Pakistan bans ex-spymaster from leaving country after book contradicts official stance of Osama bin Laden raid
Pakistan’s army barred retired Lieutenant General Asad Durrani, who served as the ISI chief in the early 1990s, from leaving the country, saying he had violated the military code of conduct
Pakistan’s army has ordered an inquiry into a former spy chief for co-writing a book with the ex-chief of an intelligence agency from arch-rival India that has stirred controversy on a range of issues.
The US raid that killed Osama bin Laden is the most thorny issue in the Spy Chronicles, written by former chief of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Asad Durrani and A.S. Dulat, an ex-chief of Indian intelligence Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
“A formal Court of Inquiry headed by a serving Lt. Gen. has been ordered to probe the matter in detail,” the army said in a statement.
The army barred retired Lieutenant General Durrani, who served as the ISI chief in the early 1990s, from leaving the country, saying he had violated the military code of conduct.
“The ISI probably learnt about OBL (Osama bin Laden) and he was handed over to the United States according to a mutually agreed process,” Durrani wrote.
