Islamabad: Pakistan military top brass, including Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, visited the headquarters of Pakistan spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to discuss regional security issues with special focus on the situation of Line Of Control, Pakistani media reported.
According to a report by Radio Pakistan, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General (CJSC) Nadeem Raza, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Naval Chief Admiral Zafar Mehmood Abbasi and Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan visited ISI headquarters in Islamabad last week. They were received by DG ISI Lieutenant General Faiz Hamid.
Salman Masood, the Pakistan Correspondent for The New York Times termed the arrival of the CJSC and other service chiefs at the ISI headquarters as an “unusual and unprecedented development”.
Radio Pakistan reported, “A comprehensive briefing was given to military leadership on regional security issues with special focus on the situation of LOC and Kashmir”. “CJCSC and Services chiefs appreciated tireless efforts of ISI for national security and expressed satisfaction over professional preparedness,” it further said.
Taking to Twitter, Masood said even during the height of WOT, tensions with India (2008, post-Balakot) the top brass did not convene at the ISI HQ like Tuesday “For War ops, preparedness, GHQ is the nerve center. A bevy of generals - all senior to the DG I, coming to his office - suggests an extraordinary intel briefing," Masood tweeted.
Pakistan has been relentlessly pushing state controlled proxies to destabilise India and Indian security forces, in mop-up operations, have killed 100 terrorists this year, bunging a monkey wrench into the Pakistani terror factory’s grand plans. It is clear that the ISI in conjunction with the military leadership is looking at a new paradigm in its asymmetrical warfare against India.
The meeting could be in that direction, analysts averred. The military-jihad network, fronted by ISI’s dreaded C Wing, is obviously looking at new stratagems in its war on Kashmir.
