Pakistan’s former spy chief banned from travel over book

ISLAMABAD — The former head of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency has been banned from travel and will face a formal inquiry over a book he co-authored with his former Indian counterpart.

Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, an army spokesman, said retired Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani was summoned to army headquarters Monday for questioning about “Spy Chronicles,” a book that documents his exploits as head of Inter-Services Intelligence from 1990 to 1992.

The army has not detailed its concerns, but it may have been angered by the authors’ suggestion that Pakistan co-operated with the U.S. in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Durrani retired nearly two decades before the raid.

The book was co-written by A.S. Daulat, the former head of India’s Research and Analysis Wing, and Indian journalist Aditya Sinha.

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