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cosmicone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 07:09 PM
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Where did ISI spend Rs 5.55 billion?
Edited on Wed Sep-22-10 07:12 PM by cosmicone
Source: Times of India / PTI

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI got itself an allocation of a whopping Rs 5.55 billion, apparently for covert operations, but has not accounted for it.

And now, the country's top officials appear reluctant to disclose how and on what the military intelligence agency spent the huge sums on.

According to information provided by the finance ministry to the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), the amount was paid to the ISI as a supplementary grant during the financial year 2007-2008.

Grilled by the Parliamentary watchdog, all Finance Secretary Salman Siddiqui had to say was "this is highly sensitive information and hence I can't talk about it at an open forum".

Read more: Where did ISI spend Rs 5.55 billion? - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Where-did-ISI-spend-Rs-555-billion/articleshow/6607157.cms#ixzz10J4XKCFc

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Where-did-ISI-spend-Rs-555-billion/articleshow/6607157.cms



We can only speculate that the money went to Taliban to fight the US/NATO and to Kashmiri terrorists to fight the legitimately elected government in Kashmir. Sadly, the source of the money was we Americans!

Also see a call to Audit: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Call-to-audit-Pak-intel-agencies-/articleshow/6604373.cms
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 08:04 PM
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1. That's my guess too.
Anything to keep the party going.
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-10 09:20 PM
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2. This is only 120 million dollars.
Our intelligence services misplaces that amount every other day.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 12:38 AM
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3. Accountability? Not special operations, they keep going and going.
You want accountability, try the people that GIVE away the money in the first place. It is a shame that some of us have to work for our money and obviously others just steal it and stick half of it who knows where? NOT the people handing it out.
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