ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s elite security agency has successfully busted aninternational spy network in the country, a local media report said.
A report published in a local daily has claimed that the officials fromPakistan’s security establishment, including a very senior official retiredjust a few years back, have also been arrested during the operation.
The officials were reportedly passing on sensitive information to a spyagency of one of the most powerful countries. It claims that an official,serving in a Pakistani mission in a European capital, was also among thearrested ones.
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The report cited its sources claiming that the international spy networkhas been completely dismantled, adding that the arrested officials werelured into espionage by the international agency.
The network was tasked to pass on sensitive security information, but theelite Pakistani agency, in a ‘remarkable operation,’ crippled the networkwith dexterity.
This is not the first time that Pakistan’s top spy agency has exposed andripped apart such efforts made by foreign spy agencies.
The leaked Abbottabad Commission report revealed that former Pakistan envoyto the US, Hussain Haqqani, and his ‘principals’ were involved in “aidingand abetting the establishment of the nationwide foreign network inPakistan.”
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The report declared that Haqqani was working against national interest andwas directly reporting to and taking instructions from these “principals”working for foreign interests in Pakistan. He was also allegedly by-passingthe proper reporting channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The report also mentions how some foreign agencies were allowed to recruittheir agents in the tribal belt of Pakistan, and let their drones to usethe Pakistani airspace for intelligence sharing.
It further reveals that the situation had gone so ‘out of the hands’ thattheir people were free to move in and out of the country without anyinterference.
“At times we did not know who is coming and who is going, and what isbrought in and what was taken out,” the report quoted a very senior retiredArmy official.
*Via: The Newslink*
