SIs General Pasha Should Resign Because
CIA or Mossad or Spanish spy chiefs did not resign despite blunders. The demand for Gen. Pashas resignation conceals the real target: the ISI itself.
MAKHDOOM BABAR SULTAN | Thursday | 22 December 2011 | Editorial
PakNationalists.com
ISLAMABAD, PakistanJust when the countrys premier intelligence agency the ISI scored gains in protecting Pakistani interests in a difficult environment, a campaign has been launched to create hurdles in its way. The focus of this campaign is to target the office of the head of ISI, an organization that acts as the eyes and ears of Pakistans national security institutions.
In a premeditated and motivated campaign, the head of ISI, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, has suddenly become the center of conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
The head of CIA did not step down after 9/11, nor did the spy chiefs in nations like Spain, UK, Turkey, Russia, Iran, Norway, and Belgium, after major security lapses in those countries. But in Pakistan it has become fashionable to go for the neck of our security establishment for real or perceived wrongs.
The Daily Mail believes this sinister campaign does not target a person like Gen. Pasha but targets the institution he leads. Those politicians baying for Pashas blood are concealing a bigger motive: to humiliate and ridicule the ISI as an institution to demoralize and weaken it as it faces multiple foreign adversaries who hope for a similar outcome.
We ask the following questions:
Should Gen. Pasha resign because the Indian Home minister Chidambaram wants him to?
Should the ISI chief resign because Indias top Hindu militant leader Bal Thackeray wants him to?
Should the ISI boss resign because Hamid Karzai desires so?
Should the head of the ISI step down because anti-Pakistan US congressmen and senators want it this way?
Should Gen. Pasha quit because opposition leader Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan asks for it?
Should the ISI chief resign because an ANP legislator, Bushra Gohar, asks for it?
And finally should the ISI chief resign because Aasma Jenagir, the attorney for a former ambassador facing high treason charges, desires so?
Before pondering over the resignation of ISI chief, the Daily Mail believes it is important to take into consideration the backgrounds of the people who have floated this idea.
This editorial is exclusively written for PakNationalists.com. Mr. Babar is the editor-in-chief of the Islamabad-based The Daily Mail. Reach him at macbabur@hotmail.com
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CIA or Mossad or Spanish spy chiefs did not resign despite blunders. The demand for Gen. Pashas resignation conceals the real target: the ISI itself.
MAKHDOOM BABAR SULTAN | Thursday | 22 December 2011 | Editorial
PakNationalists.com
ISLAMABAD, PakistanJust when the countrys premier intelligence agency the ISI scored gains in protecting Pakistani interests in a difficult environment, a campaign has been launched to create hurdles in its way. The focus of this campaign is to target the office of the head of ISI, an organization that acts as the eyes and ears of Pakistans national security institutions.
In a premeditated and motivated campaign, the head of ISI, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, has suddenly become the center of conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
The head of CIA did not step down after 9/11, nor did the spy chiefs in nations like Spain, UK, Turkey, Russia, Iran, Norway, and Belgium, after major security lapses in those countries. But in Pakistan it has become fashionable to go for the neck of our security establishment for real or perceived wrongs.
The Daily Mail believes this sinister campaign does not target a person like Gen. Pasha but targets the institution he leads. Those politicians baying for Pashas blood are concealing a bigger motive: to humiliate and ridicule the ISI as an institution to demoralize and weaken it as it faces multiple foreign adversaries who hope for a similar outcome.
We ask the following questions:
Should Gen. Pasha resign because the Indian Home minister Chidambaram wants him to?
Should the ISI chief resign because Indias top Hindu militant leader Bal Thackeray wants him to?
Should the ISI boss resign because Hamid Karzai desires so?
Should the head of the ISI step down because anti-Pakistan US congressmen and senators want it this way?
Should Gen. Pasha quit because opposition leader Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan asks for it?
Should the ISI chief resign because an ANP legislator, Bushra Gohar, asks for it?
And finally should the ISI chief resign because Aasma Jenagir, the attorney for a former ambassador facing high treason charges, desires so?
Before pondering over the resignation of ISI chief, the Daily Mail believes it is important to take into consideration the backgrounds of the people who have floated this idea.
This editorial is exclusively written for PakNationalists.com. Mr. Babar is the editor-in-chief of the Islamabad-based The Daily Mail. Reach him at macbabur@hotmail.com
© 2007-2011. All rights reserved. PakNationalists.com
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium
without royalty provided this notice is preserved.
