In Urdu, the phrase ‘sutra kaam’ means to deceive someone completely. In this case, an investigative journalist with more than 50 years of experience, Seymour M Hersh, has fallen victim to ISI’s ‘sutra kaam’.

In his story on Sunday on the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden in the London Review of Books titled ‘The Killing of Osama bin Laden’, Hersh has tried to uncover the lies of the White House. In the process, Hersh has clearly, and, most probably, unwittingly, fallen into the trap of one of the most deceptive spy services in the Muslim world, the infamous Inter-Services Intelligence — the agency that answers to none but Allah and Pakistan’s army chief.