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09ISLAMABAD1074 | MODERATE RELIGIOUS LEADERS FIND THEIR VOICE [...] (C) Summary: Bolstered by the government's new determination to combat terrorism, usually quiet moderate Pakistani religious leaders have begun publicly to condemn the Taliban. The most vocal are the Barelvi leaders who have formed a new alliance, the Sunni Ittehad Council, to counter the Ta [...] | 2009-05-18 11:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM KISL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1075 | FRANCE OFFERS CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Pakistani newspapers reported on May 16 that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had offered a civilian nuclear deal to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during their meetings in Paris on May 15. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi quoted President Sarkozy as saying [...] | 2009-05-18 12:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP MNUC PK |
09ISLAMABAD1077 | MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-18 13:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1078 | MILITARY OPERATIONS UPDATE: MAY 18 [...] (S) Summary: The Pakistani Army and Special Services Group (SSG-special forces) continue to prepare for an assault on Swat's main town of Mingora as militants reinforce and resupply their positions. The Army/SSG have lifted the curfew on Mingora several times in an attempt to empty the town [...] | 2009-05-18 13:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1079 | IDP CRISIS UPDATE: MEETINGS WITH GOP, G8 HEADS OF [...] (C) Summary: At a May 18 meeting between GOP Economic Advisor Shaukat Tarin and G-8 Heads of Mission, Tarin said that while the government is focused on immediate IDP emergency needs, it also is looking at reconstruction in order to permit IDPs to return to their homes as soon as their area [...] | 2009-05-18 15:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1080 | IDP STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION PLAN [...] (C) Summary and action request: The GOP,s strategic communications plan for combating extremism remains nascent, under-resourced, and uncoordinated among civilian and military players. While the government realizes the importance to its military campaign of winning the hearts and minds battle [...] | 2009-05-18 15:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1088 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 19, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-19 10:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD109 | PAKISTAN BRIEFS DIPLOMATS ON MUMBAI ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: On January 19, Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi and Interior Minister Malik briefed the diplomatic corps on Pakistan's ongoing investigation of the Mumbai attacks. Malik was annoyed the MFA declined to invite the Indians to the briefing, and he followed up with a separate brief [...] | 2009-01-19 14:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1090 | UN OCHA COORDINATION WITH GOP PRIOR TO MAY 21 [...] (C) In response to questions about the extent of coordination between the GOP and the UN with regard to the GOP-organized donors' meeting scheduled for May 21 and the formal announcement of the UN appeal on May 22, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Head Manuel Bessl [...] | 2009-05-19 12:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1091 | UN OCHA COORDINATION WITH GOP PRIOR TO MAY 21 [...] (C) In response to questions about the extent of coordination between the GOP and the UN with regard to the GOP-organized donors' meeting scheduled for May 21 and the formal announcement of the UN appeal on May 22, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Head Manuel Bes [...] | 2009-05-19 12:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1093 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-20 09:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1098 | NADEEM: IDP'S HOLDING AT 1.5 MILLION; [...] (C) Summary: IDP Special Support Group leader Lt General Nadeem told Ambassador and PO Peshawar May 29 that the number of IDPs was holding at 1.5 million but could grow to two million when military operations begin in the Waziristans. IDPs were returning to Bajaur in FATA; Buner was now safe fo [...] | 2009-05-20 09:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EAID MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1099 | RESTORED CHIEF JUSTICE LOOKS INWARD, AVOIDS [...] (C) Summary: In the past two months since Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was restored to the bench, he has dealt with crucial national issues through court verdicts and policy pronouncements. He has ordered the quick disposal of cases, announced the intent to withdraw judges fro [...] | 2009-05-20 12:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS PK |
09ISLAMABAD1100 | UNOCHA DISCUSSES IDPS AND HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Summary. On May 20, Ambassador met with Rashid Khalikov, the New York Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),and Manuel Bessler, the Pakistan OCHA Director, to discuss the current internally displaced persons (IDP) situation. With the May 2009 revis [...] | 2009-05-20 13:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IO PREF PHUM PINR PK PTER PREL PGOV |
09ISLAMABAD1107 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 21, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-21 10:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1111 | GOP PLEDGES REHABILITATION PACKAGE AND SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 21 conference with international relief organizations, diplomatic missions and donor agencies, Prime Minister Gilani announced Pakistan's three-pronged strategy for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) crisis: Relief, Return/Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction. Gilani [...] | 2009-05-21 13:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1115 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 22, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-22 10:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1118 | TURKISH AMBASSADOR: THEIR TRILATERALS, FRIENDS, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by EmbOffs, met May 20 with Turkish Ambassador Soysal and other Turkish counterparts. The Turkish Embassy, which has taken on a coordinating role for NATO in Pakistan, advocated greater cooperation with the U.S. vis-a-vis Pakistan. Soysal described Turkey's [...] | 2009-05-24 06:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREF EAID MOPS PHUM MARR PREL PK TU |
09ISLAMABAD1119 | KAYANI IS “DESPERATE†FOR HELICOPTERS [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. In a two hour conversation with Ambassador May 23, Chief of Army Staff General Kayani told Ambassador he was "desperate" for helicopter support as he had only five MI-17s operational. Kayani insisted that Pakistani technicians were capable of doing required helicopte [...] | 2009-05-25 03:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1120 | PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION REPORT, MAY 23, 2009 [...] (SBU) The military assault on Mingora is underway. The number of returns to Bajaur and Buner remains uncertain. Indications are that people are leaving from and returning to Buner in relatively equal numbers. Those returning are doing so to harvest their crops. Save the Children representat [...] | 2009-05-25 03:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PGOV PK IO ECON PINR |
09ISLAMABAD1122 | PAKISTAN MILITARY CLAIM MINGORA; PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan military operations continued on May 25, as the troops continued efforts to recapture the main Swat city of Mingora and secure major intersections and surrounding areas. Major General Athar Abbas, the Director General's Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) spokesm [...] | 2009-05-25 12:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1123 | CODEL LEAHY MEETS PRESIDENT ZARDARI [...] (C) In a May 25 meeting with Codel Leahy, President Zardari described his recent trilateral meeting in Iran as being focused on controlling drug trafficking and expressed support for the Obama administration's outreach to Iran. Zardari asserted that he had political consensus for current Paki [...] | 2009-05-26 01:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1136 | Economy Stable; Growth Predictions Slow [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's economic indicators continue to remain stable, according to IMF Resident Representative Paul Ross and former Ministry of Finance official Ashfaque Hassan Khan. It is widely acknowledged that Pakistan will have problems meeting its annual IMF tax revenue target, and [...] | 2009-05-26 10:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1137 | TAX COLLECTION MISSES TARGETS; TOP OF TARIN'S AGENDA FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Reforming tax policy and improving revenue collection have become a policy focus of the current government. Finance Advisor Shaukat Tarin has made broadening the tax base a lynch pin of his economic strategy for the coming fiscal year. In spite of stepping up collection effor [...] | 2009-05-26 10:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1138 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 26, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-26 11:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1140 | PAKMIL CONTINUES TO MAKE GAINS IN SWAT; UN PUTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Pakistan military tightened control around Mingora on May 25 and 26. Swat Taliban leader Maulana Fazullah announced that his men would no longer fight in Mingora and pleaded for those displaced to return to the city. However, Pakistan military officials saw this announcemen [...] | 2009-05-26 13:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1141 | SUPREME COURT DECLARES THE SHARIFS ELIGIBLE AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: On May 26, the Supreme Court reversed its February 25 decision and declared both Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif eligible to run for and serve in public office. This seals the final reinstatement of Shahbaz Sharif as Chief Minister of Punjab and clears the way for Nawaz to run (and win [...] | 2009-05-26 15:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1142 | CJCS MAJID BRIEFS CODEL CARPER ON LATEST IN SWAT; [...] (C) Summary: Codel Carper, accompanied by the Ambassador, met May 26 with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Majid. Majid described his wish list for U.S. assistance -- precision-targeting weapons, more helicopters, and night vision equipment. The land push was going well, but the [...] | 2009-05-26 15:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD1143 | UNHCR ON THE PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR Islamabad staff said on May 25 that UNHCR is not providing transport for returning IDPs nor is it being notified, by individual, of their return. UNHCR believes that IDPs are returning only temporarily to harvest their crops and will not return permanently until after they [...] | 2009-05-26 17:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PK EAID PREL PINR PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1145 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 27, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-27 10:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1151 | UN IDP CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR WAZIRISTAN; MINGORA [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 27, Ambassador met with representatives from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to discuss OCHA's IDP contingency plan for the Waziristans, which will cost an additional USD 150 million over the recently launched revised UN appeal. OCHA exp [...] | 2009-05-27 15:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1152 | U.S. REMOVAL OF PAKISTAN RESEARCH REACTOR FUEL ON [...] (S) XXXXXXXXXXXX, told Poloff on May 26 that the recent spate of media attention on Pakistan's nuclear security has led the GOP to delay an important nonproliferation effort, the removal of U.S.-origin highly-enriched uranium spent fuel from a Pakistani nuclear research reactor. The GOP agreed [...] | 2009-05-27 16:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP MNUC PK |
09ISLAMABAD1158 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 28, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-28 10:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1165 | PRIME MINISTER GILANI DISCUSSES SWAT, IDPS AND [...] (C) Summary: In his meeting with Codel Carper on May 26, Prime Minister Gilani provided an update on the military's progress fighting militants in Swat and on GOP efforts to care for the approximately 2 million internally-displaced persons (IDPs) affected by the fighting. He requested the U. [...] | 2009-05-28 14:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1166 | KARACHI MAYOR PROMOTES AND PLEADS FOR HIS [...] (C) Summary: Karachi Mayor Mustafa Kamal met May 26 with the Ambassador and Codel Carper in Islamabad. The energetic 37-year old mayor of one of the world's largest cities jumped at the chance to showcase Karachi, Pakistan's "revenue engine," he said. The five senators were particularly inte [...] | 2009-05-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD1167 | GILANI: "WE'RE ACHIEVING OUR TARGETS." [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani met May 25 with the Ambassador and Codel Leahy -- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT),Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI),and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA). Gilani was uncharacteristically assertive, confident of the Pakistan military's success against the Swat [...] | 2009-05-28 14:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD1168 | CODEL LEAHY FIRST TO MEET RESTORED CHIEF JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: On May 25, Codel Leahy -- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT),Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI),and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) -- and the Ambassador, paid a courtesy call on Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. This was the first meeting by an official U.S. delegation with C [...] | 2009-05-28 14:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS MOPS EAID PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1173 | MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: HEARING POSTPONED TO [...] (C) Summary: On May 23, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) gave Pakistan's Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) another extension to file its final charge sheet. The FIA and GOP prosecutors appeared before new ATC judge Khadim Hussain to request additional time to organize the case against the arre [...] | 2009-05-29 11:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1177 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-29 13:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1179 | ADB WILL CONDUCT A DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; NO [...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 29 meeting with Ambassador, the Asia Development Bank (ADB) committed to doing a joint damage/reconstruction assessment with the World Bank of the conflict-affected areas. In order to properly conduct such a survey, ADB has requested assistance through satellite image [...] | 2009-05-29 14:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1180 | OCHA MEETS WITH IDP DONORS IN ISLAMABAD [...] (C) Summary: In an informal meeting with donors, Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) officials Rashid Khalkov and Manuel Bessler, expressed concern that Bajaur and Buner are not yet ready to support IDP return. UN contingency planning for a Waziristan displacement may be mi [...] | 2009-05-29 14:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1184 | LOOKING AHEAD: SUPPORT FOR MILITARY/HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Summary. Bolstered by ongoing popular and political support, the Pakistani security forces appear determined to win against militants. We expect a Waziristan campaign as early as late June. Meanwhile, Pakistan's military faces an entrenched enemy in Mingora, Swat, and the security situ [...] | 2009-05-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM MARR MOPS PREF PK |
09ISLAMABAD1186 | EMBASSY STAFFING [...] (SBU) We understand that staffing of embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan has been the subject of high level attention in Washington. We have several urgent needs, which we will outline in upcoming cables, and several individuals whom we would like to retain. 2. (SBU) Most urgently, we [...] | 2009-06-01 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREF PK |
09ISLAMABAD1189 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 1, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-01 11:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1194 | PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION REPORT, JUNE 1, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Pakistan government is moving to restore security and services to Swat, but the situation remains dangerous for humanitarian assistance provision. ICRC entered Swat on May 31 but cannot yet access Mingora. ICRC hopes to provide some health and food relief in the coming wee [...] | 2009-06-01 18:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1198 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-02 11:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1199 | PM FINANCE ADVISOR ON ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting May 28 with the Ambassador, Shaukat Tarin, the Prime Minister's Advisor for Finance, said that, while he welcomed money coming through the budget, donors should direct their funding to the most effective and cost-efficient platforms for maximum impact. Tarin said th [...] | 2009-06-02 12:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1200 | PAKISTAN RECOMMENDS WORKING WITH AFRICANS ON SUDAN [...] (C) PolOff deliver June 2 ref demarche to Pakistan MFA Director for Human Rights Imran Ahmed Siddiqui. Siddiqui remarked that as a "Coordinator" for the Organization Islamic Conference (OIC),Pakistan was likely to defer to the wishes of fellow OIC member Sudan regarding any extension of the [...] | 2009-06-02 13:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AORC PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD1201 | MILITARY OPERATIONS AND HUMANITARIAN SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: President Asif Zardari met June 2 with political, military and law enforcement chiefs for Pakistan's four provinces to discuss overall security in the country. Each province is slated to stand up anti-terrorist units. The curfew has been lifted in some of Swat district's main ci [...] | 2009-06-02 15:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF MOPS EAID PTER PK PINR |
09ISLAMABAD1210 | ICRC TO LAUNCH PRELIMINARY APPEAL TO PROVIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is likely to issue at least a preliminary appeal by June 5 for not less than an additional USD 40 million to almost double its program in Pakistan. The expanded program, intended to be massive in scale but limited in time, wou [...] | 2009-06-03 09:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1213 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 11:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1218 | THIRD RECCA SOLDIFIES GAINS, CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 03:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ERTD EAID PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD122 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 17-20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-20 11:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1222 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 04, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 11:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1225 | JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION [...] (U) Summary: Accompanied by the Ambassador, SRAP Holbrooke visited two internally displaced person camps on June 4. The visits were widely broadcast by the local media. Ambassador Holbrooke had met the previous evening with a large group of delegation heads of international agencies and NG [...] | 2009-06-04 16:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1226 | JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION [...] (U) Summary: Accompanied by the Ambassador, SRAP Holbrooke visited two internally displaced person camps on June 4. The visits were widely broadcast by the local media. Ambassador Holbrooke had met the previous evening with a large group of delegation heads of international agencies and NG [...] | 2009-06-05 03:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1227 | JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 03:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD123 | DCM MEETING WITH FORMER PAKISTAN AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Summary. During a January 12 meeting with DCM, Rustam Shah Mohman, former Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan and former Chief Secretary for the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),expressed his long-held view that most of Pakistan's problems in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) [...] | 2009-01-21 04:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1236 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 05, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 11:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1243 | Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Moves Closer to Reality as the Two [...] (SBU) Summary: Iran and Pakistan intend to sign a Gas Sales Purchase Agreement in Istanbul on June 5, bringing the long-debated pipeline a step closer to reality. Although India has apparently dropped out of the equation, Pakistan and Iran have agreed to a 25-year proposal for the supply of [...] | 2009-06-05 14:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETTC ENRG EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1244 | JUNE 5 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: SRAP Holbrooke's meetings with GOP officials and with Nawaz Sharif received wide coverage in Pakistan's media on June 5. Pakistan's Senate convened after a month's hiatus to debate the military operation in Swat. At a June 4 Army Corps Commanders' meeting, Chief of Staff of the [...] | 2009-06-05 15:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1245 | U.S. COAST GUARD RECOMMENDS GOP INCREASE [...] (C) Summary. A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) International Port Security Program delegation visited Islamabad, Karachi and Port Qasim April 19-23. They evaluated Pakistan's compliance with the International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) Code of the International Maritime Organization and discuss [...] | 2009-06-05 16:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ECON ETRD KHLS IMO PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1246 | JUNE 5 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: SRAP Holbrooke's meetings with GOP officials and with Nawaz Sharif received wide coverage in Pakistan's media on June 5. Pakistan's Senate convened after a month's hiatus to debate the military operation in Swat. At a June 4 Army Corps Commanders' meeting, Chief of Staff of the [...] | 2009-06-06 05:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1247 | HAFIZ SAEED'S RELEASE TO BE APPEALED [...] (C) Summary: On June 2, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was ordered released from house arrest by the Lahore High Court (LHC). With no charges pending against him, the Court found no grounds for continuing Saeed's detention, which began November 26, 2008, stated the 20-page detailed ju [...] | 2009-06-07 11:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KJUS PK IN |
09ISLAMABAD1248 | POST NOMINATES CITIBANK FOR SECRETARY'S CORPORATE CITIZEN [...] Embassy Islamabad nominates Citibank for the Secretary's Award for Corporate Excellence. Citibank has long been a leading corporate citizen in Pakistan, notably in its response to the devastating earthquake in October 2005, which included a $1.9 million grant to the American Red Cross-Citi Ea [...] | 2009-06-07 13:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT BEXP ECON EINV ELAB ETRD SENV AID KPAO PK |
09ISLAMABAD1249 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-08 09:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1253 | JUNE 8 MILITARY/SECURITY AND DISPLACED PERSONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the evening of June 6 a suicide bomber and accomplices attacked a police post in Islamabad. The blast killed three police and injured several others. Police claimed taking three accomplices of the bomber into custody. Also that evening, two detained top aides to militant [...] | 2009-06-08 15:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1254 | NWFP OFFICIALS PLANNING FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF SWAT [...] (SBU) Summary. Northwest Frontier Province Chief Secretary Javed Iqbal and Chief Economist Shakeel Qadir told DCM and AID Mission Director that they are already planning for the reconstruction of Swat and the greater Malakand division, once hostilities end. Their concept includes an early r [...] | 2009-06-08 15:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1256 | PAKISTAN STILL CONSIDERING UN ICSC VOTE [...] (C) PolOff delivered June 2 reftel demarche to MFA UN-III Director Dr. Ahsan Nabeel in support of the U.S. candidate for the United Nations International Civil Service Commission (UN ICSC). Nabeel noted that the ICSC election was not expected until November. While he committed to discuss the [...] | 2009-06-08 16:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA PK |
09ISLAMABAD1258 | ISLAMABAD EAC MEETING 06/06/09 [...] (SBU) The DCM chaired an EAC meeting on 06 June 2009 to discuss the steady rise in terrorist threat reporting in the aftermath of the PAKMIL operations in Swat and review the personnel security measures currently in place to lessen vulnerability in our heightened threat climate. All sections [...] | 2009-06-09 05:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PREL AMGT CACS PK |
09ISLAMABAD1261 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 09, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 10:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1266 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 09:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1267 | FUNDING FOR SYMPOSIUM ON WHEAT STEM RUST FOR PAKISTAN, [...] (SBU) The establishment of a Trilateral Board to support collaborative and applied agricultural research was agreed to at the agricultural breakout session of the May 7-8 trilateral meetings with the U.S., Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In response, the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC [...] | 2009-06-10 09:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1269 | Central Bank's Third Quarter Report - Growth Fragile, [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4, the State Bank of Pakistan released its third quarterly report (through March 30),which projected GDP growth for the fiscal year at 2-3 percent, a prediction unchanged from the previous quarter. Large-scale manufacturing, the engine that funds tax collection, fell b [...] | 2009-06-10 09:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1270 | CONCERN GROWS OVER TAX POLICY/ADMINISTRATION [...] (C) Summary: Discussions with GOP officials and the IMF ResRep indicate little progress in both tax policy and tax administration reforms, cornerstones of the Fund's Standby Arrangement, in spite of high-level GOP commitments to make improving tax policy and collection a top priority (reftel) [...] | 2009-06-10 10:02:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1272 | JUNE 10 IDP UPDATE: UN PULLS PERSONNEL OUT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN has moved the majority of its personnel in Peshawar to Islamabad after the June 9 attack on the Pearl Continental hotel resulted in the deaths of two of its officials (septel). This repositioning, the duration of which has not yet been determined, will not prevent the UN [...] | 2009-06-10 12:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PHUM PGOV AID PK |
09ISLAMABAD1274 | PAKISTAN ECONOMIC REPORT, MAY 7 - MAY 20 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1279 | SRAP HOLBROOKE MEETS WITH ZARDARI AND SENIOR GOP [...] (C) Summa... [...] | 2009-06-11 08:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1282 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 11, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 10:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1292 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 12, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-12 10:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1297 | GILANI UPBEAT; ASKS FOR HELP ON MANY FRONTS [...] (C) Summary: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and the Ambassador met June 5 with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and several of his key Ministers. Gilani noted how much had changed politically since Holbrooke's last visit to Pakistan in Apri [...] | 2009-06-13 08:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PINR PHUM ETRD EAID MOPS KJUS PK |
09ISLAMABAD1299 | SRAP HOLBROOKE'S JUNE 5 MEETING WITH FM QURESHI [...] (C) Summary: SRAP Holbrooke met with Foreign Minister Qureshi, Foreign Secretary Bashir and other Foreign Office officials on January 5. Qureshi said Pakistan was united under Zardari's civilian government, as the ongoing Pakistan military campaign to defeat the Taliban in Swat valley and n [...] | 2009-06-13 09:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IN UN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1311 | ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON GOP PRIORITIES FOR U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of State for Economy Hina Rabbani Khar told USAID Director June 11 that the GOP has started making $312 payments to what it believes is a well-vetted list of some 1.8 million IDPs. Assistance for IDP sustainment and economic recovery in the area of conflict is estimate [...] | 2009-06-15 11:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1312 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 15, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 11:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1319 | PAKISTAN SUPPORTS CONCEPT OF NUCLEAR FUEL BANK, [...] (C) Summary: PolOff delivered reftel demarche soliciting support for international fuel bank proposals to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 15. Akhtar stated that Pakistan can support the idea of a fuel bank operated by the IAEA, but has r [...] | 2009-06-15 14:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC IAEA ENRG TRGY PK |
09ISLAMABAD1320 | JUNE 15 SECURITY AND IDP REPORT [...] (C) Summary: The announcement by the governor of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) that the government would begin an offensive into South Waziristan Agency dominated headlines. In Malakand, military operations slowed as active resistance dwindled to pockets in Swat, Buner, and Lower Dir [...] | 2009-06-15 15:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1321 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-16 10:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1328 | PESHAWAR: NWFP - CAN SWAT'S CROPS BE SAVED? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1330 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 09:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1340 | AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 17 VISIT TO SWABI IDP SITE [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador, on June 17, visited Swabi school where community volunteers support displaced families from Swat and Buner. The GOP continues registration verification of families displaced by the conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Front [...] | 2009-06-17 14:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1353 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 11:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1355 | Budget 2009-10: Depending on Foreign Assistance [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 13, the GOP presented a consolidated budget of $36.21 billion with a fiscal deficit of 4.9 percent, slightly higher than the 4.6 percent target previously agreed to with the International Monetary Fund. The budget is fairly expansive, with development expenditures incr [...] | 2009-06-19 04:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1357 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 19, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 12:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1360 | IDPS RETURNING TO BUNER BUT INFRASTRUCTURE STILL [...] (U) Summary: Embassy representatives who traveled to Buner district in Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) on June 16 reported that residents are returning, with about half the shops and markets open. The representatives assessed infrastructure and reported that, while roadways were in good s [...] | 2009-06-19 16:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1364 | SCENESETTER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JONES [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Islamabad warmly welcomes your visit. Your arrival comes at a moment when Pakistan's political leaders, and its people, are united in support of the military campaign to confront extremist militants in Malakand (including the Swat valley) and South Waziristan, where the offensi [...] | 2009-06-20 16:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM EAID MARR MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD1371 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 22, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-22 11:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1374 | IDP UPDATE: MINGORA ELECTRIFIED; UNHCR GAINS [...] (C) Summary: On June 21, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) celebrated Pakistan's historic World Cup cricket victory: Pakistan's cricket captain dedicated the victory in London to the plight of the IDPs, and camp residents danced to and cheered the win which was televised. Services, includin [...] | 2009-06-22 14:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD1380 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 23, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-23 10:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1385 | PESHAWAR: KILLING OF ANTI-BAITULLAH MILITANT [...] (C) Summary: The June 23 assassination of Mehsud militant commander Qari Zainuddin, presumably sponsored by rival Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),removes a key element of the Pakistani government's planned campaign in South Waziristan Agency (SWA). Qari Zainuddin, who oppos [...] | 2009-06-24 09:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL |
09ISLAMABAD1386 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF [...] (C) The government continued low-intensity fighting during the first full week in June with pockets of militants in Swat, Buner, Shangla, and Lower Dir. The latter showed that they pose a continued threat by destroying schools in Lower Dir and Buner, and resuming kidnappings of civilians in [...] | 2009-06-24 09:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1387 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF [...] (C) The Pakistani government signaled that the long-awaited offensive in the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan was imminent, but limited its action in the area to aerial and artillery bombardment. Meanwhile, its ongoing precursor action in Frontier Region Bannu drew to a close with an agree [...] | 2009-06-24 10:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD1389 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-24 13:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD139 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 22, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-22 11:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD140 | GOP CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR BIT [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister Saleem Mandviwalla, Chairman of the GOP Board of Investment, insists the GOP has the political will to finalize the U.S.-Pakistan Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and that President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani had recently agreed the BIT should go forward as soo [...] | 2009-01-22 12:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL PG PK |
09ISLAMABAD1402 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 25, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 12:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1408 | PAKISTAN COMMITS TO GETTING OFF TIP WATCH LIST [...] (C) Summary: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Khosa called in A/PolCouns and PolOff June 17 -- the day after the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report placed Pakistan on the Tier 2 Watch List (WL) -- to commit Pakistan to those measures which would result in a better [...] | 2009-06-26 08:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB SMIG PK |
09ISLAMABAD1409 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 26, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 10:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD141 | CONSEQUENCES OF A ZARDARI-NAWAZ SHOWDOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-22 14:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL |
09ISLAMABAD1411 | IDP UPDATE: MOI DECLARES SWAT SECURE, DEBIT CARDS [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 24, Minister of Interior Rehman Malik announced that Swat and Malakand division were now secure from terrorists and IDPs could return home once the infrastructure was restored. Many displaced families living in IDP camps, particularly those from Buner, are beginning to [...] | 2009-06-26 12:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1413 | TRIAL SKILLS TRAINING FOR PAK PROSECUTORS [...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's prosecutors, under-resourced and poorly trained, are routinely characterized as the weakest link in a criminal justice system that sees up to 70 percent of its prosecutions end in acquittal. Prosecutors seldom work with police, do little to prepare their cases for trial [...] | 2009-06-27 07:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KJUS PK |
09ISLAMABAD1421 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 09:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1425 | PROPOSAL FOR THE FY 2009 JULIA TAFT FUND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 12:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD1426 | BUNER BEGINS TO RECOVER FROM EFFECTS OF TALIBAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 12:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1427 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES FY09-10 BUDGET [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP presented its budget to Parliament on June 13 (reftel). After a week of debate, on June 22 the GOP presented a revised budget which reflected revisions desired by members. This budget was passed unanimously by Parliament with no changes on June 25. While the overall p [...] | 2009-06-29 13:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD143 | USCENTCOM PETRAEUS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting January 20 with USCENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and the Ambassador, President Asif Zardari welcomed the "new beginning" of the Obama Administration, urging both countries' military commanders to "revisit the map" on how to jointly fight regional extremi [...] | 2009-01-23 08:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1435 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 10:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1437 | PML-N WARNS NSA JONES THAT WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) Summary: National Security Advisor General James Jones joined Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and several other Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leaders for lunch on June 25. The PML-N leaders explained to NSA Jones that Pakistani public opinion currently supported the war agains [...] | 2009-06-30 10:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1438 | NSA JONES' JUNE 25 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI [...] (C) Summary: In their June 25 meeting in Islamabad, National Security Advisor General James Jones and President Zardari discussed: Pakistan's military offensive against extremists; GOP capacity to fight terrorism; the nature of extremism in Pakistan; drones; Iran; Afghanistan; Zardari's conver [...] | 2009-06-30 10:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD1440 | PRIME MINISTER GILANI DISCUSSES MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: In his meeting with U.S. National Security Advisor General James Jones on June 25, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed that Pakistan is winning the war against extremists militarily, but needs to win hearts and minds to sustain gains. The country was unified in its support [...] | 2009-06-30 10:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM KNNP PK |
09ISLAMABAD1445 | IDP UPDATE: REGISTRATION INITIATED FOR WAZIRISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Registration has begun for internally displaced people from South Waziristan Agency (SWA) in two districts and a frontier region east of the agency; only those whose sole residence is in SWA will be eligible. The Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government has forbidden n [...] | 2009-06-30 15:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL |
09ISLAMABAD1446 | IDP UPDATE: REGISTRATION INITIATED FOR WAZIRISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 15:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL |
