ISI chief leaves for Washington
Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Shuja Pasha on Friday left for Washington to explain Pakistan's position on the presence of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the country before he was killed in a May 2 US raid, reports Pakistan-based newspaper Dawn.
Gen Pasha set off on the critical mission for putting an end to misgivings about Pakistan in the US a day after army's top brass conceded intelligence failure in detecting Laden's presence in the vicinity of the elite military training institute, and ordered an investigation.
Meanwhile, The Daily Beast, a sister website of Newsweek, said the most likely candidate to be the fall guy was Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the director general of the country's spy agency, the ISI directorate.
In a last ditch effort to control the damage and to assure the US that the ISI was not harboring bin Laden and was unaware of his presence in Pakistan, Pasha reportedly flew to Washington on Friday.
But some high-level sources who refused to be quoted or named say his resignation is only a matter of time.
Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Shuja Pasha on Friday left for Washington to explain Pakistan's position on the presence of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the country before he was killed in a May 2 US raid, reports Pakistan-based newspaper Dawn.
Gen Pasha set off on the critical mission for putting an end to misgivings about Pakistan in the US a day after army's top brass conceded intelligence failure in detecting Laden's presence in the vicinity of the elite military training institute, and ordered an investigation.
Meanwhile, The Daily Beast, a sister website of Newsweek, said the most likely candidate to be the fall guy was Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the director general of the country's spy agency, the ISI directorate.
In a last ditch effort to control the damage and to assure the US that the ISI was not harboring bin Laden and was unaware of his presence in Pakistan, Pasha reportedly flew to Washington on Friday.
But some high-level sources who refused to be quoted or named say his resignation is only a matter of time.
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