[Ahmed Shuja Pasha] quoted a U.S. intelligence officer as saying “you are so cheap … we can buy you with a visa,” and said himself that systemic failures showed Pakistan was a “failing state.”
Source/Credit: Newsweek
By PID—AFP | July 9, 2013
Pakistan had an understanding with the United States on drone strikes targeting Islamist militants and the attacks can be useful, according to leaked remarks from a former intelligence chief.
Islamabad publicly condemns missile attacks on Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in its northern areas as a violation of its sovereignty, but the new revelations are the latest sign of double-dealing in private.
They come in findings of a Pakistani investigation into how Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden evaded detection for nearly a decade, which were published by the Al Jazeera news network on Monday.
Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who headed Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency at the time of bin Laden’s killing in 2011, told investigators that drone strikes had their uses. “The [director-general] said there were no written agreements. There was a political understanding,” the report said.
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