Ch. Nisar handed over Ajmal Kansi to the US

The book also talks about how Aimal Kansi was handed over to the United States. Kansi had killed CIA employees just outside its headquarters at Langley. He fled the US and came to Pakistan. The CIA successfully followed and tracked him down. He was cornered and taken into custody by the Americans. Secretary of State Madeline Albright rang up the prime minister in Istanbul during the D-8 conference in early June 1997 informing him that Kansi was with the Americans and they wanted to take him out of Pakistan immediately and also that it should not come in the press. The prime minister asked her to ring up again after an hour. He contacted Chaudhry Nisar, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, to make the necessary arrangements and kept President Farooq Leghari informed. On Madeline Albright’s second call, the prime minister confirmed his eagerness to have Kansi taken out of Pakistan by the Americans. Whilst the prime minister was in Istanbul, back in Islamabad it was Chaudhry Nisar, the pointman in handing over Kansi to the Americans.

Gohar Ayub