By IANS,
Islamabad : Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, chief of Pakistan’s ISI agency, Friday admitted there was “intelligence failure” during the US raid in Abbottabad that led to the death of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Geo News reported.
Bin Laden was killed in a US special forces operation in Abbottabad city near Islamabad May 2.
The US made its position clear when Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said that intelligence on the operation to take out bin Laden was not shared with Pakistan out of fear that it would “jeopardise the mission”, according to Al Jazeera.
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general Friday accepted full responsibility for the Abbottabad incident during an in-camera joint sitting of parliament.
“The D.G. ISI accepted responsibility for the incident and is ready to present himself for accountability on any forum including the parliament,” said Federal Minister for Information Firdaus Ashiq Awan, who was herself present at the joint sitting.
“The ISI chief said he surrenders himself before parliament,” she said.
The acting speaker of the National Assembly – the lower house of parliament – chaired the session also attended by top military officials.