While Israeli rhetoric threatening military action has died down over the past year or so, the head of Israel's military planning directorate, Maj Gen Nimrod Sheffer, has also warned that it is still a possibility.
On his first official visit to Washington last week, the new chief of the military's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, Lt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam, told his American counterparts that Pakistan's F-16 warplanes could carry out the strikes instead.
Jonathan Edward Moor, director, aviation directorate, Department for Transport.
But General Kayani, and the head of the Pakistani spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, hold fundamentally different views from Washington on how the war in Afghanistan should end, and so far, they are sticking to them, apparently unbothered by threats from Washington to withhold billions of dollars of American military and civilian assistance.
The head of Pakistan's chief spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, met with senior officials at the Central Intelligence Agency last week in Washington, where he argued against sending more troops to Afghanistan, a Pakistani official familiar with the visit said.
Director, Technical Cooperation Directorate.
They were accompanied by Pakistan's military intelligence chief, Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, whose Interservices Intelligence directorate has been the Taliban's godfather, supplying money and arms, since the movement began its rise to power in Afghanistan.
President Hamid Karzai visited Mr. Khalid on Thursday at a hospital run by the security directorate where he was initially taken, and Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of the international coalition forces in Afghanistan, visited him on Friday at the Bagram Air Base hospital, where he was transferred late Thursday.
The announcement extending the tenure of Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha as director of the spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, was formally made Wednesday by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Most notable was a briefing by Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the director general of the spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI.
