Pakistan appoints new intelligence agency head

01/10/2008 11:20:59

Pakistan has appointed a new man to head its powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency, previously led by a key lieutenant of the former President Pervez Musharraf.

Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha is the former head of military operations and a close aid of Pakistan's relatively reformist military chief Ashfaq Kayani.

The agency has been has been accused by the United States of secretly backing the Taliban.

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