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TopicAsad Durrani

Topic: Asad Durrani

Intelligence work doesn’t come without its hurdles. Ex-R&AW, ISI chiefs recall life

'Covert' will take you into the heads – and lives – of two sypmasters, India's Amarjit Singh Dulat and Pakistan's Asad Durrani.

New book discusses the psychology of war and peace

Published by HarperCollins, ‘Covert’ by A.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani and Neil K. Aggarwal will be released on 16 May on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

How Pakistan can find its next army chief who doesn’t throw his weight around: Ex-ISI chief

Lt Gen Asad Durrani (retd) writes that Pakistan isn't the only country whose military has guns, but it's definitely one where political power flows through their barrel.

Pakistan Army is now an echo chamber — look at what it did to ex-ISI chief Asad Durrani

The ex-ISI chief was punished not for disclosing any secret, but for analysing the tantalising event of the 2011 American operation in Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden.

Barack Obama memoir says a lot. But it’s ex-ISI chief Asad Durrani’s book that needs attention

While India is obsessed about what former US President Barack Obama said about Rahul Gandhi, it is a fiction book from Pakistan that we must turn to.

Ex-ISI chief Durrani, who admitted to creation of Hurriyat, stripped of pension benefits

Pakistan’s strictures come in the wake of the publication of Spy Chronicles, a collaboration between Durrani and former RAW chief A.S. Dulat.

Pakistan army is so insecure that every unauthorised remark on it sends it into a tizzy

There is nothing in the book that is not already known to most knowledgeable observers of Pakistan’s internal and foreign policies.

Veere Di Wedding is banned in Pakistan, while Afghan bowler Rashid Khan packs a punch

Despite being removed for life from politics, Nawaz Sharif’s PML(N) is slated to return to power after elections in Pakistan in July, Fatima Bhutto...

Pakistan would have understood if India retaliated after Mumbai attacks, says Pak ex-spy chief

Asad Durrani has been summoned to the Pakistani army headquarters Monday, as the book he co-authored with former Indian spy chief A.S. Dulat makes waves.

What an unlikely collaboration between former India, Pakistan spy chiefs looks like

‘The Spy Chronicles: Raw, ISI and the Illusion of Peace’ is an intriguing read end-to-end just for what the former Pakistani spy chief reveals and doesn’t.

On Camera

We celebrate Harappa excavation—and dismiss Keeladi, Sinauli archaeological digs as politics

In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.

Naidu matches Jagan’s Rs 13L crore investment playbook, with a ‘speed of doing business’ caveat

Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.