Speculations: Military says ISI chief not quitting job

“It is absolutely baseless. The news is without an iota of truth,” said ISPR Director-General Athar Abbas.


Express May 07, 2011

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan military categorically denied US media reports that Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), may step down over the intelligence agency’s failure to track down slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

A US news website ‘Daily Beast’ claimed – quoting unnamed Pakistani officials – that the director-general ISI may quit, as the government frantically searches for a scapegoat for the Bin Laden debacle.

“It is absolutely baseless. The news is without an iota of truth,” said ISPR Director-General Athar Abbas.

However, security officials said that the ISI chief was abroad on a trip to a ‘friendly state’ to discuss the fallout of the Abbottabad operation.

They did not specify.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2011.

COMMENTS (2)

realize | 12 years ago | Reply You got to have integrity to do that.
Anoop | 12 years ago | Reply Of course he is not quitting. People quit in Democracies which have a system which forces accountability. This is Pakistan, not India or the US. If anyone which has got to quit its Kayani, since he was the previous ISI chief about the time Osama built his huge mansion and Army Chief when the Drone Strikes have only increased in frequency.
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