09ISLAMABAD1465 | PAKISTAN IMPLEMENTING UN SANCTIONS ON DPRK, BUT [...] (C) Summary. In response to reftel demarches supporting implementation of United Nations Security Council sanctions on the DPRK, Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director at Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told PolOff on June 30 that Pakistan has issued a Statutory Regulatory Order to appl [...] | 2009-07-01 16:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PARM EFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1469 | BUNER BEGINS TO RECOVER FROM EFFECTS OF TALIBAN [...] (C) Summary: Several assessment missions to the Buner district of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) by U.S. mission personnel and contractors and by United Nations (UN) personnel over the past two weeks have revealed that life there is gradually returning to normal, two months after the begi [...] | 2009-07-02 09:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1470 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 09:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1473 | ZARDARI, TARIN ASK NSC LIPTON FOR LEEWAY ON ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 30 meeting, President Zardari asked National Security Council Senior Director David Lipton to help convince the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) to allow Pakistan to delay an increase in electricity tariffs until December and for a subsidized oil facility. [...] | 2009-07-02 11:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1493 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-06 10:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1507 | MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: ANTI-TERRORISM COURT [...] (C) Summary: There has been no movement in Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on the Mumbai prosecution case since May 23. The ATC in Rawalpindi has not had a judge on its bench to hear the case and thus no formal indictment has been filed against the five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspects in [...] | 2009-07-06 13:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1520 | COMMERCE AND INVESTMENT MINISTRIES REQUEST UNDERSTANDING AND ACCESS TO U.S. MARKETS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-07 10:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1521 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-07 10:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1525 | SUPREME COURT WEIGHS IN ON ELECTRICITY TARIFF HIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6, the Supreme Court ordered the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to refrain from enacting the proposed 17.5 percent increase in electricity tariffs until such time as the court is satisfied that the increase is truly necessary. Chief Justice Iftikhar [...] | 2009-07-08 02:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1528 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-08 08:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD153 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 23, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 11:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1543 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 09, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD155 | CENTCOM GENERAL PETRAEUS MEETS WITH PAKISTAN COAS [...] (C) U.S. CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus, accompanied by the Ambassador, J5 Major General Robert Allardice and POLAD Michael Gfoeller, met with Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani on January 20. Kayani was accompanied by his Director General Military Operations, M [...] | 2009-01-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MAR MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD1552 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-10 10:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD156 | CENTCOM GENERAL PETRAEUS MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: USCENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and the Ambassador met January 20 with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani. The Prime Minister complained about the rolling electricity blackouts throughout the country, blaming the Musharraf administration for the lack of capacity. Businesses [...] | 2009-01-24 12:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1562 | PAKISTAN'S OPTIONS ON FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF [...] (C) Summary: In late June, Embassy Energy Attach was given a pre-publication draft of a paper (ref) written by Kurshid Khan, an officer formerly with the Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs Section of Pakistan's Strategic Plans Division (SPD). The paper details Pakistan's views and options [...] | 2009-07-13 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK |
09ISLAMABAD1567 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: July 13, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 13:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1568 | MEETING WITH UN U/SG JOHN HOLMES: AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: In a July 10 meeting with UN Under Secretary John Holmes, Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Mogwanja and UN staff, the Ambassador stressed the importance of getting UN humanitarian assistance into Buner and Swat as soon as possible, the need for the UN to undertake donor coordinatio [...] | 2009-07-13 16:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1574 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 10:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1585 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 15, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-15 12:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1586 | MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: LATEST TIME LINE [...] (C) The next hearing date for the Mumbai attacks prosecution is July 18. The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) and Pakistani prosecutors expect to file their formal charge sheet on July 18. The five suspects in custody, Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Hammad Ameen Sadiq, Mazhar Iqbal (aka al Qama),[...] | 2009-07-15 13:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1589 | PUNJAB WITHDRAWS ITS APPEAL AGAINST HAFIZ SAEED'S RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: On July 14, to the surprise of the federal government, the Punjab Advocate General withdrew his province's appeal to the Supreme Court challenging the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. Punjab provincial officials cite a lack of evidence and cooperation from the federal gov [...] | 2009-07-15 13:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1592 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-16 10:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1607 | AQ KHAN DEFENDS PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS [...] (C) Summary: In his periodic column in the July 15 edition of Pakistan daily "The News," A.Q. Khan further tested the boundaries of his "gag order" with an expansive defense of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. This article, like previous ones, seeks to burnish his credentials as the "fath [...] | 2009-07-17 09:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK |
09ISLAMABAD161 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 26, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-26 12:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1613 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-17 10:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1625 | SUPREME COURT AND GOP CLASH OVER FUEL TAX; GOP WINS FOR NOW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-18 05:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD164 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 27, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-27 09:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1642 | SECRETARY NAPOLITANO DISCUSSES BORDER [...] (S//NF) Summary: In a series of meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani and Minister of Interior Rehman Malik July 3, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano offered DHS assistance to enhance Pakistan's border security and sought GOP view [...] | 2009-07-20 10:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | EAIR PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1652 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-20 14:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1654 | INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN PAKISTAN: TRANSITION TO [...] (SBU) Summary: With the exception of expected further displacement from Waziristan, the current internal displacement from conflict-affected areas in Pakistan appears close to an end. The government has signed on to principles of safe, voluntary, informed and dignified return and began on J [...] | 2009-07-20 16:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1658 | ZARDARI AND NAWAZ MEET IN RAIWIND [...] (C) Summary: On July 17, President Zardari and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met outside of Lahore at Sharif's Raiwind estate and discussed ongoing military operations in Pakistan and potential constitutional changes in their first meeting since the Long March crisis. The relationship b [...] | 2009-07-21 08:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1660 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 21, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 12:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1662 | JAPANESE SRAP FOLLOWS UP ON FODP AND IDPS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Japan's Special Representative for Assistance to Pakistan and Afghanistan Yoshikawa revealed that Spain and Kuwait have allegedly withdrawn their pledges from the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) conference in Tokyo. He also commen [...] | 2009-07-21 15:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PREL PREF PK |
09ISLAMABAD1670 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 22, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 08:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1671 | FATA: NEW ROUND OF KURRAM SECTARIAN VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: The breakdown in Sunni-Shi'a relations in Kurram Agency and ensuing violence over the past three weeks has cost 120 lives and mobilized the local communities on a scale not seen for months. After the intervention of the Frontier Corps and a jirga drawn from local Sunnis and Shi [...] | 2009-07-22 09:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREF EAID PGOV MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD1674 | PAKISTAN WAITING FOR INDIA TO RESTART DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: The GOP urged the GOI to restart Composite Dialogue talks during July 14 and 16 meetings between Foreign Secretaries and Prime Ministers in Egypt. India refused, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Afrasiab. The talks were detailed, however; and of merit o [...] | 2009-07-22 10:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM IN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1680 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 23, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 10:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1684 | SUPREME COURT SUMMONS MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan,s Supreme Court is hearing a case, which actually combines two separate petitions, that may be the first of several legal challenges to the constitutionality of former President Musharraf,s actions on November 3, 2007, when he suspended the constitution, declared a state [...] | 2009-07-23 15:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1688 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-24 11:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD169 | PORT SECURITY DEMARCHE - PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EWWT KHLS PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD1712 | PAKISTAN LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM TO REVERSE BRAIN DRAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 15, President Zardari launched the President's Program for Care of Highly Qualified Overseas Pakistanis (PPQP). This program plans to integrate the skills and talents of expatriate Pakistanis back into Pakistan in an attempt to "reverse the brain drain." The government [...] | 2009-07-28 05:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAID PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1718 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 28, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-28 11:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1724 | PAKISTAN'S SUPREME COURT: ONE STEP CLOSER TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a partial reversal of its July 6 ruling ordering the GOP to refrain from raising the electricity tariff, the Supreme Court ruled on July 23 that the National Electric Power Regulatory Agency (NEPRA) could continue to calculate the cost recovery tariff rate for power productio [...] | 2009-07-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1726 | TRANSIT TRADE ISLAMABAD ROUND: SMUGGLING STILL THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-28 13:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD1732 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-29 10:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1737 | A/S SCHWARTZ'S MEETING WITH LT. GEN. NADEEM, [...] (C) Summary: In a July 24 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Migration and Refugees Eric Schwartz, Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad outlined the planned assumption by the Provincial Relief, Rehabilitation and Settlement Authority (PaRRSA) of programmatic responsibility for the GOP's co [...] | 2009-07-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD1739 | ICRC ON THE DISPLACED IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 23 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Eric Schwartz, International Committee of the Red Cross Head of Delegation Pascal Cuttat expressed concern over the speed of government-facilitated IDP return from the camps and the coerci [...] | 2009-07-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1740 | UNHCR ON THE DISPLACED IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 22 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Eric Schwartz, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country Representative Guenet Guebre Christos and staff requested that the United States Government make clear to the Government of [...] | 2009-07-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1748 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 12:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD177 | THE WAY FORWARD FOR PAKISTAN'S F-16 PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: Embassy requests that a small interagency team of decision makers visit Islamabad to chart a financial and technical way forward on the F-16 program. Ambassador confirmed January 28 with Finance Minister Tareen that the GOP would make the pending overdue payment on the purchase of n [...] | 2009-01-28 08:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1770 | MOTIVATIONS AND CONCERNS REGARDING EXPEDITED [...] (C) Summary: Below is an e-mail account providing a timeline of events for the expedited return of displaced persons from Yar Hussain camp, Swabi, in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. It is followed by a review, from an NGO perspective, of some of the likely considerations and mot [...] | 2009-07-31 08:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD178 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 28, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-28 10:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1782 | SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO TAKE UP TREASON APPEAL [...] (C) Summary: Supreme Court Justice Iftikar Chaudhry said July 30 the Court would not take up an appeal to charge former President Musharraf with treason. The appeal had emerged during an ongoing case being heard by the Court which challenges the constitutionality of Musharraf's actions in [...] | 2009-07-31 16:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1786 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-03 10:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD180 | ANOTHER CABINET EXPANSION; MQM JOINS GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: President Asif Zardari swore in four more federal ministers on January 26, two from the religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party (JUI-F, including Fazlur Rehman's brother) and two from the Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM). With this move, Zardari formally brings MQM and i [...] | 2009-01-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1803 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 04, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-04 11:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1808 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 05, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 10:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1809 | HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR FOR PAKISTAN: [...] (C) In a July 22 meeting between Ambassador Holbrooke and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir indicated unequivocally that his government would support the appointment of a high-level UN humanitarian assistance coordinator for Pakistan. His agreement c [...] | 2009-08-05 11:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC PREF EAID PGOV UN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1816 | HAFIZ SAEED CASE ADJOURNED FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE [...] (C) On August 3, the Pakistani Supreme Court once again adjourned the appeal hearing concerning Hafiz Saeed. This follows the July 14 Punjab Advocate General's withdrawal of his province's appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) leader Hafiz Saeed (See Reft [...] | 2009-08-05 13:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1817 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 29 JULY 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 13:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD182 | A PRIMER: PAKISTAN'S SENATE ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On or about March 9, Pakistan will hold indirect elections to replace 50 (of 100) members, whose terms expire this year. The process, controlled by the Election Commission, is governed by a complicated proportional system in which members of the National and the four Provincial [...] | 2009-01-28 14:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD1823 | DUBAI PROCESS CONFERENCE: AF/PAK CONVERSATIONS ON [...] (SBU) The Canadian Embassy hosted the most recent round of Dubai Process talks between Afghan and Pakistani officials from July 23-24 in Pakistan. Two of the five Dubai Process issues were covered: Movement of People and Counternarcotics. The next session, currently slated for October in Ka [...] | 2009-08-06 05:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD183 | UPDATE ON PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION [...] (C) Summary. As of January 23, the population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the conflict-afflicted areas of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) continued to rise, with approximately 10,000 families living in the twelve establi [...] | 2009-01-28 14:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER MOPS |
09ISLAMABAD1830 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-06 10:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1840 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1845 | MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: ABSCONDER ARRESTED [...] (C) On August 5, the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) arrested a sixth suspect, Jamil Ahmed, allegedly linked with the Mumbai terror attacks. Ahmed was arrested after the Government of Saudi Arabia passed information they had from an Interpol lead. Ahmed had allegedly sent money from Saudi Ara [...] | 2009-08-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1846 | PAKISTAN'S FIA ON COUNTERING TERRORIST FINANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 22 meeting with the Treasury Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Khosa said counter-terrorist financing efforts had limited external sources of funds available to Al-Qaida and Tar [...] | 2009-08-07 14:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID KJUS AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD1848 | NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU EXPECTED TO REMAIN INTACT [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's anti-corruption agency, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)--once one of the country's preeminent law enforcement institutions--has in the past two years become increasingly marginalized. In a 14 July meeting with NAB Chairman, Nawid Ahsan, Treasury Attach and Re [...] | 2009-08-10 03:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD KCOR PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1850 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-10 10:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1859 | FITFUL PROGRESS: ROUND THREE OF THE AF-PAK TRANSIT [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Kabul/Embassy Islamabad cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The third round of negotiations for the Afghan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) yielded progress on some outstanding issues such as arbitration, but the atmosphere frayed over interim arrangements to expedite [...] | 2009-08-10 12:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD1873 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 11, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-11 11:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1877 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 12, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 12:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1884 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 13, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-13 11:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD189 | CODEL TIERNEY COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of CODEL Tierney on February 2, 2009. 2. Control officer for the visit will be Deputy Econ Counselor Martha Patterson. She can be reached at the following numbers: Embassy: +92-51-208-0000; Office: +92-51-208-2690, Direct +92- [...] | 2009-01-29 08:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PARM ASEC OREP AMGT AFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1896 | ZARDARI TO REFORM FATA GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary: At midnight on August 14, Pakistani Independence Day, President Zardari plans to unveil a reform package significantly changing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and extending the Political Parties Act. Zardari's new ordinance will remove some of the draconian aspects of the F [...] | 2009-08-14 05:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD190 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-29 09:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1900 | ZARDARI TO REFORM FATA GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary: At midnight on August 14, Pakistani Independence Day, President Zardari plans to unveil a reform package significantly changing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and extending the Political Parties Act. Zardari's new ordinance will remove some of the draconian aspects of the F [...] | 2009-08-14 05:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1901 | GOP UNVEILS NEW THREE-YEAR TRADE POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Pakistan (GOP) unveiled its 2009-2012 trade policy with the primary goal of growing exports by 29 percent over the next three years. The policy focuses on making Pakistan more competitive both internationally and domestically, but covers incentives for only no [...] | 2009-08-14 08:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1902 | MANGO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 6, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) hosted the third digital video conference (DVC) with the Pakistani Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MINFA) and USDA's office of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to discuss the next steps towards U.S. market ac [...] | 2009-08-14 08:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1903 | GOP UNVEILS NEW THREE-YEAR TRADE POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 08:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1904 | MANGO UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 08:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1905 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 12 AUGUST 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD191 | LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Planning for the Friends of a Democratic Pakistan is moving forward, albeit slowly. On January 27, Jean Arnault negotiated with the MFA a draft framework for his future participation as a UN advisor to the Friends under UNDP auspices. Ambassador met separately with Arnault t [...] | 2009-01-29 10:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECON PK |
09ISLAMABAD1917 | RECONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITY ZONE PREP - GAINING SOME TRACTION? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-17 01:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1930 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-17 11:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1955 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 10:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1976 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 19, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 09:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1988 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 09:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1992 | REMITTANCES LIKELY TO REMAIN HIGH, BUT MAY TRAVEL LESS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of meetings in Karachi and Islamabad in early August, the Treasury Attach, Consulate EconOff, and EconOff, spoke to several Pakistani government and private sector officials to discuss Pakistan's steadily growing remittance levels. The State Bank of Pakistan reported [...] | 2009-08-21 05:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD KCOR PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1996 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 21, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-21 11:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD200 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRENOTIFICATION OF UPCOMING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 03:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2007 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-24 09:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD201 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 13:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2022 | ENCOURAGING GULF INVESTMENT IN KARACHI'S POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC),Pakistan's only private utility, serves 18 million consumers in Karachi, the financial, industrial and commercial hub of Pakistan. Inadequate generation and out-dated transmission infrastructure have contributed to chronic load shedding [...] | 2009-08-25 05:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG AE PK |
09ISLAMABAD2025 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 25, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-25 08:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2036 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 26, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-26 09:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2049 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 27, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-27 10:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2056 | POST PROPOSED FY09 FOREIGN MILITARY FUNDS SPEND [...] (S) Post proposes the following distribution of $300 million in FY09 Foreign Military Funds: - Pakistan Navy: $65 million for refurbishment of the Excess Defense Articles (EDA) Oliver Hazard Perry-class (OHP) Frigate. Although the Joint Staff has only allocated $58M to date in FY09 FMF to [...] | 2009-08-27 13:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD2062 | STABILIZING AND MODERNIZING PAKISTAN'S MILITARY [...] (S) Summary: As the current five-year commitment to provide Pakistan with $300 million annually in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) ends in FY 2009 and we begin to implement our Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy, Post proposes the establishment of a new, multi-year commitment of FMF for Pakistan. [...] | 2009-08-28 06:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD2067 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 28, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-28 10:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2070 | LAHORE HIGH COURT RULING ON A.Q. KHAN [...] (C) Summary: On August 28, The Lahore High Court (LHC) issued a show-cause notice to the federal government instructing it to justify its prevention of movements requested by nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. The court scheduled a hearing for September 4 at which the federal governmen [...] | 2009-08-29 11:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2074 | PAKISTANI SECURITY FORCES ACCUSED OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN MALAKAND DIVISION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-30 12:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PK PTER |
09ISLAMABAD2075 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 31, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-31 10:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2093 | GOP ANNOUNCES REFORMS TOWARD AUTONOMY FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani announced August 29 changes to the governance of Pakistan's "Northern Areas." The region will now be called "Gilgit-Baltistan" and enjoy most of the political arrangements of a province, less the right to representation in the Federal Parliament. Minister [...] | 2009-09-01 10:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IN PK |
09ISLAMABAD2094 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: September 01, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-01 11:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2102 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-02 09:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2111 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 10:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2115 | SRAP HOLBROOKE' AUGUST 17 MEETING WITH FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: In their August 17 meeting, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin told Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke that the Ministry of Finance had missed budget targets because of large outlays for IDPs and the military, as well as a large unexpected withdrawal [...] | 2009-09-03 14:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV PHUM PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2131 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 04, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 09:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2135 | REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY SYMPOSIUM ON WHEAT STEM RUST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 10:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON PREL TBIO AF IN PK IR |
09ISLAMABAD2139 | FINANCE MINISTER ON PAKISTAN'S BUDGET WOES, TOKYO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said the GOP had included $2 billion in Tokyo Pledges in its budget but was grappling with a shortfall in actual donor assistance. He asked that the USG provide $650 million in cash through the GOP to cov [...] | 2009-09-04 11:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2140 | PM AND FINANCE MINISTER ON PAKISTAN'S TROUBLED [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Prime Minister Gilani and Finance Minister Tarin, NSC Senior Director for International Economics David Lipton said Pakistan needed to take a number of steps in the coming months to put its energy sector on firmer footing: resolve the remaining $3.7 billion " [...] | 2009-09-04 12:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2149 | SWAT HUMANITARIAN AID CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary. USAID/OFDA implementing partners, UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations continue to provide assistance to populations in Swat, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Following an August 30 suicide bombing in Mingora, the capital of Swat District, international media mis [...] | 2009-09-07 03:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO |
09ISLAMABAD2159 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 12:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2161 | NGOS DISCUSS ASSISTANCE AND SECURITY IN SWAT [...] (C) Summary: In September 4 discussions, representatives from 14 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs),the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that humanitarian relief was being delivered in [...] | 2009-09-08 13:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2162 | FORMER RULING PARTY PML SPLITS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following weeks of wrangling within the former ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) about the intra-party electoral process, and on the heels of the July 20 national-level party elections in which Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was reelected unopposed as PML president, dissident part [...] | 2009-09-08 13:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL |
09ISLAMABAD217 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 10:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2173 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 09, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 09:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2183 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 11:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2184 | INTERIOR MINISTER REHMAN MALIK'S SEPTEMBER 7 MEETING WITH CODEL SMITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 12:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS KNNP IN AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD2185 | ADDRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT PAKISTAN SECURITY [...] (S/NF) A growing body of evidence is lending credence to allegations of human rights abuses by Pakistan security forces during domestic operations against terrorists in Malakand Division and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. While it is oftentimes difficult to attribute with accuracy any res [...] | 2009-09-10 14:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS MASS KJUS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2196 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-11 11:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2200 | NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT INFORMATION DELIVERED TO [...] Ambassador passed reftel information on President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit to Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi on September 11, 2009, and will raise it with President Zardari at the next opportunity. Embassy PolOff followed up with MFA Director General for Di [...] | 2009-09-11 11:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK |
09ISLAMABAD2201 | CODEL SMITH VISITS TARBELA TRAINING CENTER; MEETS [...] (C) Summary. During a September 5 visit to Tarbela, Codel Smith praised the quality of training provided by U.S. Special Forces for its Pakistani Army counterparts; as part of a training demonstration, the delegation fired Glock 17 pistols and AK47 assault rifles. At a later meeting with 11 [...] | 2009-09-11 11:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | MASS MOPS PGOV PK PTER |
09ISLAMABAD2203 | FOREIGN MILITARY SALE OF OLIVER HAZARD PERRY CLASS FRIGATE TO THE PAKISTAN NAVY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-11 11:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD2208 | CODEL CASEY'S AUGUST 25 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: In an August 25 meeting with CODEL Casey, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan emphasized the need for a long-term enduring partnership between the United States and Pakistan. He argued for increased trade preferences for Pakistani goods through the lo [...] | 2009-09-11 13:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD PREL PTER AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD2209 | PESHAWAR: "HERE I COME AGAIN" OPERATION IN BARA [...] (C) Summary: After just over a week of fighting under the "Here I Come Again" operation in Khyber Agency, the joint army/Frontier Corps/Frontier Constabulary/police actions in Bara tehsil appear to be drawing to a close as army and Frontier Corps troops are pulled out to concentrate on other [...] | 2009-09-11 13:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2218 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-14 09:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2225 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 09 SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 05:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2226 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 09:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2227 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PRIORITIES FOR 12TH SESSION [...] (SBU) Deputy PolCouns delivered reftel demarche on U.S. priorities for the 12th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to MFA UN Division Director Ahmed Farooq on September 14. Since Farooq normally covers security issues and is only temporarily responsible for the human rights portfol [...] | 2009-09-15 09:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN PK |
09ISLAMABAD2231 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ENCOURAGING EXPANDED PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 13:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA IR KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREF |
09ISLAMABAD2232 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ENCOURAGING MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) On September 15, Deputy PolCouns delivered reftel demarche encouraging governments to respond favorably to meeting requests from Government of Kosovo representatives at UNGA to Zaheer Pervaiz Khan, MFA Director General for the Foreign Minister's Office. Khan gave no substantive reply, bu [...] | 2009-09-15 13:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN KV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2233 | PAKISTAN WILL FOLLOW NAM ON IAEA GENERAL [...] (C) PolOff raised U.S. concerns about Middle East issues at the IAEA General Conference (reftel) with Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament Director General Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 15. Shami agreed that Middle East issues are likely to be problematic this year and recognize [...] | 2009-09-15 14:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP AORC PARM IAEA EG IS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2236 | MEDIA REQUEST: INTERVIEW WITH FLOTUS FOR [...] (U) Post would like to support a request by noted Pakistani journalist Jugnu Mohsin for an interview with First Lady Michelle Obama. Ms. Mohsin is one of the leading liberal secular journalists in Pakistan. She is the Managing Editor and Publisher of The Friday Times and a television presen [...] | 2009-09-16 07:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD2245 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-16 10:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2263 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-17 10:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2268 | MFA SAYS PAKISTAN HAS NO IMMEDIATE PLANS TO [...] (SBU) On September 17, Deputy PolCouns delivered to MFA UN Affairs Director Ahmed Farooq ref demarche requesting Pakistan defer introducing at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) a resolution proposing action in response to the Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict. During a follow-up conversat [...] | 2009-09-17 12:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UN IS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2278 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-18 09:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2285 | PAKISTAN WILL OBSERVE CTBT CONFERENCE, BUT [...] (C) PolOff raised GOP participation in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Article XIV Conference (reftel) with MFA Disarmament Director General Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 18. Shami reported that Pakistan will be an observer at the conference, as it has been since 1998. He indicat [...] | 2009-09-18 14:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL KTBT PGOV MNUC PK |
09ISLAMABAD2288 | PRIME MINISTER GILANI OUTLINES GOP PLANS ON THE [...] (C) Summary: In an hour-long meeting September 18, Prime Minister Gilani said the Malakand campaign against extremist groups is 70 percent completed. He emphasized the need to undertake reconstruction and rehabilitation in the region, not only to help the population there but also to convi [...] | 2009-09-20 09:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PTER PREL SNAR PINS PREF AMGT PHUM |
09ISLAMABAD2289 | NATIONAL RECONCILIATION ORDINANCE MAY BE THE [...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Court's decision to return the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to the National Assembly for action has left the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government with a Hobbesian choice between taking public responsibility for passage of this very unpopular legislation [...] | 2009-09-21 12:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD229 | PAKISTAN'S BANKS FACE DETERIORATING CONSUMER AND SMALL [...] (SBU) Summary. The banking sector in Pakistan has been largely shielded from the international financial crisis by a regulatory framework that has limited its foreign currency and securities exposure. Although there were no major losses in calendar year 2008, local bankers are expecting probl [...] | 2009-02-03 13:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2290 | ASSESSMENT OF PRESIDENT ZARDARI'S FIRST YEAR IN [...] (C) Summary: When Asif Ali Zardari took oath as Pakistan's President on September 9, 2008, he inherited a series of intersecting political, economic, and security crises for which the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led coalition government appeared ill-equipped. One year later, Zardari appears [...] | 2009-09-21 13:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL ECON EAID ENRG MOPS PK IN AF |
09ISLAMABAD2292 | FINANCE MINISTER TARIN MEETS LEW, ASKS FOR US [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-22 11:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK ECON ETRD EAID EFIN |
