USA Directly Attacked Pakistani Army And Intelligence Agency Of Pakistan

   Reports in the New York Times criticizing the Pakistan Army and the powerful intelligence agency is a direct attack on Pakistan’s security, the army spokesman said on Saturday.
Major General Athar Abbas, the Pakistan Army’s chief spokesman, repeatedly criticized the Times’ reporting and said it was part of a calculated plan by unnamed officials to weaken the state. “This is a direct attack on our security organization and intelligence agencies,” he told Reuters in a rare on-the-record in-person interview. “We consider ISI as a strategic intelligence organization, the first line of our defense.”
    Abbas was responding specifically to a July 8 editorial that said there was evidence of complicity by the ISI intelligence agency in sheltering bin Laden, of ties to the 2008 Mumbai attacks and of involvement in the abduction and murder of Asia Times Online journalist Saleem Shahzad.
“This whole reporting through media, quoting unnamed officials, anonymous sources, is part of a design to undermine the authority and the power of the organization in order to weaken the state,” Abbas said.
He declined to specify exactly who the unnamed officials were, although the New York Times specified they were American officials.
   Abbas said there had been unease because of the bin Laden raid. “We have taken certain measures, which we consider, are in the best national interest.”
   “We have also ordered a number of US military personnel to be reduced, to go back, because we consider these as non-essential personnel in certain areas, and they’ve been asked to leave,” he said.
The ISI and CIA, he said, which have worked together for decades, should ‘formalise’ their relationship. He said Pasha had “asked them that the relationship between the two intelligence agencies should be formalized. It should be documented. It should not be open-ended. It should not be left to the other side to interpret the way they want to.”
   Well done the bravo army, USA needs a reply like this , it should be shunted because its demands and blaming have no limits. Pakistanis like reaction as expressed by army.l