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Top Story January 28, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Defence Ministry has described the countrys former spy chief, Lt. General (R) Asad Durrani, as affiliated to or interacting with “ hostile intelligence elements, including the Indian intelligence agency RAW”, in a damning reply submitted before the Islamabad High Court (IHC). “The petitioner [General Durrani] is affiliated/interacting with hostile elements, specially Indian RAW, since 2008. During an interview before respondents [the ministries o...

Pakistan Opposes Ex-ISI Chief’s Plea to Have Name Removed from ECL File photo Defense ministry maintains Asad Durrani’s name should be kept on no-fly list over his involvement in ‘anti-state’ activities Pakistan’s Ministry of Defense has opposed an application seeking the removal of former spymaster Lt. Gen. (retd.) Asad Durrani’s from the Exit Control List by alleging that he had been regularly interacting with “hostile elements” since 2008. Durrani, a former director general o...

Pakistan claims former ISI chief Durrani in touch with RAW since 2008 ANI | Updated: Jan 28, 2021 16:23 IST Islamabad [Pakistan], January 28 (ANI): Pakistans defence ministry has opposed efforts by former ISI Chiefs Lt Gen (retired) Asad Durranis efforts to get his name removed from a no-fly list. It has claimed that Durrani had been interacting with Indias external intelligence agency -- RAW [Research and Analysis Wing] -- since 2008, according to a media ...

The Pakistan government has said that former ISI director Asad Durrani had been interacting with Indian intelligence agency RAW since 2008. This statement came in response to a petition filed by the former chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) seeking the removal of his name from the Exit Control List (ECL).  "The situation necessitates that the petitioner's name should be continued on ECL," read the statement.

Story highlights Durrani, who headed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from August 1990 till March 1993, ran into hot waters in 2018 by co-authoring a book titled The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace with former RAW chief A S Dulat. The Pakistan government has said that former ISI director Asad Durrani had been interacting with Indian intelligence agency RAW since 2008. This statement came in response to a petition filed by the former chief of the Inter-Services Int...

Former ISI chief retired Lt Gen Asad Durrani has challenged the placement of his name on ECL in the IHC. — Al Jazeera/File The Ministry of Defence has opposed a request seeking removal of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general retired Lt Gen Asad Durranis name from the Exit Control List (ECL), saying he had been "interacting with hostile elements" including Indian intelligence agency RAW since 2008 and was likely to be involved in future publications against the interest of...

Defence ministry opposes removal of Asad Durrani’s name from ECL Says former ISI DG interacting with RAW since 2008 SAMAA | Sohail Rashid - Posted: Jan 27, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago SAMAA | Sohail Rashid Posted: Jan 27, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago Photo: BBC Hard Talk screengrab Listen to the story The Ministry of Defence has opposed the removal of former ISI DG Lieutenant General (retired) Asad Durrani’s name from the Exit Control List. Inquiries against t...

Three books dive into Pakistan’s terror problem.

A retired Pakistani general and one-time director-general of its Inter-Services Intelligence has recently written a novel,  Honour Among Spies, a thinly-veiled depiction of contemporary Pakistan politics, civil-military tensions, India-Pakistan relations, the war on terror and so on. The author, Asad Durrani, had acquired some notoriety in Pakistan when he co-authored  The Spy Chronicles with A.S. Dulat, the former head of India’s external intelligence. This book was a series of conversati...