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By B. Muralidhar Reddy
As a partner of the U.S. led coalition against terrorism, Pakistan is committed to share intelligence and provide air space and logistical support for operations in Afghanistan with the U.S. The English daily, Dawn, quoting a senior Interior Ministry official, said Pakistan had decided to take advantage of the cooperation with the FBI after it realised that its investigative machinery was simply not "capable of delivering in highly sensitive law-enforcement operations''. It said the Ministry and intelligence sources confirmed that some dozen or more FBI personnel were involved in anti-terrorism operations in Pakistan. Sources involved in the collaboration say that the FBI presence was "handful''. However, they admit that the role of the U.S. intelligence agencies has "substantially increased'' since the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The paper quoting well-placed sources in the Crisis Management Cell set up in the Ministry made no effort to conceal the fact that the FBI personnel were engaged in operations beyond their usual areas of responsibility within the U.S. Embassy. They said the FBI personnel were working in close collaboration with the ISI, the Ministry of Interior and the elite force of the police.
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