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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 Durrani's 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 Pakistan. The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace, with Amarjit Singh Dulat, the fo...

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 the petitioner were being finalised and his name could not be removed from the ECL at this stage, 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 conversations between the two on India-Pakistan conflicts and on Kashmir. This public act of intellectual coop...