09ISLAMABAD2293 | ANTI-TERRORISM ACT CHANGES MAY NOT ADDRESS [...] (S) Summary: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan informed PolCouns that the changes his office was proposing to Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act were not/not designed to address the prosecution of those detained in combat operations. Instead, they were designed to ease the prosecution and [...] | 2009-09-23 09:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PHUM PGOV MOPS PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2295 | REVIEWING OUR AFGHANISTAN - PAKISTAN STRATEGY [...] (S/NF) Summary: In response to queries posed by the National Security Council, Embassy Islamabad believes that it is not/not possible to counter al-Qaeda in Pakistan absent a comprehensive strategy that 1) addresses the interlinked Taliban threat in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2) brings about stable, [...] | 2009-09-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINR MOPS EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD23 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 05, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-05 09:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD230 | ZARDARI IN NO HURRY TO CEDE HIS CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Nawaz Sharif has a new populist cause-- pressuring President Zardari and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to fulfill their Charter of Democracy pledge to repeal Musharraf-era constitutional changes that transferred power from the Prime Minister to the President. Zardari inherite [...] | 2009-02-03 13:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2301 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 09:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD231 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-03 14:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2311 | PAKISTAN'S DRAFT AFGHAN MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND [...] (C) Summary: The final step necessary to extend the permitted stay of Afghan refugees in Pakistan through 2012 is issuance of an executive order by the Prime Minister. A draft Afghan strategy is in the final stages of governmental consideration and will go to the Prime Minister and the Cabin [...] | 2009-09-24 14:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL EAID PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2320 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-25 10:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2340 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-28 10:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2353 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-29 11:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD236 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY HOLBROOKE [...] (C) Summary. Mission Pakistan warmly welcomes your arrival; your appointment comes as Pakistan grapples with internal change and hopes the Ombama administration can support regional solutions to development and counter-terrorism challenges. After eight years of military rule, the civilian governmen [...] | 2009-02-04 10:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EAID MARR MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2360 | PAKISTAN REQUESTS TOKYO PLEDGE FOLLOW UP, BUDGET [...] (SBU) In a September 16 letter to the Ambassador, Economic Affairs Division Secretary Farrakh Qayyum thanked the USG for committing $174 million in budget support in FY09 and requested an additional $500 million in budget support for FY10 (text in para 3). Qayyum's letter was a follow up to [...] | 2009-09-30 05:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID PHUM PREF PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2361 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-30 10:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD237 | BAHAWALPUR: GROWING MILITANT RECRUITMENT IN [...] (C) Summary: In discussing research findings for her new book on extremism, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa outlined to A/DCM how a decline in the old socio-economic order in southern Punjab was slowly radicalizing the region. She described how a failing agricultural system, absentee landlords, poor educa [...] | 2009-02-04 12:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2375 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 01, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-01 10:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2379 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-02 12:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD238 | PAKISTAN STANDBY ARRANGEMENT: SO FAR SO GOOD, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: IMF and Ministry of Finance contacts agree that, based on preliminary indications, Pakistan has performed well in fulfilling IMF performance criteria as required in Pakistan's November 24 Standby Arrangement (SBA). After retiring $1.24 billion in debt, borrowing from the State [...] | 2009-02-04 13:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2380 | POST APPROVAL FOR NIGHT VISION DEVICES FOR SPECIAL [...] (U) Summary: Post supports the procurement of night vision devices (NVDs) for the Pakistan military at a cost of $300,000, using FY09 Pakistan Counter-Insurgency Funding (PCF). The purchase is for 25 Renegade 320 Thermal Imaging Devices for the Special Services Group (SSG). End Summary. [...] | 2009-10-02 12:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD2381 | PAKISTAN RAISES ENERGY TARIFFS IN STEP TO REDUCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP raised electricity tariffs 6 percent, in accordance with its commitments to international financial institutions. However, lower fuel costs and higher hydropower generation simultaneously pushed tariffs down, reducing the immediate impact on consumers, and hence public [...] | 2009-10-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2382 | FATA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS RESIGN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, PolCouns met with Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Members of the National Assembly (MNA) Munir Khan Orakzai and Shaukat Ullah, and their colleague FATA Senator Rasheed Ahmed. The meeting followed the recent announcement by three federal ministers and [...] | 2009-10-02 12:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2384 | UPDATE ON DISPLACEMENT, RETURN, ASSISTANCE, AND [...] (U) Summary and introduction: According to the Government of Pakistan, approximately 1.85 million of the roughly 2.7 million displaced Pakistanis (69 percent) had returned to their areas of origin as of September 25. Ongoing military operations to clear remaining pockets of insurgent resistan [...] | 2009-10-03 07:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL EAID MOPS SNAR PK |
09ISLAMABAD2385 | GOP SUGGESTS DISCUSSION ON INDIAN NUCLEAR ISSUES [...] (C) PolOff met with MFA Disarmament Director General Dr. Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 30 and conveyed reftel points regarding Pakistani concerns about a possible Indian nuclear test. Shami reiterated the GOP perception that India may be preparing for a nuclear test, but when pressed on the [...] | 2009-10-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PGOV MNUC IN PK |
09ISLAMABAD2389 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 05, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD239 | PAKISTAN'S GOVERNMENT STABILIZES [...] (C) Summary. Despite media speculation and rumor, PM Gilani's government is now stable, and President Zardari's position is now secure. Nawaz Sharif may be the most popular leader in Pakistan, but Zardari has added the Muttahida Quami Movement, soon perhaps to be joined by the Pakistan Musl [...] | 2009-02-04 13:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2391 | PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE - NAWAZ MOVING TOWARDS [...] (C) Summary: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif stated that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is moving towards forcing mid-term legislative elections due to the poor performance and growing unpopularity of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government. Shahbaz viewed these moves towar [...] | 2009-10-05 16:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2393 | KERRY-LUGAR LEGISLATION CRITICIZED BY OPPOSITION, [...] (C) Summary: During an October 5 National Assembly session, the opposition PML-N sharply criticized the Kerry-Lugar bill's perceived conditionality, while the PPP defended the government's approach toward the legislation and maintained that the conditions are in synch with Pakistan's own inte [...] | 2009-10-05 20:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2398 | REQUEST TO CREATE AND NOTIFY FMS CASE FOR F-16 [...] (C) Summary: The Country Team requests the Department create and notify to Congress a new $150 million FMS case, which would use a mix of FMF and national funds, for the 5-year, 24/7 U.S. technology security presence mandated by the security notes for the Pakistan F-16 LOAs. End Summary. [...] | 2009-10-06 03:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD24 | ZARDARI COMMENTS ON INDIA/NAWAZ SHARIF [...] (S) Summary: President Zardari told the Ambassador January 2 he would have no choice but to respond militarily to an Indian attack. There was no more politically sensitive issue in Pakistan than Kashmir, he said. Zardari had been briefed by ISI Director General, LTG Pasha, on his meeting with the D [...] | 2009-01-05 13:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD241 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 04, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 14:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2411 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-06 10:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2416 | PAKISTAN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BEIJING AS [...] Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, conveyed to PolOff on October 6 that Pakistan has decided to appoint its Ambassador to Beijing, Mr. Masood Khan, as Sherpa for the Nuclear Security Summit. Ambassador Khan can be reached by phone at 86-10-6532-25 [...] | 2009-10-07 03:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK |
09ISLAMABAD2417 | PAKISTAN WELCOMES GICNT UPDATE, BUT CAUTIOUS ON [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche updating partners on enhanced implementation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director at Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on October 6. (Despite repeated attempts, PolOff was not able to ma [...] | 2009-10-07 03:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC KGIC PK |
09ISLAMABAD2424 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 10:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2427 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH KAYANI AND PASHA ABOUT [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador heard a number of complaints about the Kerry-Lugar bill from COAS General Kayani and DGISI Pasha in a two-hour meeting October 6. These focused on the history of Pressler sanctions, particularly a fear that the waiver in Kerry-Lugar would not be used and aid would be suspend [...] | 2009-10-07 13:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2431 | PAKISTAN WELCOMES PROGRESS ON IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 06:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR KNNP MNUC PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD2434 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 10:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2448 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS FORMAL DEBATE ON [...] (U) Summary. Pakistan's National Assembly commenced formal debate on the Kerry-Lugar legislation on October 7. The PML-N's Chaudhry Nisar -- the leader of the parliamentary opposition -- criticized the bill's conditions, while PM Gilani stressed that these conditions are not "binding" on Pak [...] | 2009-10-09 07:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2449 | (S) PAKISTAN ARMY GHQ AGAIN APPROVES EMBEDDING [...] (S) Summary: The Pakistani Army has for just the second time approved deployment of U.S. special operation elements to support Pakistani military operations. The first deployment, with SOC(FWD)-PAK elements embedded with the Frontier Corps in XXXXXXXXXXXX, occurred in September (reftel). Previously [...] | 2009-10-09 07:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2453 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, TERRORIRSM, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-09 10:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2459 | HEATED DEBATE IN PAKISTAN'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In three days of intense debate in the Pakistan National Assembly October 7-9, the Kerry-Lugar Bill (KLB) has come under fire (reftel). Post has been observing the debates daily. During debates on October 8 and 9, criticism of the bill by opposition members of parliament conti [...] | 2009-10-10 06:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2474 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-13 10:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2477 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 23 SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-13 12:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2483 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, PAK-CHINA, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-14 10:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2487 | STATUS OF DANIEL PEARL MURDER CASE AND OMAR SAEED SHEIKH [...] (C) On August 13, the Sindh High Court yet again continued the adjournment in the appellate case of Omar Saeed Sheikh, the convicted murderer of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. According to Pakistani legal experts, the refusal of the Court to hear the appeal or set a date for further hearings places [...] | 2009-10-14 12:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2488 | RESOURCING THE MILITARY ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: To build a long-term relationship with Pakistan and increase the country's political will and military capability to fight insurgent and terrorist groups, post recommends (1) obtaining "cash-flow" financing authority for Pakistan's FMF; (2) announcing a Presidential commitment to Paki [...] | 2009-10-14 13:02:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD2495 | MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: FORMAL INDICTMENT [...] (C) Summary: On October 10, following more than two months of delays and adjournments, a Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) formally indicted the seven Mumbai attack suspects. The ATC is set to begin formal court hearings on October 17. The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) is in the pr [...] | 2009-10-15 05:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2496 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, TERRORISM, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 09:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD25 | Pakistan: 2009 INCSR Submission, Part I - Narcotics and [...] (U) Pakistan is on the frontline of the war against drugs as a major transit country for opiates and hashish from and precursor chemicals to neighboring Afghanistan. In 2008, Pakistani forces have engaged the militants along the border with Afghanistan, particularly in the Bajaur Agency of th [...] | 2009-01-05 13:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2501 | PML-N PRAISES KERRY-LUGAR'S INTENTIONS, CRITICIZES [...] (U) National Assembly debate on the Kerry-Lugar bill continued on October 14. PML-N spokesman Ahsan Iqbal adopted a somewhat more conciliatory tone toward the legislation than his party had taken during previous debate sessions. 2. (U) Iqbal praised Kerry-Lugar as "a very good document" wi [...] | 2009-10-16 05:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2518 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-16 10:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD252 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 05, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 09:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2523 | TERRORISTS INCREASE ACTIVITY IN ADVANCE OF [...] (S) Summary: With the Pakistan military preparing to launch an operation against major terrorist safe havens in South Waziristan, Pakistan's terrorist/extremist groups have dramatically increased their militant and propaganda operations in an effort to undermine public support. On the operatio [...] | 2009-10-16 14:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PTER MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2534 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-19 10:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2539 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 7 OCTOBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-20 12:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2541 | STATUS OF PAKISTAN'S ENERGY SECTOR DEBT HOLDING [...] (SBU) Summary: While the GOP has taken some concrete steps to return the Pakistani energy sector to financial solvency, several key elements remain unresolved. On October 1, the GOP raised tariff rates by 6 percent, the first of three tariff hikes agreed with international financial institutio [...] | 2009-10-20 14:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2543 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, TERRORISM, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-21 03:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2554 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM/MILITARY, KERRY-LUGAR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-21 10:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2571 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 12:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2576 | EXTREMISM IN SOUTHERN PUNJAB AND NORTHERN SINDH [...] (SBU) Summary: Though the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) continue to grab headlines for terrorist violence, poor and underdeveloped regions in the rest of "settled" Pakistan are increasingly the recruiting and training ground for extremism and mil [...] | 2009-10-23 03:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2577 | P-3C MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT INSPECTED [...] (S/NF) Summary: A PMA team conducted an Enhanced End-Use Monitoring (EEUM) inspection of Pakistan's P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft during October 12-14. The team found no indications of tampering with the aircraft or the related systems. End Summary. 2. (S/NF) Ref A reported that on Septe [...] | 2009-10-23 03:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MASS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2585 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-23 11:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2591 | PAKISTAN MILITARY LAUNCHES GROUND CAMPAIGN IN [...] (S) Summary: The Pakistan military launched a ground combat campaign against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in South Waziristan on October 17. Reconnaissance in force (RIF) operations have transitioned to preparations for a major ground assault. Military sources have described th [...] | 2009-10-23 15:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD260 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-06 11:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2600 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-26 13:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2607 | MILITARY GROUND OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH WAZIRISTAN SLOWS [...] (S) Summary: A week after Pakistani ground forces began the ground combat phase of Operation RAH-e-NIJAT ("Path of Salvation") against Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) strongholds in South Waziristan, the offensive has slowed down considerably, as the Army has elected to conduct a deliberate and method [...] | 2009-10-26 14:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2609 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-27 15:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2611 | USAID Funding for Pakistan Food Shortfalls [...] (U) Summary. The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) expects food shortfalls in Pakistan in late 2009. Current donor pledges to the WFP Emergency Operation (EMOP) will improve, but not resolve, the food pipeline situation. USAID is providing USD 21 million in immediate funding to WFP to prevent any [...] | 2009-10-27 15:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO |
09ISLAMABAD2625 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 09:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2628 | PAKISTAN-U.S. ENERGY DIALOGUE POINTS TO LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS FOR THE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Delegations to the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue of October 23-24 discussed plans for moving beyond the current difficulties and strategies for addressing longer-term planning. It was clear that Pakistan has made measurable progress in addressing the electricity sector's debt pr [...] | 2009-10-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2632 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, SECRETARY CLINTON'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-29 10:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2640 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, SECRETARY CLINTON'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-30 11:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2641 | MANAGEMENT 2010 LOOKING FORWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. Mission Pakistan's Management Section evaluated its goals and objectives, to determine how best to direct its efforts over the coming year. This cable summarizes the mission environment as it relates to management services, and lays out what we hope to achieve in the coming year [...] | 2009-10-30 13:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT KICA PK |
09ISLAMABAD2642 | PM GILANI CONFIDENT GOP WILL OVERCOME ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 24 meeting, David Goldwyn, Secretary's Coordinator for International Energy Affairs (S/CIEA) and head of the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue, commended Prime Minister Gilani on Pakistan's sound plan for addressing the country's energy crisis, i [...] | 2009-11-02 03:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ENRG PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD265 | AFGHAN-PAKISTAN TRADE AGREEMENT MOVES FORWARD WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP is working with the Afghan draft amendment to the Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Agreement, which was provided to them in November at the Joint Economic Commission, to identify concerns of the private sector, in particular the transport industry, before finalizing their [...] | 2009-02-06 14:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD2651 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, USAID, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-02 12:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD266 | CODEL BIDEN'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI [...] (C) Summary. During a January 9 meeting with President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani, Senators Biden and Graham reasserted their support for passage of the Biden/Lugar aid legislation. However, Senator Biden noted that the U.S. public was financing its own economic recovery efforts and [...] | 2009-02-06 14:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2663 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 11:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2665 | PAKISTAN'S PETROLEUM MINISTRY ON POSSIBILITIES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to its chronic and worsening natural gas shortage, the GOP will "most likely" award contracts to two firms -- 4Gas and a Vitol-FOTCO consortium -- to build floating LNG re-gasification terminals, according to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources Special Secret [...] | 2009-11-03 14:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2669 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 12:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD267 | ISLAMABAD HIGH COURT "FREES" A.Q. KHAN, WITH [...] (C) Summary. The Islamabad High Court released a ruling on February 6 that declares A.Q. Khan a "free citizen." Although Khan and his lawyers claimed victory before the Pakistani media, the text of the ruling reads more like a plea deal, indicating that Khan accepted conditions on his freed [...] | 2009-02-06 14:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP PK |
09ISLAMABAD2672 | PAKISTAN MILITARY MAKING SLOW BUT DELIBERATE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Pakistani ground forces appear to be making slow but deliberate progress in their campaign against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in South Waziristan. In recent days, the Army has been securing the ground it occupies, and on November 3, the 14th Division advanced into th [...] | 2009-11-05 04:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2675 | Visit to Waziristan IDP Relief Center [...] (U) Summary. Following reports of rioting at multiple relief distribution points in Dera Ismail (D.I.) Khan, representatives of USAID, the U.N., a local relief organization, and the media traveled with Lt. General Nadeem Ahmed on October 28 to the newly established centralized relief distribut [...] | 2009-11-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO |
09ISLAMABAD2677 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, HILLARY CLINTON'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 10:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD269 | PAKISTAN INVESTIGATION INTO MUMBAI ATTACKS LEADS [...] (C) Summary: On February 5, Interior Minister Rehman Malik met with the Ambassador and FBI agents to discuss the initial results of the FIA-led investigation into the Mumbai attacks. Malik shared both the investigation team's findings and the draft First Instance Report (FIR),both of which wi [...] | 2009-02-06 14:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2692 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY STATE'S VISIT, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-06 09:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2696 | THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE UN IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: The UN continues to struggle in structuring itself to play its full role in Pakistan. The departure of Jean Arnault as the Secretary General's representative to the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) not only reduces the UN's leadership role in the group, but also complicates [...] | 2009-11-06 13:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD2698 | FINANCE MINISTER TARIN ON BUDGETS, CSF DOLLAR FUND, AND PAKISTAN'S IMPROVING ECONOMIC OUTLOOK [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Shaukat Tarin told the Ambassador that he is "cautiously optimistic" about the Pakistani economy and expressed GOP gratitude that the USG would begin to move gradually towards greater use of Pakistani platforms to channel U.S. assistance. Tarin requested that an ad [...] | 2009-11-06 14:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID MOPS PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD270 | CODEL BIDEN'S MEETING WITH COAS KAYANI AND ISI [...] (S) Summary: Senators Biden and Graham met with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Kayani and Director General of ISI LTGen Pasha on January 9 to underscore bipartisan support for the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Senator Biden emphasized the need for the American people to see results soon in Afghanistan [...] | 2009-02-06 15:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER MARR PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2706 | PAKISTAN REQUESTS USG SUPPORT BID FOR SECURITY [...] (U) On October 16, post received a diplomatic note in which the GOP formally requested USG support for its candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the term 2012-2013. They noted that Pakistan last served on the Security Council 10 years ago and that their candidatu [...] | 2009-11-10 05:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD2708 | WAZIRISTAN UPDATE: GROUND FORCES MAKE GAINS, HOLD [...] (S) Summary: Pakistan ground forces continue Operation RAH-e-NIJAT (Path of Salvation or Deliverance,) in South Waziristan against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and we have seen significant fighting in the major TTP strongholds of Makin, Ladha, and Sora Rogha. It is likely we are now s [...] | 2009-11-10 06:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2709 | PAKISTAN SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION TO SEYMOUR M. HERSH STORY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-10 11:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD271 | CODEL BIDEN MEETS WITH PM GILANI [...] (C) Summary. During a January 9 meeting with Codel Biden, PM Gilani pledged continued Pakistani resolve to fight terrorism and cooperate in the Mumbai investigations. He said that civil-military relations had improved, urged an expedited meeting of the Friends of Pakistan and requested U.S [...] | 2009-02-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2710 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM/MILITARY, POLITICAL, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-10 11:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2716 | INTERIOR MINISTER SEEKS USG HELP IN PROTECTING [...] (C) Summary:... [...] | 2009-11-11 14:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2718 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, VISITING U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 11:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2739 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, U.S. CONGRESSIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-13 11:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2740 | AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR GETS A NEW PRIME MINISTER, [...] (C) Summary: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly elected Farooq Haider as AJK prime minister on October 22 -- making him the region's third prime minister since 2006 elections there. Haider previously headed a breakaway faction of AJK's Muslim Conference party, and had held [...] | 2009-11-14 05:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2741 | NEW CEO ON CHANGE IN KESC LEADERSHIP AND FUTURE OF [...] (U) This is a joint Consulate General Karachi-Embassy Islamabad message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) CEO Tabish Gahaur said that KESC had made significant strides in increasing collections and bringing new generation on line since Abraaj Capital took over its ma [...] | 2009-11-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2744 | Mobile Banking in Pakistan - Challenges and Prospects [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of meetings in Karachi and Islamabad in early October, the Treasury Attache and an advisor from Treasury's Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes discovered that some of Pakistan's commercial banks and microfinance banks have a growing interest in providi [...] | 2009-11-16 04:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD KCOR PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2754 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 01:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2760 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 12:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2767 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES,04 NOVEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 13:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2769 | CODEL TIERNEY MEETS WITH PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani told CODEL Tierney November 11 that the Pakistani people were united in the fight against terrorism and supported military efforts in Swat, Malakand and South Waziristan. However, he noted the public was upset with Pakistan's failing economy, pointing out co [...] | 2009-11-17 14:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF EAID ECON MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2773 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 09:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2780 | GROUND FORCES MOVE TO SECURE MILITANT STRONGHOLD [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Pakistan Army's Operation Rah-e-Nijat ("Path of Salvation") continues to make progress against Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in the Mehsud tribal Area of South Waziristan. Three infantry divisions assigned to the Army's 11th Corps continue to be engaged in the [...] | 2009-11-18 11:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2784 | PAKISTAN: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's National Assembly is discussing a bill to turn into permanent law the Musharraf-era National Command Authority (NCA) Ordinance, which established Pakistan's nuclear command and control infrastructure. Media reports had linked the introduction of the bill to internat [...] | 2009-11-19 05:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2786 | PAKISTAN UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT RUSSIAN FUEL BANK [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel request for support for the Russian Fuel Bank proposal at the November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board meeting to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament Director Kamran Akhtar on November 17. Akhtar said that Pakistan believed the Russian proposal [...] | 2009-11-19 08:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER IAEA ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2787 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 10:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2798 | PAKISTAN'S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IMPROVING, BUT STRUCTURAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 12:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2799 | POST RESPONSE TO CSG TASKING ON CFT CAPABILITIES [...] (C/NF) Mission Islamabad provides the following response to Ref A request for information on the Mission's resources and for staff combating terrorist financing in Pakistan. 2. (C//NF) Embassy Islamabad has dedicated the following resources to terrorism finance issues, at least part-time. I [...] | 2009-11-19 13:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL SNAR PK |
09ISLAMABAD280 | INTERIOR SECRETARY PROVIDES TERMS OF A.Q. KHAN'S [...] (S) Secretary of the Interior Kamal Shah called in the Ambassador on February 7 to provide a copy of "Annexure-A", the terms of the Islamabad High Court,s decision on Khan,s appeal of his detention (text below). Shah assured the Ambassador that the Government of Pakistan retains full powers to en [...] | 2009-02-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP PK |
09ISLAMABAD2802 | PHARMACEUTICAL DATA PROTECTION AMENDMENT APPROVED, [...] (SBU) Summary: Director General for Health Dr. Rashid Jooma told EconCouns and Econoff that the Ministry of Health is at last moving forward with long-stalled data protection for pharmaceutical products. According to Jooma, representatives from both domestic and international pharmaceutical i [...] | 2009-11-20 02:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD281 | PRESIDENT ZARDARI DISCUSSES AQ KHAN RELEASE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 12:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PK KNNP PARM |
09ISLAMABAD2810 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 10:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2813 | PAKISTAN: GOODS PRODUCED BY FORCED AND CHILD LABOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 14:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL SOCI PK |
09ISLAMABAD2820 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, USAID, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-21 05:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2822 | USAID/Pakistan Provides $44 million for Families Displaced [...] (U) Summary. On November 17, USAID/Pakistan notified the Government of Pakistan (GoP) that USAID had requested release of USD 44 million in budget support for the GoP cash assistance to families displaced by conflict with insurgents. Funds should reach the GoP's bank account by Friday, Novemb [...] | 2009-11-21 09:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO |
09ISLAMABAD2826 | PAKISTAN MOD RELUCTANTLY AGREES TO COOPERATE WITH [...] (C) Summary: In light of renewed discussion in Washington about the necessity of providing man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) assistance to Lahore airport (LHE) as a prerequisite to its certification for non-stop flights from LHE to the United States, Econ Counselor and ICE Attache met [...] | 2009-11-23 08:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ASEC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2827 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 23, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2828 | BONDED LABORERS HELD HOSTAGE BY LANDLOWNERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 4, a Pakistani NGO reported to Embassy Islamabad that over 150 peasants and their family members in rural Sindh had disappeared after filing illegal confinement and non-payment wage petitions with local courts. There was strong evidence that the peasants' employers -- [...] | 2009-11-23 13:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ELAB PK |
09ISLAMABAD2829 | DIVVYING UP THE TAX REVENUE PIE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-23 13:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD283 | PAKISTAN INTERESTED IN GICNT WORKSHOP, BUT LACKS [...] PolOff delivered invitation and informational paper on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Draft Model Guidelines workshop to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 7. Akhtar welcomed the invitation and stated that experts from [...] | 2009-02-09 12:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP KGIC PK |
09ISLAMABAD2830 | PAKISTAN'S THIRD IMF REVIEW - ENOUGH PROGRESS TO [...] (C) Summary: In an upbeat meeting November 17, Acting Additional Secretary of Finance Salim Sethi assured Treasury Attache and Econ Counselor that Pakistan's third review under its Stand-By Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was "virtually assured" of a successful conclusion [...] | 2009-11-23 15:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2836 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 09:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2837 | ADVANCE IN SOUTH WAZIRISTAN CONTINUES; FIGHTING [...] (S/NF) Summary: Pakistani ground forces advanced into the interior of Makin, where they appear to be meeting little resistance in the sixth week of Operation Rah-e-Nijat (""Path of Salvation""),the Pakistan military's air and ground offensive against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) milit [...] | 2009-11-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK |
09ISLAMABAD2838 | SECRETARY CLINTON,S OCTOBER 30, 2009, MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Political, civic, and business leaders from Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) told the Secretary during an October 30 meeting in Islamabad that "not all tribesmen are militants" and that development and long-term U.S. economic [...] | 2009-11-24 12:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON OVIP PK |
09ISLAMABAD2839 | EMBASSY ISLAMABAD P1 REFERRAL: FAMILY OF JOHN [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Islamabad hereby refers for P1 U.S. resettlement consideration/in-country processing the family of Syed Hashim, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff member killed by a Baloch nationalist group on February 2, 2009 at the time of the kidnapping of U.S. cit [...] | 2009-11-24 12:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PK |
09ISLAMABAD284 | PRESIDENT ZARDARI DISCUSSES AQ KHAN RELEASE [...] (S) Summary: President Zardari assured the Ambassador on February 8 that A.Q. Khan would remain under house arrest and not engage with the media. Minister of Interior Rehman Malik also insisted that Khan would be prohibited from talking to the press and politicians, and his movements would be curta [...] | 2009-02-09 12:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PK KNNP PARM |
09ISLAMABAD2840 | PAKISTANI VIEWS ON FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY [...] (C) Summary: Pakistani officials do not appear to have coalesced on a strategy or position for the mid-January resumption of Conference on Disarmament (CD) discussions on the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) interlocutors continue to stress the need for conse [...] | 2009-11-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2847 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 18 NOVEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2853 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 25, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 10:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD286 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 09, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 13:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2868 | ZARDARI'S IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE IS UNCERTAIN, PPP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-27 13:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2880 | WORLD FOOD PROGRAM FEARS SHORTAGE OF FOOD FOR IDPs [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) is taking steps to prevent a food shortfall in its Emergency Operation in Pakistan (EMOP) in the coming months. Left unaddressed, this break in the WFP assistance pipeline could affect the 2.7 million individuals, including internally displaced [...] | 2009-12-01 05:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PK PREL PREF IO |
09ISLAMABAD2885 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 01, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-01 14:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2889 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-02 11:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD289 | ZARDARI’S PLANNED APPROACH TO HOLBROOKE [...] (C) Summary. During a February 8 meeting with the Ambassador, President Zardari outlined Pakistan's need for additional assistance, a message that would figure prominently in his meeting with Special Representative Holbrooke. Zardari outlined the steps he would follow to restrict A.Q. Khan (septel) [...] | 2009-02-09 14:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD2890 | POLITICAL CONTACTS ACROSS SPECTRUM GENERALLY [...] (C) Summary: Key contacts in Peshawar and Islamabad across the political spectrum by and large reacted positively to the way forward on Afghanistan and Pakistan that President Obama outlined in his December 1 speech. Most of our interlocutors were supportive of the U.S. increasing troops in [...] | 2009-12-02 13:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD2894 | AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE - PERSONNEL CHANGES AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 02:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD2895 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 02 DECEMBER, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 02:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2900 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 09:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2903 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OMAR SAEED SHEIKH CASEREF: SECSTATE 108201 [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and associated non-paper and diplomatic note on the transfer of Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh to the U.S. to MFA Director for Americas Sohail Khan on November 25. Per reftel instructions, she specifically requested that while the request for transfer of Sheikh was bei [...] | 2009-12-03 09:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV UK PK |
09ISLAMABAD2927 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 04, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-04 10:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2928 | SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW NATIONAL RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary: The National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) lapsed on November 28. The Supreme Court announced that it will review all petitions related to the NRO beginning on December 7, and will likely make a ruling on its constitutionality. The government has not yet decided whether to def [...] | 2009-12-04 11:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2932 | U.N. EXPLAINS THE DELAYED RELEASE OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.N. has proposed a 12-month Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) valued at nearly $800 million - 14 percent larger than the 2009 PHRP. However, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) is concerned that releasing a large appeal will create the perception that the internally [...] | 2009-12-05 03:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK |
09ISLAMABAD2933 | U.N. EXPLAINS THE DELAYED RELEASE OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.N. has proposed a 12-month Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) valued at nearly $800 million - 14 percent larger than the 2009 PHRP. However, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) is concerned that releasing a large appeal will create the perception that the internally [...] | 2009-12-05 03:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK |
09ISLAMABAD2939 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-07 10:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2941 | PAKISTAN HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. This cable responds to ref A request for an interim assessment of Pakistan's progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP). In response to Pakistan's Tier 2 Watch List ranking in the 2009 TIP report, the government enhanced its efforts to address Pakistan's significant huma [...] | 2009-12-08 03:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ELAB KTIP PK |
09ISLAMABAD2942 | WAY FORWARD ON AFGHAN REFUGEES REMAINS UNCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: A new inter-ministerial subcommittee has been established to find a way forward on Afghan refugee status, repatriation, and security-related issues in Pakistan. While establishment of the subcommittee has rolled back progress on finalizing Pakistan's draft Afghan Management and R [...] | 2009-12-08 09:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL EAID PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD2946 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 11:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2947 | WAVE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its allies are continuing -- and intensifying -- their wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistan's settled areas. Separate attacks in Multan, Lahore, and Peshawar during December 7-8 killed over 70 people. These three attacks came on the heels [...] | 2009-12-08 13:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2956 | LAUNCH OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the U.N. remains in discussions with the Government of Pakistan (GoP) to obtain a non-objection decision for the release of a seven-month 2010 Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP),the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is considering [...] | 2009-12-10 07:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK |
