Pakistan News: the ISI

ISI chief to get his second extension

Press Trust Of India
Islamabad, March 12, 2011

First Published: 18:35 IST(12/3/2011)
Last Updated: 18:38 IST(12/3/2011)

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Pakistan's ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha is set to get an extension in service, the country's Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar confirmed today. Pasha, a close confidant of Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, is to retire next week. Asked by reporters if Pasha is being given an extension, Mukhtar, who is also a senior leader of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, said: "Yes, it is being given."

But the minister did not spell out the duration of the extension. Media reports had said that Pasha is likely to get a two-year extension tenure. Responding to a query on whether Pasha would remain in service till 2013, Mukhtar said, "He is being given an extension according to the requirement."

This would be a second extention for the ISI chief who was earlier given a year-long extended tenure. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani last year announced an unprecedented three-year extension for Kayani.


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