Pakistan appoints new chief of powerful spy agency

Tensions between the army and government soared last year over a note seeking
Washington’s help to curb the military’s powers amid fears of a coup after
the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the city of Abbottabad.

The memo allegedly delivered to the then chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, was first made public by an American-Pakistani
businessman in October.

Both Pasha and Kayani wanted a judicial inquiry into the affair, dubbed “memogate”,
while the civilian government sought to play it down. A judicial commission
appointed by the Supreme Court is investigating.

The ISI has helped capture or kill hundreds of senior al-Qaeda militants in
Pakistan since it joined the “war on terror” in 2001, including
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed 9/11 mastermind.

But many Western officials suspect that, having helped to create the Taliban
that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, the organisation has been playing
a double game.

Pakistan strongly denies any such links, although former military ruler Pervez
Musharraf admitted in 2006 that some retired Pakistani intelligence officers
may have been abetting extremists.

Source: AFP

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