Islamabad: Pakistan's ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha is set to get an extension in service, the country's Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar confirmed on Saturday.
Pasha, a close confidant of Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, is to retire next week.
Asked by reporters if Pasha is being given an extension, Mukhtar, who is also a senior leader of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, said: "Yes, it is being given."
But the minister did not spell out the duration of the extension. Media reports had said that Pasha is likely to get a two-year extension tenure.
Responding to a query on whether Pasha would remain in service till 2013, Mukhtar said, "He is being given an extension according to the requirement."
This would be a second extension for the ISI chief who was earlier given a year-long extended tenure.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in 2010 announced an unprecedented three-year extension for Kayani.
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