19/3/14 - Pakistani officials reject claims of ISI handling bin Laden ISLAMABAD: Top Pakistani intelligence officials on Wednesday rejected claims made by a British journalist that the ISI ran a special desk to handle former Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. The journalist, Carlotta Gall, further claims in her upcoming book “The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014” that then-ISI chief Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha also knew of bin Laden’s presence in the country. An excerpt from the book, which is coming out next month, was published in the New York Times on Wednesday. “There is no truth in New York Times story,” intelligence officials, who wished not to be named told Dawn. “The claims are totally baseless.” Nobody in Pakistan knew about presence of Osama bin Laden, the officials said.... P.S. It will be interesting to review British Journalist Carlotta Galls upcoming book, The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-14. The controversy surrounding his presence in the Military Cadet City of Abbottabad and the ISIs knowledge and involvement is still in play and with all the bad publicity for Pakistans image abroad and its leading one of twenty-six Intelligence Agencies!
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:06:14 +0000
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