ISI and CIA rebuild ties: official

ISI and CIA rebuild ties: official
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Summary Director of US National Intelligence says ISI has been cooperative and helpful.

The US and Pakistani officials say Pakistans spy agency has quietly stepped up cooperation with the CIA to hunt al-Qaida, despite a string of public criticism by US officials.Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper says Pakistans spy agency has been cooperative and helpful, after a series of blunt meetings between intelligence chiefs following the covert US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden inside Pakistan.US and Pakistani officials say Pakistan has recently arrested several Al Qaida suspects at the CIAs request, and allowed the CIA to question terrorist detainees again. The officials spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive strategic matters.The officials also say that Pakistan, for now, has stopped demanding that the CIA suspend the covert drone strikes in Pakistans tribal areas.

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