A Snapshot of Brigadier Ijaz Shah: Bin Laden's ISI Handler
| Publisher | Jamestown Foundation |
| Publication Date | 31 January 2012 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | Volume: 3 Issue: 1 |
| Cite as | Jamestown Foundation, A Snapshot of Brigadier Ijaz Shah: Bin Laden's ISI Handler, 31 January 2012, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4f2a74132.html [accessed 4 June 2023] |
| Comments | Arif Jamal |
| Disclaimer | This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States. |
Brigadier Ijaz Shah (Retd.), one of Pakistan's most notorious spies, may not be a militant or terrorist in a practical sense of the word, but he is alleged to have been linked with some of the most high profile terrorists and the terrorist acts in the region. The latest allegation came from Pakistan's former Army Chief General Ziaud Din Butt aka General Ziaud Din Khawaja who revealed at a conference on Pakistani-U.S. relations in October 2011 that the then Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Brigadier Ijaz Shah (Retd.), had kept Osama bin Laden in an IB safe house in Abbottabad [1]. In a subsequent, revealing interview with TV channel Dawn News, General Butt repeated the allegation, saying he fully believed that "[Brigadier] Ijaz Shah had kept this man [Bin Laden in the Abbottabad compound] and with the full knowledge of President Pervez Musharraf [2]."
