Former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lieutenant General Javed Nasir has claimed that Pakistan defied the United Nations ban on supply of arms to the Bosnian Muslims fighting the Serbs and airlifted sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles to them.

In a petition filed before a court against Pakistan's largest newspaper group Jung, Lt Gen Nasir, while recounting his achievements and credentials as a leading Islamic international figure, alleged that he had been defamed by a report n the Jung owned newspaper, The News.

He also claimed that despite the UN ban on supply of arms to the besieged Bosnians, he successfully airlifted sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles, which turned the tide in favour of Bosnian Muslims and forced the Serbs to lift the siege, much to the annoyance of the US government.

The documents go on to give details of how the US threatened Pakistan, then ruled by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief, to be declared as a terrorist state, if Sharief did not remove him from the post of the ISI chief.