US wants strong grip on every corps HQ of Pakistan Army

From: Maqsood Kayani <maqsood.kayani@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM
Subject: HPC US wants strong grip on every corps HQ of Pakistan Army
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US wants strong grip on every corps HQ of army

By Tariq Butt

July 05, 2011

ISLAMABAD: The United States has been pressing the Pakistan Army to allow the posting of a security liaison officer (SLO) at every corps headquarters of the military but the army has rejected the demand considering it a security threat, said a news report.

This is one of many irritants between US and Pakistan as the military establishment remains under constant pressure from US authorities to allow Washington these SLOs to facilitate effective intelligence sharing mechanism and also to launch covert and overt operations for hunting Al Qaeda elements in Pakistan, the report appearing in the leading English language daily The News said.

Both the civilian and military command of Pakistan have resisted the move for a quite long time and had even at times swallowed the serious and strong worded warnings during several high-profile visits of US officials to Pakistan in the past. However, both the American Embassy in Islamabad and the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) did not reply when the newspaper emailed its queries to them on their official email accounts on several occasions during last one month.

Once the pressure had become so insurmountable that a portion of the establishment started considering allowing Americans to have an SLO only in Quetta (Balochistan) where only one corps headquarters exists. However, officials say the Government of Pakistan was not willing to allow such SLOs to be stationed within the premises and compound of corps headquarters but would be visiting the headquarters as and when needed. But this single SLO proposal also fizzled out.

Some security officials are of the firm opinion that the pressure of Americans had, in fact, forced Pakistani authorities to allow US SLO to be posted in quarter corps headquarters but within a month the SLO had to see his exit from the corps headquarters.

The post of SLO used to be diplomatic post in embassies which work in close coordination of the intelligence agencies of both the countries and maintaining close liaison in the matters of mutual interests. Majority of these posts are generally considered under cover posting meaning they are intelligence guys posted under the garb of SLOs in embassies and foreign missions.

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