Top ex-official claims US out to seize control of Pakistan

By: maverick

Rāwalpindi : Pakistan | about 1 year ago

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Former North West Frontier Province Governor Lt Gen (retd) Ali Orakzai has warned that changes in Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and in the administrative control of the nuclear-related Strategic Planning Division at America’s whims will amount to a complete takeover of Pakistan by the US.

“This is simply not possible. It cannot happen,” he said in an interview Thursday, adding there was no way that Islamabad should agree to such American dictates.

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