Zardari Destroys Domestic Intelligence Agency

[pak-marine]

any one know who heads IB ?

 

[Bang Galore]

Do you even know that IB is not RAW's counterpart in Pakistan.

He isn't talking about Pakistan's IB, he is referring to India's IB.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Pakistan's IB would be the primary intel agency responsible for dealing with terror threats, especially outside of FATA.

I believe it is pretty clear now why the efforts against terrorism domestically have been so pathetic, especially in terms of preempting terror attacks.

4000 to 5000 incompetent officials posted into the IB - the numbers are enormous for a single agency - the impact disastrous.

And lets not forget that these officials were reinstated with back pay and benefits dating back several years - imagine the billions in tax-payer money wasted. And this does not even address the potentially hundreds of thousands of incompetent political lackeys/workers recruited into the other major State enterprises like police, FBR, Railways, PIA, Pakistan Steel, Banks, mills, bureaucracies ....

At the Karachi Stock Exchange, Ambassador Munter exhorted the government to begin privatising SOEs as in the current fiscal year alone they have cost the Pakistan government almost 3 billion dollars in state subsidies, or twice the amount that the country receives under the Kerry-Lugar bill in one year.​

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Whatever else the US has done wrong, on the point of economic reforms at least they are dead right and working in favor of Pakistan's interests and security.

 

[khurasaan1]

IB has been reduced to Rehman Malik domestic servant

Rehman Malik will be hungup to the pole if he dont repent and come to the right path....this is his last chance

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Some more background on the PPP's IB antics:

Let us take the example of the Intelligence Bureau, for instance. In 1996, the PPP government created hundreds of new posts in the premier civilian intelligence agency and had no qualms about filling them up with ineligible and incompetent individuals. Being a jiyala or a relative of one was the sole criterion for induction. But while they were still on probation the PML-N government was sworn in, which immediately cleansed the IB of all probationary jiyalas. Most of them appealed their termination before the Federal Services Tribunal.

The FST found that “the appointments were made not on the basis of merit but on the recommendations of the ministers and other government functionaries,” and upheld the termination orders, as the employees had been dismissed during probation. The FST ruling was then appealed before the Supreme Court, which also dismissed the petitions, reiterating the well-settled legal principle that “a probationer has no vested right to continue in service.” So why can the PPP-led government not bury the hatchet and look to the future?

First of all, such reinstatements would be illegal. The highest court of the land had decided conclusively in 2000 that the probationers were legitimately laid-off. Thus, neither the cabinet nor any other executive office has the authority to reinstate such individuals, and with backdated seniority and benefits. They can be appointed afresh, but not reinstated.​

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[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

More background and confirmation of the political appointments to the IB:

ISLAMABAD: The Intelligence Bureau, the oldest civil spy agency of the country, is about to be hit by an administrative tsunami due to the government’s decision to reinstate the agency’s more than 2,400 sacked political appointees of Benazir Bhutto’s second regime.

With this reinstatement, the IB, whose present strength of employees is around 5,000, would swell by 50 per cent of its current size, but what really haunts the organisation is the administrative chaos that seems to be imminent and would badly affect the performance of this spy agency.

While the cabinet has decided to reinstate such sacked political appointees to fulfil one of its election promises, what has been simply ignored is that most of such appointees had exhausted all legal means and were declared lawfully removed even by the apex court of the country. However, despite this the government decided to reinstate them with back dated benefits of three years and against one-step higher post.

“Such a reinstatement would be illegal thus would open floodgates of litigation against the government,” a source said, adding that this was the precise reason that Law Minister Farooq H Naek had opposed the move but he was silenced by his other colleagues.

In 1995, according to a source, the government had decided to expand the IB network and created 8,000 new temporary posts, which were generally filled on political recommendations instead of merit and following transparent recruitment procedure.

However, in 1997, the then caretaker government of Malik Meraj Khalid decided to scrap the expansion plan of the IB, as a result about 2,400 junior most officers and officials appointed against those temporary posts were terminated in accordance with Section 11(i) of Civil Servants Act 1973.

The terminated employees, who included about 120 assistant directors and 1,000 inspectors went into the appeal process. According to a source about 950 appeals and writ petitions were filed which were rejected at all levels and the case finally reached Supreme Court. The apex court, it is said, while giving its judgment in Civil Appeals No. 1582/97 after detailed hearing dismissed 96 appeals on merit and decided that the employees had been dismissed in accordance with law.

After the apex court decision, the then government’s decision to sack these employees gained finality in legal terms and there is now no lawful recourse to undo the decision, except for a constitutional amendment. The cabinet, however, despite repeated cries of Naek, overlooked this aspect of the reinstatement, which is also expected to shake certain other organisations too where similar reinstatements are being done in violation of the court order. A total of 7,700 employees belonging to different organisations are being re-instated.

The IB is expected to be hurt more for the reason that after the 1995-96 political appointments and the consequent sacking of its political appointees, the organisation developed and implemented radical changes in its appointment process to ensure merit in recruitment. It was made mandatory that appointments in BPS-16 and above grades be made through the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC), which conducts competitive exams to select the candidates.

Appointments in lower grades are also made through competitive exam by the department. From year 2001, the IB started recruiting officers through the FPSC, which annually conducts competitive exam for assistant directors and deputy directors for which around 8,000 to 10,000 candidates compete throughout the country.

The sacked employees, now being reinstated, were generally recruited on political grounds and had served only for six months in the department. Now with their reinstatement, they would be given one step higher post, which means they would become senior to those, who were either recruited through the FPSC/departmental competitive process or were promoted on the basis of their vast experience.

Those within the organisation fearing serious administrative chaotic situation argue that the appointment of a deputy director in BS-18 requires five years of relevant experience, while those appointed as assistant director on political grounds but removed more than 10 years back would be made deputy director despite having only six months of work experience.

“It would shatter the administrative structure of IB and most of the officials presently working in the IB would be left with minimum chances of ever being promoted,” a source said, adding that besides leading to massive litigation, the decision would also badly effect the performance of the agency and politicise it too. Reinstatement, it is said, is only possible where the original posts exist. However, in case of the IB the expansion plan was scrapped and new posts then created were abolished too.

Pakistan News Service - PakTribune

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Aren't Zardari and his PPP lackeys therefore directly responsible for any terrorist attack that is not prevented in Pakistan?