Washington: A new conflict has taken place between the CIA and ISI after the leakage of top CIA spy’s name.
A same case had taken place in December 2001 when the CIA had withdrawn its station chief in Islamabad after a newspaper had published his name.
But a United States official said that this time the CIA has no plans to withdraw its station chief from Islamabad after his name was allegedly exposed in a Pakistani newspaper.
The publication of the name came amid severe tensions between the two countries, with Pakistan complaining of “unilateralism” after a US raid that killed Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil on May 2.
According to the US officials, the move appeared to be aimed at disrupting the work of the US spy agency in the aftermath of the raid.
The CIA and US State Department declined to comment on the fate of the station chief in Islamabad. But State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, “Counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan is in our national security interest.
The New York Times said that the ties between the ISI Chief General Ahmed Shuja Pasha and the CIA Station Chief was quite strained. It said that both were engaged in a clash on the issue of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who killed two Pakistanis back in January.
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