ISI chief Pasha was conspiring against Zardari: Malik to Patterson

WASHINGTON - Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik had told former US envoy Anne Patterson that it was not Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani but ISI chief General Ahmed Shuja Pasha who was hatching conspiracies against President Asif Ali Zardari, a diplomatic cable unveiled by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has revealed.

According to the leaked cable, Malik sought an urgent appointment to meet with Patterson in November 2009, and said that Pasha was hatching plots against Zardari, Geo News reports.

The Interior Minister added that Zardari needed political security due to that given reason.

However, Patterson was certain that the ISI chief could not do it alone. (ANI)