ISLAMABAD – National Security Committee (NSC) meeting has been summoned onTuesday to discuss security of the state and border issue. Meeting is alsolikely to discuss the matter of a controversial book co-authored by formerchief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani,besides reviewing implementation of FATA Reforms.
The top civilian and military leadership will ponder over the regionalsituation and issues pertaining to eastern and western borders of thecountry, sources added.link>link>
Durrani, who served as the chief of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agencyfrom August 1990 till March 1992, co-authored a book with former Indian spychief AS Dulat, titled ‘The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion ofPeace’.
The meeting is summoned days after former premier Nawaz Sharif voiced hisreservations over the book.
Speaking to journalists in Islamabad last week, Sharif demanded that anemergency meeting of the NSC be summoned over the book written by Durrani.
The former premier said a trustworthy national commission should beconstituted to look over such matters.
Sharif’s demand followed an earlier meeting of the NSC, which was called todiscuss a controversial statement by the former premier on the 2008 Mumbaiattacks.