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Sharif must strike against ISI fast and hard

The moment Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan, the clock will begin ticking against him. There is nothing surprising in this, in all democracies, the highest point in the political life of a prime minister is on the day he takes office. Thereafter, it is downhill till the next election.

Now, if Sharif is conscious of this, the one thing he should do on day one is to issue on order placing the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) under civilian leadership. In one fell swoop, he will defang the Army of the most potent instrument it uses to distort Pakistani democracy. Every day that he delays taking action against the ISI, will be a delay that will cost him much more when the confrontation with the Army takes place, as it inevitably will, down the line.

This is a no brainer. In July 2008, Pakistan People’s Party prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani issued a notification placing the ISI under the control of the Interior Ministry headed by Rehman Malik, but within hours the Army and the then president, Pervez Musharraf, forced him to withdraw the notification. That had a lot to do with the fact that Gilani was a light weight and that the PPP had waited several months till after the general elections that swept them into power, to act.

Nawaz Sharif has come to power with a much stronger showing and he has the clout within the Punjabi establishment to put the army in its place. More than that, he has reasons to distrust the Army which overthrew his government in 1999 and sought to hang him for treason. Sharif has shown an inclination to take on the men in khaki. In October 1998, he sacked General Jehangir Karamat from his position as the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army. It is another matter that he made the disastrous choice of replacing him with Pervez Musharraf. This time around, Sharif is on record declaring that he will go by seniority when it comes to appointing a new chief in succession to Ashfaq Pervez Kayani who retires at the end of July this year, having enjoyed a three-year extension of service.

But the ISI is quite another thing. Last November, the Pakistan Supreme Court ruled in the Asghar Khan case that former ISI chief Lt General Asad Durrani and Army chief Mirza Aslam Beg had collected Rs 140 million to rig the elections against Benazir Bhutto and the PPP in 1990. Ironically, one of the recipients was Nawaz Sharif who was at that time seen as a creation of the Army to offset the political allure of Benazir. But while politicians got half the money, the ISI and the Army kept the balance for their own use.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the ISI’s malign activities within Pakistan which includes all manner of skullduggery, including the intimidation of journalists and other democratic elements. No democracy, such as one Pakistan aspires to be, should permit an intelligence agency to be run the way the ISI is. While all countries need intelligence services, they also need to be under the control of the government of the day, not its army.

Even as an external intelligence agency, the ISI has been a law unto itself. The attacks on the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2008 and 2009 are instances of action which went against Pakistan’s own foreign policy. As for the Mumbai attack of November 2008, there are clear indications that some elements of the ISI were involved in what was clearly an act of international terrorism. All this may still happen in an intelligence agency controlled by the civilian government, but at least the accountability for its actions will be transparent.

Nawaz Sharif has a huge agenda before him. Pakistan is being torn from within by Sunni extremists like the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. Groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba are involved in terrorist operations in India and Afghanistan, if not other countries. And the Haqqani network facilitates the activities of these groups, as well of the Afghan Taliban from Pakistani territory in North Waziristan. Any new government in Pakistan must establish its complete authority in its boundaries. But here, again, the government comes up against the activities of the ISI which use groups like the LeT and the Haqqani network to further its policies.

Then, there is the need for Sharif to right the listing Pakistani economy. He is aware that in great measure the support he got was because the people were fed up of the misgovernance of the PPP government.

However, first things must come first. And that is to establish the writ of the Pakistani government over all the segments of Pakistani society and its sovereign territory. To this end, the biggest obstacle it confronts is the ISI and the Army who feel that they represent the idea of Pakistan better than any group of elected officials. Sharif must act, because it is his survival which will eventually be at stake.

The writer is Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
 
Won't happen. NS will never challenge Intelligence if he wants to complete his tenure and with respect...other wise he wont last an year and he knows that....
 
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Indian.

Nuff said.

ISI could dismantle and jail NS before he could finish a bowl of nihari.

'Nuff said.

Nawaz Sharif gave this promise to Indians, so they have a right to now speak up about it. Indians missed a trick by embarrassing Nawaz Sharif on not attending his little glorification party... They could have pressed him to keep to his promises.

