte bekannte, in diesem artikel aus der NYT: "The United States government grew increasingly concerned about the activities of its former partner. That year[1989], in a confidential letter to Nawaz Sharif, then Pakistan's prime minister, President George Bush quietly warned that he might have to declare Pakistan a terrorist state if the cross-border attacks into India, paid for and orchestrated by Inter-Services Intelligence, did not cease, according to a former Pakistani official who said he has seen the letter."

und noch eine kurze geschichte pakistans HIER
und ein artikel warum pakistan überhaupt für kopfweh sorgt: the NUKES