We tried shaming the Pakistani government a few years ago by doing this exact same thing; having a high level official deliver an intelligence assessment of activities and connections between the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, and al-Qaeda/Taliban groups operating in the tribal areas.It didn't do any good then nor will it now, most likely. The government cannot control the activities of the ISI unless they are willing to start firing people in that organization. And even Musharraf wouldn't do that:The decision to confront Pakistan with what the officials described as a new C.I.A. assessment of the spy service's activities seemed to be the bluntest American warning to Pakistan since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks about the ties between the spy service and Islamic militants.The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin...(Read Full Post)