I think there is some truth in Tarik Ali’s arti­cle “Has the U.S. Inva­sion of Pak­istan Begun?” of 18 Sep. Is the Pak­istani intel­li­gence invit­ing the Amer­i­cans to “tame” the Pak­istani gov­ern­ment. Worth to read Aljazeera’s “Who was behind the Mar­riott blast?” first.

Pak­istani ter­ror­ism expert Mis­ba­hal­lah told Islam online about the huge dif­fer­ences between the Pak­istani gov­ern­ment and the Pak­istani Intel­li­gence Service.

He linked the Marriott’s blast to the Pak­istani Intel­li­gence aimed to deliver a clear mes­sage to the gov­ern­ment that the Intel­li­gence is still at its strength, warn­ing the gov­ern­ment to not to go too far against the agency. Espe­cially after the new gov­ern­ment issued a law removes the agency from the army con­trol and asso­ciate it to the Inte­rior Ministry.

Mis­ba­hal­lah con­firms Taliban/Al-Qaeda link to the blast but:

It is likely that the intel­li­gence ser­vice facil­i­tated the attack, which car­ried out by armed groups of Tal­iban or Al Qaeda.

Coin­ci­den­tally, the U.S. — Pak­istani rela­tion dis­cussed on Russ­ian TV RT-Arabic two days before the Marriott’s blast. The Russ­ian expert con­firmed these dif­fer­ences between the Pak­istani intel­li­gence and the army. Amer­i­can forces are now involved in this strug­gle, the Russ­ian expert expected that the sit­u­a­tion will esca­late in the com­ing days.