Pakistan Spy Chief To Ignore U.S. Summons -- New York TimesISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan said Thursday that there was no possibility that the head of the country’s powerful spy organization, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, would obey a summons requesting his appearance before a court in the United States relating to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Mr. Gilani made the announcement while addressing lawmakers in the National Assembly. “ISI, being an extremely sensitive and important organization, would not be asked to appear before a U.S. court,” he said.
The comments were in response to a wrongful death lawsuit filed last month in a federal court in Brooklyn by relatives of victims of the Mumbai attacks, which left 175 people dead, including 9 of the attackers.
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My Comment: Pakistan is a sovereign nation, they can do what they want. But in the eyes of U.S. public opinion, this gives the Pakistan government and their intelligence services a big black eye.