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Byline: Ron Moreau and Zahid Hussain
In the wake of Mumbai's carnage, India handed Islamabad a list of 20 terrorists suspected to be hiding in Pakistan--including one who had phone contact with the gunmen during their attack. Now the nearly impossible role of orchestrating the arrests will likely fall to one man: Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the new head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency.
A known moderate, Pasha spent the past three years leading scorched-earth offensives against extremists as head of the Army's military-ops command. Ideologically, he's "totally against" jihadists like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), thought to be behind Mumbai, says retired Pakistani Lt. Gen. Talat Masood.
Now Pasha will have to appease Pakistan's leaders (under heavy international pressure to comply) while easing tensions with top ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Spy In The Spotlight.(International Edition; MUMBAI AFTERMATH)(Brief...