09ISLAMABAD2959 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-10 11:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2960 | USG TRAINING PROVIDES FATA LEVIES WITH INCREASED [...] (SBU) Summary: Through a joint State/INL and Justice/ICIPTAP program, the Mission continues to offer police training to the Levy forces, who are the primary law enforcement arm of the Political Agents in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). On 21 November, 25 Levies graduated [...] | 2009-12-10 13:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2963 | CONTINUED POST-CONFLICT PLANNING FOR SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. In meetings December 3 with CG and Assistance Coordinator, Northwest Frontier Province Governor Ghani and FATA Additional Chief Secretary Habibullah Khan confirmed support for USAID's proposed supporting post-conflict reconstruction in South Waziristan. Both approved in principl [...] | 2009-12-11 08:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAID PK MOPS |
09ISLAMABAD2966 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: December 11, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-11 09:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD297 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-10 11:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2973 | PAKISTAN'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORDINANCE LAPSES, [...] (C) Summary: In a last minute attempt to keep some kind of anti-money laundering regime in place after the Supreme Court directed that a string of Musharraf-era ordinances be promulgated as laws or allowed to lapse, President Zadari issued a revised Anti-Money Laundering ordinance (AMLO) on No [...] | 2009-12-12 11:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2974 | NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD [...] Embassy Islamabad nominates Masarrat Misbah for the International Women of Courage award. 2. In 2003, Masarrat Misbah, a beautician by profession, decided to take action against an abhorrent cultural practice: acid attacks against women and girls. Men and boys perpetrate these attacks wh [...] | 2009-12-12 11:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO PK |
09ISLAMABAD2979 | MISSION ESTABLISHES INTER-AGENCY GENDER [...] Summary: The Mission held the first meeting of an inter-agency Gender Development Working Group (GDWG) on November 19. The group, which subsequently met two more times and will convene monthly, was established with four broad goals: 1) to build greater understanding, collaboration, and commun [...] | 2009-12-14 04:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KWMN PK |
09ISLAMABAD2987 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3002 | ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR BRIEFS FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Ambassador Robin Raphel, Coordinator for Economic and Development Assistance in Pakistan briefed Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on U.S. plans to channel more assistance through the Pakistani government, target USG assistance in areas vulnerable to militants, and to focus on severa [...] | 2009-12-15 05:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3005 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 15, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 08:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3010 | Islamabad VIP Visit Limitation Request [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Islamabad and its three consulates cannot continue to host visitors at the current level. The security situation is too precarious and we do not have the people to support such a heavy visitor load: manning in some Embassy sections is now down to 50 percent. Moreover, th [...] | 2009-12-15 14:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PREL OVIP ASEC PK |
09ISLAMABAD3015 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 09:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3027 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 11:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3035 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3037 | BALOCH REQUEST UNHCR FACILITATE MOVEMENT OF [...] (S/NF) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXXX, who has been designated by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres as XXXXXXXXXXXX in Pakistan, met with the Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission on December 13 to discuss the U.S. Government's position on the possible movement of Baloch leader Brahmdagh B [...] | 2009-12-18 11:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PREF PK AF |
09ISLAMABAD3039 | AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE -- GETTING TO YES? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 17:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD304 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 11, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 13:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3042 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 16 DECEMBER, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 02:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3043 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 21, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 02:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD305 | STATE BANK GOVERNOR: LACK OF CREDIT STIFLING PAKISTAN'S [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 31, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) released its Monetary Policy Statement which maintained the discount rate at 15 percent for the next six months, causing disappointment to many in the private sector who were hoping for an easing of rates. SBP Governor Salim Raza [...] | 2009-02-12 07:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD307 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 12, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-12 11:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3073 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 22, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3076 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 23, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3077 | FISCAL FEDERALISM OR FISCAL FOOLISHNESS? [...] (SBU) Summary: In a move heralded in the Pakistani press as a "historical shift to provincial autonomy" and a "victory for democracy," the National Finance Commission (NFC) reached a consensus on the formula for revenue division between the federal and provincial governments on December 11. Ag [...] | 2009-12-23 14:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD308 | SPECIAL PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION - RICHARD HOLBROOKE'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-12 11:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3084 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-24 07:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3089 | AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE: GETTING CLOSER, BUT NO DEAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-28 11:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD3104 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 11:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3116 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche regarding the U.S. request to cooperate with Pakistan to constructively address the problem of racial and religious intolerance and discrimination to MFA Director General (Americas) Sohail Khan on December 30. Khan noted U.S. opposition to "defamation of r [...] | 2009-12-31 07:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD313 | PAKISTAN FILES CASE AGAINST MUMBAI ATTACK SUSPECTS [...] (C) Summary: On February 12, Interior Minister Rehman Malik publicly declared that the Mumbai terror attacks were planned, at least partially, in Pakistan and that the GOP had several suspects in custody. Malik held a press conference to present the initial results of the inquiry and announce [...] | 2009-02-12 16:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD3131 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 31, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 10:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD315 | PAKISTAN'S ENERGY CRISIS - IMPROVING, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP is making some headway fulfilling President Zardari's January directive to clear up the "circular" debt situation that is wreaking havoc among power producers, but confidence varies that it will be paid off in its entirety any time soon. Blackouts have been reduced from [...] | 2009-02-13 08:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD318 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 13, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 11:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD32 | QURESHI SHARES MUMBAI DOSSIER WITH BOUCHER [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on January 5. The two men discussed India's sharing of a dossier with Pakistan detailing the results of India's ongoing investigation into the November 26-29 [...] | 2009-01-06 14:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD320 | PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER QURESHI STEPS OUT ON [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Qureshi called in the Ambassador, February 13, to review next steps on U.S.-Pakistan strategic coordination following the visit of Special Representative Holbrooke. Qureshi expressed pleasure with the results of the Special Representative's first visit to Pakistan and r [...] | 2009-02-13 14:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD321 | GOP REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR MIRZA BEG'S IFAD CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) Muhammad Haroon Shaukat, MFA Additional Secretary, convoked representatives of Japan, Kuwait, Libya, the United States, and Saudi Arabia (which was not present) on February 13 to ask their support for the candidacy of Mirza Qamar Beg for President of the International Fund for Agricultura [...] | 2009-02-13 14:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID EAGR PK |
09ISLAMABAD329 | UPDATE ON KIDNAPPING OF AMCIT JOHN SOLECKI [...] This... [...] | 2009-02-17 09:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD33 | FATA UPDATE - 2 JANUARY 2009 [...] (C) Summary. On December 28, a polling station in Buner District in the NWFP was bombed, killing at least 37 people and wounding 28 others, and on December 30, the Pakistan military initiated a series of operations in Khyber Agency in the FATA, resulting in the temporary closure of the NATO su [...] | 2009-01-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD330 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 10:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD334 | INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION REACTS TO PAKISTAN'S MUMBAI [...] (C) Summary: The GOI reaction to the GOP report on its investigations into the Mumbai attacks and the request for further information from the GOI has been positive and "deflated tensions," according to the Indian High Commission. Surprise at the depth of the investigation into the attack, h [...] | 2009-02-17 15:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09ISLAMABAD335 | UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR IN PAKISTAN [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Pakistan (GOP) continues to recognize the importance of the elimination of the worst forms of child labor and is slowly taking steps to achieve this goal. There have been pockets of improvement over the past year but the main problem for Pakistan continues to be [...] | 2009-02-18 06:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD337 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 10:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD34 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-07 03:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD341 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (C) Almost no fighting was reported in Bajaur during the second week of January. Consulate contacts report that security forces have established 13 checkpoints on the 17 km of road between Bajaur's agency border and Khar, converting what is usually a 10 minute drive into a 90 minute voyage. T [...] | 2009-02-19 03:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD343 | MORE DONOR ASSISTANCE NEEDED [...] (SBU) This is an action cable. See paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: GOP officials have told us and high-level visitors that they have received little support from the international donor community in recent months. A World Bank senior economist confirmed that very little foreign assistance [...] | 2009-02-19 07:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON IBRD PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD344 | DONORS AND FRIENDS: THE WAY AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary. Given Pakistan's struggling economy and the urgent need for development and budgetary assistance, Mission recommends that we move forward as quickly as possible to facilitate a successful Donors' Conference, co-hosted by the World Bank, and now tentatively scheduled for April i [...] | 2009-02-19 07:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD353 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES FROM 13 FEBRUARY 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 09:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD358 | SHARIAT COURT OVERTURNS RAPE LAW [...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's Federal Shariat Court invalidated a 25 year-old law allowing a man accused of rape to impeach the credibility of his alleged victim by offering evidence she "was of generally immoral character." In its judgment, the four-member panel requested President Zardari repea [...] | 2009-02-19 11:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP KISL KWMN PK |
09ISLAMABAD359 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 19, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 11:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD364 | UPDATE ON SOLECKI CASE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and UN Resrep Akcura met February 19 with Interior Minister Malik to follow up on the Solecki kidnapping case. Akcura expressed concern about Solecki's deteriorating health, as noted by the kidnappers' spokesman in a February 18 statement rejecting direct negotiatio [...] | 2009-02-19 16:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PGOV PK CASC |
09ISLAMABAD365 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL KAYANI’S VISIT TO [...] (S) Summary. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani's February 20-27 visit to Washington comes on the heels of the government's loss of control over Swat, continued Pakistani Army/Frontier Corps operations in the tribal areas, and still-simmering Indo-Pak tensions in the wake of the Mumba [...] | 2009-02-19 16:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV MOPS MARR EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD366 | MUMBAI-ATTACKS PROSECUTION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Since the filing of the First Information Report (FIR) on February 12, Pakistan has established an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, appointed a special prosecutor, and is actively working on prosecutions. The GOP is still seeking several pieces of information and cooperation fr [...] | 2009-02-19 16:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD373 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-20 11:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD377 | UPDATE ON IDP SITUATION IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. The overall IDP situation has not changed significantly over the past few weeks, with UN estimates of the conflict-affected population still at approximately 300,000. However, there has been an increase in the number affected by conflict in Swat. Despite a proposed peace deal i [...] | 2009-02-20 12:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD378 | POLITICAL UPDATE: ZARDARI CONSOLIDATES POWER [...] (C) Summary: President Asif Zardari has taken simultaneous moves to further consolidate his authority over the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and to extend the PPP's control over both the National Assembly and Senate. Senate elections will not occur until March 4, but the PPP has already locked [...] | 2009-02-20 13:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD379 | U.S. EMBASSY APPROVAL FOR JOINT COMBINED EXCHANCE [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Embassy Islamabad and host nation concur with Special Operations Command Central,s (SOCCENT) and 3rd Special Forces Group,s (SFG)(Airborne) Concept of Operation (CONOP) for conducting a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) event with the Pakistan Army,s (PAKARMY) Special [...] | 2009-02-20 13:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS ASEC MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD380 | U.S. EMBASSY APPROVAL FOR JOINT COMBINED EXCHANGE [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Embassy Islamabad and host nation concur with Special Operations Command Central,s (SOCCENT) and Naval Special Warfare Unit 3 (NSW-3) Concept of Operation (CONOP) for conducting a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) event with the Pakistan Army,s (PAKNAVY) Special Servi [...] | 2009-02-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS ASEC MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD381 | U.S. EMBASSY APPROVAL FOR JOINT COMBINED EXCHANGE [...] (U) Summary. U.S. Embassy Islamabad and host nation concur with Special Operations Command Central,s (SOCCENT) and the Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) Concept of Operation (CONOP) for conducting Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) events with the Pakistan Army,s (PAKARMY) Speci [...] | 2009-02-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS ASEC MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD382 | U.S. EMBASSY APPROVAL FOR JOINT COMBINED EXCHANGE [...] (U) Summary. U.S. Embassy Islamabad and host nation concur with Special Operations Command Central,s (SOCCENT) and 6th Special Operations Squadron (6th SOS) Concept of Operation (CONOP) for conducting a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) event with the Pakistan Air Force,s (PAKAF) 6th Ai [...] | 2009-02-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS ASEC MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD383 | PARASTATAL TRADING COMPANY INCREASINGLY INVOLVED [...] (C) Summary. The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP),a state trading company under the Ministry of Commerce, is engaging in another purchase venture that could prove devastating to private market trading. It is planning to import 200,000 metric tons (MT) of refined sugar for approximately [...] | 2009-02-20 14:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD385 | FOCUSING THE U.S.-PAKISTAN STRATEGIC DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary. As Foreign Minister Qureshi and his team arrive in Washington for coordination on the Holbrooke/Riedel strategic review, Post offers the following thoughts on issues for strategic engagement. In the coming weeks, Post will detail our suggestions on how to expand political, economic, se [...] | 2009-02-21 12:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD387 | POST'S FSN NOMINATION FOR 2009 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, [...] (U) Post would like to nominate Bibi Gul-e-Afshan for the 2009 Environment, Science, Technology, and Health (ESTH) course at FSI. This course would help bolster her reporting and drafting skills as well as increase her knowledge on ESTH policy issues. 2. (U) Please see below the requested bi [...] | 2009-02-23 04:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PK |
09ISLAMABAD389 | CARTAGENA PROTOCOL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-23 06:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ETRD TBIO KPAO PK |
09ISLAMABAD397 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 23, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-23 10:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD404 | FOOD CRISIS WEATHERED, BUT BOTTLENECKS, [...] (SBU) Summary. Based on information provided by Pakistan's Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MinFAL),it now appears evident that the GOP has been able to avoid a potential food crisis by stepping up wheat imports. Since December, the GOP has purchased nearly one million tons of [...] | 2009-02-23 12:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD405 | GETTING THE MOST OUT OF OUR ENERGY DIALOGUE WITH PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Ministry of Water and Power Additional Secretary Zarar Aslam suggested rescheduling the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue during the week of March 15. He requested the USG propose dates via letter to which Aslam would then coordinate a GOP response. Although Asl [...] | 2009-02-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD411 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-24 13:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD412 | NEW PRIVATIZATION POLICY APPROVED; GAS FIELD PRIVATIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 19, the Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCOP) approved a new privatization policy whereby 26 percent and management control of a number of state owned enterprises would be sold. While total privatization is the eventual goal, the GOP intends to proceed in steps [...] | 2009-02-24 13:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD413 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 25, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-25 11:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD415 | SHARIFS DISQUALIFIED FROM OFFICE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled February 25 that both Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party are ineligible to hold public office. President Zardari told Charge that he had temporarily appointed PPP Governor Taseer as Chief Execut [...] | 2009-02-25 15:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD416 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRENOTIFICATION OF UPCOMING [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs UN Director Ahmad Farooq on February 24, 2009. Farooq promised to forward this information to his superiors and other relevant ministries and to follow up with the Embassy. Farooq noted that Haq's name previously was put fo [...] | 2009-02-26 03:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD42 | PAKISTAN POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: Political developments in Pakistan during the week of January 5 included: the main Baloch insurgent groups called an end to their voluntary and tenuous cease-fire with the Pakistani military; President Zardari announced his plan to reform and restructure the National Accountability [...] | 2009-01-08 08:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD420 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 26, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 09:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD422 | WORLD BANK GIVES HIGH MARKS TO GOP "SCORECARD" APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: World Bank point person for the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) Iftikhar Malik told EconOff February 12 that President Zardari had signed off on revisions to the BISP "distributions via parliamentary political networks" on January 22. Pilot programs for [...] | 2009-02-26 11:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL SOCI PK |
09ISLAMABAD428 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) On February 12 CommCouns and Senior Commercial Specialist visited the Kamra Avionics and Radar Factory (KARF) at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC),Kamra, and conducted the subject Pre-License End Use Check (PLC). Before conducting the PLC, the USG officials held a discussion with Air [...] | 2009-02-26 12:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BMGT KOMC PK |
09ISLAMABAD429 | DEMONSTRATIONS AND POLITICAL MANEUVERING CONTINUE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 15:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL |
09ISLAMABAD43 | FOLLOW-UP ON MUMBAI INFORMATION SHARING [...] (S) Summary. On January 6, 7, and 8, ... [...] | 2009-01-08 14:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD435 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 27, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 11:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD438 | PAKISTAN 2009 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Pakistan remain on the Priority Watch List (PWL) at the conclusion of the 2009 Special 301 Review process. Pakistan has made no significant progress in IPR enforcement or data protection legislation in the past year. End Summary. Data Protection ------ [...] | 2009-02-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD439 | DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE IN PUNJAB [...] (C) Summary: Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, mostly in Punjab, after Friday prayers to protest the disqualification of opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leaders Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif. Protests turned violent in Lahore and Rawalpindi, and police used tear gas and b [...] | 2009-02-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD44 | PM GILANI FIRES NSA DURRANI [...] (C) Summary. On January 8, Ambassador Mahmood Durrani confirmed to Ambassador that he had been fired by PM Gilani late on January 7. The press reported that Gilani fired Durrani because he confirmed to the press that Mumbai attacker Mohammed (Ajmal) Kasab was indeed a Pakistani citizen wit [...] | 2009-01-08 15:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD440 | PAKISTAN MEETS FUND TARGETS; MORE LEEWAY AS GROWTH SLOWS [...] (SBU) Summary. The IMF finished its first "generally positive" review of Pakistan's Standby Arrangement on February 25. While the program remains on track, the Fund has relaxed its fiscal deficit and tax revenue targets slightly, based on a deteriorating global economic environment. Finance [...] | 2009-02-28 04:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD441 | POLITICAL TURMOIL, GOING NOWHERE FAST [...] (C) Summary: Actors across the political spectrum were working to solve yet another self-inflicted political crisis in the wake of the Supreme Court's February 25 decision to disqualify the Sharif brothers from public office. Both President Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Shar [...] | 2009-03-01 12:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINR KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD442 | PAK TELECOM SECTOR SLUMPS [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on conversations with several telecom executives and the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) Director of Economic Affairs Muhammad Sargana, the telecommunications sector in Pakistan is suffering from market saturation and the general economic downturn. Telecom co [...] | 2009-03-02 02:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD443 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES FROM 25 FEBRUARY 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 02:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD450 | PAKISTAN WED TO "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" LANGUAGE [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel demarche announcing USG participation as an observer in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) (ref a),Imran Siddique, Director of UN Affairs in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told DepPolCouns February 28 Pakistan remains committed to language on "Def [...] | 2009-03-02 13:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN PK |
09ISLAMABAD451 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 13:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD454 | SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER [...] (C) Summary: Mission Pakistan warmly welcomes your arrival in Islamabad. You are arriving in the midst of largely self-inflicted political turmoil following the Supreme Court's decision to disqualify from public office Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif, political rivals of President Asif Zardari. Zardari en [...] | 2009-03-03 02:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD46 | POST'S APPEAL FOR FY09 BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH STRATEGY AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pakistan played a major role in the original Green Revolution. After several decades of lagging agricultural production, the Government of Pakistan (GOP) is looking to make the leap to join the Gene Revolution. Post has outlined an ambitious biotech program for FY 2009 and req [...] | 2009-01-09 06:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO PK |
09ISLAMABAD465 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-03 10:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD468 | LACK OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO UN APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 8-9. 2. (SBU) Summary. On February 26, representatives from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Program (WFP) called on Charge d'Affaires to discuss their operations within Pakistan. Both organizations committe [...] | 2009-03-03 14:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD472 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 04, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-04 11:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD477 | NO CONTEST: PAKISTAN'S SENATE ELECTIONS [...] (C) National and provincial legislators gathered in their respective chambers March 4 to elect 50 new senators to Pakistan's 100-member upper house (ref A). Senators are hand-picked by their party leaders, elected indirectly not by popular vote, and serve six-year terms. Pakistan's Election [...] | 2009-03-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD478 | NEW WAZIRISTAN TERRORIST ALLIANCE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Rival Pakistani Taliban leaders Baitullah Mehsud, Maulvi Nazir, and Hafiz Gul Bahadur formed a new militant alliance on February 23. The new alliance recognizes Taliban leader Mullah Omar as its leader, and its goal is to fight the planned U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan. The P [...] | 2009-03-04 14:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD486 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 05, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-05 11:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD491 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-06 10:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD494 | POST'S SECOND FSN NOMINATION FOR 2009 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, [...] (U) Post would like to nominate Asmat Raza for the 2009 Environment, Science, Technology, and Health (ESTH) course at FSI. Mr. Raza will serve as the back up FSN for Post's Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) which funds most of our ESTH programs. This course would help bolster his reporting a [...] | 2009-03-06 12:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PK |
09ISLAMABAD495 | ZARDARI-NAWAZ RECONCILIATION: PLEAS FOR U.S. INTERVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-07 16:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD497 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UPDATED INFORMATION ON ARIF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 10:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PINR PTER PK IN |
09ISLAMABAD499 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 09, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 11:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD501 | NWFP: TNSM,S ONE-SIDED "MEDIATION" [...] (C) Jamal Nasir, Special Assistant to the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Home Secretary, confirmed to post on March 5 that Tehrik-i Nifaz-I Shariati Muhammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Mohammad had presented the government with a list of 17 demands. The list, which circulated widely in the local [...] | 2009-03-09 12:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD505 | MUMBAI ATTACKS PROSECUTION UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 15:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD506 | PM GILANI STAYS ABOVE THE FRAY [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a March 9 meeting with Ambassador, Gilani criticized the decision to impose governor's rule in Punjab and supported compromise to end the dispute between Zardari and the Sharif brothers. However, Gilani offered little in terms of immediate ideas that would be acce [...] | 2009-03-09 15:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD508 | PML-N: "WE WON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN." [...] (C) Summary: Opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) reached out March 9 to the diplomatic corps; the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led government made its case to the same group on February 28. PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif, meeting with the Ambassador late March 9, reiterated the part [...] | 2009-03-09 16:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD511 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-11 09:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD514 | LAWYERS: "OUR MARCH HAS BEGUN." [...] Summary: In an attempt to pre-empt tens of thousands of protesters from converging on Islamabad, with marches starting March 12 and a sit-in planned for March 16, the GOP arrested dozens of lawyers, opposition party workers and civil society activists (reftels). The top opposition leadership [...] | 2009-03-11 14:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD515 | LITTLE MOVEMENT ON RECONCILIATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD516 | LITTLE MOVEMENT ON RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary. In a last-ditch effort to reduce tensions with the Sharif brothers ahead of the start of the lawyers' march on March 12, President Zardari offered Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain the post of Senate leader if PML would form a government with the Pakistan Peo [...] | 2009-03-12 04:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD526 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 12, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-12 14:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD528 | PUNJAB GOVERNOR TASEER: A FIZZLE FROM A BANG [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, Ambassador met in Islamabad with Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, whose jurisdiction extends to the federal capital's border. Taseer was adamant that opposition protesters would not be allowed into Islamabad but committed that arrested organizers would be released as so [...] | 2009-03-12 16:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD529 | FATA STUDENTS "EXPERIENCE AMERICA" [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10, Principal Officer, US Consulate in Peshawar, USAID Deputy Director for the FATA Development Program and USAID OTI representative met with 15 recent returnees from the Experience America Program (EAP). This USAID multi-year student exchange program is designed to im [...] | 2009-03-13 05:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PREF KPAO PK |
09ISLAMABAD537 | EAD LAYS OUT STRATEGY FOR PAKISTAN DONORS' MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary. Farrakh Qayyum, Secretary in the Economic Affairs Division (EAD),which is in charge of preparations for the April 17 donors' conference, told DCM March 12 that the GOP is working closely with the World Bank office in Islamabad to prepare their request. He noted that the reques [...] | 2009-03-13 10:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD541 | LATEST EFFORTS AT RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Pakistani media is reporting late March 13 that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Kayani met today with President Zardari and PM Gilani, and that Zardari had invited Shahbaz Sharif to a late night meeting to discuss reconciliation. When Ambassador sees PM Gilani ton [...] | 2009-03-13 15:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD543 | UPDATE ON IDP ASSISTANCE IN BAJAUR AGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent military operations in Bajaur that may have "secured" roads in parts of the agency (reftel),the majority of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have not yet begun to return because they see military operations continuing. USAID is currently providing USD 1.8 mill [...] | 2009-03-13 15:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER PREF KPAO PK |
09ISLAMABAD545 | LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1700 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 14 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-14 14:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD546 | GILANI STILL TRYING FOR RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary. In a March 13 meeting with Ambassador, Prime Minister Gilani reiterated his views that the Pakistan People's Party should end governor's rule and allow formation of a government in Punjab by any party that had the votes. Going further than he had before, Gilani said that because [...] | 2009-03-14 15:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD547 | GOP DECIDES TO APPEAL SHARIFS' DISQUALIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-14 16:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD548 | ZARDARI AGREES TO APPEAL SHARIFS' DISQUALIFICATION [...] (C) Ambassador and UK High Commissioner (Ambassador) had dinner with President Zardari March 14. Right before the meeting, Zardari had issued a statement indicating his government's intention to request a review of the Supreme Court's decision on the eligibility of the Sharif brothers to ho [...] | 2009-03-14 17:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD551 | LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1700 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 15 [...] (C) Summary: Citing fears for his safety, the GOP placed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif under a restraining order early in the day, but backed off to allow him to address the crowds - estimated at 70 - 80,000. Ambassador spoke to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Prime [...] | 2009-03-15 13:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD552 | WHAT'S NEXT? [...] (C) Summary. Absent a terrorist attack or what we believe is unlikely Army intervention, the lawyers' ""long march"" will end with both sides claiming victory. They then will have to settle into a protracted series of negotiations to address the Sharifs' eligibility, governors' rule in Pun [...] | 2009-03-15 13:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD554 | LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1930 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 15 [...] (C) Summary: Nawaz Sharif has reached the center of Lahore and is leading a crowd of 25,000-50,000 supporters towards the Ravi River heading to Islamabad. The police have largely given up fighting the protesters and are actively helping them to remove barriers from the road to Islamabad. The [...] | 2009-03-16 02:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD559 | LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1500 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 16 [...] (C) Summary: Early in the morning on March 16 Prime Minister Gilani announced former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's reinstatement and the GOP's intention to file a review petition on the Sharif brothers' case in the Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, Nawaz Sharif announced that he was calling of [...] | 2009-03-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD560 | IMPLICATIONS OF THE LONG MARCH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-16 12:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD561 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES, 11 MARCH 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-17 08:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD564 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-17 11:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD568 | CODEL TIERNEY MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER GILANI [...] (C) Summary: CODEL Tierney met February 2 with Prime Minister Yousef Gilani. Gilani thanked the U.S. for its help in defusing tensions with India following the Mumbai attacks. He emphasized the GOP commitment to cooperating with the U.S. in the fight against terrorism and stressed the need fo [...] | 2009-03-18 08:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD575 | IMF Update - "Nascent Stability" [...] (SBU) Summary. In a briefing of G-7 countries, the IMF Resident Representative characterized Pakistan's economic situation as "nascent stability." Revealing little new information, he commended the GOP's efforts to meet its numeric goals, but cautioned that tax revenue targets would be diffic [...] | 2009-03-18 11:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD576 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 11:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD583 | ZARDARI APPOINTS "FORWARD LEANING" AIR CHIEF [...] (C) As the USG considers options on how to continue Pakistan's F-16 program in the face of funding problems (septel),Air Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman assumes command March 18 as Pakistan's new Chief of Air Staff. He replaces retiring Air Chief Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed, who had lobbied extensively [...] | 2009-03-18 15:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD584 | STATUS OF EFFORTS TO RECOVER AMCIT HOSTAGE JOHN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 15:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD586 | SAVING THE F-16 PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary. Pakistan is the most important front-line state in our battle against extremists who threaten the U.S. and our allies. In post's view, preserving the F-16 program, which is the flagship symbol of post 9/11 bilateral re-engagement, is critical to our goals of enabling Pakistan to co [...] | 2009-03-18 16:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MARR MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD600 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 19, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 10:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD604 | PM GILANI RESTORES ALL DEPOSED JUDGES [...] (SBU) Summary: With two March 17 executive orders, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani restored to the bench deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and a handful of remaining Supreme Court and provincial High Court judges. These judges had refused (or not been invited) to take a new oath of office [...] | 2009-03-19 13:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS PK |
09ISLAMABAD612 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD618 | POST RECOMMENDS AGAINST DOWNGRADE OF ICRAS RISK RATING FOR [...] (SBU) Post urges the Interagency Credit Risk Assessment System committee not to downgrade Pakistan's sovereign and non-sovereign risk rating on March 23. The draft report, dated January 1, does not reflect the progress and the commitment the GOP has made to bring its economic house in order, [...] | 2009-03-23 06:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD619 | AFGHAN REFUGEE UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR has suspended operations to assist Afghan refugees in repatriating from Pakistan. Repatriation from Peshawar is suspended until at least April 1, pending an assessment that it is safe for UNHCR personnel and refugees to participate. Repatriation from Quetta is also suspen [...] | 2009-03-23 06:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL AF PK |
