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The head of Pakistans powerful spy service, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, told parliament he had a shouting match with the head of the CIA, Leon E. Panetta, over CIA activities in Pakistan when they met recently in Washington, several lawmakers who attended the session said.
Mr. Pasha acknowledged that an intelligence failure by his agency had allowed Osama bin Laden to live undetected in the city of Abbottabad, and he offered his resignation to the Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistani television stations reported.
But after recognizing the lapse, Mr. Pasha rallied the parliament behind him, several legislators said, with rousing criticisms of the United States that elicited thumps of approval from the chamber, including leading members of the Pakistan Peoples Party, the major partner in the coalition that the Obama administration supports.
In a rendition of the history of American relations with Pakistan, Mr. Pasha said the United States had let Pakistan down at every turn since the 1960s, including slapping sanctions on the country in the 1990s.
And now they have conducted a sting operation on us, Mr. Pasha said according to one lawmaker. The intelligence chief was referring to the fact that the Obama administration decided not to inform Pakistan in advance of the raid because of fears that the Pakistanis could not be trusted.
The chief of the Pakistani army, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, attended the session, along with the heads of the Air Force and the Navy, but did not speak. Senior military officials, considered to be above civilian law and a power unto themselves, rarely appear before Pakistans parliament, or even its defense committees.
But unusually vibrant criticism by some politicians and from the Pakistani press after the American raid compelled Gen. Kayani to try and repair the reputation of the military and the ISI that is controlled by the army.
In a direct assault on statements by American officials that the ISI supports jihadist militant groups, including the Haqqani network in North Waziristan, Mr. Pasha said there was no such policy. We have nothing to do with the Haqqani network, he was quoted as saying.
A resolution passed at the session said Pakistan would revisit its relationship with the United States with the view to ensuring Pakistans national interests were fully respected.
In that vein, the ISI would not allow the CIA to conduct operations in Pakistan without the full knowledge of the ISI, Mr. Pasha said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html?_r=1
Mr. Pasha acknowledged that an intelligence failure by his agency had allowed Osama bin Laden to live undetected in the city of Abbottabad, and he offered his resignation to the Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistani television stations reported.
But after recognizing the lapse, Mr. Pasha rallied the parliament behind him, several legislators said, with rousing criticisms of the United States that elicited thumps of approval from the chamber, including leading members of the Pakistan Peoples Party, the major partner in the coalition that the Obama administration supports.
In a rendition of the history of American relations with Pakistan, Mr. Pasha said the United States had let Pakistan down at every turn since the 1960s, including slapping sanctions on the country in the 1990s.
And now they have conducted a sting operation on us, Mr. Pasha said according to one lawmaker. The intelligence chief was referring to the fact that the Obama administration decided not to inform Pakistan in advance of the raid because of fears that the Pakistanis could not be trusted.
The chief of the Pakistani army, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, attended the session, along with the heads of the Air Force and the Navy, but did not speak. Senior military officials, considered to be above civilian law and a power unto themselves, rarely appear before Pakistans parliament, or even its defense committees.
But unusually vibrant criticism by some politicians and from the Pakistani press after the American raid compelled Gen. Kayani to try and repair the reputation of the military and the ISI that is controlled by the army.
In a direct assault on statements by American officials that the ISI supports jihadist militant groups, including the Haqqani network in North Waziristan, Mr. Pasha said there was no such policy. We have nothing to do with the Haqqani network, he was quoted as saying.
A resolution passed at the session said Pakistan would revisit its relationship with the United States with the view to ensuring Pakistans national interests were fully respected.
In that vein, the ISI would not allow the CIA to conduct operations in Pakistan without the full knowledge of the ISI, Mr. Pasha said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html?_r=1
