Speaking in light of the Rayond Davis case, An official of the ISI told the New York Times the agency believed there were more contractors like Davis working behind the agency’s back.
The unnamed official said that Pakistan was ready to put the Raymond Davis episode in the past and that both agencies needed to continue working together.
“Treat us as allies, not as satellites,” said the official of the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. “Respect, equality and trust are needed.”
The ISI wants a list of the contractors working for the CIA in roles that have not been defined to Pakistan.
The official also said that some officers in the ISI were not willing to have Davis released, while others wanted to use the case as a bargaining chip to withdraw a civil lawsuit filed in Brooklyn against the ISI Chief.
The behavior of people like Mr. Davis is deeply embarrassing to the ISI because it makes the agency “look like fools” in the eyes of the anti-American Pakistani public, the ISI official said.
Cooperation between the American and Pakistani spy agencies has been scaled back because of the case.
A senior Pakistani intelligence official in Islamabad said the case of Raymond Davis had strained but not broken relations between the CIA and the ISI because the ISI didn’t know about Davis before he shot and killed two Pakistanis on Jan 27 in Lahore.
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