With all due respects to Gen Pasha. Year 2011 has revealed so many glaring weaknesses of the ISI that in my view a paradigm shift is needed.
When a team fails, shouldnt the captain be responsible? Let us start with Osama bin Laden and attack on PNS Mehran. Dont you think that ISI is partly responsible for the failures?
ISI should be performing the roles of espionage and counter espionage. In my humble opinion ISI activities should include:
Central foreign counter-espionage and liaison with other security services to collate counter-espionage reports from overseas stations.
Gather economic intelligence about our enemies.
Another branch to conduct political covert actions and paramilitary operations in time of war.
Section deliberately passing misleading information to the enemy agencies.
Penetration into the terrorist organizations mainly to gather info about activities of all anti State elements including Islamic terrorists (TTP), sectarian outfits etc., with the objective of thwarting bombing /suicide bombing attempts.
Unfortunately ISI has been too busy trying to create strategic depth in Afghanistan and to target activities of the politicians it considers anti Pakistani. In short ISI activities have become too political and areas which should be the primary targets have been neglected.
This is borne by the glaring intelligence failures such as attack on GHQ, presence of Osam bin Laden in Abbottabad and finally the PNS Mehran. In my book, Gen Pasha as Head of ISI for the last 4 years must stand up like a man and accept the blame for intelligence failure.
Giving a top job should be a reward for the good services performed. Pray tell me should Gen Pasha be rewarded for the failures during his tenure as the boss of ISI?
I would think that new Head of SPD should be an honest and capable general whether retired or not. But then in Pakistan, to be good at your job is a disqualification and all rewards are based on cronyism.
