December 2, 2010 1:42 PM

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Wikileaks reveal Pak army opposed Zardari proposal for sending ISI chief to India post 26/11

A secret US cable made public by WikiLeaks shows that Pakistan Army had vetoed President Asif Ali Zardari's proposal to send ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha to New Delhi to calm down tensions with India following the Mumbai terror attack.The confidential document shows that the then British Foreign Secretary David Miliband had called Zardari, asking him to send the ISI chief to India,to which the President readily agreed. He, however, was overruled by the PakistaniArmy led by General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani.Miliband described Major General Pasha as a welcome new broom and expressed UK support for ISI reform.Zardari said the new ISI leaders were straight forward and their roles were proscribed by the constitution, but it would take time for real conversions.

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