The Kasav saga has backfired in a big way on the Pakistan government. Hours after Pakistan’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Mahmud Ali Durrani was sacked for speaking the truth on Ajmal Amir Kasav’s origins, in a startling comment, the Pakistan Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani has admitted that Durrani’s speaking the truth, embarrassed him greatly.Moreover, government sources told Pakistan media that the Pakistan Prime Minister was upset because Durrani’s admission robbed him of the chance of making the dramatic disclosure on Kasav. Gilani on Wednesday (January 7) dismissed his NSA Major General (retd) Mehmud Ali Durrani for being a ‘bit too candid’ on the tricky issue of Mumbai carnage suspect Ajmal Kasav, without having taken him into confidence.
According to reports in the Pakistani media, a furious Prime Minister Gilani reportedly told some journalists that his ‘national security adviser had embarrassed me’ and the country by going public with the report of Kasav’s nationality without his permission.
Another Pakistan’s television channel quoted sources close to the ousted adviser as having said that whatever he had told the media about Ajmal Kasav and the findings of the Pakistani investigators were in the knowledge of the president.
The sacking of the NSA of Pakistan for disclosing the nationality of Kasav has triggered chaos and bitter infighting in the political circles of the country. The late-night decision by Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani sparked speculations about growing fissures within the ruling party, and perhaps among the various pillars of the establishment on the handling of crucial and sensitive matters of national security.
The summary dismissal also comes amid reports of tension within the government, particularly between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani, on various issues linked to the decision-making process.
Meanwhile, highly informed sources in the government were quoted in the media as saying that the security agencies investigating the Kasav affair had already prepared their report which, through the ministry of interior, had been passed on to the prime minister for a formal decision.
The probe had concluded that Ajmal Kasav was a Pakistani national, but it was left to the government, or the prime minister, to decide when to make it public. Sources were quoted saying that Durrani was apparently sacked because the leak had not only caught the prime minister off guard, but perhaps also deprived him of the credit for breaking the news.
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