ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s spy chief lashed out at the United States on Friday as letting his country down “at every difficult moment in our history” and offered to resign, in the latest fallout from the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha’s offer, made in a closed-door session of parliament, appeared to be an effort by Pakistan’s powerful military intelligence agency to absorb the criticism it has received from opposition lawmakers over its reported failure to detect bin Laden’s presence in a garrison town 35 miles from Islamabad.
The criticism of Pasha and his Inter- Services Intelligence Directorate has been highly unusual in a country where the military is dominant and feared by politicians. Parliament was not expected to accept Pasha’s resignation.
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