If you are PM of Pakistan and you break your promises, that means Pakistan breaks its promises.
 
Nawaz Sharif gave this promise to Indians, so they have a right to now speak up about it. Indians missed a trick by embarrassing Nawaz Sharif on not attending his little glorification party... They could have pressed him to keep to his promises.

If you are PM of Pakistan and you break your promises, that means Pakistan breaks its promises.

The Indians are involved in their own political fiasco. I call it a fiasco, because as much bjp hardliners want to win, they will get the same result as PTI'ers.

In another sense the Indian congress leadership see Nawaz as a dog wagging his tail. If he is so eager to come without invite, then that means he is good to go for any circumstantial or situational advantage of theirs. He is a pawn that can be turned into a rook, queen, or then again a pawn at their convenience.
 
Intel must go to the civilian leadership..

Otherwise it will become an organization within the organization.

OBL incident proves it.
 
Heard from rivals, Imran, Zardari, Altaf, but i didn't hear General Kayani congratulating NS. Let me just say he must be really disappointed.
 
The best course of action is let them rule ...they will expose them self .... Pakistan Munafiqs League will be washed away from land of pure ..give them time, they will self distruct ... we just have to sit back ..be active for the Naya pakistan .. GOd wants to see more janoon and sincerity before he grant us our NAYA Pakistan
 
Heard from rivals, Imran, Zardari, Altaf, but i didn't hear General Kayani congratulating NS. Let me just say he must be really disappointed.

No judges , bureaucrats and Genrals should not congratulate anyone.. i feel he dnt want to take part in politics , he seems pro democracy ... as i said we dnt have to do any thing ..NS will expose him self .. AND paid canadian will still be defending them, no matter what he do ... I dnt mind it ... Pakistan mei awaam k halaat karab kar di ha ..kisi canadian ka he bahala ho jaye ...
 
No judges , bureaucrats and Genrals should not congratulate anyone.. i feel he dnt want to take part in politics , he seems pro democracy ... as i said we dnt have to do any thing ..NS will expose him self .. AND paid canadian will still be defending them, no matter what he do ...

oh yeah then why did he talk to IK over the phone ?

"General Kayani congratulated Imran Khan over his party’s victory in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and for getting the mandate in the Centre. He expressed his best wishes for full recovery of Imran Khan so that he could resume his positive role in politics of the country"

COAS calls Imran, expresses best wishes - thenews.com.pk

So much so for 'pro democracy' :disagree:
 
oh yeah then why did he talk to IK over the phone ?

General Kayani congratulated Imran Khan over his party’s victory in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and for getting the mandate in the Centre. He expressed his best wishes for full recovery of Imran Khan so that he could resume his positive role in politics of the country.


So much so for 'pro democracy' :disagree:
If he wanted to topple NS and zardari bhie bhie .. they would have done it long time ago when they were gangrap*** the nation ..but he didnt even in worst of the conditions .. Even i dont like PAkistan MUnafiq League ..but i still think they should be given a change ... They will have no excuse this time ... I know for sure u will still be protecting them.. coz i have been following PDF for a while now and i have seen your bposts .. You are baised ...
 
If he wanted to topple NS and zardari bhie bhie .. they would have done it long time ago when they were gangrap*** the nation ..but he didnt even in worst of the conditions .. Even i dont like PAkistan MUnafiq League ..but i still think they should be given a change ... They will have no excuse this time ... I know for sure u will still be protecting them.. coz i have been following PDF for a while now and i have seen your bposts .. You are baised ...

:welcome: to :pdf:
 
The best course of action is let them rule ...they will expose them self .... Pakistan Munafiqs League will be washed away from land of pure ..give them time, they will self distruct ... we just have to sit back ..be active for the Naya pakistan .. GOd wants to see more janoon and sincerity before he grant us our NAYA Pakistan

It seems you are praying for the downfall of the country just to bring khan to power. How nice...

lol Pakistan needs people like your way of thinking....
 
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