Pakistan’s spy chief to visit US amid tensions

Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha in a meeting with the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. – File Photo by APP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s spy chief is on his way to the United States as the two nations’ counterterrorism partnership is at a low point.

A Pakistani intelligence official says Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha was headed on Monday to the US, where he was expected to meet with the CIA chief. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media on the record.

Pasha’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency is angry and embarrassed over the case of a CIA contractor Raymond Davis who shot and killed two Pakistanis in January.

Some reports have said the two agencies are not cooperating as closely as they once did as a result.

The CIA and the ISI have worked together on capturing Taliban and al-Qaida militants and missile attacks along the Afghan border. – AP