Many of them are Baluch nationalists and political advocates, but several are suspected of having links to radical Islamist groups or terrorist groups and have been detained by Pakistan's intelligence agencies in cooperation with the United States or Britain.
Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies have improved cooperation since the Boston Marathon bombings April 15.
As reported by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, their arrest resulted from a longer investigation by international intelligence agencies of growing cooperation between Chinese and Mexican mafias.
The means to this monitoring are many, including cooperation between the intelligence agency and approximately 80 multinational corporations, among them telecommunications companies, network infrastructure providers and Internet firms, according to Der Spiegel.
Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency, the ISI, organized his arrest, reportedly carried out in cooperation with the C.I.A., because they were angry that he was negotiating with Afghan leaders without Pakistan's approval.
Tsai Chao-ming, the head of Taiwan's intelligence agency, the National Security Bureau, said the article contained information that "reveals international cooperation networks and threatens the security of our employees".
The cooperation appeared to be far greater with the American intelligence agency, which sent terrorism suspects to Libya for questioning at least eight times, despite the country's reputation for torture.
Pakistan's main Inter-Services Intelligence agency felt ill-equipped to mount an exhaustive search, and there was little cooperation between the agency and the CIA, the report concluded.
QUESTION FROM ASH: Given the close degree of cooperation between the CIA and the ISI how culpable is the U.S. intelligence agency for the actions of its Pakistani counterpart?
The Ukrainian announcement brought an unusual public rebuke from the Russian intelligence agency, the F.S.B., which expressed surprise that its Ukrainian counterpart, the S.B.U., had not sought to resolve the case "through cooperation between special services," Russian news agencies reported.
The intelligence agency said it sent a team of investigators to Khost, where they met with doctors, reviewed detention records and worked "in cooperation" with the regional United Nations office.
