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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Pakistan spy chief to discuss drones in USISLAMABAD: Pakistan's spymaster will next week visit the United States to resume talks on intelligence cooperation and drone strikes, the thorniest aspect of Pakistani-US relations, an official said on Wednesday. It is the first time in a year the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) flies to Washington, signalling a thaw in relations beset by crisis since US troops found and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011. Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam, who was appointed in March, will hold talks with CIA director David Petraeus on counter-terror cooperation and intelligence sharing, a senior Pakistani security official told AFP. But the differences and intractability on both sides highlight the tensions of the fractured anti-terror alliance, despite Islamabad's decision to end a seven-month blockade on NATO supplies for Afghanistan. The United States is understood to be keen for a return of US military personnel to assist Pakistani officers in the country’s northwest. afp
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