Monday, July 28, 2008
ISI: A state within a state
Pakistan Tribune said on 29 July: The way in which memorandum for transferring the control of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) from the Cabinet Division to the Interior Division was issued and then withdrawn in less than twenty-four hours in the absence of the prime minister is yet another example of the ISI’s being a state within a state. The memorandum, issued the day the prime minister left Islamabad for Washington, said: “In terms of Rule 3(3) of the Rules of Business of 1973, the prime minister has approved the placement of the Intelligence Bureau and the Inter-Services Intelligence under the administrative, financial and operational control of the Interior Division with immediate effect.”
Pakistan Daily Times says: "A typical Taliban commander is a warlord with fewer than a hundred armed men. He pays them with money earned from drugs or extortion. He takes over an area, ruthlessly imposes taxes, administers summary and brutal justice, and declares himself the ruler. He murders his opponents and kidnaps others for ransom. Any Pakistani soldiers captured are slaughtered in the most barbaric way”.
IMO: Some feel that Pakistan should do something useful and constructive about the ISI (like killing or jailing all of them) or face an end to Pakistan as even a token state. And if the Pakistani army do not like it, they may be fools to themselves, deserving of fool's teatment. But basically better internal Pakistan politics may be the key.
Pakistan Tribune said on 29 July: The way in which memorandum for transferring the control of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) from the Cabinet Division to the Interior Division was issued and then withdrawn in less than twenty-four hours in the absence of the prime minister is yet another example of the ISI’s being a state within a state. The memorandum, issued the day the prime minister left Islamabad for Washington, said: “In terms of Rule 3(3) of the Rules of Business of 1973, the prime minister has approved the placement of the Intelligence Bureau and the Inter-Services Intelligence under the administrative, financial and operational control of the Interior Division with immediate effect.”
Pakistan Daily Times says: "A typical Taliban commander is a warlord with fewer than a hundred armed men. He pays them with money earned from drugs or extortion. He takes over an area, ruthlessly imposes taxes, administers summary and brutal justice, and declares himself the ruler. He murders his opponents and kidnaps others for ransom. Any Pakistani soldiers captured are slaughtered in the most barbaric way”.
IMO: Some feel that Pakistan should do something useful and constructive about the ISI (like killing or jailing all of them) or face an end to Pakistan as even a token state. And if the Pakistani army do not like it, they may be fools to themselves, deserving of fool's teatment. But basically better internal Pakistan politics may be the key.
# posted by uv : 9:56 PM
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