ISLAMABAD - PAKISTAN Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday the head of country's premier intelligence agency would not be forced to appear in a US court in connection with the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Mr Gilani was responding in parliament to allegations by opposition parties that the government was considering sending Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha of Inter-Services Intelligence to testify in the US.
'ISI is the most sensitive organisation of the country and we are also sensitive about this issue,' Mr Gilani told the lawmakers.
'Nobody can force them to appear in court without their will,' Mr Gilani said.
According to media reports a New York court has asked Gen Pasha and Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the boss of charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, to appear next month in connection with 2008 terrorist attacks in Indian financial capital Mumbai.
The court orders came in the wake of lawsuits filed in the US by a wounded American and the heirs of four others who were killed in the massacre. They name Gen Pasha and allege the ISI is complicit because it nurtured the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group blamed for the attacks. -- AFP
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