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A former chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States has set up at least 16 offices across Pakistan, according to media reports.
The statement came in the wake of reports linking the ISI with suspected terrorist Omar Sheikh, the September 11 attackers and those responsible for the abduction and murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl on the other.
Lieutenant General (retired) Hamid Gul, who as ISI chief in the late eighties and early nineties, had links with the Taliban and other terrorist outfits, including those in Kashmir, was quoted by the daily Nawa-i-Waqt as saying that "16 FBI offices have already been set up in Pakistan and the operations carried out against Al Qaeda in Lahore and Faisalabad were led by the FBI".
"As a result, the US will increase its interference in the northern areas of Pakistan, which will lead to complete slavery of the region to the US," the paper wrote.
Meanwhile, reports in London's The Sunday Times and Pakistan's Dawn and Newsline have linked the ISI with Sheikh, accused of Pearl's murder, and the September 11 attackers.
The Sunday Times said Sheikh, a former British public school student, "may have been an agent for both Pakistani intelligence and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda".
While Dawn said new investigations had "revealed detailed links between ISI and Omar Sheikh [who was released by India during the Kandahar hijack], the prime suspect in Pearl's murder", Newsline said that "even more alarmingly, there is a fear that certain rogue elements of the country's powerful intelligence agencies may have had some involvement in the Daniel Pearl episode".
The British newspaper said Sheikh "knows too much about this connection to ever be allowed to leave Pakistan".
PTI
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