In an exclusive interview with News.Az, Javed Ashraf Qazi — former Director General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence, and a former senator during the Musharraf administration — voiced grave concern over the rapidly deteriorating relationship between India and Pakistan, particularly in the aftermath of the deadly attack on Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir.

The Pakistani government has allowed the country’s premier spy agency to intercept and trace calls and messages through any telecommunication system in the “interest of national security,” said an official notification, News.Az reports citing foreign media.