Is WikiLeaks acting as a convenient American tool to smear Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI? And to what end? Continuing with our coverage of the global reaction to the WikiLeaks textual bombshell, this editorial from Pakistan’s The Nation charges the U.S. with looking for someone to blame for its fast-approaching defeat in the Hindu Kush – and that the massive trove of documents released by WikiLeaks is Washington’s way of scapegoating Pakistan’s top intelligence service, the ISI.
The editorial from The Nation says in part:
To circulate accusatory material, albeit unverified, confusing and largely based on input from an unfriendly if not hostile source, is an outrageous misuse of freedom of the press. There can be little doubt that the WikiLeaks story, which alleges that the ISI is providing every aid possible to certain Taliban factions to enable them to fight U.S.-led NATO forces and which has been widely distributed by even prestigious media in the West, has been leaked with sheer malafide intent. This constitutes the latest malicious attempt to discredit the intelligence agency of Pakistan’s Army by depicting it as a villain out to throw a spanner into the works of America’s inevitable march toward victory in the war on terror.
Washington is desperately trying to find an honorable way out of the deepening Afghan quagmire, but doesn’t want to be labeled as the vanquished. The “spoiler” ISI is the perfect fit for pressurizing Islamabad to move into North Waziristan, even if to do so would be counterproductive to its own interests. But in the opinion of American strategists, this strategy holds the last hope of turning defeat into victory. … One wonders what other proof our U.S.-subservient leaders need in order to realize who our real enemy is!
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