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Former Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (DGISI) Lieutenant General ® Asad Durrani’ s memoirs "Pakistan Adrift" will be released in Pakistan in the second week of October 2018. This is a memoir of a former DGISI and Ambassador and his perspective about events of the last two decades.
Durrani is considered a cerebral officer by his peers who had a good career profile. Like most officers in the business of intelligence, the most controversial part of his career was his stint as head of Military Intelligence (MI) and ISI. This book is his perspective about the events but provides the reader an insight into the dynamics of power at the higher echelons. He is candid in accepting his own mistakes especially his role in distributing money to politicians. The Supreme Court of Pakistan is hearing this case.
Two segments about his stint as ambassador to Germany and Saudi Arabia are his views about these two societies. The most interesting segment is the chapter on terrorism where he seriously discusses the subject, its various shades and the use of this term by various states to pursue their own interests. He also elaborates on the consequences of the recent destructive...