09ISLAMABAD625 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-24 11:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD637 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: March 25, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-25 11:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD640 | PRESSING THE UN ON IMPROVING ITS PRESENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: The UN system needs to appoint a humanitarian coordinator in Pakistan and fill its positions with permanent staff. These are urgent requirements necessary to respond to the problems of Pakistan,s internally displaced. The UN's ability to meet these requirements will be affecte [...] | 2009-03-25 14:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN PTER PREF PK |
09ISLAMABAD644 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: March 26, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 11:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD655 | PAKISTAN PROTESTS INDIAN VIOLATION OF KASHMIR LINE [...] (C) Pakistan has lodged an official complaint with the UN against India over an alleged breach of the Kashmir Line of Control (LoC) cease-fire. United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) Deputy Military Observer Brigadier Alexander told DepPolCouns March 24 that Pa [...] | 2009-03-27 05:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UN IN PK |
09ISLAMABAD659 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 27, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-27 12:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD66 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 12, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-12 11:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD660 | FINANCE ADVISOR TARIN AGREES ON WAY AHEAD FOR [...] (C) Summary: Following interventions from the U.S. and Japan, the Pakistanis have backed off plans to press a $10 billion request for the April 17 Tokyo donors conference and agreed to focus on the $4 billion target established by the IMF. Expressing a desire to "resolve his confusion," Fina [...] | 2009-03-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON JA PK |
09ISLAMABAD67 | AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY VOTES [...] (SBU) Summary: While the rest of the world focused on the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, there was a quiet change of government in the semi-independent area of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir--known as Azad (free) Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). On January 6, the AJK Legislative Assembly approved a no [...] | 2009-01-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD671 | PILOT COMBATANT COMMANDER INITIATIVE FUND SHOWS [...] (C) Summary: In reftel, Embassy requested a CERP-like fund for Pakistan. We understand this request sparked a lively debate in Washington, mostly regarding the ability of the Embassy to oversee the funds and whether requesting such funds for Pakistan would endanger the far more generous CERP [...] | 2009-03-30 07:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09ISLAMABAD672 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 00, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-30 11:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD674 | ZARDARI BEFORE PARLIAMENT: PROBLEMS, PROMISES, AND [...] (C) Summary: In his second address to a joint session of parliament, President Asif Zardari won his largest rounds of applause when he supported initiatives of his rival, Nawaz Sharif -- lifting governor's rule in Punjab, political reconciliation, and restoration of the deposed judiciary. Zar [...] | 2009-03-30 14:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD680 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: March 31, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-31 11:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD684 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 01, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 11:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD686 | ISLAMABAD REFUGEE AFFAIRS WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH [...] (U) UNHCR said voluntary repatriation of registered Afghans in Pakistan would be resumed on April 1. This repatriation would be only from Peshawar as the security situation in Balochistan does not allow for repatriation at the moment. Registered Afghans living in the Northwest Frontier Provin [...] | 2009-04-02 05:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CA PK |
09ISLAMABAD690 | CONSTRAINTS ON NONPROLIFERATION COOPERATION WITH [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Pakistan has sought to strengthen its nonproliferation image after the unmasking of the A.Q. Khan network revealed significant gaps in its ability to control and protect its nuclear assets. With substantial U.S. and international assistance, Pakistan has begun [...] | 2009-04-02 11:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP PK |
09ISLAMABAD691 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 02, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-02 11:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD707 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 03, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 11:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD711 | IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY RETURNS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 13:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD713 | PRESSING KARZAI FOR ACCESS TO BUGTI ON SOLECKI CASE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 14:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV CA UN PK |
09ISLAMABAD715 | IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY RETURNS [...] (C) Summary. A little more than two years after former President Musharraf initially fired him, Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was restored to the bench March 22 by a reluctant President Zardari. The saga of Chaudhry's fall and rise paradoxically demonstrated both the new-foun [...] | 2009-04-04 05:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM PK |
09ISLAMABAD718 | FINANCE ADVISOR OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR DEPSEC LEW [...] (C) During an April 1 dinner for Deputy Secretary Lew, Finance Advisor Tareen outlined Pakistan's nine-point agenda for economic development. He recommend the USG focus on poverty alleviation, education and energy as sectors best organized to absorb assistance. Benazir Income Support Progr [...] | 2009-04-06 06:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID ECON PK |
09ISLAMABAD72 | BOUCHER ENGAGES FARUQUI ON FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN AND [...] (C) Summary. On January 5, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Salman Faruqui, Secretary General to the President of Pakistan, to outline a timeline leading to the Friends of Democratic Pakistan meetings and a donor conference. Faruqui and his adv [...] | 2009-01-13 11:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD720 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-06 10:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD723 | SWAT FLOGGING VIDEO GENERATES OUTRAGE [...] (C) Summary. Civil society groups launched demonstrations across Pakistan April 4-5 to protest the video-taped flogging by the Taliban of a 17 year-old girl in Swat. Secular politicians condemned the incident, and newly restored Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry called upon the govern [...] | 2009-04-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD724 | BLUF RELEASES AMCIT JOHN SOLECKI [...] (C) Summary: On April 4, the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) released Amcit United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) provincial head John Solecki outside of Quetta. Solecki, who had been kidnapped on February 2, was transported by US military aircraft to Bagram Air Forc [...] | 2009-04-06 14:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV CA PK |
09ISLAMABAD738 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-07 11:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD746 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 10:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD756 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 09, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-09 10:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD766 | ISLAMABAD EAC MEETING 04/10/09 [...] (SBU) The DCM chaired an EAC meeting on 04/10/09 to review the Mission's security posture in the wake of intelligence information (ref C) on an imminent terrorist attack in Islamabad. All sections/agencies were represented. 2. (S/NF) As was reported in Ref A, the MOI coordinated a series o [...] | 2009-04-10 11:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AMGT CACS PK |
09ISLAMABAD767 | SMALL STEPS TO RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary: As a conciliatory gesture to the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani presented April 10 a parliamentary resolution to endorse the 2006 Charter of Democracy (CoD) and to create a committee to review the repeal of enhanced presidential power [...] | 2009-04-10 14:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD77 | SANCTIONS NOTIFICATION AGAINST AQ KHAN DELIVERED [...] (C) Summary: On January 12, the Ambassador met with Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to deliver reftel demarche about the imposition of sanctions on Abdul Qadeer Khan, Muhammad Farooq, and Muhammad Nasim ud Din under the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act (NPPA),the Export Import Act (EXIM),[...] | 2009-01-13 13:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN KNNP MNUC PARM PINS PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD776 | BAITULLAH MEHSUD DECLARES WAR [...] (C) Summary: On April 5, Baitullah Mehsud announced that in retaliation for drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and a now five million dollar U.S. bounty on his head, his Taliban would be carrying out two attacks each week in Pakistan. This announcement came after [...] | 2009-04-13 01:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD779 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 13, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 09:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD78 | URGENT NEED TO IMPROVE IDP SERVICES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (U) Summary. President Asif Zardari and Chief of Army Staff General Kayani raised with Ambassador the urgent need to provide the internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered [...] | 2009-01-13 15:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD781 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES, 09 APRIL 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 12:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD782 | GOP REVIVES THE IDEA OF REMITTANCE SECURITIZATION [...] (C) Summary: Finance Advisor Shaukat Tarin told the diplomatic community that he plans to raise over $1 billion through the securitization of workers' remittances through UAE and Saudi banks. He will mention this plan at the Donors' meeting, emphasizing that these are commercial transactions [...] | 2009-04-13 13:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD785 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 09:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD786 | KARACHI MAYOR WARNS OF TALIBANIZATION, ASKS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD787 | GOP SEEKS TIFA DELIVERABLES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP hopes to bring progress on IPR issues and on the long-standing Siemens-Westinghouse investment dispute to the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks on April 27. They are willing to discuss regional trade issues on the sidelines, but do not wish them to be [...] | 2009-04-14 10:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD788 | ZARDARI SIGNS SHARI'A REGULATIONS FOR SWAT [...] (C) Summary: On April 13, President Zardari signed the proposed Nizam-e-Adl regulations into law, officially extending Shari'a law in Swat and surrounding areas. The approval came after months of pressure from coalition partner Awami National Party (ANP) and also the Pakistani military. The A [...] | 2009-04-14 14:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD79 | PAKISTAN TO SHIFT MUMBAI INVESTIGATION TO LAW [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Foreign Secretary Bashir on January 12 and President Zardari on January 13 to discuss the ongoing investigation of the Mumbai attacks. Both Zardari and Bashir described the planned law enforcement strategy the GOP had set in motion. The various intelligence [...] | 2009-01-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD797 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 15, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-15 09:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD80 | MUSHARRAF BEGINS U.S. SPEAKING TOUR [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 10, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf departed Islamabad for the United States to visit his brother and to participate in a two-week lecture tour with scheduled stops at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, and the World Affairs Council of West [...] | 2009-01-13 16:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD803 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-16 10:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD807 | GILANI TO KERRY: NO CONDITIONALITIES, NO DRONES [...] (C) Summary: Codel Kerry met April 13 with PM Gilani. Gilani complained about the conditions recently placed on the House version of the Senator's bill; Kerry said his Senate version would be "very different," and rejected conditions as demeaning. However, he was adamant that metrics would be [...] | 2009-04-16 11:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD813 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 09:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD816 | RED MOSQUE MULLAH FREED ON BAIL [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, the Supreme Court released Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) leader Maulana Abdul Aziz on bail. He faces 27 charges of murder, abduction, and forceful occupation of government property. The military operation to retake the Red Mosque from militants in July 2007 left over 100 [...] | 2009-04-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD819 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-20 10:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD820 | ISLAMABAD EAC MEETING 04/20/09 [...] (C) The DCM chaired an EAC meeting on 20 April 2009 to review the Mission's security posture in the wake of a DOD notification to Post regarding the possible publication of detainee photographs depicting alleged incidents of torture. These photographs reportedly were taken at DOD detention fac [...] | 2009-04-20 12:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AMGT CACS PK |
09ISLAMABAD829 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 21, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-21 10:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD832 | SPENDING STRATEGICALLY IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. This cable conveys a shorter version of the strategy we laid out in the Mission Strategic Plan and how we will implement the President's strategic review. We welcome the additional resources but we are very mindful of the constraints: our own, the GoP's and the international don [...] | 2009-04-21 11:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD84 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-14 09:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD844 | RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MAY 6-7 TRILATERAL [...] (SBU) Based on Washington's draft agenda, Post recommends the following format and Pakistani participants for the U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan tri-lateral meetings scheduled for May 6-7 in Washington. We will follow up, as requested, with suggestions on deliverables. Foreign Policy Session - [...] | 2009-04-22 09:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ETRD EAID MOPS PK |
09ISLAMABAD847 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 22, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-22 13:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD856 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 23, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-23 09:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD858 | MISSION CONVEYS CONCERN OVER ARRESTED AHMADI TEENS [...] (C) Summary: Both Embassy and Consulate Lahore have interceded with Pakistani officials and community representatives on behalf of four Ahmadi teenagers arrested on charges of blasphemy for writing the name of the Prophet Mohammed on a latrine wall of a Sunni mosque. Minority Affairs Minister [...] | 2009-04-24 07:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD867 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD87 | BOUCHER URGES FBI ACCESS FOR MUMBAI-RELATED DETAINEES [...] (C) Summary. In a January 5 meeting with Assistant Secretary Boucher, Prime Minister Gilani reaffirmed support for cooperation in the Mumbai investigation; Boucher pressed for FBI access to detained suspects in Pakistan. Boucher encouraged expanded information sharing, including through tr [...] | 2009-01-15 08:02:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD883 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 27, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 11:42:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD885 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 22 APRIL 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 11:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD887 | DIR: MILITARY OPERATIONS CONTINUE WHILE ACCESS FOR [...] (C) Summary. On April 26, the Government of Pakistan launched military operations in Lower Dir District, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) in response to the growing taliban presence in the region and at the request of the NWFP government. The Frontier Corps (FC) claim to have killed approxi [...] | 2009-04-27 13:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD888 | PREPARING FOR THE LONG HAUL [...] (C) Summary. As promised, the Pakistani military began anti-militant operations in Lower Dir April 26; the Mission will monitor activities on a regular basis to keep Washington apprised of this positive turn of events. However, based on actions over the past year, we should be prepared for [...] | 2009-04-27 13:37:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD894 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 28, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-28 08:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD899 | PML-N SEES MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. According to Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) members Ishak Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, Nawaz Sharif was disappointed that President Zardari did not seem to share Prime Minister Gilani's enthusiasm for calling an all-parties conference to work out a united political front on security [...] | 2009-04-28 11:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD90 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 15, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-15 11:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD901 | UPDATE ON CONDITIONS IN MALAKAND DIVISION: DIR, [...] (C) Summary. In operations in Lower Dir District (Malakand Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)) on April 27, Frontier Corps/Army reportedly killed over 70 militants, including two major taliban commanders, and regained control over the Maidan valley. UN organizations report that the [...] | 2009-04-28 13:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD911 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD912 | BUNER OPERATIONS CONTINUE WITH REQUEST FOR IDP [...] (C) Summary. Following several Pakistan Air Force airstrikes on April 28, Pakistani Military ground troops moved into Daggar, the main city within Buner District (Malakand Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)),early on April 29 and secured the city. During the operations, approximat [...] | 2009-04-29 12:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD913 | ADB CONCERNED OVER ENERGY SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 21, USAID and ECON officials met with Rune Stroem, Country Director for the Asian Development Bank (ADB),who conveyed the ADB's concerns over the slow pace of energy sector reforms in Pakistan. Stroem identified three problems with the sector: the new Lahore High Cour [...] | 2009-04-29 14:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY PK |
09ISLAMABAD917 | KERRY AND QURESHI PLAN STRATEGY FOR SECURING AID [...] (C) Summary: Codel Kerry met April 13 with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Senator Kerry and Qureshi focused on the importance of articulating a clear GOP strategy for security and economic growth to both U.S. legislators and other donor countries. Foreign Minister Qureshi planned to [...] | 2009-04-30 10:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD918 | MQM: PRINCIPLES AND CONSPIRACIES [...] (C) Summary: On April 23, Charge met with Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leaders Dr. Farooq Sattar and Haider Rizvi to discuss their party's stance against the recently signed Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, their ideas for a GOP response, and the potential for violence in the mega-city [...] | 2009-04-30 10:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR PK |
09ISLAMABAD921 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-30 10:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD922 | MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: PAKISTAN FILES CHARGE SHEET [...] (C) Summary: On April 29, the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) filed an interim charge sheet in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks in a Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court. The court has granted the FIA an extension to file its formal charge sheet by May 5; and the trial will commenc [...] | 2009-04-30 11:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV AE IN PK |
09ISLAMABAD923 | STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN STRENGTHENS REGULATIONS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In March, the State Bank of Pakistan amended its rules to detect money laundering and terrorism finance, requiring all banks in Pakistan to establish compliance units, conduct due diligence on customers, and identify suspicious customers and transactions. The rules are a respons [...] | 2009-04-30 11:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD926 | GROPING FOR NATIONAL UNITY [...] (C) Summary. Pitching the need for national unity to tackle the extremist challenge has become the flavor of the day, but Pakistan's politicians still are focused first and foremost on their own survival. PM Gilani increasingly is aligning himself with Nawaz Sharif through negotiations to [...] | 2009-04-30 13:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD93 | PAKISTAN ANNOUNCES TASK FORCE TO INVESTIGATE [...] (C) Summary: On January 15, Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced a Federal Investigation Agency-led (FIA) task force to investigate the Mumbai attacks of November 2008. Malik emphasized Pakistan's commitment to investigating and prosecuting all the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks. He [...] | 2009-01-15 15:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD930 | ACTION ON PAK-AFGHAN TRANSIT TRADE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Pakistani Cabinet approved the opening of formal negotiations on a new Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement (ATT) April 8, a significant step toward replacing the outdated 1965 agreement currently in place. While this is a welcome step forward, challenges ranging from vested [...] | 2009-05-01 08:51:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD PK |
09ISLAMABAD934 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NEWS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-01 09:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD935 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 01, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-01 09:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD936 | FOCUSING ON RENEWED IDP ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) remains in flux as military operations continue in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP); post will report specific updates septel. Charge and PO Peshawar have been pressing PM Gilani, the presidency and NWFP Chief Minister Hoti [...] | 2009-05-01 11:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD938 | POST MEETING ON H1N1 READINESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Post held a meeting of the H5N1 Avian Influenza Committee to assess Embassy readiness should the H1N1 Swine-Origin Influenza Virus(S-OIV) spread to Pakistan. The committee reviewed supplies and tripwires as well as discussed various scenarios and plans for locally engaged staff [...] | 2009-05-01 12:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR AMGT CASC PK |
09ISLAMABAD939 | MALAKAND DIVISION: BUNER OPERATIONS IN FOURTH DAY [...] (S/NF) Summary. On May 1, Pakistan military operations in Buner District (Malakand Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)) entered their fourth day. Security forces cut a major militant supply line to the Ambela pass and established a Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters in Daggar on April [...] | 2009-05-01 12:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD940 | UPDATE ON PAKISTANI IDPS [...] (SBU) Summary: As military operations continue in Dir and Buner in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),access to these areas remains the greatest impediment to the UN and others conducting registration, assessing needs, and delivering aid. Higher internally displaced persons (IDP) estim [...] | 2009-05-01 13:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD941 | GOP BRIEFS A NEW STRATCOM PLAN [...] (C) Summary. In an April 31 meeting with A/DCM and PAO, new Minister of Information and Broadcasting Kaira described the GOP,s planned national public affairs campaign to build public support for the fight against extremism. The plan includes hiring local public relations firms to create ads [...] | 2009-05-01 13:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PK |
09ISLAMABAD942 | GOP AGRICULTURE MINISTER SUPPORTS FORMATION OF TRILATERAL [...] (SBU) AgCouns contacted the Minister of Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal to discuss the agriculture breakout session of the upcoming U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Summit in Washington. Minister Gondal confirmed Pakistan's support for the proposed deliverables and agreed to pro [...] | 2009-05-02 09:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD943 | MEET THE GOVERNOR-IN-WAITING: ANWAR SAIFULLAH [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Anwar Saifullah has accepted President Zardari's request that he serve as the new Governor of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Saifullah is ready to take up his duties immediately, but completion of his appointment has been delayed by [...] | 2009-05-02 11:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD945 | PAKISTAN UNLIKELY TO MEET ALL IMF TARGETS BUT IMF RESREP [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan is unlikely to meet all its IMF targets, but Islamabad Resident Representative Paul Ross seemed unconcerned. Ross and noted Pakistani economist Dr. Ashfaque Hassan Khan told Econoffs that Pakistan is unlikely to meet its tax collection and fiscal deficit targets. Ros [...] | 2009-05-03 10:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD946 | RECONCILIATION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) publicly agreed to continue in a coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) government in Punjab, but PML-N again politely declined PM Gilani's offer to rejoin the PPP-led government in Islamabad. Awami National Party leader Wali Khan [...] | 2009-05-03 10:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD947 | ANP'S WALI KHAN PRAISES MILITARY SUCCESSES [...] (C) Summary. Awami National Party President Asfundyar Wali Khan told Charge May 3 that he was pleased (for the first time) with vigorous Army/Frontier Corps action against militants in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). GOP forces were moving into Shangla, completing the encirclement [...] | 2009-05-03 11:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK |
09ISLAMABAD950 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 04, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 10:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD958 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 05, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-05 09:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD964 | PAKISTAN: DATA PROTECTION LEGISLATION SLOWLY MOVING [...] (SBU) EconOffs delivered reftel demarche informing the GOP that Pakistan will remain on the Priority Watch List to Imran Ali Director (U.S.),Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Syed Bukhari, Director General, Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan on April 29. 2. (SBU) Ali and Bukhari [...] | 2009-05-05 13:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD967 | UPDATE ON IDP SITUATION IN PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN and partner agencies have now set up three IDP camps, two in Mardan and another in Swabi to accommodate a total of 1150 refugee families. All camps are being developed by UNHCR site planners, and WHO and UNICEF are developing water/sanitation and health facilities. As o [...] | 2009-05-06 01:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON |
09ISLAMABAD971 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 06, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-06 09:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD976 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 07, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-07 12:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD98 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 16, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 11:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD980 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 08, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-08 09:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD990 | SWAT -- NO QUICK FIXES [...] (S/NF) Prime Minister Gilani's May 7 speech announcing the government's intent to "eliminate militants" appears to be the launching point of full scale military operations in Swat. Although Pakistani civilian and military leaders are sounding the right notes about tackling militancy, we should [...] | 2009-05-08 11:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD991 | GILANI DECLARES WAR IN SWAT [...] (C) Summary: On May 7 in a landmark television and radio address to the nation, Prime Minister Gilani made an impassioned plea to Pakistanis to support decisive military action against the Taliban in Swat and surrounding areas. All political parties except Imran Khan's and the Jamaat-e-Islami [...] | 2009-05-08 13:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD993 | UN BRIEFS ON IMPENDING PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: URGENT NEEDS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 9 and 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: Pakistan faces an imminent humanitarian crisis. UN agencies now anticipate a total Pakistan IDP population of 1.3 million. This number includes an anticipated outflow of 800,000 from Dir, Buner and Swat Districts. Reli [...] | 2009-05-09 02:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON |
09ISLAMABAD994 | TREATMENT OF SIKHS BECOMES A BILATERAL ISSUE [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan's religious minorities face discrimination even in the best of times; the spread of taliban influence and control in the Northwest Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has made matters worse. Taliban forces have exploited and exacerbated [...] | 2009-05-09 08:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD996 | SITUATION IN SWAT AS OF MAY 9 [...] (SBU) Summary. Operations in Swat District continued on May 9 with reports of over 140 militants killed during the day. Press reports indicate that the Pakistan Air Force started aerial assaults in the Swat city of Mingora on the morning of May 9. By the evening, the UN High Commission for R [...] | 2009-05-09 12:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER |
09ISLAMABAD997 | CHINA'S GROWING CONCERN OVER U.S. REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. In a rare public statement about the U.S., Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Lou Zhaohui told reporters on May 7 that China is concerned about increasing U.S. influence in the Af-Pak region. He noted that China is cooperating with both Pakistan and the U.S. on counterterrorism and [...] | 2009-05-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ETRD PK |
09ISTANBUL320 | SESAME SEES ITSELF AS A MODEL CENTER FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The fourteenth meeting of the Council of Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) was held in Istanbul in July. The SESAME project is a scientific initiative currently under construction in Jordan that currently fosters positive in [...] | 2009-08-17 05:33:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PRELTBIOBA CY EG ENRG IR IS IZ JO PK |
09JAKARTA182 | ROHINGYA BOAT PEOPLE HOSTED BY ACEHNESE COMMUNITY [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan and Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The 198 Rohingyas that landed in northern Aceh on February 2 are being well cared for by members of the Acehnese community. The local government has asked the International Organization [...] | 2009-02-04 10:55:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF ID BM PK AF |
09JAKARTA564 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN -- INDONESIA WELCOMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia welcomes a new U.S. approach on Afghanistan and Pakistan and will review carefully President Obama's new strategy. GOI officials remain concerned about possible civilian casualties that might result from increased military operations but applaud the United States' emph [...] | 2009-03-30 10:30:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID ID AF PK |
09JAKARTA633 | PAKISTAN DONORS' CONFERENCE -- URGING HIGH-LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia supports the April 17 Japan/World Bank-sponsored Donors' Conference for Pakistan, but has not yet finalized its participation. Underscoring the importance of the conference, Mission has urged the GOI to attend at a senior level and to pledge support for Pakistan. The [...] | 2009-04-07 09:54:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ID PK AF JA |
09JAKARTA64 | NONPROLIFERATION SANCTIONS -- INDONESIAN REACTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: PolMilOff reviewed the USG's announcement of sanctions on A.Q. Khan and Associates in a meeting with a senior Indonesian nonproliferation policy official on January 13. Our GOI contact took our points on board. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) On January 13, PolMilOff discussed Departm [...] | 2009-01-13 10:43:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP PK ID |
09JAKARTA948 | INDONESIAN AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 10:31:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SMIG PARM ID PK |
09JAKARTA953 | PAKISTAN'S DISPLACED PERSONS CRISIS -- ENGAGING [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche re Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pakistan to Cicilia Rusdiharini, Deputy Director for American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on June 2. W [...] | 2009-06-04 07:02:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF ID PK |
09KABUL1029 | Afghan Finance Minister Presents "Civilian Surge Plan" for [...] (SBU) In an April 19 meeting with the Charge, Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal presented an advance copy of the government's "civilian surge plan" for technical assistance. He said he means to discuss the plan - formally approved by President Karzai on April 20, we since learned - in his [...] | 2009-04-22 15:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID AF PK |
09KABUL1039 | APRIL 27 AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN-IRAN FOREIGN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-23 15:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AF IR PK |
09KABUL1122 | TRILATERAL SUMMIT -- AFGHANS PREFER POLITICAL COMMITMENT ON [...] (SBU) Econ Counselor and Deputy met with Minister of Commerce and Industries Shahrani May 3 to discuss a variety of trade issues leading up to the May 13-14 Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA)in Islamabad. Shahrani also noted his intention to attend the May 6-7 Tril [...] | 2009-05-03 14:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD AF PK |
09KABUL1243 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN-IRAN MAY 19 TRILATERAL SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-17 08:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AF IR PK |
09KABUL1257 | UNHCR, ICRC STILL WATCHING FOR CROSS-BORDER FLIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary. The leadership of Kabul-based offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) shared an overview of their planning for potential movement of Pakistani refugees to Afghanistan with the Refugee Affairs [...] | 2009-05-17 13:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF UN AF PK |
09KABUL1292 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN-IRAN TRILATERAL SUMMIT [...] (SBU) MFA Senior advisor Davood Marodian informed us that the trilateral summit, postponed from its original May 19 date, has been rescheduled for May 24. He expected more visuals than substance. 2. (C) President Karzai is considering President Ahmadinejad's invitation to Karzai to extend [...] | 2009-05-21 04:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF PK IR |
09KABUL142 | KARZAI APPEALS TO BOUCHER FOR SECURITY IN SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher met with President Karzai January 6 to discuss security priorities and improved Afghanistan-Pakistan relations. Boucher encouraged closer Afghan-Pak cooperation on intelligence sharing and told Karzai the U. [...] | 2009-01-20 11:52:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AF PK |
09KABUL1544 | Afghan Commerce Minister on Upcoming Af-Pak Transit Trade [...] (SBU) Afghan Commerce Minister Shahrani told EconCouns June 16 that Afghanistan will take a positive, constructive approach in negotiations with Pakistan on a new Af-Pak Transit Trade agreement (APTA),starting June 23. Shahrani noted the GOP's extensive objections to the draft agreement text [...] | 2009-06-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD AF PK |
09KABUL1658 | DEVELOPING A MASTER PLAN FOR TORKHAM GATE [...] SUMMARY: This is a Joint message from US Embassies Kabul and Islamabad with input from US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The Torkham Gate Working Group met from May 23-24 in Jalalabad and Torkham, reviewed the current strategy and develo [...] | 2009-06-25 05:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCOR KJUS AF PK SNAR MOPS KCRM PREL PINS |
09KABUL1683 | KARZAI ASKS NSA JONES FOR GREATER BILATERAL POLICY [...] (C) At their June 23 meeting, President Karzai repeated to NSA Jones his call for a US-Afghan joint team to implement the President's new strategy. He conceded such an initiative could not begin until after the election. Karzai will make his role as a unifying and national, rather than ethnic [...] | 2009-06-29 04:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AF PK IR |
09KABUL1835 | Paktika Prepares for Returnees and Refugees from [...] Paktika provincial government and international organizations (IOs) discussed humanitarian assistance to possibly hundreds of families fleeing from military operations in North and South Waziristan, Pakistan. IOs have delivered supplies to the provincial capital Sharana, but transport to the [...] | 2009-07-12 06:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREF AF PK |
09KABUL2421 | INTERIOR MINISTER REACTS TO PAKISTANI COUNTERPART [...] (S) SUMMARY: Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar told us that public claims by his Pakistani counterpart that Afghanistan has admitted to hosting Anti-Pakistan terrorist training camps, an outright lie. Atmar said that Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik raised this issue when he visited A [...] | 2009-08-19 03:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | AF PK PREL PINS PTER |
09KABUL2965 | COMMERCE MINISTER OUTLINES VISION FOR AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE TALKS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-26 12:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR EAID PREL AF PK |
09KABUL3000 | AF-PAK Transit Trade Talks Hit Snag [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Affairs Minister (FM) Spanta recently rejected the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the re- export/smuggling study that both the Afghan and Pakistan governments agreed upon in principle during the third round of APTTA talks, according to Commerce Deputy Minister Farhadi. Thi [...] | 2009-09-28 14:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL AF PK |
09KABUL3036 | AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE TALKS BACK ON TRACK [...] (C) Summary: In the Foreign Minister,s absence, Deputy Foreign Minister Farahi agreed late September 28 to release the Foreign Ministry,s hold on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) re-export/smuggling study, according to Commerce Minister Shahrani. However, the Deputy Fo [...] | 2009-09-29 16:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL AF PK |
09KABUL3102 | Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Talks Postponed: [...] (SBU) Summary: Afghan Deputy Commerce Minister (and Chief Transit Trade Negotiator) Adib Farhadi told Embassy October 4, that the Pakistan side that day had requested a formal postponement of the upcoming fourth round of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) until Islamabad [...] | 2009-10-05 14:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL AF PK |
09KABUL3176 | Foreign Minister Spanta Rules out Including [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Spanta told Ambassadors Ricciardone and Wayne October 7 that he ruled out including the re-export study in the Afghanistan- Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) which is currently being negotiated. While committed to going ahead with the APTTA, Spanta state [...] | 2009-10-08 07:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL AF PK |
09KABUL3306 | COMMERCE MINISTER SHAHRANI - GOOD TRIP TO WASHINGTON, NOW [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Commerce and Industries Shahrani reported on his October 4 - 8 trip to Washington, including take-aways from the U.S./Afghanistan trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) talks and his participation in the TIFA meeting with the Central Asian countries. He sha [...] | 2009-10-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP PREL PGOV AF PK |
09KABUL3391 | AFGHANISTAN MEETS PAKISTANI CONDITIONS FOR APTTA ROUND FOUR [...] (SBU) Afghan Minister of Commerce and Industries (MOCI) Wahidullah Shahrani told Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs E. Anthony Wayne October 22 that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would transmit a formal letter by close of business that day inviting Pakistan to the four [...] | 2009-10-22 12:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL PK AF |
09KABUL3441 | AFGHANISTAN TRANSMITS TOR FOR STUDY OF UNAUTHORIZED TRADE [...] (SBU) Afghan Foreign Minister Spanta confirmed to Deputy Ambassador Ricciardone October 26 that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had transmitted the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the study of unauthorized trade to the Government of Pakistan earlier that day. Spanta said "the misunderstanding was [...] | 2009-10-27 14:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL PK AF |
