Pak Govt not prepared to rein in ISI, says top Pak judge

OrionHunter · Oct 26, 2013

Islamabad: A top Pakistani judge has said that nobody, including the federal government and parliament, is prepared to bring in legislation to control the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).

Peshawar High Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan made the observation while hearing cases related to 282 “missing persons” of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal areas, a media report said on Friday. Khan warned that courts would be forced to restrict members of law enforcing agencies and security forces to their barracks if they continued to whisk away citizens almost every day through unlawful means, The News reported.

He said the provincial and federal governments had become spectators to the violation of the Constitution, laws and fundamental rights of citizens by intelligence agencies and security forces. Governance and the democratic system would run only when law enforcing agencies act under the law of the land and the Constitution, he argued.

Khan observed that the CIA was a strong intelligence agency of the US but its top officials appeared immediately before courts when asked to do so (Unlike the ISI).

REUTERS

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Another slap on the face of the ISI and PA by none other than Pakistan's own judiciary! Hundreds of innocent civilians have gone missing in Pakistan's tribal areas. It is a violation of the fundamental rights of citizens by intelligence agencies and security forces.

And if anyone raises their voice on these human rights violations, they are threatened with dire consequences, like what's happening to Asma Jahangir and dozens of other human rights activists.

So that's why I keep saying that our Pakistani friends must set their own house in order first before shouting from the rooftops about so called 'human rights violations' in Kashmir.

chhota bheem · Oct 26, 2013

the point should not be if the govt is prepared it should be can they ?????

MuZammiL Dr. s[1]n · Jan 2, 2014

OrionHunter said:
Islamabad: A top Pakistani judge has said that nobody, including the federal government and parliament, is prepared to bring in legislation to control the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).

Peshawar High Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan made the observation while hearing cases related to 282 “missing persons” of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal areas, a media report said on Friday. Khan warned that courts would be forced to restrict members of law enforcing agencies and security forces to their barracks if they continued to whisk away citizens almost every day through unlawful means, The News reported.

He said the provincial and federal governments had become spectators to the violation of the Constitution, laws and fundamental rights of citizens by intelligence agencies and security forces. Governance and the democratic system would run only when law enforcing agencies act under the law of the land and the Constitution, he argued.

Khan observed that the CIA was a strong intelligence agency of the US but its top officials appeared immediately before courts when asked to do so (Unlike the ISI).

REUTERS

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Another slap on the face of the ISI and PA by none other than Pakistan's own judiciary! Hundreds of innocent civilians have gone missing in Pakistan's tribal areas. It is a violation of the fundamental rights of citizens by intelligence agencies and security forces.

And if anyone raises their voice on these human rights violations, they are threatened with dire consequences, like what's happening to Asma Jahangir and dozens of other human rights activists.

So that's why I keep saying that our Pakistani friends must set their own house in order first before shouting from the rooftops about so called 'human rights violations' in Kashmir.