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Defence Ministry has no operational control over ISI, MI, SHC told
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 2006-07-12
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