With tensions between the US and Pakistan at an all-time high and repeated US efforts to “save” the relationship ending with the visiting US official angrily condemning Pakistan, the Zardari government is now trying its hand at improving ties.
In this case, it means that the Pakistani government will grant more than three dozen visas to CIA officers who want to come to Pakistan for spying missions. Pakistan had previously expelled large numbers of spies in the wake of the Raymond Davis fiasco and the revelation that the US was deploying spies and claiming they were consulate employees.
Davis, who was nominally an employee of the Lahore consulate but was actually the de facto head of the CIA in Pakistan, killed two Pakistanis on the streets of Lahore. Murder charges against him were dropped after the payment of a large sum of “blood money.”
Pakistani officials said the additional visas would not only be a “confidence-building measure” but would improve intelligence sharing. With US officials repeatedly accusing Pakistan of leaking shared intelligence to the militants, that remains to be seen.
What bloody fools the Pakistani's are.
Giving visas to SPYS will only undermine the democratically elected Government of Pakistan.
Letting the WOLF guard the SHEEP is not a solution to what ails the Pakistanis.
Get with it guys the USA wants spies in Pakistan NOT to help you but to plot the location of your nuclear arsenal – with a view to taking them over and leaving you helpless.
Hell with americans and Zardari a traitor has again granted visas for subversive activities in Pakistan.
CIA has already a net work of more than 20000 agents and they are doing their job.
Why not to find out american nukes and destroy them as the only state which used atom bomb not Pakistan.
American arroganz has no limits and will be punished by God for their innocent killinmg around the world specially Irak, afghanistan and pakistan.
God bless infidels.
Sure, the US is going to make contingency plans to secure Pakistan's nuclear weapon capability (including scientists and facilities, as well as materials and weapons), but the plans would only be activated in case of an emergency, such as the breakdown of the Pakistan's government or in case Pakistan was planning to use the weapons against a US ally such as India or Israel. Pakistan should be grateful that the US is going to this trouble since it reduces the chances that Pakistan will be pre-emptively nuked. Especially after all the US taxpayer money which has been paid to Pakistan.
Not sure what's worse, that you're actually spewing that crap or that you expect others to believe it. I gather you get paid to post that kind of shit all over the place.
Wait- so we're going to implement plans to prevent Pakistan from launching nukes against its enemies in order to prevent the possibility of a counter-strike and thus protect our…. investment?
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?
So it's NOT about humanitarian efforts to make the lives of Pakistanis better, it's NOT about efforts to modernize its economy and infrastructure, it's NOT about fighting some ever-changing enemy…. it's to protect the US and its corporate interests, is the bottom line.
There's a reason why we don't call THIS generation 'The Greatest Generation', you know- we're far from earning that title, and every time a US soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine dies for some company to make a buck we move farther away from that title and, as well, soiling our national honor.
Visas? Since when does the CIA need visas to infiltrate Pakistan? Don't they own the country already? Sheesh…
The visas are for known agents for diplomatic immunity purpose, each one will probably handle many unknown agents. Pakistani government is a joke. Can they dare to ask for a similar number of visas for Pakistani spies in the US? Pakistanis should remember one thing — Appeasement never works.