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Some months before the exposure of the British intelligence effort to bug the Pakistan High Commission in London, the British High Commission in Pakistan found evidence of its High Commissioner’s office in Islamabad being bugged.
A Western diplomatic source said about six months ago the British High Commissioner in Islamabad found a loose device hanging from the side of his desk. A quiet protest with lodged the Pak Foreign Affairs Ministry. To this day, the source said, Pakistan had not come up with a response.
The unearthing of a similar operation — though a botched one — by British intelligence at the Pakistan High Commission would not have become public had there not been a report, a general one about an un-named embassy, in a London newspaper which was further investigated by Daily Times in Pakistan and converted into a scoop that the embassy was none other than the Pakistan High Commission. —Daily Times
