Who is spying on Pakistan's spies?

Rob Crilly is Pakistan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. He blogs excerpts from recently released Wikileaks files. The story of Kamran Bokhari's visit inside the ISI HQ in Islamabad and his brief meeting with agency’s chief Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha.
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It is not often we are allowed a glimpse inside the shadowy world of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. So amid all the humdrum dross, poorly sourced rumours and conspiracy theories in the Stratfor emails obtained by Wikileaks, it was a delight to discover an account of a meeting in April last year with Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, who retired as its director general at the weekend. Analyst Kamran Bokhari describes the tight security at the ISI's lair in Islamabad and its smart premises:

Once after the main barrier, which is an iron gate you enter the courtyard of the new main building adjacent to the old ones. A really fine structure recently completed when the current army chief was heading the ISI and Musharraf was in charge – from the inside it resembles a 5-star hotel in terms of the quality of the interior finishing.

There's an interesting discussion about Afghan policy, Libya (apparently Gaddafi asked for help – no surprise given the two countries' close relationship) and the Raymond Davis debacle. Then it's time to leave…

At this point I asked him if there was any change to his email address and Pasha says I am sorry I have not been in regular touch over email because these people were reading my messages and I had to have my pc cleaned but I am still using the old email address. I asked who was reading his emails and he replied there is only one entity in Pakistan who can do that. (I take it he meant people from within the directorate were doing so).

So even the head of Pakistan's all-powerful ISI is apparently being spied upon. Perhaps by people within his own directorate. Or maybe he's simply trying to implant the idea that there are rogue elements at work, allowing him, his agency and Pakistan to play a double game with their allies in the West.

That's the thing about spies. Nothing is ever quite as it seems.