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PTI hired CIA veteran for consultation on US ties, documents reveal

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PTI Chairman Imran Khan addresses the public via a televised speech on July 27, 2022. — Screengrab via YouTube/ Geo News Live American consultancy firm headed by an ex-CIA station chief in Islamabad comes under scrutiny. Grenier Consulting LLC's Robert Laurent Grenier was recruited last year. Iftikharur Rehman Durrani signed the agreement. An American consultancy firm headed by an ex-CIA station chief in Islamabad has come under scrutiny after being employed by the PTI to lobby and provide advice on Pakistan-US relations. Grenier Consulting LLC's Robert Laurent Grenier was recruited last year, when the PTI was in power. Iftikharur Rehman Durrani signed the agreement with the firm in July 2021 under the "supervision of senior [PTI] party officials and under the direction of Pakistan government officials." Grenier is a CIA veteran who worked as the agency's top counter-terrorism official from 2004 to 2006. He was also the CIA station chief in Islamabad dur