The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has asked the CIA to sign a written contract which will govern co-operation between Pakistan and the US while ruling out unauthorised missions, reported The Scotsman.
A senior security official said the country’s top spy agency wanted a formal agreement on paper – ruling out future attacks on Pakistani soil – in order to restart the relationship. “Rather than word of mouth or a handshake, we have got to have things written down,” the leading Scottish newspaper quoted him as saying. “We need to formalise things, saying this is what we will do and this is what you will do.” The new contract would also call into question the CIA’s secret drones programme.
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Meanwhile, the Pakistan Army has rejected a report concerning the appointment of a US coordination officer at every corp headquarters, saying it would never compromise on its sovereignty and country’s defence at any cost, Online news agency reported.
Senior defence officials said the US had not made any such demand nor would Pakistan give the US permission to allow anyone to interfere in the army’s internal matters.
They said Pak-US relations were tense and it was utterly disappointing that the US officials were making demands through the foreign media.
The officials said the army was a disciplined institute that had its own boundaries and limitations. “There is no credible source in the story,” they said.
Other senior defence officials, however, said such allegations against the army were not new, adding that the Americans had come up with such statements in the past as well.
