Rawalpinid (May 28, 2018): Following the outburst of former ISI head Asad Drunai controversial book, the military started the probe against him and Chief of Army Staff directed to concern authority to place his name on Exit Control List.
Lieutenant General (retd) Asad Durrani, the former chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), will be probed by a Court of Inquiry for views attributed to him in his book ‘The Spy Chronicles’, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday.
Lt Gen Asad Durrani, Retired was called at GHQ today to explain his position on recently launched book ‘Spy Chronicles’. A formal Court of Inquiry headed by a serving Lt Gen has been ordered to probe the matter in detail. Competent authority approached to place his name on ECL.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) May 28, 2018
The former ISI chief had arrived at the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) earlier today after being summoned to explain his position on his views.
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The updates were shared by Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major Gen Asif Ghafoor via popular microblogging website Twitter.
Lt Gen Asad Durrani, Retired being called in GHQ on 28th May 18. Will be asked to explain his position on views attributed to him in book ‘Spy Chronicles’. Attribution taken as violation of Military Code of Conduct applicable on all serving and retired military personnel.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) May 25, 2018
“Lt Gen Asad Durrani, Retired was called at GHQ today to explain his position on the recently launched book ‘Spy Chronicles’. A formal Court of Inquiry headed by a serving Lt Gen has been ordered to probe the matter in detail. Competent authority approached to place his name on ECL”, read the official statement.
The recently released book, titled The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace, is said to be mainly a series of discussions conducted between the two former adversaries on a range of topics by journalist Aditya Sinha.
The paperback has served as an ice-breaker of sorts between the two warring neighbours while also spurring criticism of Indian state repression in held Kashmir.
The two former spies have in the book touched upon some thorny issues which have kept Pakistan-India ties strained for decades and at times pushing them to the brink of war. The issues include terrorism, particularly Mumbai attack, Kashmir and the influence of intelligence agencies.
Earlier, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif appeared to draw a parallel between his own recent statement on the Mumbai attack case and the contents of the said book jointly penned by Durrani and Dulat, and called for the National Security Council (NSC) to re-convene on the matter as it had in his [Sharif’s] case.
Nawaz believes that the former DG ISI, through this book, has made public some “serious information” and that it is now necessary to call an emergency NS meeting to discuss the matter.
In a similar vein, Senator Raza Rabbani, while addressing the upper house last week, had remarked that if a politician had teamed up with an Indian counterpart to write a book like this, they would have been branded a traitor.
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