meetings in Islamabad of major powers

 9-11-21   Pakistan Observer and Geo TV reported that chiefs of intelligence agencies of Russia, China, Iran, Tajik, Kazakh, Turkmen and Uzbek attended meeting chaired by ISI chief Hamid in Islamabad concerning regional security on Saturday.

   Dunya News TV reported China, Russia, Iran and Tajikistan attended.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/86124097.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

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9-11-21   Earlier, American CIA chief and British intelligence agency MI-6 head also travelled to the region making stopovers in Islamabad and New Delhi.  Earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi hosted the virtual meeting of foreign ministers of regional countries on the Afghanistan situation.

Pakistan feels that the world needs to adopt a new approach on Afghanistan.  It is calling for discarding the old lenses and developing a strategy that reflects the ground realities in Afghanistan.

Islamabad also insists that the policy of intimidation and coercion has failed in Afghanistan and hence international engagement, opposed to international isolation, is the best way forward.  Pakistan is worried that economic meltdown in Afghanistan will have dangerous consequences.  It fears that economic collapse will create a security vacuum in Afghanistan leading to the re-emergence of terror threat.   https://tribune.com.pk/story/2319712/regional-intelligence-chiefs-meet-in-islamabad-to-discuss-security-situation

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9-10-21   ”There is no doubt that events in Afghanistan will have heartened and emboldened some of those extremists,” the United Kingdom’s MI-5 director-general Ken McCallum, told the BBC.  "The big concern flowing from Afghanistan alongside the immediate inspirational effect is the risk that terrorists reconstitute and once again pose us more in the way of well-developed, sophisticated plots of the sort that we faced in 9/11 and the years thereafter.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/british-intel-chief-has-big-concern-over-potential-large-scale-terror-attack-following-afghanistan-exit

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2 months ago   6-2-21   The meeting, which was supposed to be secret, was first reported by Russian newswire TASS.  The Voice of America (VoA) also carried a report on the meeting.

TASS quoted Russian Foreign Intelligence Service spokesman Sergei Ivanov as saying that heads of intelligence services of Russia, Iran, China and Pakistan met in Islamabad to discuss measures against of Islamic State terrorists returning from Iraq and Syria in Afghanistan.  TASS said that the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, represented Russia at the meeting.  https://www.greaterkashmir.com/world/not-aware-of-russia-iran-china-pakistan-spy-chiefs-meet-islamabad

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3 years earlier:   7-10-2018  ”The discussions focused on the dangers arising from a buildup of the Islamic State on the Afghan territory," Russian Foreign Intelligence Service spokesman

Sergei Ivanov told TASS , a state-run media outlet.  Their talks follow months of Russian diplomats alleging that the U.S. is supporting ISIS in Afghanistan; that accusation dovetails with the Russian and Chinese-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization hinting they might take a larger role in the country.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/spy-chiefs-from-russia-iran-and-china-huddle-in-pakistan

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