ISLAMABAD - Pakistani media reported what they say is the name of the Chief of station CIA Islamabad - the second potential output of a sensitive covert of the device within six months and which is accompanied by tensions running high on the U.S. raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
The Associated Press has learned that the reported name is incorrect. However, the publication of any alleged identity of senior official of the US Agency spy in this country could be pushback of powerful military and intelligence Pakistan's establishment, which was humiliated on the raid caught on its soil and could in addition sour relations between Washington and Islamabad.
Friday, what ARY private television broadcast what it said is the current Chief of the station name. The Nation, a right-wing newspaper, picked up the story Saturday.
News of ARY Director, Mazhar Abbas, said that the journalist gained television station the name of a source. He has defended the report, saying it was "founded on fact" and denounced the allegations that the name has been disclosed to television by a civil servant with a pattern.
"The responsibility of the reporter is to give a story which is based on facts," he said. "It is something else that the interpretation of history.".
The Embassy of the United States and a Pakistani intelligence spokesman refused to comment on. The AP is not publication name of head of the station because it is secret and his identity is classified. It is not immediately clear whether the Americans would be him pull out of the country.
Asad Munir, a former intelligence chief charged with sieve militant tribal areas of Pakistan, said that very few people know the name of the CIA Chief of station in Islamabad. But he said that the broadcast not necessarily jeopardize the security of the American.
"Normally people in intelligence covered the names, said Munir." That there is a photo to identify him could he put his life in danger. ?
In December, the CIA fired his Chief of station in Pakistan after a name that is said to be its surface in public and its security was deemed at risk. This name has hit the local press after it was referred to by counsel that has an action on behalf of victims of U.S. drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Suspicions have persisted that this output was orchestrated by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency to avenge an American trial which has appointed its head on terror attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai 2008. The Pakistani agency denied leaking the name of the cooperative of the CIA.
The raid on the compound of Osama bin Laden is an extraordinary blow to what was already a badly frayed relationship.
Before dawn, may 2, Navy SEALS conveyed in high-tech helicopters in a house in the City garrison of Abbottabad, Pakistan where bin Laden had been living up to six years, killing at least four others. The Chief body was quickly buried at sea. A wealth of information - ranging from computer inch video cassette players - was referred to the House.
Location of Osama bin Laden raised suspicions that he had support of some Pakistani authorities, possibly elements of the powerful army and intelligence services. The armed forces of Pakistan have history - some say ongoing - links with Islamic militants, which serves as proxies in Afghanistan and India.
Several hundred activists held a memorial service to bin Laden in tribal area of Waziristan in the South of heavy Pakistan Monday despite an army presence in the region, said an official of the Pakistani intelligence services and a local tribal chiefWazir Ghanam Shah.
South Waziristan used to be main sanctuary of the Pakistani Taliban, before the army launched a large offensive ground it in 2009.
The army allowed service will take place because it was led by Maulvi Nazir, a commander of activist who has focused his attacks on the Afghanistan and is expected to have a peace deal with the Government of Pakistan, said the intelligence official and tribal chief.
But Wazir quoted Nazir as saying that the militants would retaliate death of Osama bin Laden with attacks in Pakistan and the West.
Monday service was held in the main Bazaar in Wana, the largest city in South Waziristan, the two officials. He was assisted by at least 500 people, more than half of them were militants. They shouted "down with America, vive Osama" and also threw insults to Pakistani leaders.
The details of the service may not independently confirmed because the majority of journalists are prohibited from travelling to the tribal areas.
The talks official information on the condition of anonymity, in keeping with the policies of the Agency.
Islamabad has said she was unaware of totally of the imminent American attack on the compound of Osama bin Laden and the U.S. authorities have backed up that claim.
Rehman Malik said Pakistani Interior Minister Al - Arabiya TV Monday that he learned about the U.S. raid "15 minutes after it had started," but did not know that he was targeting the bin Ladens. He did not say how he knew about the operation.
The Pakistani authorities insist that they did not know bin Laden was in Abbottabad, and the American authorities so far have said that they see no evidence that anyone in the upper echelons of the military and intelligence of Pakistan have been complicit in hiding the terrorist leader.
But, in the days since then, Pakistan has invective against what he called a violation of its sovereignty and in custody United States against any future such unilateral strikes on its territory.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, leader of the main opposition Pakistan was prominent criticism of the raid, calling it "an attack on our sovereignty," Monday.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was to speak to Parliament on the subject later in the day and scheduled on the same theme.
Ahead of his address, the Gilani Office issued a brief statement in which the Prime Minister is quoted as saying that the policies of the Government of Pakistan have helped maintain law and order and control terrorist activities in the country.
Survivors of the raid, including children, are in Pakistani custody. The United States, said he wants to have access to three widows of bin Laden and all equipment of intelligence his commandos left to the head of the al-Qaeda compound.
Suspicions of Pakistan's collusion with militants pose a serious problem for the administration of Obama because few can see any alternative but to continue to involve the country in Muslim-majority. Unstable and remains part of the nuclear weapon, an integral of the fight against al-Qaeda and the US hopes to begin to draw down troops in Afghanistan later this year.
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