ISLAMABAD – ISI chief Lt. Gen (retd) Asad Durrani on Friday defended hisdecision to pen *The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace* with former RAW chief AS Dulat and Indian journalist Aditya Sinha.
He is the book was merely an exercise involving two people with extensiveexperience in Pakistan-India affairs coming together to record theirperspectives.
Responding to erstwhile premier Nawaz Sharif calling for a meeting of theNational Security Committee over the book and former Senate chairman RazaRabbani expressing grave reservations over its publication, Durrani saidany individual — civilian or military man — had the right to record theirmemories.
Durrani said those rapping *Spy Chronicles *were yet to peruse it. “Theyare drawing conclusions from flawed news items,” he said. Rather thanfocus on who has authored the book, attention should be devoted to itscontents, Durrani added.