09KABUL3442 | PRESSING AFGHANS ON VOA MEDIUM-WAVE TRANSMITTING STATION IN [...] (SBU) In a meeting on October 26, Deputy Ambassador Ricciardone pressed Afghan Foreign Minister Spanta again to urge Minister of Culture and Information Khorram to allow the final construction and operation of a medium-wave transmitting station in Khost. Once operational, the tower, operated b [...] | 2009-10-27 14:45:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS OIIP PROP BBG ECIN PREL PK AF |
09KABUL3479 | KUNAR: PROPER MANAGEMENT OF TIMBER SALES NEEDED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The lifting of the timber sales ban in the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan offers a long-awaited opportunity to reduce smuggling that funds insurgent activities and criminal networks. Such gains could be undermined, however, if mismanagement of timber sales leads [...] | 2009-11-01 07:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD PREL PK AF |
09KABUL3480 | PAVING THE WAY FOR ACCEPTANCE OF THE APTTA [...] (C) Summary: Afghanistan,s chief negotiator for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA),Adib Farhadi, talked to EconOffs Oct 29 regarding the recent flap resulting from the Afghan MFA,s foot-dragging on transmitting the terms of reference for the study on unauthorized trade. [...] | 2009-11-01 09:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAID PREL PK AF |
09KABUL3505 | STOPPING THE PROLIFERATION OF FERTILIZER-BASED [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Kabul is implementing an action plan in conjunction with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA),the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and partner embassies to halt the proliferation of fertilizer-based homemade explosives (HME). Ins [...] | 2009-11-03 13:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PTER ETTC EAGR KDEM MOPS PGOV AF WA PK |
09KABUL3571 | COMMERCE MINISTER ADDRESSES AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Commerce Minister Shahrani commented briefly November 4 on the status of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) and his Ministry's plans to seek World Trade Organization (WTO) membership. Shahrani said he personally proposed to the Pakistan side two sets of dat [...] | 2009-11-05 17:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAID PREL PK AF |
09KABUL376 | PRESIDENT KARZAI PREVIEWS STRATEGIC REVIEW IDEAS [...] (C NF) President Karzai on February 15 told Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Flournoy that his government welcomed the opportunity to join in the USG's strategic policy review. He suggested his team likely would advocate for: 1) greater efforts to target terrorist leaders and sanctuaries in Pak [...] | 2009-02-21 04:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR AF PK IR |
09KABUL3814 | AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE NEGOTIATIONS ROUND FOUR: DARK [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan,s Transit Trade Chief Negotiator Shahid Bashir laid down tough markers in his opening statements at the fourth round of negotiations on the Afghan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) that set a confrontational tone for the two-day negotiation. Pakistan opened by s [...] | 2009-11-30 07:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAID PREL PK AF |
09KABUL3974 | HARD WORK AHEAD TO COMPLETE APTTA AT DECEMBER [...] (C) Summary: Afghan Minister of Commerce and Industry Wahidullah Shahrani reiterated to CDDEA Amb. Wayne the Afghan Government,s desire to conclude the APTTA agreement during the upcoming fourth round in Islamabad on December 19-21. Shahrani and Wayne exchanged ideas on how Afghanistan could a [...] | 2009-12-09 15:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PGOV EAID PK AF |
09KABUL3995 | DUBAI PROCESS: SLOW AND STEADY COOPERATION BETWEEN [...] (SBU) Summary: The sixth round of the Canadian-led Dubai Process meeting November 24-25 brought together Afghan and Pakistani technical level delegates to discuss cooperation on counter narcotics, law enforcement, customs and movement of people. Discussions focused mostly on updates and fine-t [...] | 2009-12-13 09:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN PREL EAID PK AF |
09KABUL4024 | SUBJECT: BUILDING A STRATEGY ON AFGHANISTAN'S [...] (S) Summary. Cross-border issues have a fundamental impact on U.S. objectives in southern Afghanistan, and improved control of the southern border -- at the Spin Boldak crossing in particular -- is a critical path to international coalition and GIRoA success. This message assesses the key cha [...] | 2009-12-16 05:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS ELTN CAN PK AF |
09KABUL4056 | URGING AFGHANS TO CONCLUDE APTTA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 11:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL ECON PK AF |
09KABUL505 | REALIZING THE INDIAN WHEAT DONATION TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request that has been coordinated with Embassies Islamabad and New Delhi. Please see para 5. 2. (SBU) Summary. Post recommends that the Department instruct the three concerned embassies to demarche host governments to work to effect prompt transshipment through Pakist [...] | 2009-03-05 08:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PREL AF PK IN |
09KABUL567 | CANADIAN EMBASSY SEEKS ENHANCED CIVILIAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 9 2. (C) Summary: Canadian Deputy Head of Mission (DHOM) Ben Roswell and senior Canadian reps from Kandahar, invited U.S. Embassy officers from PRT-SNG, USAID and Pol-Mil for a March 12 discussion aimed at improving civilian coordination betw [...] | 2009-03-12 16:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS NATO PK AF CA |
09KABUL58 | AFGHANS, PAKISTANIS DISCUSS CROSS-BORDER [...] (U) Summary. Two border-related events hosted by CTF Currahee January 5 and 6 brought together Afghan, Pakistani and Coalition force commanders to discuss better coordination of operations to disrupt insurgent activities along the border. At the January 5 Focused Border Development (FBD) mee [...] | 2009-01-12 07:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF PK |
09KABUL587 | BRITISH IN HELMAND KEEN TO IMPROVE CIV-MIL [...] (C) Summary: British Deputy of Mission in Helmand Kevin McGurgan and British Political Counselor Mark Bryson Richardson visited the embassy's State PRT section on March 13 to discuss plans for heightened civilian-military cooperation in Helmand. In light of the impending lay down of thousands [...] | 2009-03-15 09:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MOPS NATO PK AF UK PGOV |
09KABUL64 | NEW AFGHAN COMMERCE MINISTER TAKES THE HELM [...] (SBU) Seven days into his new job, Minister of Commerce and Industries (MOCI) Wahidullah Shahrani January 6 described to the Ambassador an ambitious, market-oriented work program. Shahrani said he will limit MOCI to policy and regulatory work, continue efforts to enact pending commercial laws, [...] | 2009-01-12 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD ENRG WTO AF PK |
09KABUL640 | INSECURITY DELAYS AFGHAN REFUGEE REPATRIATION FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR has suspended operations to assist Afghan refugees repatriate from Pakistan. Repatriation from Peshawar is suspended until at least April 1, pending an assessment that it is safe for UNHCR personnel and refugees to participate. Repatriation from Quetta is suspended indef [...] | 2009-03-18 10:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF UN AF PK IR |
09KABUL658 | DUTCH EMPHASIZE HEALTH AND EDUCATION IN URUZGAN [...] (C) Summary: The Dutch Ambassador hosted a lunch on March 16 to help shape the perspective and situational awareness of Regional Command South (RC-S) for the three incoming Dutch senior civilian representatives who are preparing to arrive in Uruzgan in August 2009. Attendees also included a [...] | 2009-03-19 08:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MOPS NATO PREL PK AF CA UK NL PGOV |
09KABUL838 | AFGHAN AUTHORITIES ARREST WOULD-BE SUICIDE BOMBERS [...] (C) Summary: April 1 Afghan border officials intercepted and arrested militants, camouflaged as repatriating refugees, transporting a truckload of explosives through the Torkham border crossing. The militants appear to have coordinated the timing and manner of transporting the explosives with [...] | 2009-04-03 03:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER UN AF PK |
09KABUL873 | NO PROGRESS ON TRANSPORTING INDIAN WHEAT DONATION TO [...] (SBU) EconCouns presented ref A demarche to Commerce Minister Shahrani, Deputy Commerce Minister Farhady, and Agriculture Minister Rahimi. The consistent reply from all three was that the Afghans are making no progress is securing Pakistani cooperation on transshipping the Indian wheat donatio [...] | 2009-04-06 14:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ELTN PREL AF PK ID |
09KABUL943 | ECONOMIC AGENDA ITEMS FOR AF-PAK TRILATERAL COMMISSION [...] (SBU) The Mission recommends that Washington agencies build the following issues into the economic agenda for the upcoming meeting of the US-Af-Pak Trilateral Commission. Action on these suggestions, mostly Afghan "asks" of the Pakistani government, would support the goals of the strategic rev [...] | 2009-04-15 14:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV AF PK |
09KARACHI102 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BALOCHISTAN GOVERNOR [...] (C) During a March 19 meeting with the Ambassador, Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Khan Magsi suggested targeting new USG development assistance at improving water resources and agricultural productivity. Magsi, a tribal chief, downplayed the benefit of building schools and hospitals for [...] | 2009-03-30 01:58:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PK |
09KARACHI105 | BALOCHISTAN - AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH INSPECTOR [...] (S) During a March 19 meeting with the Ambassador and Rear Admiral Michael LeFever, Chief of the Office of the Defense Representative in Pakistan (ODRP),Major General Saleem Nawaz Khan, Inspector General of the Frontier Corps Balochistan (IGFC-B) said he needed additional resources and time [...] | 2009-03-30 05:56:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL PK |
09KARACHI110 | CONSULATE KARACHI - LESSONS LEARNED - CRISIS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 10:03:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC PK |
09KARACHI111 | BALOCHISTAN - NATIONALISTS SKEPTICAL ABOUT ZARDARI OFFER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-02 08:40:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09KARACHI112 | SINDH - PIA PLANS NEW AIRPLANE PURCHASES BUT CAA [...] (C) Summary: In a March 24 meeting, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Managing Director Aijaz Haroon told Islamabad Econ Counselor and Consular Officials that his airline hopes to purchase new Boeing aircraft and add new routes in the coming year. Haroon also said PIA, aided by lower fue [...] | 2009-04-03 10:02:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL PK |
09KARACHI113 | KARACHI EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS THREATS IN KARACHI. [...] (C) Summary: The Consulate Karachi Emergency Action Committee met on April 3 to discuss threat reporting pertaining to U.S. Diplomats in Pakistan and Karachi, as well as changes in the security profile at the hotels used by the Consulate. Present were ACG/MGT, POL/ECON/CON, RAO, RSO, IMO, CLO [...] | 2009-04-03 11:27:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PGOV PTER PK |
09KARACHI12 | KARACHIITES PROTEST ISRAELI ACTIONS IN GAZA [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 11, a group of protestors estimated to number at least 700, gathered to express disapproval of recent Israeli military actions in Gaza. Police clashed with the demonstrators and were able to disperse the crowd before they approached the Consulate. Further protests aga [...] | 2009-01-12 10:10:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PK |
09KARACHI130 | SINDH - ETHNIC TENSIONS BREWING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 04:15:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PTER |
09KARACHI131 | BALOCHISTAN - PROTESTS ROIL PROVINCE AFTER [...] (C) The mutilated bodies of Baloch National Movement (BNM) General Secretary Ghulam Mohammad and two other Baloch nationalists were found near the southern Balochistan city of Turbat on April 8. The discovery sparked violent unrest in many urban centers throughout Balochistan, including prote [...] | 2009-04-14 04:38:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09KARACHI136 | SINDH - MARINE LIFE ALONG PAKISTAN'S COAST IN JEOPARDY [...] (SBU) Industry and government officials are concerned over the state of Pakistan's marine life, an issue that could affect the livelihoods of thousands along the country's coast. They claim that the fisheries are threatened by increased toxic waste, illegal fishing, mangrove deforestation, an [...] | 2009-04-18 06:59:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV EIND PGOV ECON PK |
09KARACHI138 | SINDH - THE GANGS OF KARACHI [...] (S) Summary: The police in Karachi are only one of several armed groups in the city, and they are probably not the most numerous or best equipped. Many neighborhoods are considered by the police to be no-go zones in which even the intelligence services have a difficult time operating. Very f [...] | 2009-04-22 11:52:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET | PTER ASEC PGOV PK |
09KARACHI139 | SINDH - PAKISTAN INNAUGURATES FIRST WIND FARM [...] (SBU) On April 19, Prime Minister Gilani officially inaugurated the Zorlu Wind Power Project, Pakistan's first wind farm. Located in Jhimpir, Sindh this commercial project is currently capable of generating 4.8 megawatts (MW) of power, but is expected to generate 300 MW by the end of 2010. [...] | 2009-04-24 04:48:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV PGOV ECON PK |
09KARACHI145 | BALOCHISTAN - WHAT MAY BE BEHIND THE CURRENT [...] (C) Often violent unrest over the killing of three Baloch leaders continued in Balochistan over the past week. Nationalist political parties led protest rallies and militant nationalist groups claimed credit for violence, including a rocket attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) camp. Some nationali [...] | 2009-04-27 05:04:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK |
09KARACHI151 | KARACHI - AIRLINES ALERTED TO CHECK FOR H1N1 AT KARACHI [...] (SBU) While there are currently no reported cases of H1N1 "swine flu" in Pakistan, the government is beginning preparations in case the virus arrives via international travelers. The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has increased monitoring of inbound passengers to check for those wit [...] | 2009-05-01 02:48:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR TBIO SOCI EAID PK |
09KARACHI152 | SINDH - ETHNIC VIOLENCE ESCALATES [...] (SBU) Ethnic violence erupted again in Karachi and has left at least 30 people dead and more than 50 injured. The fighting between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) has sent tremors throughout the city as more violence is anticipated. Schools remained closed o [...] | 2009-05-01 05:35:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PK |
09KARACHI168 | KARACHI --- ALL QUIET ON MAY 12 [...] (SBU) Summary: After weeks of tense negotiations and anticipation of violence, May 12 appears to be passing without incident. The local holiday declared by the Provincial government, coupled with a heavy visible police presence throughout the city has effectively kept the peace. End Summary [...] | 2009-05-13 02:37:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PK |
09KARACHI169 | KARACHI - STOCK EXCHANGE SHOWS LITTLE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) - 100 Index ended the week of May 8 at 7,129.51, essentially flat over the previous week's close of 7,198.68. Overall market capitalization decreased slightly to $26.41 billion from $26.66 billion, with net foreign portfolio investment outflow [...] | 2009-05-13 06:17:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PK |
09KARACHI173 | BALOCHISTAN: AALI BUGTI NAMED SARDAR OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: After three years of a leadership vacuum, the Bugti tribe has a new leader. Aali Bugti, the grandson of the late Nawab Akber Bugti, returned to Dera Bugti after three years of exile and was named Sardar in a ceremony held May 19. His return and ascendancy to leadership of th [...] | 2009-05-20 03:34:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
09KARACHI18 | TALIBAN INFLUENCE IN BALOCHISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-20 04:30:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09KARACHI194 | KARACHI - POLITICAL KILINGS INCREASE [...] (SBU) Almost fifty political workers, mainly from MQM-H, have been killed in what appear to be targeted assassinations, in Karachi over the past week. On Sunday alone, ten workers from various parties, but mainly Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) died. Political parties blame Muttahida [...] | 2009-06-10 08:53:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
09KARACHI195 | KARACHI -STOCK MARKET DOWN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE)- 100 Index ended the week of June 5 at 6,894.62, 5.25 percent down from the previous week's close. Overall market capitalization decreased to $25.32 billion, with net foreign portfolio investment outflow of $12 million. Continued fears regardi [...] | 2009-06-10 11:19:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PK |
09KARACHI209 | KARACHI - STOCK MARKET REMAINS FLAT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE)-100 Index ended the week of June 19 at 7,039.73, essentially flat over the previous week's close of 7,059.48. Overall market capitalization increased slightly to $25.74 billion, with net foreign portfolio investment inflow of $1.3 million. Inv [...] | 2009-07-02 08:09:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PK |
09KARACHI21 | SINDH - ABRAJJ DELAYS INVESTMENT IN KESC UPGRADES [...] Summary: Dubai-based Abrajj group, the new owner of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) (ref E),has yet to carry through on its promise to invest up to USD 350 million to upgrade the power company's crumbling distribution and generation systems, leading many to speculate about the seriousne [...] | 2009-01-21 01:12:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN PK |
09KARACHI211 | KARACHI - ONGOING POWER OUTAGES LEAD TO CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Electricity supply, a perpetual problem in Karachi, deteriorated further as demand increased in the summer heat of May. Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) resorts to load shedding and several major interruptions to the power supply have caused protests in the city and serio [...] | 2009-07-02 10:38:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ENRG ECON PK |
09KARACHI222 | SINDH/KARACHI: LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO BE DISSOLVED [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani's announcement that Local Government (LG) will be dissolved in August and Administrators appointed, with the understanding that the government will hold elections when the law and order situation permits, has changed the political landscape in Karachi and S [...] | 2009-07-14 08:43:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PK |
09KARACHI24 | KARACHI - STOCK MARKET CONTINUES DOWNWARD TREND [...] (SBU) Summary: Driven by foreign investor portfolio divestitures, a need for funds to meet margin calls, and decreased institutional investing, the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) - 100 continued its downward trend during the week of January 19 - 23, losing 9.21 percent to close at 4,929.54. Ne [...] | 2009-01-26 04:50:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PK |
09KARACHI255 | BALOCHISTAN - Baloch Nationalists Threaten Hostage Lives [...] (SBU) Summary: A Baloch militant nationalist organization, the Baloch Republican Army (BRA),kidnapped eleven laborers and nineteen policemen on July 30, 2009. The hostages were taken in retaliation for an alleged Frontier Corps (FC) crackdown and arrest of several hundred Baloch youth agit [...] | 2009-08-05 02:14:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PK |
09KARACHI26 | BALOCHISTAN - TERRORIST GROUP CLAIMS CREDIT FOR [...] (SBU).Sunnai extremists from the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorist organization claimed credit for the January 14 killing of four Shi'a police officers and the wounding of three others in Quetta. Six of the officers were members of the minority Shi'a Hazara community, whose leaders claim that viol [...] | 2009-01-28 03:24:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER PK |
09KARACHI27 | SINDH - IRAN SEEKS TO ESTABLISH EXPORT BANK IN [...] (C) Summary: The Iranian Consul General in Karachi told the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) that his country plans to establish an export promotion bank in the city, a move that appears to have KCCI support. According to a media report, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) would [...] | 2009-01-28 03:24:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PK |
09KARACHI28 | BALOCHISTAN FACING ENERGY SHORTAGE [...] (C) Summary: Balochistan is facing a severe energy shortage that threatens to impact agricultural production and businesses. Many Baloch lack confidence in the GOP to resolve their problem, even as the GOP formulates plans to tackle it. Beset by energy crises in other, more populated and w [...] | 2009-01-28 12:41:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENGY SOCI PGOV PK |
09KARACHI330 | BALOCHISTAN - HR COMMISSION DESCRIBES TARGETED KILLINGS, [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan's Human Rights Commission (HRCP) told Pol Off the situation in Balochistan is deteriorating, with continued reports of targeted killings, political kidnappings, and an increasingly present and powerful Taliban. The HRCP has publically called for a "demilitarization" of Ba [...] | 2009-10-23 02:44:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KCRM KCRS PK |
09KARACHI34 | BALOCHISTAN - AMERICAN UNHCR OFFICIAL KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Quetta Office Director John Solecki was abducted near his residence in Quetta by armed attackers at around 9:15 AM on the morning of February 2. Solecki, a U.S. citizen, was leaving for work when assailants fired upon his vehicle, mortally [...] | 2009-02-03 06:47:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV UNHCR PK |
09KARACHI342 | BALOCHISTAN - MEETING WITH COAL MINE OWNERS [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 16 meeting in Quetta, mine owners said coal mines are the province's largest employer, with 100-250 thousand employees. Owners described the difficulty in finding markets for their ore, attracting investment, and operating in areas of lawlessness where violence and [...] | 2009-11-03 12:07:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ENRG ECON PK |
09KARACHI349 | BALOCHISTAN - MEETING WITH QUETTA-BASED TRUCKING FIRM [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 16 meeting in Quetta, trucking firm GSM said a majority of their shipments go to Iran, with Pakistani rice the most common of a limited range of goods. Conversely, Iran ships a wide range of goods to Pakistan, including paraffin, kerosene, and industrial chemicals [...] | 2009-11-05 11:36:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELTN ETRD MARR PGOV IR PK |
09KARACHI351 | KARACHI VISAS, OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a 14-year hiatus, ConGen Karachi resumed nonimmigrant visa operations on November 5, for business travelers from Sindh and Balochistan Provinces. While initially limited to ninety interviews per week to balance security and staffing requirements, this demonstration of [...] | 2009-11-06 10:09:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT PK |
09KARACHI361 | KARACHI STOCK EXCHANGE - REFORMS, HOPES, CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of Pakistan's 2008 financial collapse, the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) is introducing viable leverage products and debt liquidity, implementing stringent safeguards against market manipulation, and pursuing demutualization - through decoupling exchange ownership and tr [...] | 2009-11-16 04:33:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV ECON PK |
09KARACHI362 | KARACHI - MQM'S STUDENT-WING AS LEADERSHIP TRAINING GROUND [...] (C) Summary. Poloffs met November 6 with Syed Waheeduzzaman, Chairman of APMSO, which he described as the "mother-wing" of MQM. APMSO provides traditional student support in schools and Universities across Sindh and plays a major role in the day to day operations of MQM by identifying and prov [...] | 2009-11-16 04:47:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KCRM KCRS PK |
09KARACHI387 | KARACHI - NATIONAL AIRLINE FLOUNDERS AS PRIVATE CARRIERS [...] (C) Summary: While Pakistan's national carrier, PIA, has been operating at a loss for years, Pakistan's private carriers are seeing profits increase and are cautiously preparing to expand - particularly into the Middle Eastern market. PIA executives blame reduced travel demand and unfair compe [...] | 2009-12-14 06:16:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PGOV ECON PK |
09KARACHI396 | SUICIDE BOMBING DURING MUHARRAM PROCESSION IN KARACHI - [...] (SBU) Summary: A suicide bomber attacked a Muharram procession in Karachi on December 28. Preliminary reports indicate 25 dead and 82 wounded. Following the initial explosion, marchers attacked security personnel and vehicles. Leaders from all political parties are calling for calm in the [...] | 2009-12-28 15:24:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PK |
09KARACHI397 | MUHARRAM VIOLENCE IN KARACHI [...] (C) Summary: Three days of Muharram procession violence in Karachi culminated on December 28 with a suicide bombing that killed at least 43 people and sparked rioting leading to extensive property damage. Political leaders urged calm, but tensions remain high throughout the city. End summary [...] | 2009-12-29 12:28:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PTER PK |
09KARACHI398 | BALOCHISTAN - CONFLICT BETWEEN BALOCH SEPARTISTS AND [...] (C) Summary. The 25 October assassination of Balochistan Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan and the 18 October grenade attack upon Provincial Information Minister Yonous Mullahzai represent the continuation of an ongoing Baloch separatist campaign of intimidation and targeted killings. Thes [...] | 2009-12-31 02:04:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KCRM KCRS PK |
09KARACHI42 | BALOCHISTAN - SHI'A HAZARA PARTY LEADER SLAIN [...] (SBU) Sunni extremists purportedly from the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorist organization claimed credit for killing the Chair of the Hazara Democratic Party in Quetta on January 26. This marks the third prominent assassination of members of the minority Shi'a community in January, the latest in [...] | 2009-02-07 12:27:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SOCI PK |
09KARACHI45 | SINDH - IRANIAN AMBASSADOR AND IRANIAN CONSUL [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 meeting in Karachi, the Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan, Mashallah Shakari, and the Iranian Consul General to Karachi, Masoud Mohammad Zamani, adopted different tones when discussing Iran's relations with the West. While Shakari appeared to mute his criticism [...] | 2009-02-09 07:08:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09KARACHI49 | SINDH - IRAN OFFERS PAKISTAN ELECTRICITY, [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 meeting co-sponsored by the Pak Iran Friendship society in Karachi, the Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan claimed that his country has offered 1,135MW of energy to Pakistan, an offer he said that could double. He said that poor transmission infrastructure in Ba [...] | 2009-02-11 11:53:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV IR PK |
09KARACHI53 | SINDH - UNRESOLVED DEBT ISSUE COULD SHORT-CIRCUIT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 meeting Karachi Electrical Supply Company (KESC) Managing Director Naveed Ismail told the CG that the Dubai-based Abrajj Group may not finalize the purchase of KESC unless the Government of Pakistan (GOP) assumes a debt that could run as high as $1.06 billion to t [...] | 2009-02-12 07:27:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EFIN EINV PK |
09KARACHI59 | BALOCHISTAN - SUNNI CLERIC TV PERSONALITY GUNNED [...] (SBU) Unknown gunmen killed Maulana Iftikhar Ahmed Habibi, a moderate Sunni cleric and television personality, in Quetta on February 18. Habibi, shot on his way to appear on a television program, was an advocate of harmonious Sunni ) Shi'a coexistence and had spoken out against recent killin [...] | 2009-02-24 03:03:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL PHUM PK |
09KARACHI61 | SINDH - WILL THAR COAL FINALLY MATERIALIZE? [...] (C) In a series of meetings in February, Embassy and Consulate EconOffs have heard Thar coal development described in both hopeful and skeptical terms. Sindh officials claim confidently that Pakistan is "three years away" from mining operations in Thar, adding that China and South Korea both [...] | 2009-02-25 09:27:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENGR EINV EFIN ECON PREL PK |
09KARACHI63 | SINDH - KARACHI POLICE CONCERNED ABOUT AFGHAN [...] (S) Summary: On February 10, the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Karachi Police told Post and Bilal carrier that security procedures for U.S. Military bound shipments to Afghanistan were inadequate. He asked that all carriers responsible for moving U.S. military (USM) equipment from K [...] | 2009-02-25 11:51:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET | ELTN PTER PK |
09KARACHI67 | SINDH - KARACHI POLICE OFFICERS KILLED IN [...] (C) Summary: Security forces in Karachi suffered casualties during a botched operation against a criminal gang in the Sohrab Goth area of the city. Different Pakistani officials have made different claims as to the reason for, and results of, the operation ) including a claim that the gang p [...] | 2009-02-27 10:09:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09KARACHI68 | KARACHI - CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY FRUSTRATED BY [...] (C) Summary: Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Deputy Director General Sajid Habib told EconOff on February 13 that Pakistan's airline industry wanted a response from the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) to an industry request to fly direct flights to the U.S. He invited U.S. carrier [...] | 2009-03-02 06:22:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD PREL ECON PK |
09KARACHI72 | BALOCHISTAN - NATIONALIST PROVINCIAL OFFICIAL SHOT [...] (SBU) A radical Islamic group and a new Baloch nationalist group have both claimed responsibility for the February 23 shooting of Balochistan's Provincial Secretary of Mines and Minerals Jan Mohammad Dashti. The terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed it shot Dashti, an intellectual and au [...] | 2009-03-05 11:37:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PK |
09KARACHI73 | BALOCHISTAN HEATS UP [...] (C) Summary. At a February 9, telephonic press conference in Quetta, fugitive Baloch nationalist leader Brahamdagh Bugti threatened to retaliate against the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government for its failure to end GOP military operations in Balochistan. This move comes after th [...] | 2009-03-06 05:52:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM SOCI PK |
09KARACHI74 | SINDH - MQM HOLDS RALLY TO SUPPORT PPP, OFFER [...] (C) Summary: The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) held a large rally in Karachi on March 1, in an apparent show of solidarity with Pakistan People's Party (PPP) anger over damage to Benazir Bhutto's Rawalpindi shrine and burning of her photos by supporters of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim Lea [...] | 2009-03-06 12:31:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09KARACHI81 | SINDH - PPP SECRETARY GENERAL RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary: Former Sindh Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Secretary General Nafis Siddiqui said that he tendered his resignation as the party's leader in Sindh after being passed over for a Senate seat because President Zardari has marginalized long-time PPP members in favor of his close allie [...] | 2009-03-14 09:18:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
09KARACHI94 | SINDH - PROVINCIAL DEPUTY SPEAKER UNHAPPY ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: On March 17, Sindh Provincial Assembly Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza, a member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP),told the Acting Consul General (ACG) that civil unrest forced her party to accept the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. According to her, the prior C [...] | 2009-03-20 09:13:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
09KARACHI97 | BALOCHISTAN - SUICIDE BOMBER HITS GIRLS' MADRASSA [...] (SBU) A suicide bomber narrowly missed leading Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) leaders, including the party's provincial head Mohammad Khan Shirani, during a March 2 attack on a girls' madrassa in the town of Pashin, Balochistan that killed five people. Shirani was the presumed target of t [...] | 2009-03-24 16:47:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM PK |
09KARACHI98 | BALOCHISTAN - CHIEF MINISTER RAISANI SPEAKS OUT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-27 07:02:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM PK |
09KATHMANDU1101 | NEPAL: PRESIDENT AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-02 12:00:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AF PK NP |
09KATHMANDU459 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IDENTIFYING AIR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 08:00:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SMIG PARM PK NP |
09KATHMANDU523 | NEPAL LEADERS UPDATE A/S BLAKE ON OHCHR EXTENSION [...] (SBU) On June 12, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Representative Richard Bennett informed Assistant Secretary Robert Blake that his office has been focusing on impunity and discrimination in Nepal. Both problems are still rife and continue to undermine the transition [...] | 2009-06-18 09:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM PK SL NP |
09KINSHASA310 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONCLUSIONS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 14:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF CG PK |
09KOLKATA96 | ULFA SUSPECTED IN ASSAM TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 6, nine people died and more than 30 were wounded in a series of six terrorist attacks in different parts of Assam, including the capital Guwahati. Police suspect that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),which celebrates its foundation day on April 7, conducted [...] | 2009-04-07 13:45:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PK IN |
09KUALALUMPUR351 | FOREIGN MINISTER ANIFAH AND AMBASSADOR ENDORSE [...] (C) Malaysia's new Foreign Minister Anifah Aman endorsed strengthened relations with the U.S. during the Ambassador's May 11 introductory call, which precedes Anifah's travel to Washington and May 14 meeting with Secretary Clinton. The Minister called for increased and institutionalized offic [...] | 2009-05-11 10:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ECON SENV KNNP IR PK AF MY |
09KUALALUMPUR387 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-19 09:32:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF EAID PK MY |
09KUALALUMPUR426 | MALAYSIAN AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-02 06:56:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM MARR SMIG PK MY |
09KUWAIT102 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CODEL BOEHNER (FEBRUARY 5-7, [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for CODEL Boehner to travel to post February 5-7, 2009. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor [...] | 2009-02-04 09:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN IZ AF KU PK TU EI COUNTRY |
09KUWAIT1127 | KUWAIT SUPPORTS PRESIDENTS GOALS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel points December 1 to MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah. Jarallah welcomed the preview ofthe President's speech, saying Kuwait supports and appreciates the U.S. effort in Afghanistan. He in particular applauded increased civilian assistance for Afghanistan and Pakistan. [...] | 2009-12-01 12:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF PK AU |
09KUWAIT1212 | WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL McConnell (January 7-8, 2010) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL McConnell to travel to post from Jan 7-8, 2010. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and an expeditor will meet and assist you upon arrival. Embassy point of contact is: Robyn Abouzeid, ISU Liaison Office- (965) 2259-1203 Cell- (965)9961-4586 Fax [...] | 2009-12-28 05:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN PK AF KU UK |
09KUWAIT213 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO PAKISTAN'S IDP [...] (U) EconCouns delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Hamad Bu Rahmah, Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Counselor on March 10. Rahmah was not aware of the UN and ICRC requests but said he would coordinate with the MFA Economic Department on the GoK response. He sai [...] | 2009-03-10 14:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREF PK KU |
09KUWAIT292 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RAISING PAKISTAN DONORS [...] (C) Consistent with reftel instructions, A/DCM coordinated with the Japanese and Pakistani embassies to deliver points encouraging the GOK to participate in the April 17 Pakistan Donors Conference in Tokyo at the ministerial level and to make a generous contribution to this effort. A/DCM, join [...] | 2009-03-24 08:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IMF PK KU |
09KUWAIT293 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR [...] A/DCM on March 22 delivered reftel points urging the GOK to participate in a March 31 Dutch-hosted International Conference on Afghanistan to Ambassador Khaled Muqames, Director of MFA's Follow-up and Coordination Department. 2. Muqames thanked A/DCM for the information and promised to conv [...] | 2009-03-24 08:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AF PK IR UN KU |
09KUWAIT343 | EMBASSY KUWAIT WELCOMES CODEL REED (APRIL 14-16, 2009) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL Reed to travel to post, April 14-16, 2009. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the airport. Embassy point of contact is: Agnel Berry, ISU Coordinator Office- (965) 2259-1416 Cell- (965)9973-9854 H [...] | 2009-04-08 07:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU IZ PK AF AE |
09KUWAIT368 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK REPRESENTATION AT APRIL 17 [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by the Japanese and Pakistani Charges, delivered ref A demarche on April 15 to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah, emphasizing the need for the international community to support Pakistan's economy on an urgent basis as [...] | 2009-04-15 14:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IBRD IMF PK PU |
09KUWAIT511 | WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL LEAHY(MAY 23-24, 2009) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL Leahy to travel to post on May 23-24, 2009. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the base. Embassy point of contact is: Kristina Weiss, ISU Liaison Office- (965) 2259-1170 Cell- (965)9721-5933 Ho [...] | 2009-05-21 07:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AF EI FR IZ PK KU |
09KUWAIT539 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS [...] On May 26, econoff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asian Department Counselor Rashid Al-Hajeri. In response to a query about the USD 49 million commitment made by Kuwait at the Pakistan Donor's conference in Tokyo in April, Hajeri confirmed that this contribution ref [...] | 2009-05-28 13:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREF PK KU |
09KUWAIT545 | AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN - KUWAIT DOES NOT OPERATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-31 13:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SMIG PARM PK KU |
09KUWAIT555 | KUWAIT HAS NOT YET CONSIDERED NEW AID FOR PAKISTAN [...] (U) Econoff followed up on the possibility of Kuwait aid for Pakistan's IDPs with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Counselor Rashid Al-Hajri on June 1. Al-Hajri said the GoK's new Cabinet, which met first on May 31, had not yet considered the issue of relief for Pakistani IDPs. Officials from the [...] | 2009-06-02 13:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID PHUM PK KU |
09KUWAIT639 | KUWAIT'S AID TO PAKISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary and Key Points ---------------------------- -- The Kuwait Red Crescent (KRC) has made preparations to provide Pakistani Internally Displaced Persons with 20,000 tents and 10,000 packages of foodstuffs, cooking ut [...] | 2009-06-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PHUM PREL PK KU |
09KUWAIT66 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CODEL TIERNEY (JANUARY 29-30, [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for CODEL Tierney to travel to post January 29-30, 2009. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expedito [...] | 2009-01-26 03:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AF EI HU KU PK QA COUNTRY |
09KUWAIT676 | AA/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: During a June 30 meeting between the Prime Minister and AA/S Feltman, the PM: -- urged ongoing dialogue with Iran, despite recent events, and the avoidance of any military option, notwithstanding his pessimistic outlook on Iran's nuclear program and the prospects for any opening [...] | 2009-07-08 05:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KUNC IR IZ PK KU |
09KUWAIT798 | KUWAIT FUND COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary and key points. On August 12, Waleed Al Bahar, Regional Manager for Central Asian and European Country Affairs, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development(KFAED) met with EconCouns to discuss funding to Pakistan. - Al Bahar was unaware of allegations of any GoK withdrawal [...] | 2009-08-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREF PREL KU PK |
09KYIV2072 | THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE WAY FORWARD IN [...] (SBU) Charge d'affaires delivered reftel message December 1 to A/S-equivalent Anatoliy Oliynyk, who heads the MFA's NATO General Directorate. Charge previewed the President's message, noting that we are prepared to devote significant new resources to defeating al Qaida, but that our commitmen [...] | 2009-12-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AF PK UP |
09LAHORE100 | TERRORISTS ATTACK LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS [...] (C) A large explosion on Mall Road approximately a mile from post flattened the emergency response "Rescue 15" building and a wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Punjab headquarters on May 27 at 10:25. The adjacent Capitol City Police Office (CCPO) also suffered extensive damage. [...] | 2009-05-27 06:33:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PK |
09LAHORE101 | ATTACK ON RESCUE 15 AND ISI IN LAHORE -- SITREP 2 [...] (C) According to press reports, as of 16:00 the May 27 car blast that demolished the Rescue 15 headquarters and damaged a wing of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) building killed 45 people, including several of military rank, and injured 292. Although media have focused exclusively on the [...] | 2009-05-27 13:14:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PK |
09LAHORE11 | PUNJAB CHIEF MINISTER THREATENS "OPEN WAR" IF NAWAZ IS DISQUALIFIED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 15:45:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER |
