Washington, July 19(ANI): Pakistan has issued 87 visas to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) personnel as required in an understanding to renew cooperation between the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the CIA.
The understanding was finalized during talks between the ISI and CIA chiefs in Washington last week, the Daily Times reports.
It will bring CIA's strength in Pakistan to what it was before January.
Relations between the two intelligence establishments have been on a downward spiral since January after CIA contractor Raymond Davis killed two Pakistanis.
Then in May, the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a secret raid by US special forces further damaged the relationship, with Pakistan seeing the operation as a violation of its sovereignty.
Earlier, this month, the Obama administration suspended some 800 million dollars in military assistance to Pakistan in a show of displeasure over its cutback on US trainers, limits on visas for US personnel and other rubs. (ANI)
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