India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on intelligence sharing between Pakistan’s military intelligence – Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) with Afghanistan’s National Directorate of security (NDS) was based on wrong assumptions.
“What Pakistan wanted was to take assurance and pressurize Afghanistan that they will not allow their territory to be used for any security related work by India. That is the crux of it. This is based on a faulty assumption that India probably uses Afghan soil or Afghan nationals for its security purposes,” Doval quoted by Indian newspapers said.
Reports regarding the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISI and NDS emerged last week.
Sources privy of the development said the two intelligence agencies will share intelligence information based the agreement and jointly fight terrorism in the region.
Ajmal Obaid Abidy, spokesman for President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, said both parties and head of agencies from the two countries will sign the agreement once it has been finalized.
Responding to concerns regarding the agreement with ISI, the NDS spokesman Haseeb Sediqi said last week the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with Pakistan is not against the national interests of the country and the agreement was concluded based on previous mutual cooperation between the two nations.
Source: Khaama Press (KP) | Afghan News Agency
By: Mirwais Adeel - Sat May 23 2015, 2:57 pm