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New Delhi: In an unprecedented admission a retired ISI chief has told News18 that Pakistan is actively involved in the current unrest in Kashmir.
Lieutenant-General (retd) Mohammad Asad Durrani, who served as ISI’s chief from August 1990 to March 1992, when asked about Pakistan’s involvement in the current turmoil in Kashmir, said, “One indeed could not be “playing fiddle” while Kashmir burns and bleeds.”Durrani assumed the office of ISI’s directorate at a very interesting time for Pakistan. The Soviets were withdrawing from Afghanistan and simultaneously, not coincidentally, foreign militants had begun infiltrating and training local Kashmiris to fight India.
Incidentally, on this side of the border, during the same period - 1990, leading the intelligence operations as the joint director, Intelligence Bureau, in Kashmir, was AS Dulat, with whom Durrani has now co-authored a book - ‘Spy Chronicles, RAW ISI and The Illusion of Peace’. Dulat would later go on to head India’s external spy agency - the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and become Prime Minister Vajpayee’s advisor on Kashmir |
