You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
India-Pakistan
Defence Ministry has no operational control over ISI, MI, SHC told
2006-07-12
The Ministry of Defence informed a Sindh High Court (SHC) bench on Tuesday that it had no operational control over the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Military Intelligence (MI) and therefore could not enforce the courtÂ’s direction on both agencies in detention matters.
Hokay. My mind just boggled at such an admission. They're officially rogue agencies?
In his comments in six detention petitions, ministry representative Lt Col Mohammad Iqbal Sahboo said that the ministry could only pass on to these agencies every direction received from the court for strict compliance, and replies on receipt were submitted in court. The SHC bench comprising Justice Anwer Zaheer Jamali and Justice Mohammad Afzal Soomro heard on Tuesday petitions challenging the detention of Saleem Baloch, Saeed Brohi, Rauf Sasoli, Afan Leghari, Munir Mengal and Tariq Alam, and deferred the matter until July 19.

In its comments, the Defence Ministry said that the ISI and MI, which are only under its administrative control, had been tasked to present the detainees in court, but had denied detaining the people in question. They had said that the men were not wanted in any case, the Defence Ministry representative told the court. He said that the agencies had said that the task of locating or recovering missing people did not fall under their purview.
Posted by:Fred

#7  #5 No! Reeeeeally? Who'da thunkit?
Posted by: Fred 2006-07-12 13:26

Let's pass this to State Department Clintonistas. They've obviously not thunkit.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden   2006-07-12 16:11  

#6  It's a Paki thing. We wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-07-12 13:56  

#5  No! Reeeeeally? Who'da thunkit?
Posted by: Fred   2006-07-12 13:26  

#4  Exactly what I said in another posting about how the Paks are not serious in reigning-in Islamist-Wahhabist-Deobandist ISI.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden   2006-07-12 09:54  

#3  Oh come on - we've known for a long time that it's the ISI that has operational control of the Ministry of Defense, not vice-versa. Administrative control just means the MoD provides clerk-typists.
Posted by: Spot   2006-07-12 08:49  

#2  
Stop signing the damn checks! If they still don't cooperate, place them under arrest.


Or napalm their siege.
Posted by: JFM   2006-07-12 05:33  

#1  Dear Ministry of Defence,

Stop signing the damn checks! If they still don't cooperate, place them under arrest.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Regards,

The Civilized World

Posted by: Baba Tutu   2006-07-12 01:50  

00:00