09LAHORE110 | JUD CHIEF ORDERED RELEASED [...] (SBU) After more than five months of house arrest, the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the release of Jammat-ud-Dawa (JUD) Chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who had been placed in preventive detention since the Mumbai attacks. After a series of delays, a full bench of the LHC heard a habeaus corpus [...] | 2009-06-02 13:23:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PK |
09LAHORE116 | PUNJAB SUPPORTS IDP EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Human Rights Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered 54,396 individuals in Punjab as of June 6, the majority of whom have taken refuge in private residences, but UNHCR expects many more have arrived in the province. The Punjab Government, Governor and other politi [...] | 2009-06-16 02:28:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PK |
09LAHORE118 | PUNJAB LAWYERS FIGHT FOR AND AMONG THEMSELVES AFTER LONG [...] (SBU) Summary. Lawyers from Punjab have continued the fight for lawyers' rights, but have focused their efforts on improving their own status and ensuring job security. Punjab attorneys have demanded pay raises, housing from the provincial government and a resolution that requires companies t [...] | 2009-06-16 11:43:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PK |
09LAHORE119 | SARFRAZ NAEEMI LAID TO REST AMIDST PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Funeral services for Dr. Sarfraz Naeemi brought Lahore to a standstill June 13 as mourners flocked from all over the city to pay their respects to the Brelvi leader killed in June 12 suicide attack. Shopkeepers observed a day-long strike while political leaders unanimously condemn [...] | 2009-06-19 10:51:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
09LAHORE122 | TRAFFICKING STILL PREVELANT IN RAHIM YAR KHAN [...] (SBU) Summary. The southern district of Rahim Yar Khan has served as Pakistan's hub for children trafficked to the Gulf States to work as camel jockeys. Since 2005, the Federal government has repatriated over 800 trafficked children from the United Arab Emirates. According to UNICEF, the Gov [...] | 2009-06-23 02:01:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PK |
09LAHORE123 | EDUCATION, HEALTH AND AGRICULTURE CAN BEAT EXTREMISM IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Improved education, health care and economic development can counter the rise of extremism in south Punjab, politicians and administrators told a USAID and State delegation that visited south Punjab June 2-8. Local leaders in Multan, Bahawalpur, Khanewal, Dera Ghazi Khan and Raj [...] | 2009-06-23 02:39:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID PTER PK |
09LAHORE129 | NAWAZ SHARIF ACQUITTED IN HELICOPTER CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: A two-member Rawalpindi branch of the Lahore High Court (LHC) acquitted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif of the alleged illegal purchase of a helicopter on June 26. The original sentence was handed down in 2000, immediately before Sharif was sent into ex [...] | 2009-07-06 06:57:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PK |
09LAHORE131 | MINORITY RIGHTS ADVOCATE ARRESTED IN LAHORE [...] (SBU) Summary. Joseph Francis, National Director of the Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) and prominent human rights advocate, was arrested and denied bail by the Lahore High Court on July 9 after traveling to London while on bail in a forced conversion case. Francis is [...] | 2009-07-11 11:40:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF PK |
09LAHORE132 | PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE ELECTIONS SHOW PARTY IS ADRIFT [...] (C) Summary: Although the July 8 provincial party elections of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML; also known as the "Q League") strengthened the Chaudhry family control over the PML, a prominent faction of dissidents who boycott the PML polls could could damage the national standing of the PML in [...] | 2009-07-13 04:33:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE133 | CHRISTIANS ATTACKED IN KASUR [...] (SBU) Summary: A drunken fistfight erupted into an alleged incident of blasphemy, which sparked a mob attack on a Christian community in rural Punjab, prompting 700 people to flee their homes June 30. Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti offered compensation to the affected [...] | 2009-07-13 06:07:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF PK |
09LAHORE154 | ICE MAY HAVE CRACKED, BUT SHARIFS STILL DISTRUST IN ZARDARI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-24 12:45:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM PK |
09LAHORE155 | RAPE VICTIM PORTRAYED BY NY TIMES FACES CORRUPT POLICE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Police in Khanewal district in south Punjab have refused to arrest the rapists and police whom New York Times subject Assiya Rafiq has accused of rape, women's rights activist Mukhtar Mai told Acting Principal Officer July 28. According to the July 26 article by Nicholas Kristof, [...] | 2009-07-28 13:36:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KCOR PK |
09LAHORE156 | FEMALE MADRASSAHS IN PUNJAB PREPARE WOMEN FOR THE HOME [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff visits to three female Ahl-e-Hadith madrassahs in Punjab has shown that they provide Islamic studies, Quran memorization and basic life skills training, but little else to prepare women for an independent life. Aside from the Quran, girls learn to cook, clean and sew; th [...] | 2009-07-30 02:41:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV KISL PK |
09LAHORE164 | POWER IN PUNJAB: LIMITED OPTIONS FOR ADDING SUPPLY, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Punjab provincial government is increasingly concerned about persistent rolling blackouts, but has few options to respond to the electricity crisis. In a July 28 meeting with A/PO, son of the Chief Minister and Member of the Provincial Assembly, Hamza Sharif, acknowledged t [...] | 2009-08-08 10:24:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ECIN EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE165 | PROSECUTIONS AND PEACE PROMISED IN STRIFE-TORN VILLAGE [...] (C) Summary: While politicians and religious leaders have sought to establish inter-religious peace in Gojra village after the August 1 burning of eight Christians, human rights activists have urged the government to reconsider the blasphemy law, which sparked the killing of a Muslim businessma [...] | 2009-08-10 10:59:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER PK |
09LAHORE167 | PUNJAB ATTORNEYS CONSIDER SUPREME COURT RULINGS PIECEMEAL [...] (C) Summary: Punjab attorneys from across the political spectrum criticized Chief Justice Iftikar Chaudhry's July 31 rulings against judges appointed during former President Musharraf's last 18 months in office as political and piecemeal, they said in a series of meetings with Acting Principal [...] | 2009-08-17 06:25:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PK |
09LAHORE175 | SHAHBAZ SHARIF CLAIMS ZARDARI GOVERNMENT LACKS CREDIBILITY [...] (C) This is an action request for S/SRAP. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif told PO August 31 that the federal government as lacked credibility, hampering improvement in economic and social development. He pledged to prosecute the perpetrators of the A [...] | 2009-09-01 08:10:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER TU PK |
09LAHORE177 | U.S. DAIRY IN PUNJAB: A $34 MILLION SUCCESS STORY [...] (SBU) Summary: Sweetwater International's Punjab dairy operation demonstrates how private business can lead economic development in Pakistan without government assistance. The firm's methods might provide a replicable model for modern milk production in the region. Acting Principal Office [...] | 2009-09-02 07:18:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ECIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE178 | PROSPECTS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION THROUGH NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Non-farm employment is vital to help alleviate poverty in southern Punjab, according to local policy makers and academic experts. Population growth has vastly outpaced increases in both agricultural productivity and non-farm jobs, which resulted in higher poverty rates in sout [...] | 2009-09-03 02:35:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ECIN EIND EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE179 | AGRICULTURE IN PUNJAB: MODERN AGRI-BUSINESS CAN LEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: A key strategy for enhancing agricultural production in Punjab is to leverage private sector connections to export markets, and to use supply chain development to drive broader improvements in agricultural practices, according to many researchers in the field. Ten years of smal [...] | 2009-09-03 03:02:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ECIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE183 | NON-STOP FLIGHTS FROM LAHORE TO NEW YORK LOOK LIKELY [...] (SBU) Summary: Lahore International Airport (LHE) may meet security standards required for direct flights to the United States, according to a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) observation team that conducted a survey at LHE August 24-28. The TSA team noted that LHE officials had ac [...] | 2009-09-09 06:41:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAIR ECIN PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE190 | MUKHTAR MAI: STRUGGLING AGAINST THE PUNJABI FEUDAL SYSTEM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization (MMWO),named for the survivor of a gang rape ordered by community leaders as vengeance for a family honor violation, is at a crossroads. As it fights the feudal system and its oppression of women, it struggles with sustainability, [...] | 2009-10-02 07:16:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KWMN PK |
09LAHORE195 | UNICEF SUSPENDS SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN TRAFFICKED BETWEEN [...] (SBU) Summary. UNICEF temporarily suspended programs aimed at rehabilitating children trafficked to the United Arab Emirates as camel jockeys, pending the resolution of a partisan squabble that has essentially closed a district office of the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau, UNICEF's gover [...] | 2009-10-14 05:34:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI PK |
09LAHORE196 | BLASPHEMY ACCUSED DIES IN POLICE CUSTODY IN NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: A young Pakistani Christian man died in police custody, three days after he was arrested and charged with blasphemy. On September 11, 20-year-old Fanish Masih, an illiterate sweeper, allegedly grabbed a copy of the Quran from a teenage Muslim girl and threw it in the drain. [...] | 2009-10-14 05:55:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF PK |
09LAHORE197 | LAHORE EAC MEETING - 15 OCTOBER 2009 [...] (SBU) Principal Officer (PO) convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on October 15, 2009 at 1200 hours to review Post's response to three simultaneous attacks on Pakistani security-related facilities in Lahore. In attendance were A/RSO, POL/ECON, RAO, MGT, GSO/CONS, IPC, and PAO. [...] | 2009-10-15 09:12:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PK |
09LAHORE198 | SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS ON THREE SECURITY INSTALLATIONS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: At least 30 terrorists, armed with grenades, guns, and suicide bomb vests simultaneously attacked three police facilities in Lahore on October 15 - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Regional Headquarters, the Punjab Elite Police Force Training Academy, and the Manawan Police [...] | 2009-10-15 13:26:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PK |
09LAHORE200 | RAMADAN CHARITABLE EVENTS WELL RECEIVED IN LAHORE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the holy month of Ramadan Consulate Lahore distributed gift bags containing school supplies, juice, and a snack to over 1,000 children from four madrassahs and three orphanages. We also provided a package of basic food stuffs to 150 underprivileged families. Major Urdu [...] | 2009-10-19 08:25:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PK |
09LAHORE204 | CHRISTIANS DEMAND JUSTICE FROM PUNJAB PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 5, Christian villagers from Gojra made a show of rejecting USAID winterization kits and demanded justice after Muslim mobs burned houses in two Christian villages in August, killing eight people. Frustrated by the release on bail of a man arrested in connection wit [...] | 2009-10-21 09:57:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF PK |
09LAHORE205 | ATTACK ON ISLAMABAD ISLAMIC SCHOOL SHOCKS PUNJABIS, CLOSES [...] (C) Summary. On October 21, the Punjab provincial government called for all educational facilities in the province to close until further notice. Immediately after the October 15 attacks on three security installations in Lahore, some public and private schools closed for a few days while th [...] | 2009-10-21 13:37:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09LAHORE210 | NAWAZ SHARIF ON ZARDARI: SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY, NOT THE [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister/Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mian Nawaz Sharif said he resisted attacking President Zardari, despite pressure from his own party to do so. Zardari had called to thank Sharif for his responsible reproach, and Sharif responded that he was not tr [...] | 2009-11-12 12:38:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PK |
09LAHORE215 | NOVEMBER 10 VISIT TO MUKHTAR MAI AND SECURITY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST IN PARAGRAPH 8. After the leadership of a local non-governmental organization (NGO) contacted Department of State personnel regarding terrorist threats, ConGen Lahore spoke with NGO staff and relevant security organizations. Police told us they recently contacted staff of Mu [...] | 2009-11-19 08:23:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PK |
09LAHORE216 | THE SECRETARY'S MEETINGS WITH THE PUNJABI GOVERNOR, BUSINESS [...] (U) October 29; 17:15; Lahore, Pakistan 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Anne W. Patterson SRAP Ambassador Richard Holbrooke CG Carmela Conroy Pakistan (Both events) Punjab Governor Salman Taseer Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi [...] | 2009-11-20 09:33:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILARY PK |
09LAHORE223 | LAHORE PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL SUSPENDED DUE TO FINANCIAL, [...] (U) Summary: Organizers of the Lahore International Performing Arts Festival recently announced they were cancelling the festival for 2009, citing security concerns and financial constraints. The 2008 Festival, the 25th anniversary event, drew performers from 23 countries, thousands of festiv [...] | 2009-11-24 11:02:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS SCUL PK |
09LAHORE230 | UPDATE ON OCTOBER 15 ATTACKS ON LAHORE SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. On October 15, 2009, extremists killed eighteen police personnel and injured over 100 in three simultaneous attacks on security installations in Lahore. The extremists had learned from previous attacks, enhancing their weapons and disguising themselves as police. Attackers app [...] | 2009-12-10 06:08:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
09LAHORE236 | PUNJAB CHIEF MINISTER ON SARGODHA DETAINEES, NRO, AND OTHER [...] (C) Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for more time as Pakistani authorities need to thoroughly investigate the Sargodha detainees. As the Supreme Court decides on the NRO, Shahbaz believes the next five weeks are critical and reiterated the PML-N's position that it wants to see the d [...] | 2009-12-21 10:36:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER PK |
09LAHORE240 | DEPARTURE OF ACTING CONSUL GENERAL BRYAN D. HUNT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-29 10:02:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA PK |
09LAHORE27 | BLAST IN DERA GHAZI KHAN LINKED TO SECTARIAN CONFLICT [...] (SBU) An alleged suicide attacker killed 33 people in the southwestern Punjab district of Dera Ghazi Khan February 5. According to press and consulate contacts, the blast targeted a Shia procession converging on the imambargah, or house of worship, in the middle of Dera Ghazi Khan city. "It is [...] | 2009-02-06 14:48:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PGOV PK |
09LAHORE35 | PUNJAB GOVERNOR TAKES OVER WHILE PROTESTS CONTINUE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 04:20:00 | Consulate Lahore | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PK PTER |
09LAHORE38 | THE NUMBERS GAME IN THE PUNJAB [...] (C) Summary: The key to power in the Punjab lies with the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and its leaders the Chaudhrys of Gujrat. The Chaudhry cousins told the Principal Officer on February 28 that they were being assiduously courted by both the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Mus [...] | 2009-03-03 13:13:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK |
09LAHORE41 | (S) SHAHBAZ SHARIF OPEN TO NEGOTIATIONS WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI [...] (S) Summary: In a March 6 meeting with Principal Officer, Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) President Shahbaz Sharif laid out a number of preconditions for a quick negotiated settlement to the current political impasse with President Asif Zardari including that (1) the agreement included [...] | 2009-03-06 19:08:00 | Consulate Lahore | SECRET | PGOV PTER KDEM PK |
09LAHORE46 | LAHORE EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING MEETS TO DISCUSS [...] (U) Lahore's EAC convened on Thursday, March 12, 2009 to review the impact the "Long March" on Islamabad, planned by lawyers, PML(N),Jamat-e-Islam and Tehreek-e-Insaf political parties in Pakistan, will have on the Punjab Province. The EAC was chaired by the Principal Officer. In attendance [...] | 2009-03-12 11:33:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER AMGT CACS PK |
09LAHORE49 | SHARIFS REMAIN OPEN TO NEGOTIATION [...] (S) Summary: In a March 14 meeting, Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) President Shahbaz Sharif told Principal Officer that he and his brother -- former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif -- welcomed efforts by the United States, United Kingdom, and the Pakistan Army to negotiate a political sett [...] | 2009-03-14 11:25:00 | Consulate Lahore | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PTER PK |
09LAHORE50 | GOVERNOR RESISTS COMPROMISE IN PUNJAB [...] (C) Summary: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer told Principal Officer (PO) March 14 that the best solution to stabilize the provincial government continues to rely on a tie-up between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) with a PPP Chief Minister at the helm. He d [...] | 2009-03-14 12:06:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09LAHORE54 | SIPAH-E-SAHABA STEPS UP ACTIVITIES IN FAISALABAD [...] (S) Summary: A well-placed Deobandi religious leader told Principal Officer in a meeting on March 18 that extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) was increasing its activities in the central Punjab city of Faisalabad, the province's second largest, in collaboration with elements of the Tehrik-e-T [...] | 2009-03-20 10:51:00 | Consulate Lahore | SECRET | PTER PGOV PK |
09LAHORE64 | ATTACK ON POLICE TRAINING CENTER IN LAHORE -- SITREP 1 [...] (SBU) Between 20 and 25 unidentified terrorists attacked a police training center in the village of Manawan situated on the main road from Lahore to the Wagah border with India at approximately 7:30 am on March 30. Preliminary reports have placed the number of casualties at 20 with over 100 i [...] | 2009-03-30 10:38:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PK |
09LAHORE66 | ATTACK ON POLICE TRAINING CENTER -- SITREP 2 [...] (SBU) Punjab Elite Police with the support of Punjab Rangers and the Pakistan Army took back the Police Training Center facility in Manawaan at 15:40 on March 30, according to police contacts on the scene. Press reports claim that the police took three terrorists into custody and lethally shot [...] | 2009-03-30 16:06:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PK |
09LAHORE67 | POLICE FOCUS ON DOMESTIC EXTREMISTS AS MARWAN INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Summary: Senior police contacts have told post that the current investigation into the March 30 attack on the Manawan Police Training School is focusing on domestic extremist groups with ties to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Police are under pressure to concentrate on Baitullah [...] | 2009-03-31 12:19:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PK |
09LAHORE68 | SUPREME COURT RESTORES SHAHBAZ SHARIF AS PUNJAB CHIEF [...] (C) Summary:The Supreme Court March 31 issued a stay order against its February 25 decision to disqualify Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif from holding public office. The immediate impact of this decision was to restore the status quo and temporarily restore Shahbaz Sharif as Chief Minister. It did n [...] | 2009-04-01 11:14:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
09LAHORE69 | CHIEF MINISTER SHAHBAZ SHARIF READY TO CORRECT GOVERNOR'S [...] (C) Summary: Newly restored Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif told Principal Officer (PO) April 3 that he will focus on the terrorism issues that afflicted Punjab while Governor Salman Taseer had taken over. He noted that the March 31 court ruling only stayed his disqualification from office, whil [...] | 2009-04-06 11:08:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
09LAHORE72 | PUNJAB GOVERNOR TASEER TELLS CODEL KYL THAT EXTREMISM IS [...] Summary (C) Punjab Governor Salman Taseer told a congressional delegation led by Senator Jon Kyl that only a small minority in Pakistan supports extremism. He highlighted assistance to Pakistan's education system as the best way to counter terrorist recruitment. Taseer also envisioned Pakist [...] | 2009-04-10 14:08:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PK |
09LAHORE76 | NAWAZ SHARIF TELLS CODEL KYL TO TALK TO ALL PARTIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 10:58:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PK |
09LAHORE77 | PUNJAB AGRICULTURE OFFICIALS CRITICIZE PAKISTAN WHEAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior bureaucrats in the Punjab Ministry of Agriculture realize that government wheat policy endangers Pakistan's food security and perpetuates rural poverty and isolation, creating fertile ground for extremists. Despite the cost and corruption fueled by price supports and subsi [...] | 2009-04-20 10:27:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE87 | PUNJAB WHEAT HARVEST JEOPARDIZED BY CORRUPTION AND LACK OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Corruption and inadequate storage facilities have hindered the Punjab government's ability to take full advantage of a bumper crop of wheat. Many farmers, faced with transportation and bureaucratic hurdles, have chosen to sell their wheat to middlemen, who have pocketed the diff [...] | 2009-05-07 06:30:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09LAHORE9 | THE BATTLE TO CONTROL THE PUNJAB [...] (S) Summary: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) coalition in the country's most-populous Punjab province is looking increasingly weak. Both parties are openly courting the opposition Pakistan Muslim League (PML) in an effort to solidify control over the [...] | 2009-01-22 07:16:00 | Consulate Lahore | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PK |
09LAHORE95 | MODERATE ISLAMIC LEADERS IN PUNJAB LOOK TO U.S. FOR GUIDANCE [...] (C) Summary: Although historically divided by sometimes violent sectarian differences, Punjab's Islamic religious leaders have found common cause in recent years in pressing for a moderate alternative to the Taliban-style Islam increasing in Pakistan's Pashtun areas. While infiltration by wel [...] | 2009-05-18 10:46:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
09LAHORE99 | PUNJAB HOME SECRETARY FEARS HAFIZ SAEED'S RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: Punjab Home Secretary Nazim Hassan Asif warned that a full bench of the Lahore High Court could free Jamaatud Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed on May 21. He lamented that he lacked sufficient evidence to support the detention orders under which the Home Department has extended their detention. [...] | 2009-05-22 05:41:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PK |
09LIMA786 | PERU: IDENTIFYING AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) This telegram responds to reftel's urgent action request to evaluate possible availability of MI-17 helicopters for use by the Pakistani military. This message also contains an action request for SCA/P in para 4. 2. (C) The Peruvian Air Force has seventeen MI-17 helicopters in its fle [...] | 2009-06-03 21:03:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR PARM SMIG PK PE |
09LJUBLJANA158 | SLOVENIA: NO MI-17 HELICOPTERS [...] Slovenia has no Mi-17 helicopters in its inventories, and is therefore unable to make any available for lease, sale, or donation to Pakistan as requested reftel. FREDEN [...] | 2009-06-03 15:07:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL SMIG MOPS PK SI |
09LJUBLJANA162 | SLOVENIA UNABLE TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) ADCM met with Tomaz Mencin, head of the Division for Africa, the Near East, Asia and Oceania, and Natalija Raisp, head of the Asia section, on June 9 to urge Slovenia to heed the UNSYG's warning that there will be a severe crisis if the UN is forced to cut services because of the unmet UN a [...] | 2009-06-10 05:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PHUM PREF PK SI |
09LJUBLJANA212 | SLOVENIA PLANS INCREASE IN CIVILIAN ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Emboffs delivered demarche on assisting Afghanistan beyond the August elections (ref A) and encouraged Slovene officials to commit additional military and civilian resources to Afghanistan. Jure Rifelj, the MFA's coordinator for Afghanistan and currently working in the Defense Ministry's [...] | 2009-07-24 12:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR KPAO AF PK SI |
09LONDON1396 | EU-PAKISTAN SUMMIT: DELIVERABLES ON TRADE, IDPS, [...] (C/NF) Acknowledging that internal EU discussions on deliverables for the EU-Pakistan had been "tough going," UK Foreign Office Pakistan Team leader Matthew Lawson and Desk Officer Bikash Dawahoo said the UK had secured deliverables on trade, General Schedule Preferences Plus (GSP Plus),IDPs, [...] | 2009-06-12 15:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID PHUM ETRD PK UK |
09LONDON1725 | HMG RESPONSE TO CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT (CD) DEMARCHE ON DELAY OF START OF WORK IN THE CD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-28 16:04:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AS CH FR MNUC PARM PK PREL RS UK |
09LONDON1777 | HMG'S VIEWS ON INDIA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH PAKISTAN [...] (C/NF) Summary. HMG is "cautiously optimistic" about the progress of India's relationship, with Pakistan and the U.S. and HMG should "compare notes" this fall to determine "how serious the Indians actually are in relaxing their rhetoric toward Pakistan," Neil Kernohan, Head of the India, Nepal [...] | 2009-08-03 15:35:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR AF IN NP PK UK PTER |
09LONDON1788 | UK CALLING FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN [...] (C/NF) Summary: The UK is not planning to increase its development funding for Afghanistan beyond the GBP 510 million it has committed through 2013, but will channel an increasing amount of resources through the Afghan Government and redirect its efforts to focus more clearly on discrete areas [...] | 2009-08-05 10:28:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | AF EAID ECON PGOV PK UK |
09LONDON1911 | EFFECT OF THE RECESSION ON UK REMITTANCES TO [...] (SBU) Summary. UK remittances to Pakistan have continued to increase in 2009, according to official data, but experts are skeptical that the trend will continue. Unlike remittances from other parts of the world, which experts speculate are being boosted in the short term by the return of the [...] | 2009-08-19 16:29:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PK SA UK XC |
09LONDON2005 | UK’S ASSISTANCE STRATEGY - CUT POVERTY, ADDRESS [...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK's development assistance ministry, DFID, is seeking to ramp up programs in conflict and fragile states, especially in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, while fulfilling its legal mandate to reduce poverty and operate within budgetary limits, Martin Dinham, Director General, In [...] | 2009-08-28 10:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID ECON PGOV PK AF UK |
09LONDON2198 | U/S TAUSCHER’S MEETINGS WITH FS MILIBAND AND OTHER [...] (S/NF) Summary: Under Secretary Tauscher held meetings in London on September 2-4 on the margins of the P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures Towards Nuclear Disarmament with Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Simon McDonald, Head of the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat at the Cabinet [...] | 2009-09-22 14:13:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM KNNP PREL CH EG FR IN IR IZ JA KN PK |
09LONDON2199 | (C/NF) P5 HEADS OF DELEGATION SIDE-MEETING ON NPT [...] (C/NF) Summary: On Friday, September 4, in conjunction with the UK-hosted P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures Towards Nuclear Disarmament, UK Del head, Mariot Leslie, convened a side meeting of the P5 heads of delegation (HOD) to discuss preparations for the UN Security Council Summit on [...] | 2009-09-22 14:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM KNNP UK CH FR RS IR EG PK |
09LONDON2214 | U/S TAUSCHER’S BILATERAL MEETINGS IN LONDON WITH [...] (S/NF) Summary: U/S for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher and Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation Ambassador Susan Burk held bilateral consultations in London September 3-4, on the margins of the P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures Towards Nuclear Disa [...] | 2009-09-23 16:24:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM KNNP CH EG FR IN IR KN PK RS UK |
09LONDON230 | PAKISTAN: NEXT STEPS AFTER MILIBAND'S VISIT [...] (C/NF) Summary. Pakistan's engagement and public messaging about its actions in the aftermath of the Mumbai bombings formed the core of Foreign Secretary Miliband's script during his January 16-17 visit to Islamabad. Miliband, according to FCO Pakistan Team leader Laura Hickey, was re-assured [...] | 2009-01-27 10:33:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL EAID PTER KDEM IN PK UK |
09LONDON2303 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY’S OCTOBER 10-11 [...] (C//NF) Summary. The Secretary's visit to London comes on the heels of the Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrat political party conferences -- their last before the UK elections which must be held by June 2010. The domestic political situation remains in flux, but with the Conservatives enjoy [...] | 2009-10-06 16:46:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON UK KNNP MOPS IR PK AF |
09LONDON2311 | (SBU) BRITISH PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAY FORWARD IN [...] (C//NF) Summary. In October 1 and 2 meetings with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Admiral Stavridis, and ISAF Commander General McChrystal, Prime Minister Brown, Foreign Secretary Miliband and other senior UK officials underscored HMG [...] | 2009-10-07 17:27:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS AF UK PK |
09LONDON2346 | BROWN'S PROMISE TO SEND AN ADDITIONAL 500 TROOPS [...] (C//NF) Summary. Prime Minister Brown announced October 14 that he is prepared to deploy an additional 500 troops to Afghanistan provided three key conditions are met: the Afghan security forces must do a better job, and be willing to fight alongside and be trained by British forces; British troo [...] | 2009-10-15 16:40:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF PK UK PGOV PREL MARR MOPS MCAP PTER |
09LONDON236 | INDIA: MILIBAND'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH GOI OFFICIALS [...] (C/NF) Summary. In spite of the significant Indian media criticism of Foreign Secretary Miliband's comments on Kashmir during his January 13-15 visit to India (reftels),he had an opportunity for useful discussions with Indian leaders on key policy and regional issues, including Pakistan, Iran [...] | 2009-01-27 14:09:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER EAID KDEM IN PK IR XD UK |
09LONDON2520 | UK INITIATIVES HARNESS DIASPORA CAPACITY [...] (U) Summary. The UK has initiated a number of programs to help engage UK-based Diaspora groups and harness their expertise in international development. Under the direction of the Department for International Development (DFID),and the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO),these programs are ty [...] | 2009-11-06 17:18:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PHUM OIIP SCUL SMIG ECON SO PK NI |
09LONDON2557 | INDIAN ENVOY DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] (C/NF) Summary. During a meeting with Poloff to discuss the October 27-29 state visit of President Pratibha Patil to India, Neil Kernohan (Protect),Head of the India, Nepal, and Bhutan Team at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),told Poloff that HMG would appreciate it if the U.S. would [...] | 2009-11-13 12:35:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI AF UK PK |
09LONDON2567 | AMBASSADOR MCELDOWNEY'S BILATERAL MEETINGS IN [...] (C/NF) Summary and Introduction. During her November 9-11 visit to London, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Nancy McEldowney discussed a range of issues in bilateral meetings with UK officials. Julian Miller, Deputy Head of the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat at the Cabinet [...] | 2009-11-16 15:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS SOCI ECON PK AF OSCE NATO EU |
09LONDON2569 | HMG STRESSES U.S.-UK COORDINATION ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C/NF) Summary. Karen Pierce (Protect),the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Director for South Asia and Afghanistan, told the Political Minister Counselor November 16 that HMG is eagerly awaiting President Obama's decision on the way forward in Afghanistan and would appreciate as much insig [...] | 2009-11-16 17:13:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS AF PK NATO UK |
09LONDON2575 | PM FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH STRESSES AFGHANIZATION [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a November 16, speech, PM Gordon Brown reviewed UK foreign policy priorities -- but focused on Afghanistan. Emphasizing that Britain's national security was at stake, Brown argued that the "greater international good will never be subordinated to the mood of the passing momen [...] | 2009-11-17 17:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS AF PK NATO UK |
09LONDON2581 | PADDY ASHDOWN ON WAY FORWARD IN AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 15:16:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS AF UK PK |
09LONDON2596 | PADDY ASHDOWN ON WAY FORWARD IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C//NF) Summary. British Parliamentarian and former UN High Representative in Bosnia Lord Paddy Ashdown recently shared his views with DCM LeBaron on the way forward in Afghanistan. Ashdown stressed that while finding a solution would not be easy, success was absolutely critical. Any strategy for [...] | 2009-11-19 16:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS AF UK PK |
09LONDON2690 | HMG PRAISES U.S. AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN STRATEGY, PREPARES FOR JANUARY CONFERENCE [...] (C/NF) Summary. Prime Minister Brown was "very pleased" by President Obama's December 1 speech describing the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and HMG would like U.S. and UK public statements to remain in synch, Philip Barton, Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Cabinet Office's Fore [...] | 2009-12-02 17:40:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PTER AF PK UK |
09LONDON2707 | BRITISH MPS' FEEDBACK ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S [...] (C/NF) Summary. MPs who attended a December 2 reception for the Ambassador hosted by the British-American Parliamentary Group (BAPG) expressed opinions in conversations with Embassy officers that were broadly supportive of the President's Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy. Several MPs stressed [...] | 2009-12-03 17:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF PK UK |
09LONDON2768 | SHADOW DEFENSE MINISTER FOX PLEDGES CLOSE U.S.-UK [...] (C/NF) Summary. During a December 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Shadow Secretary of State for Defense Liam Fox affirmed his desire to work closely with the U.S. if the Conservative Party wins power in next year's general election. He highlighted the importance of the U.S.-UK Defense Trade and Coop [...] | 2009-12-10 16:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AF UK PK IR IN CH RS |
09LONDON2774 | AFGHAN AMBASSADOR'S CONCERNS ABOUT HMG'S PLANNING FOR JANUARY 28 LONDON CONFERENCE Classified By: Ambassador Louis Susman for reasons 1.4 b and d [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Afghan Ambassador to the UK told Ambassador Susman December 10 that he is upset that HMG has not consulted him or his government regarding overall Afghanistan policy or planning for the January 28 London Conference. According to the Afghan envoy, three of the proposed agenda ite [...] | 2009-12-10 17:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS EAID ECON SOCI AF PK |
09LONDON2780 | CONSERVATIVE LEADER CAMERON WELCOMES AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY REF: LONDON 2768 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-11 13:13:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS KCRM AF PK UK |
09LONDON2816 | PM BROWN OUTLINES PLANS FOR JANUARY 28 LONDON AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE REF: LONDON 2774 (NOTAL) [...] (C/NF) Summary. In December 14 remarks to the House of Commons, Prime Minister Brown outlined HMG's plans for the January 28 London Conference on Afghanistan. A key Conference goal is to "set out an outline program for the transfer of lead responsibility from Coalition to Afghan forces." The Confer [...] | 2009-12-15 14:34:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SOCI MARR MOPS AF PK UK SNAR NATO |
09LONDON2864 | FCO DESCRIBES PLANNING FOR JANUARY 28 LONDON AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE REF: A. LONDON 2774 B. LONDON 2816 [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Afghan government has "not focused" yet on the January 28 London Afghanistan Conference and is "not organized yet to feed anything coherent" into discussions regarding the agenda and Conference outcomes, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Permanent Undersecretary Peter Ricket [...] | 2009-12-18 17:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL AF PK UK |
09LONDON33 | HMG RECEIVES NIP AND DISCUSSES RELATED TOPICS [...] (S) Summary. Poloffs met with FCO's Simon Manley, Director of the Defense and Strategic Threats Directorate and Emily Maltman of the Strategic Partners and Multilateral Counter Terrorism Department to deliver the National Implementation Plan as per reftel. Manley described HMG's counter-terroris [...] | 2009-01-06 13:02:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV AS CA IN PK UK |
09LONDON557 | S/CT AMBASSADOR DAILEY'S MEETINGS WITH UK OFFICIALS [...] (S/NF) Summary. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Dell Dailey met with UK officials from the Cabinet Office and the FCO February 26 to review our CT operations and policies in South Asia and East Africa. Dailey: -- briefed HMG on the trilateral meetings in Washington with Afghani [...] | 2009-03-03 13:07:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER MOPS MARR UK SO PK IN AF YM |
09LONDON646 | PAKISTAN: UK CONSIDERING SUPPORT FOR IDPS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-13 09:59:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREF PK UK |
09LONDON658 | PAKISTAN: UK APPRECIATES USG APPROACH TO TOKYO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-16 14:57:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL EFIN IBRD IMF PK UK |
09LONDON71 | PAKISTAN: MILIBAND VISIT TO FOCUS ON INDO-PAK [...] (C/NF) Summary. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband's visit to Pakistan and India January 13 - 17 will focus on Indo-Pak relations and a roadmap for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA),FCO Pakistan Team leader Laura Hickey said on January 12. A recent HMG analysis of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba [...] | 2009-01-12 17:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IN PK UK |
09LONDON860 | CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER ON AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN [...] (C/NF) Summary. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard Holbrooke met April 3 with British Conservative Party leader David Cameron and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne to offer an overview of USG policy in the region and to urge HMG (under possible future Conservative [...] | 2009-04-09 15:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR PREL PTER PGOV PK AF IN UK |
09LUSAKA915 | ZAMBIA APPRECIATES DEVELOPMENT COMPONENT TO AF-PAK [...] (SBU) On December 1, Ambassador outlined the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan described in reftel for MFA PermSec Tens Kapoma. He stressed that the new strategy should be welcomed by Zambia and other countries who share our goal to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and to [...] | 2009-12-01 13:22:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AF PK ZA |
09MADRID1186 | SPAIN WILL CONSIDER ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE TO WFP [...] Post conveyed reftel appeal December 11 to MFA SubDirector General for Continental Asia Jose Luis Garcia Galan, who agreed to discuss the matter with colleagues at the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). 2. AECID contacts, in response to the urgent appeal [...] | 2009-12-15 16:08:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD IO PGOV PHUM PK PREF PREL |
09MADRID292 | SPAIN CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN APRIL 17 PAKISTAN [...] Per reftel, Embassy coordinated with the Japanese Embassy in Madrid to deliver points on the ministerial-level Donors Conference for Pakistan on April 17, 2009, in Tokyo. MFA Deputy Director Carlos Morales confirmed Spain's participation, but said that the delegation's senior representativ [...] | 2009-03-20 11:53:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK SP |
09MADRID63 | TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED: [...] (C) Econoff met with MFA's Counter-Terrorism Acting Deputy Director Santiago Losada on January 16 to notify him that the U.S anticipated delivering a listing request to the 1267 Committee on February 2 on 5 individuals believed to be related to Lashkar- e-Tayyiba. Econoff noted that this would [...] | 2009-01-20 14:27:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL PK |
09MADRID648 | PAKISTAN: SPAIN'S FOLLOWUP ON TOKYO DONORS' [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 12:24:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PK SP |
09MANAMA356 | SRAP HOLBROOKE'S JUNE 6 MEETING WITH BAHRAIN'S [...] (C) Summary: SRAP Holbrooke obtained from Bahrain's foreign minister a pledge to contribute t Pakistan IDP relief and reconstruction efforts;Bahrain's cabinet would announce the amount soon Holbrooke expressed appreciation for King Hama's offer to Secretary Clinton of a company of Bahaini spe [...] | 2009-06-14 07:47:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL MARR PTER AF PK BA |
09MANAMA364 | BAHRAINI COMMITMENT TO ASSIST PAKISTAN IDPS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 11:05:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PK BA |
