Extension for ISI chief at appropriate time: Pak PM

January 30, 2012 14:19

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has dismissed reports that he was considering a proposal to grant another extension to ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha and said a decision on this issue would be made at the "appropriate time".

Media reports said his government giving another extension to Pasha, whose current term ends in March, in an attempt to heal a rift with the security establishment.

"Any decision about an extension for the (director general of the) ISI will be taken at an appropriate time," Gilani said during an interaction with Pakistani journalists last night following his return from Davos, Switzerland, where he attended the World Economic Forum.

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