Islamabad: Though chief of Pakistan’s secret service known as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate, Let Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha was embarrassed on different point of time such as US raid on Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden, Mehran Base attack that cost Pakistan two US-provided PC- 3 Orian aircraft, he is still consider an anti-American spymaster and likely to head Strategic Plans Division, a body that controls the country’s nuclear arsenal, media reports said on Monday.
Pasha is expected to step down from the ISI on March 18h as is unwilling to continue the job.
The ISI chief reached the age of retirement in 2010 and was twice given extensions.
Pasha has served as the director general of the ISI for three-and-a-half years.
If Pasha is appointed as the head of the Strategic Plans Division, he will replace Lt Gen (r) Khalid Kidwai, who has led the organisation for over a decade.
Media reports said that Pasha’s possible appointment as head of the Strategic Plans Division would “help the future of Pak-US nuclear and strategic engagement.
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