While Pakistan and US may find themselves embroiled in a tug of war over the drone attacks, India maybe able to find itself in a improved position. The revelations in the Washington Post certainly have come at a right time, when India has been strongly repelling the attacks on its border by the terrorists alleged to be operating in tandem with the ISI.
The Washington Post that will certainly dampen the position of Pakistani government that has raising much furor in its country over the drone attacks. Even Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his US visit has made 'drone' attacks as his main point of debate with the US.
In all what seems to be a way to loosen up Islamabad that has been harping against the U.S., the report categorically states that it was Pakistan that helped the US in identifying the locations and setting up the target. The report but doesn't stop there and further goes on to indict, Pakistan on its close-tie ups with the militants.
As per the Washington Post report -
Some files describe tense meetings in which senior U.S. officials, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, confront their Pakistani counterparts with U.S. intelligence purporting to show Pakistan’s ties to militant groups involved in attacks on American forces, a charge that Islamabad has consistently denied.
In one case, Clinton cited “cell phones and written material from dead bodies that point all fingers” at a militant group based in Pakistan, according to a Pakistani diplomatic cable dated Sept. 20, 2011. “The U.S. had intelligence proving ISI was involved with these groups,” she is cited as saying, referring to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
In a measure of the antagonism between the two sides, a 2010 memo sent by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to its embassy in Washington outlined a plan to undermine the CIA.
“Kindly find enclosed a list of 36 U.S. citizens who are [believed] to be CIA special agents and would be visiting Pakistan for some special task,” said the memo, signed by an official listed as the country’s director general for the Americas. “Kindly do not repeat not issue visas to the same.”
India that in that last one year has seen several border violations with Pakistan has time and again raised its finger accusing its neighbour of cross-border terrorism. While New Delhi has accepted the role of ISI in aiding the terror cells, the revelation in the Washington Post, will only further strengthen India's credibility before the world.