09MANAMA639 | OPPOSITION PROTEST HIGHLIGHTS "POLITICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-02 12:33:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PGOV KDEM KISL AF PK BA |
09MANILA699 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONCLUSIONS OF AFGHANISTAN - [...] (SBU) In accordance with reftel request, Post delivered white paper regarding the Afghanistan - Pakistan Strategic Review, and followed up by discussing reftel talking points with Assistant Director Corina Apostol of the Office of American Affairs of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affai [...] | 2009-03-31 08:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF PK RP |
09MASERU105 | LESOTHO: POSITIVE ABOUT OBAMA, NO CONCERNS ABOUT POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 11:16:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS AF PK LT |
09MBABANE149 | SWAZI FM REQUESTS COMMITMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Swazi Foreign Minister Lutfo Dlamini stated that the current Swazi position on Madagascar was "basically" in accord with the urgent demarche (reftel B),but that for progress to be made toward the holding of elections, two initial issues must be resolved: (a) Funding for elections [...] | 2009-06-19 09:16:00 | Embassy Mbabane | CONFIDENTIAL | IO MA PGOV PK WZ |
09MBABANE325 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-01 14:26:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CLINTON HILLARY RODHAM AF PK WZ |
09MONTEVIDEO306 | AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN: URUGUAY HAS NO MI 17 [...] On June 3 Defense Attache confirmed that Uruguay has no MI 17 helicopters, hence will be unable to support Pakistan's efforts as described in reftel. Matthewman [...] | 2009-06-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SMIG PARM PK UY |
09MOSCOW1961 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DELAY OF START OF WORK IN THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 14:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC CH FR PK RS UK |
09MOSCOW2008 | DEMARCHE FOLLOW-UP: GOR WILL APPROACH CHINA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-06 09:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC CH FR PK RS UK |
09MOSCOW2125 | (S) POST FOLLOW UP WITH RUSSIA ON CASE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 13:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS CH PK |
09MOSCOW2127 | (S) POST FOLLOW UP WITH RUSSIA ON CASE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 14:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS CH PK |
09MOSCOW2931 | INITIAL RUSSIAN REACTION TO AFGHAN STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: In a December 1 meeting at the MFA, Ambassador Beyrle previewed the President's West Point speech with Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksey Borodavkin and Zamir Kabulov, head of the Second Asia Department. Borodavkin noted that the U.S. and Russia both had a stake in stabilizing Afghan [...] | 2009-12-02 16:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS AF PK |
09MOSCOW686 | RUSSIA KEEPS RELATIONS WITH PAKISTAN ON THE CHEAP [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche, accompanied by a colleague from the Japanese Embassy, on March 19 to MFA Pakistan desk chief Andrey Starkov, who said that Russia would send a representative to the Pakistan Donors Conference in Tokyo. He could not say at what level the GOR would be represent [...] | 2009-03-20 11:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK RS |
09MOSCOW819 | AFGHAN FM SPANTA ON RUSSIA, PAKISTAN AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 27 meeting with SCA DAS Moon, Afghan Foreign Minister Spanta, who was in Moscow to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Conference on Afghanistan, expressed concern with the proposal made by the organization to establish a "security belt" around Afghanista [...] | 2009-04-01 12:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AF PK RS |
09MOSCOW910 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-09 15:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK RS |
09MUMBAI169 | TRIAL OF SURVIVING MUMBAI ATTACKER BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: With the eyes of the world on the trial of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the terrorist attack on Mumbai, the High Court is trying to move the case forward expeditiously while still guaranteeing that justice is done so that any conviction obtained will with [...] | 2009-04-24 04:06:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PK PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN XD |
09MUMBAI232 | MUMBAI EAC MEETING - JUNE 3, 2009 [...] (S/NF) On 6/3/2009, Acting CG chaired a meeting of the EAC to discuss the increased threat stemming from the release of Jammat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest in Pakistan. Regional Affairs in New Delhi has seen credible intelligence suggesting there are multiple threads of terrorist pla [...] | 2009-06-04 11:07:00 | Consulate Mumbai | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PK IN |
09MUMBAI367 | ATTORNEY FOR MUMBAI TERRORIST KASAB EXPECTS CONVICTION, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 3, Poloff met with S.G. Abbas Kazmi, attorney for the lone surviving assailant from the November 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, Mohamed Ajmal Kasab. Kazmi discussed his efforts to mount a defense for Kasab, the lack of resources provided to court-appointed attorn [...] | 2009-09-08 12:14:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PK PREL PTER IN |
09MUSCAT1007 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON ZAWAWI: IRAN, ISRAEL-PALESTINE, IRAQ [...] (C) The Ambassador paid an introductory call on the Sultan's Foreign Affairs Adviser and Omani oligarch Dr. Omar Zawawi at his seaside compound November 3. The two discussed many regional issues but the main focus was Middle East Peace and Iran. Zawawi made clear that the Sultan was a strong [...] | 2009-11-08 05:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MU KPAL IR IS PK |
09MUSCAT12 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER READOUT OF GCC SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Oman's foreign minister stated that Gulf leaders at the GCC Summit in Muscat agreed to move ahead with plans for a common currency - without Omani participation - despite the bleak global financial environment. Due to intense competitio [...] | 2009-01-05 15:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN IN IR PK MU |
09MUSCAT195 | Pakistan Donors Conference: Oman [...] (SBU) Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel information March 17 to Lyutha al-Mughairy, Office Director for Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Secretary General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. Al-Mughairy said she understood U.S. concerns regarding Pakistan and would raise the matter directly with the MF [...] | 2009-03-18 12:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN IBRD IMF PK MU |
09MUSCAT299 | OMANI PLANS FOR PAKISTAN DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief delivered ref A points April 6 to Mohammed al-Hassan, Political Affairs Director for Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi. Al-Hassan replied that Oman would participate in the April 17 donors' conference in Tokyo, but stated that no final decision had [...] | 2009-04-07 13:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IBRD IMF PK MU |
09MUSCAT333 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-15 12:46:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS KPAL KWBG IR IZ AF PK MU |
09MUSCAT433 | OMANI MINISTERS VOICE INCREASING CONCERNS OVER REGION’S [...] (C) In separate farewell calls by the Ambassador May 9-11, Deputy Prime Minister Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud bin Mohammed Al Sa'id, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi, and Minister of Health and Deputy Central Bank Governor Ali Moussa expressed Oman's growing anxiety over disconce [...] | 2009-05-12 12:55:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL MOPS KDRG YM PK AF IZ MU |
09MUSCAT567 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE [...] (C) Special Representative Holbrooke: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman, one of our oldest friends in the region. We have requested a meeting with Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said. You will find the Sultan is an engaging interlocutor. He is an intellectual whose interests range [...] | 2009-06-03 10:48:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PK AF MU |
09MUSCAT619 | OMAN FORMALLY CONFIRMS $12 MILLION DONATION TO AMELIORATE [...] (SBU) Embassy received June 13 a diplomatic note confirming an Omani contribution of $12 million to address the IDP crisis in Pakistan. This result comes on the heels SRAP Holbrooke's June 6 meeting with Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. The amount represents an increase of $2 million over the [...] | 2009-06-14 05:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL EAID MU PK |
09MUSCAT759 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL MULLEN'S VISIT TO OMAN (JULY 18) [...] (C) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes you to Oman for your visit. You have a brief meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF),H.E. Lt. Gen. (Fareeq in Arabic) Ahmed bin Harith al Nabhani, which is primarily a courtesy call. Nabhani is unlikely to broach significant iss [...] | 2009-07-14 10:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MASS MOPS IR PK AF MU |
09MUSCAT797 | Scenesetter for General Petraeus' Visit to Oman (July 26 - [...] (S) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes you back to Oman. As noted at that time, Oman is an old and dependable friend of the United States. Even when Omani perceptions differ from ours, they are frank and businesslike about issues and are open to discussion. Omanis were warmly receptive to Preside [...] | 2009-07-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL MOPS PARM MASS IR PK MU |
09MUSCAT873 | ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO OMAN - VOYAGE, INTERDICTION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Smuggling routes from South Asia through Iran and by water into Oman is the primary northern route of introducing illegal immigrants into Oman. Pakistan has allocated a full time federal law enforcement official at its embassy in Muscat to investigate and address this issue. He [...] | 2009-08-30 14:06:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIP IR PK MU |
09NASSAU235 | BAHAMAS REACTION TO AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN STRATEGIC [...] (C) Embassy delivered the "White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group's Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan" accompanied by reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary, International Division, Marilyn Zonicle, April 1. Ms. Zonicle asked whether this represe [...] | 2009-04-16 13:55:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF NATO PK MARR MOPS BF |
09NEWDELHI10 | AMBASSADOR MEETS INDIAN HOME MINISTER ON MUMBAI [...] (U) This message contains an action request in Para 10. 2. (S) Summary: In a January 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Home Minister Chidambaram said that the Indian government would decide "as early as possible" whether to concur in the U.S. sharing information with Pakistani authorities [...] | 2009-01-03 11:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1031 | INTERNAL SECURITY PRIORITY FOR NEW UPA GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the first meeting of the victorious United Progressive Alliance (UPA) leaders on May 20 that internal security will be the new government's highest priority. The same day two newspapers columns that are often used by the government to leak sto [...] | 2009-05-20 13:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1049 | JOINT US TREASURY AND DOD SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury hosted a successful regional conference on Countering Terrorist Financing in the Charitable Sector from April 14-16 in New Delhi, India, with assistance from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) as well. Interagency [...] | 2009-05-22 11:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM EFIN PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1052 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR UPDATES ON INFORMATION ON [...] (SBU) The following information is provided in response to reftel request for details of India,s immigration and border controls. A. (SBU) Immigration Data Bases and Traveler Information Collection: -- What computerized immigration databases are used to track entries and exits? Foreigners Re [...] | 2009-05-22 12:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1126 | EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (S//NF) Embassy New Delhi's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on June 2 to discuss an increased threat stemming from the release of Jammat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest. Regional Affairs has seen credible intelligence suggesting there are multiple threads of terrorist planning ong [...] | 2009-06-02 13:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1127 | EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (S//NF) Embassy New Delhi's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on June 2 to discuss an increased threat stemming from the release of Jammat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest. Regional Affairs has seen credible intelligence suggesting there are multiple threads of terrorist plannin [...] | 2009-06-02 14:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1128 | INDIA REACTS VOCIFEROUSLY TO RELEASE OF LET LEADERS; HOPES TO PROCEED WITH TRILATERAL MUMBAI INVESTIGATOR'S MEETING IN U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Indian Foreign Secretary Menon expressed dismay about the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa Chief Hafiz Saeed to Charge Burleigh on June 2, noting that the Government of India's plan to provide wheat shipments to aid internally displaced people in the SWAT Valley was now threatened. The Minist [...] | 2009-06-02 14:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1139 | NEW DELHI EAC CONVENES TO DISCUSS CURRENT THREATS [...] (S/NF) (Summary) The full New Delhi Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on 3 June to review information related to threats associated with the release of Hafiz Saeed (REFTEL A, B). The EAC was chaired by CDA Peter Burleigh. The EAC discussed specific aspects of current threat reporting and ag [...] | 2009-06-04 02:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1142 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: NO MAJOR CHANGES ANTICIPATED IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 15:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1143 | INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY LEAKS SPUR DISCUSSION OF [...] (C) Summary: Despite Pakistan's release of JUD leader Hafiz Saeed on Tuesday and allegations of cease-fire violations yesterday, Indian media is buzzing with suggestions that the Indian Government is taking a second look at its no-dialogue strategy with Pakistan and may be considering restar [...] | 2009-06-04 16:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID EAGR PK IN |
09NEWDELHI118 | FIERCE INDIAN REACTION TO MILIBAND'S KASHMIR [...] (C) Summary: British Foreign Secretary Miliband's visit to India January 14-16 was a public relations disaster after his comments linking the Mumbai attacks to the Kashmir conflict made headlines. Miliband was widely criticized by the media and was the victim of pointed remarks by Indian offic [...] | 2009-01-20 12:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK UK IN |
09NEWDELHI1209 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS MEETS INDIAN PRIME MINISTER SINGH [...] (C) Summary: In a June 11 meeting, Prime Minister Singh assured Under Secretary Burns of his strong personal commitment to strengthening further India's ties to the United States. Singh welcomed the development of a road map that would provide structure to the strategic partnership and produce [...] | 2009-06-11 17:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PARM MASS PTER ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1210 | FS MENON AND U/S BURNS DISCUSS REGIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Secretary Menon and visiting Under Secretary for Political Affairs Bill Burns discussed regional security June 10, with a focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Menon referred to Prime Minister Singh's June 9 comments in Parliament that the Composite Dialogue could not resume [...] | 2009-06-11 17:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1213 | HOME MINISTER MEETS U/S BURNS [...] (S) Summary: In a productive and serious June 10 exchange with Under Secretary Bill Burns, Home Minister P. Chidambaram offered his sober assessment of India's internal and external security challenges: from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to ongoing insurgencies in "the hinterlands" of I [...] | 2009-06-11 18:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV BG ECON NP PHUM PK PREL PTER IN |
09NEWDELHI1228 | NSA NARAYANAN MEETS WITH U/S BURNS [...] (C) SUMMARY. National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan saluted the dynamic nature of the U.S.-India relationship in a June 11 meeting with Under Secretary Burns, stating "we don't want a hiatus." The NSA encouraged visits of senior U.S. officials, and described cooperation on defense and coun [...] | 2009-06-12 16:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1245 | U/S BURNS MEETS INDIAN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Kapil Sibal, the genial and upbeat new Minister of Human Resources Development (MHRD) welcomed Under Secretary Burns and his delegation for a tour d'horizon of India's educational challenges and a proposal for partnership. In office only two weeks, Sibal is clearly relishing the [...] | 2009-06-16 10:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO OIIP SCUL PGOV ECON PHUM PK PREL PTER IN |
09NEWDELHI1266 | INDO-PAK TALKS: MEDIA REPORTS OF LEADERS' FIRST [...] SUMMARY: Indian Prime Minister Singh and Pakistani President Zardari met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Yekaterinburg June 16, their first meeting since the Mumbai terrorist attacks last November. Indian media widely applauded PM Singh's comments, cr [...] | 2009-06-17 12:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PK IR IN |
09NEWDELHI1276 | INDO-PAK TALKS: ICE BROKEN ON ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (SBU) The meeting between Prime Minister Singh and Pakistani President Zardari on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Yekaterinburg on June 16 (ref A) continued to dominate headlines following press conferences by Prime Minister Singh June 17 and Foreign Secre [...] | 2009-06-18 14:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1334 | INDIAN OFFICIALS TO VISIT MALDIVES TO RAISE [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Menon told Charge on June 26 that he would be traveling with National Security Adviser Narayanan to the Maldives June 29-30 to address their growing concern over Maldivian internal stability. Menon related that India feared the one "stable" nation in the region was at ris [...] | 2009-06-26 13:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MV PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1337 | NSA JONES DISCUSSES U.S.-INDIA SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Meeting National Security Advisor James Jones on June 26, Defense Minister A.K. Antony stressed his support for moving beyond minor irritants and to a broad and expanded security relationship between India and the United States. Both Jones and Antony affirmed their commitment to buildi [...] | 2009-06-29 05:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PK AG IN |
09NEWDELHI1338 | PRIME MINISTER SINGH DISCUSSES REGIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Singh shared his views on the bilateral relationship and regional security challenges with visiting National Security Advisor Jones June 26. The Prime Minister welcomed the Secretary of State's planned visit to develop the "enormous opportunities" in the relationsh [...] | 2009-06-29 05:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1339 | NSA NARAYANAN PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS TO WELCOME [...] (SBU) Summary: National Security Advisor Narayanan, the Foreign Secretary, and Defense Secretary, as well as a number of other senior officials, reiterated India's desire to strengthen the bilateral relationship during a series of meetings with National Security Advisor General James Jones an [...] | 2009-06-29 10:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ECON PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1459 | HOME MINISTER'S RESPONSE TO USG LETTER REQUESTING [...] (U) Indian Minister of Home Affairs P. Chidambaram on July 6 responded to Charge Burleigh's May 26 letter regarding increased counterterrorism (CT) cooperation between our countries. The full text of the letter is below: Thank you very much for your letter dated 26 May 2009 congratulating m [...] | 2009-07-15 11:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1466 | INDIAN AND PAKISTANI FOREIGN SECRETARIES MET; [...] (SBU) The Sharm-el-Sheikh session between India and Pakistan,s Foreign Secretaries on July 14 appears to have gone fairly well, with the Indian press reporting that Menon and Bashir discussed terrorism, specifically the 26/11 attack and Islamabad's next steps in trying the accused perpetrators [...] | 2009-07-15 14:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1485 | INDO-PAK TALKS: ON THE ROAD AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary: Indian Prime Minister Singh's July 16 meeting in Sharm el Sheikh with Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani has drawn a heated reaction from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left. The political fallout threatens to overshadow the potential positive developments stemming from t [...] | 2009-07-17 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1508 | KASAB UNEXPECTEDLY ADMITS TO CARRYING OUT MUMBAI [...] The sole survivor of the ten member team alleged to have carried out last November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, unexpectedly admitted his guilt to the judge in court on July 20. As prosecutors prepared to question the 135th witness out of the 150 slated to testify [...] | 2009-07-20 14:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI16 | HOME MINISTER CHIDAMBARAM PROVIDES CONCURRENCE ON [...] (S) In a brief meeting with the Ambassador on January 5, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that, after conferring with his colleagues, India concurred in the U.S. sharing information with Pakistani authorities that had been gathered by U.S. law enforcement authorities during the Mumbai investigat [...] | 2009-01-05 14:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1641 | NEW MEA COUNTERTERRISM DIRECTOR SOUMEN BAGCHI [...] (SBU) Soumen Bagchi, the new director of counterterrorism (CT) at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA),expressed interest in expanding U.S. - India CT cooperation in an Aug. 3 courtesy call in New Delhi. S/CT and Poloff brought the new CT Director up to date on pending activities, in [...] | 2009-08-04 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PINR PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1677 | NSA NARAYANAN ON CIV-NUKE IMPLEMENTATION, CT/INTEL [...] (C) Summary: Indian NSA M.K. Narayanan stressed a desire to work closely to develop a ambitious agenda for PM Singh's November visit to Washington and flagged his decisive role in pushing through End-Use Monitoring Agreement (EUM) and directing Indian foreign policy, during an August 10 introducto [...] | 2009-08-11 13:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK KN IN |
09NEWDELHI17 | MENON PRESENTS EVIDENCE OF PAKISTAN INVOLVEMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon shared with Ambassador Mulford and fourteen other ambassadors January 5 evidence linking the Mumbai terrorist attacks to Pakistan. Menon reported that he had summoned the Pakistan High Commissioner earlier in the day to share a similar, more limite [...] | 2009-01-05 14:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1707 | FOREIGN SECRETARY RAO UPBEAT AND EXPANSIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. In his introductory meeting with Foreign Secretary Rao August 12, Ambassador Roemer stressed the importance of the Strategic Dialogue and of implementing the Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, as well as bringing to justice the perpetrators of the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumb [...] | 2009-08-13 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK KN IN |
09NEWDELHI1757 | INDIAN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ON PAKISTAN, [...] (C) In a August 18 conversation, the Ambassador followed up with Indian National Security Advisor Narayanan about statements made by Prime Minister Singh in his August 17 speech to India's Chief Ministers regarding the on-going terrorism threat from Pakistan. (Note: The PM's comments had g [...] | 2009-08-20 13:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1768 | HOME MINISTER CHIDAMBARAM TO AMBASSADOR: LOOKING [...] (S) Summary: Home Minister Chidambaram spoke positively of U.S.-India cooperation on security issues in Ambassador Roemer's August 20 introductory meeting. The Ambassador shared several areas in which the U.S. hopes to advance cooperation, and assured the Minister of support at the highest [...] | 2009-08-21 13:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1778 | MEA JOINT SECRETARY RAGHAVAN CALLS MEETING FOR AN [...] (C)Summary: Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, T.C.A. Raghavan called an ""urgent briefing"" on August 18 for representatives of countries whose nationals were killed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Raghavan provided a dossier on Hafiz Saeed, [...] | 2009-08-24 14:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1783 | HOME MINISTER CHIDAMBARAM'S WASHINGTON D.C. VISIT, SEPT. 7-10 [...] (S) Summary and Background: India's Minister of Home Affairs P. Chidambaram will visit New York and Washington D.C from September 7 - 10. On August 19, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials shared the ""agenda points"" for the Home Minister's visit. The GOI sees the visit as an opportunit [...] | 2009-08-25 13:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1795 | PAKISTAN AMBASSADOR EMPHASIZES DE-LINKAGE BETWEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In his introductory meeting with Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik August 25, Ambassador Roemer stressed the importance of bringing to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai terrorist attacks and dismantling terrorist groups. He specifically emphasized the import [...] | 2009-08-27 10:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1806 | FOREIGN MINISTRY PROPOSES MOU ON COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Roemer pressed External Affairs Minister Krishna August 28 to complete the outstanding civil nuclear cooperation implementation items prior to Prime Minister Singh's November 24 visit to Washington. Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar [...] | 2009-08-28 15:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK KN IN |
09NEWDELHI1815 | FOR NOW, MUTED INDIAN REACTION TO PAK END-USE ALLEGATION [...] (SBU) In August 31 editions, nearly all major Indian dailies ran verbatim excerpts of the "New York Times" article alleging Pakistan end-use violations of U.S.-supplied military items, and most carried the story on the front page. Although the short news cycle time prevented Indian op-ed write [...] | 2009-09-01 04:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1833 | NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR REJECTS FURTHER NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In several media interviews August 29-30, National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan defended India's 1998 nuclear tests against claims by a former defense scientist that its hydrogen bomb was a "fizzle" and that India should therefore refuse to sign the CTBT until its thermonuclea [...] | 2009-09-02 07:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI19 | HOME MINISTER CHIDAMBARAM AND NSA NARAYANAN ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-06 08:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR PK IN |
09NEWDELHI195 | JAMMU AND KASHMIR: INDIAN ANXIETY OVER NEW [...] (C) Summary: There is uncertainty and anxiety within the Indian foreign policy establishment over the direction the new U.S. administration might take on its India policy. The principal areas of Indian concern are: -- renewed U.S. activism on Kashmir; -- replacement of the stand-alone bil [...] | 2009-01-30 14:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KISL PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1978 | HOME MINISTER PREVIEWS COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (S) SUMMARY. Home Affairs Minister P. Chidambaram shared with Ambassador Roemer September 18 a provisional list of five opportunities for further cooperation gleaned from his visit to Washington, including on forensics, large city policing, real-time intelligence sharing, coastal security, an [...] | 2009-09-24 07:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2039 | INDIA: PAKISTAN MUST DEMONSTRATE IT IS SERIOUS [...] (S) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary Y.K. Sinha (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran Division) told us India is open to continuing a "general dialogue" with Islamabad but resumption of the Composite Dialogue (CD) and real progress in improving bilateral ties is not possible until Islama [...] | 2009-10-01 15:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL EAGR ENRG PARM SENV PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2142 | U/S BURNS REVIEWS REGIONAL ISSUES WITH INDIAN FS [...] (C) Summary: During a wide-ranging review of regional issues with Under Secretary Burns on October 16, Indian Foreign Secretary Rao reviewed recent Indo-Pak discussions in New York and criticized Pakistani inaction on Hafiz Saeed and terrorist infiltrations. Rao described India as unable to c [...] | 2009-10-21 14:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IN PK AF CH RU CE NP BM JA |
09NEWDELHI2195 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR HOLBROOKE'S VISIT TO [...] (S) We welcome your visit to New Delhi as the government prepares for PM Singh's official state visit to Washington and India approaches the first anniversary of the Mumbai attacks. You will find a government that is secure politically after recent victories in several state assembly election [...] | 2009-10-28 13:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER OVIP AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2235 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S TAUSCHER AND THE STRATEGIC [...] (C) Under Secretary Tauscher: Mission India warmly welcomes you to New Delhi for the launch of the Strategic Security Dialogue. The Indian Government is focused on using the Strategic Dialogue process launched during Secretary Clinton's July visit as a mechanism to explore ways to broaden an [...] | 2009-11-05 14:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2247 | PREVIEW OF IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MOTTAKI'S [...] (C) Summary: In a visit characterized by GOI officials and local observers as routine, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will meet here on November 16 with Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna. Mottaki's planned visit, which follows a 2008 visit to Tehran by his Indian coun [...] | 2009-11-06 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC EPET IR AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI23 | INDIAN CONCURRENCE ON INFORMATION SHARING: TAKING YES FOR AN ANSWER [...] (S) Summary: India's concurrence in the U.S. sharing law enforcement information developed during the investigation of the Mumbai attacks with Pakistani authorities should be read broadly. In the interest of providing complete clarity on the scope of concurrence, this cable summarizes the under [...] | 2009-01-06 14:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2319 | U/S TAUSCHER AND INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN DISCUSS NON-PRO AND [...] (C) Summary: In a November 12 meeting with Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher reviewed the status of USG efforts regarding START, CTBT, and the FMCT. Narayanan expressed great interest in USG efforts to refu [...] | 2009-11-17 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2388 | IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI'S HOLLOW VISIT TO INDIA [...] (C) Summary: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, and Vice President Hamid Ansari during a November 16-17 visit to New Delhi that was large on formality but little on substance. A senior Indian Ministry of [...] | 2009-11-25 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC EPET IR AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2395 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of November 23-27, 2009, including the following: -- Industrial Growth on Path to Recovery -- RBI Warns Banks Dealing with Iran, Pakistan, and Others -- FATF Mutual Evaluation Spurs Tougher AML Regulations I [...] | 2009-11-27 10:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ECIN EIND PK IR UZ TU TP IN |
09NEWDELHI2396 | CURRENT INDIAN GOVERNMENT THINKING ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: In an extended November 24 meeting, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran Affairs Y.K.Sinha lamented that recent media focus on the corruption and inefficiency of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government is "undermining" international commun [...] | 2009-11-27 11:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN PK AF |
09NEWDELHI2398 | U/S TAUSCHER ENGAGES FS RAO IN STRATEGIC SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Delegations led by Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao exchanged views on the full spectrum of nonproliferation and disarmament issues in the first meeting of the Strategic Security Dialogue (SSD) November 12-13 [...] | 2009-11-27 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2435 | INDIAN AF-PAK PUNDITS VOICE "CRITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The overall reaction of selected Political Section interlocutors - a diverse group of journalists, commentators, academics, think-tank analysts, and parliamentarians from different religious communities and political orientations - to President Obama's December 1 speech on Afgh [...] | 2009-12-03 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER IN AF PK |
09NEWDELHI2447 | GOI APPLAUDS PRESIDENT'S AF-PAK SPEECH (ESPECIALLY [...] (C) In a December 4 meeting, MEA Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran Affairs Y.K. Sinha expressed general appreciation for the President's speech, stating that it refuted speculation that the international community was looking to make a hasty exit from the region. Apart from h [...] | 2009-12-04 15:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN AF PK |
09NEWDELHI2502 | South Asia: Integration as Anti-crisis Response [...] (SBU) Summary: At the December 11 opening of the "Second South Asia Economic Summit" in New Delhi, speakers stressed that enhanced regional cooperation could be an effective response to the global recession and allow countries to diversify and insulate against developed country problems in the [...] | 2009-12-15 13:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL PGOV PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2516 | NSA NARAYANAN ON CIVIL NUCLEAR IMPLEMENTATION AND [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador Roemer pressed National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan in a telephone call December 16 for progress on civil nuclear implementation, assurances about the protection of sensitive information, and a commitment not to seek extradition in the Headley case. Narayanan remai [...] | 2009-12-17 13:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2529 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL GREGG [...] (SBU) Senator Gregg and Delegation: Mission India warmly welcomes you. Following soon after Prime Minister Singh's historic official state visit to Washington, your visit coincides with a rapid expansion in the U.S.-India partnership, encompassing everything from agriculture to defense coop [...] | 2009-12-18 15:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OVIP AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2532 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR PAKISTANI ACTION AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: In a December 17 conversation with Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik, the Ambassador pressed for Pakistani government action to convict suspects implicated in the 2008 Mumbai attacks; action against suspected Mumbai mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) supremo Hafez Saeed; a [...] | 2009-12-18 16:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IN PK |
09NEWDELHI2541 | INDIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-21 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN ASEC |
09NEWDELHI268 | INDIA SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) We welcome your visit to New Delhi as India begins to gear up for parliamentary elections likely to be held in April-May. While popular anger over the November Mumbai attacks has cooled slightly, Indian officials continue to demand that Pakistan respond to Delhi's demands for action against the [...] | 2009-02-12 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ECON AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI281 | DELHI WELCOMES PAKISTAN'S RESPONSE TO DOSSIER [...] (C) Summary: The Indian Government reacted positively to the much awaited official response from Pakistan to the dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks. Foreign Minister Mukherjee's recognition of the Pakistani response as a "positive development" was echoed by the Indian media and Post contact [...] | 2009-02-13 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI283 | INDIANS SEEK MODIFICATION OF AFGHAN RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: While stressing that a complete overhaul is not necessary, Indian officials and experts on Afghanistan have expressed a clear desire for a change in approach to implementing Afghan reconstruction. India has been a significant contributor to Afghan reconstruction. Visits by Afgha [...] | 2009-02-13 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI29 | MUKHERJEE SHARES CONCERN ABOUT SPECIAL ENVOY IN AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL [...] (S) SUMMARY. In Ambassador Mulford's January 7 farewell call on External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the Minister said he understood the seriousness of the error in releasing sensitive intelligence from the Mumbai terrorism investigations and pledged that the Ministry would not further diss [...] | 2009-01-07 14:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG |
09NEWDELHI33 | INDIAN READOUT ON CHINESE VICE FM HE YAFEI'S NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei visited New Delhi on January 5, where he met with FM Menon, FS Mukherjee, and NSA Narayanan as well as Deputy Chair of the Planning Commission Ahluwalia. Press coverage of the visit focused almost exclusively on discussion of the India-Paki [...] | 2009-01-08 09:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK CH IN |
09NEWDELHI395 | MUMBAI ATTACKS: GOI CHARGESHEET POINTS TO PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-03 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI451 | INDIAN VIEWS ON ENGAGING IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Indian experts on the Indo-Iranian relationship describe it as stable but somewhat shallow. It is nurtured by both sides simply to maintain a friendly partner in the region. Our contacts encouraged the U.S. to engage Iran bilaterally rather than use India or any other third party as [...] | 2009-03-09 12:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER EPET IR IS PK IN |
09NEWDELHI48 | MENON TOUGH ON PAKISTAN, BULLISH ON BILATERAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on January 8 discussed Pakistan and the bilateral relationship in the context of the U.S. political transition with visiting Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher and Ambassador Mulford. Boucher and Menon were in full agreement on the need to ensure th [...] | 2009-01-09 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK IN TSPL KNNP ETTC |
09NEWDELHI507 | PUNJAB, AN EXAMPLE OF STATE OPPOSITION TO INDIA'S [...] (SBU) After the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, the Indian government moved quickly to establish a National Investigation Agency (NIA) to investigate and prosecute terrorism cases. The move stirred resistance from many states which view ceding power to a national agency as an infringement of [...] | 2009-03-18 11:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI588 | FOR LET, IT'S ALL IN THE TIMING [...] (S) Summary: Recent terrorist activity in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is in line with the annual increase in infiltrations during the spring thaw. The upcoming national elections may also be a factor in the increase. At least 17 militants and eight Indian soldiers were killed in a March 20 battle [...] | 2009-03-27 08:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PK IN |
09NEWDELHI594 | INDO-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP: FORMER AMBASSADORS TO [...] (C) Summary: Five former Ambassadors to Iran now in Delhi recently shared with us their views on the current Indo-Iranian relationship. The Ambassadors were unanimous that the Indo-Iranian relationship is important to India primarily for energy security, but lacks depth. Bilateral ties - describ [...] | 2009-03-27 11:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MNUC EPET IR PK IN |
09NEWDELHI618 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN REVIEW PAPER DELIVERED IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-31 13:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MARR MOPS AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI637 | TOWARD A MEANINGFUL NATO-INDIA RELATIONSHIP [...] (S) SUMMARY. The primary goal of a strengthened NATO-Pakistan relationship must be to support our vital efforts in Afghanistan, and Post concurs that ref A's recommendations can help soothe Indo-Pak sensitivities. However, we should not assume India's automatic opposition to greater NATO enga [...] | 2009-04-01 14:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK IN |
09NEWDELHI647 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE [...] (C) Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes you both back to India. Since your last visit, the political season has entered its final phase, with the political establishment fixated on elections in April-May that will deliver a new government in June. Despite hot campaign rhetoric and political tu [...] | 2009-04-02 10:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ECON AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI666 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN REVIEW WELL RECEIVED, SOME [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 13:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MARR MOPS AF PK IN |
09NEWDELHI667 | INDIA FORWARD LEANING ON AFGHAN RECONSTRUCTION; [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL PTER AF PK IR IN |
09NEWDELHI706 | FOREIGN MINISTRY WELCOMES NEW CHARGE D'AFFAIRES [...] (C) Summary: During a friendly April 6 tour d'horizon with Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, Charge d'Affaires Burleigh raised the "unfinished business" of the Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative and End-Use Monitoring, protested Indian tactics which have delayed construction of Mu [...] | 2009-04-09 13:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT KNNP PARM PREL SCUL IN PK |