Identified India targets in case of attack: ISI

Says Pak has rehearsed plan for attack against India: Report

In an apparent response to statements that India too can carry out strikes inside Pakistan,the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha said any attack from the east would invite a befitting response. He said a contingency plan is in place and targets inside India had already been identified. Pasha told the lawmakers: We have also carried out rehearsal for it.

Pashas comments,reported by Dawn newspaper,can be seen in light of statements made by Indian Army Chief Gen V K Singh and Air Chief Air Marshal P V Naik that India has the capacity to carry out an operation similar to one US forces carried out to kill Osama bin Laden.

Pasha also told an in-camera joint session of the Senate and National Assembly late Friday details of which are still emerging in the Pakistani media that he had stressed the need to formalise the relationship through an agreement during a recent meeting with CIA head Leon Panetta.

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It is not possible to carry forward the cooperation without a formal agreement duly approved by parliament, Pasha was quoted as saying by an unnamed lawmaker who spoke to Dawn newspaper.

Several media accounts of the session said that Pasha had described his meeting with Panetta as stormy. One report quoted lawmakers as saying that Pasha had claimed he had a shouting match with Panetta during the recent meeting in the US. Pasha said the US spy agencys successes in the war against terrorism were made possible because of vital information passed on to it by the ISI,the Dawn reported.

He denied the ISI had concealed anything from the CIA. Rejecting allegations that Osama was brought to Abbottabad by the ISI,Pasha said: Why would the ISI keep him at a place without escape route and proper security cover? The fear that we cannot live without America has taken away our self-respect. Are we to live in humiliation out of the US fear forever, he was quoted as saying.

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