Pakistan/United States: Pakistani, US Spies Are at Odds Over Operations.

Section: General News - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence directorate [ISI] have had an up-and-down relationship over the years. Current ties between the two countries' spy agencies, however, seem to have hit a particularly rough patch. There are bitter disputes over the ISI's alleged support for Islamist militant groups, and the CIA's operations in Pakistan against some of those same groups.

Spying is a competitive business. Analysts say that in the case of the relationship between Pakistan's and America's top spy agencies, though, rivalry has become increasingly tinged with rancor.

For many months, U.S. officials have been frustrated over Pakistan's seemingly relaxed attitude toward rooting out militant groups that use safe havens in Pakistan border areas to plot and launch attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In private, they have accused the ISI, or some …