Permission needed or not, it is breath-taking for a country that survives on US aid dole-outs, to demand withdrawal of CIA spies especially when those spies are supposed to be helping Pakistan against the terrorists who are supposed to be posing ‘existential threat’ to very survival of Pakistani State.

Unless this ‘existential threat’ is a trumped up figment of imagination by CIA or somebody in US government. Even in that case, CIA must demand posting of these spies as a ‘must’ to track the terrorists in Pakistan who are causing the death of US/NATO troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani Army/ISI are unwilling to go after them.

Will US step up to the plate and demand that Pakistan publicly welcome such spies since Pakistan has joined US fight against the terrorists that these CIA spies are tracking down? Will US demand that Pakistan publicly accept the death of civilians as a collateral damage worth the price for the survival of Pakistani State?

How long will US continue to succumb to Pakistani blackmail?

As the writer stated, there are 2 types of CIA agents. 1.) the ones fighting the good fight (operations against taliban, LET, alqaeda, etc). 2.) the ones keeping the threat alive (those aiding the talibam, LET, alqaeda), CIA has a long history of trying to keep things destablized and chaotic because of the benefits involved. Not to mention easy access in killing muslims. Let's state some facts here, many of the "undeclared" agents running around pakistan are blackwater contractors. Blackwater was a company founded by a self-proclaimed christian crusader bent on the destruction of islam, Eric Prince. former blackwater contractors have admitted that the company encourages and pays its employees to "take out" some "hajis" when they can. so those "undeclared" guys running around are nothing but hunters have been given a whole land filled with game to hunt down. CIA can continue to think it can do what it likes, but let's not underestimate the ISI's ability to strike back. remember back when and "unknowned" source revelaed the loaction of the CIA station chief in islamabad and the guy had to run out of the country? let's also not forget ISI's ability to help insurgents in afghanistan and hit back at U.S soldiers. CIA needs to realize that this isn't some "black ops" video game.

JOSHUA E. KEATING in FP( APRIL 13, 2011) asks rhetorically: "Does the CIA Need a Country's Permission to Spy on It? and then goes on to built his answers on wrong assumptions.
Mr. KEATING says; “Davis, a CIA contractor who was tracking the activities of a number of militant groups while officially in the country as a member of the U.S. embassy's logistical staff.”
This is absolutely not true that Davis was part of the embassy staff in any capacity. Although President Obama and USA embassy in Islamabad insisted that he was but US government was unable to provide any such documentation to the Pakistani, hence the court case . It is when, Davis was disclosed as being a CIA spy, the USA government and embassy started to negotiate with the families, whose men Davis cool bloodedly murdered on the open street and tried to escape.

The argument that Davis was involved in trailing the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is believed to have long-standing ties with the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence service, is also nonsense. Imagine how stupid the scenario looks that Davis, a tall white man with 3 body guards in two expensive cars in the inner city of Lahore, where people are brown complexion would go un-noticed. His actions show that he must be a lousy spy or extremely arrogant Yank. The fact is that all these Yankees contractors are running around in the developing Muslim countries – Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan, thinking that they are above the law of the land. When would USA realise that Pakistan is not USA’s 52 state.

The present Pakistani government may be turning a blind eye to the activities of CIA, RAW or MI6 in Pakistan out of political expediency but ISI and Pakistan military would not tolerate such blatant disregard to the sovereignty of Pakistan That is why Gen. Kayani wants these cowboys out of the country. ISI knows who these people precisely are and they will soon learn to ask for permission to be there. There are no security threats present in Pakistan, except the threat of USA eyeing for Pakistani nukes. That is the key day dream of the USA. FP should not act as the moth piece of the anti-Pakistan propaganda and act like a neutral source of information. Is it too much to ask?

No, but sometimes it helps. Permission needed or not, it is breath-taking for a country that survives on US aid dole-outs, to demand withdrawal of CIA spies especially when those spies are supposed to be helping Pakistan against the terrorists who are supposed to be posing existential threat to very survival of Pakistani State. Unless this existential threat is a trumped up figment of imagination by CIA or somebody in US government. Even in that case, CIA must demand posting of these spies as a must to track the terrorists in Pakistan who are causing the death of US/NATO troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani Army/ISI are unwilling to go after them. "Yes and no. There are two types of CIA agents operating abroad. Declared agents, whom the host government -- but not the public or media -- are aware of, and undeclared ones, who are operating without the local government's consent background checks. Most CIA stations have a mix of both -- those operating with the consent and awareness of the authorities, and those operating in the shadows. " Permission needed or not, it is breath-taking for a country that survives on US aid dole-outs, to demand withdrawal of CIA spies especially when those spies are supposed to be helping Pakistan against the terrorists who are supposed to be posing existential threat to very survival of Pakistani State. Unless this existential threat is a trumped up figment of imagination by CIA or somebody in US government. Even in that case, CIA must demand posting of these spies as a must to track the terrorists in Pakistan who are causing the death of US/NATO troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani Army/ISI are unwilling to go after them.

This force has been recruited, trained and equipped by these CIA operatives to target the Pakistan Army personnel, armed forces’ installations, markets, hospitals, schools and public places to destabilise Pakistan, the paper added. Bush knows who deserves the credit, and he knows enough to know that the one’s who put their lives on the line day in and day out are those exact people. This shows that Bush is aware in his decisions that lives were in danger, and it shows Obama does not take into account the lives of others. home security The old curse “may you live in interesting times” portends he will only get a few pages because he kept us safe by being in control of things and responding appropriately to things outside his control. The world is building speed as it spins out of control without any american leadership making the name obama a curse that will be used for generations. It will take years to mend the damage he has done here and abroad. Most of his disasters will merely be reported without mentioning or blaming him or if he is mentioned it will be to exonerate him or to shift responsibility to others.