ABC News, 9 March 2010: Pakistan’s top spy can remain in his position for another year, Pakistan’s army announced today, keeping in place a three-star general who United States officials have become convinced is committed to flushing militants out of his country. Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the director-general of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency, would have had to take mandatory retirement later this month without the one year extension, which was officially declared today but informally granted weeks ago. United States officials, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the ISI’s relationship with the Taliban, have come to believe that keeping Pasha in place will facilitate efforts to flush out Taliban safehavens from Pakistan. . . . .