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India-Pakistan
Musharraf buddy: No change at ISI
2002-03-20
  • Discounting recent reports of ISI dismantling its Kashmir and Afghan detachments, its former chief Javed Ashraf Qazi has said the two controversial cells would continue to function within Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency. They will remain working to keep the organisation abreast with the situation at the borders in the east and the west, Qazi, who is federal minister for railways, said. This is the first time Pakistan has publicly acknowledged the existance of the Kashmir cell in the ISI.

    A recent report in the Washington Post said the intelligence unit had begun dismantling its Afghan and Kashmir detachments as part of a reform process initiated by president Pervez Musharraf. The report was brushed off officially with mild denials but in private officials projected it as a move to gain more international acceptability as well as to prevent the ISI from emerging as a state within a state. But Qazi, who is part of the influential inner circle of Musharraf administration, squarely discounted such reports. We definitely have to keep ISI personnel to watch India’s troop movement as is done by the Indians, Qazi said and claimed that the agency was a dynamic organisation in which adjustments would be made according to the conditions. However, there will be no large-scale reorganisation, he added. "Yes, some Kashmiris living in Pakistan and belonging to split families have gone there. Some people belonging to religious parties are also taking part in the militancy," he said.
    So it turns out that all that crackdown on terror, reign in the loose cannons stuff was just guff. Welcome to the Axis of Evil, Pakland.
    Guess what: the ISI is just saying that we do the same thing that the VHP and its militants do... Vaypayee may be truly screwed in the upcoming elections unless the Pakistani crazies decide to do something that makes the Gujarati riots small potatoes.
    Posted by Tom Roberts 3/20/2002 9:55:52 PM
    We can't really bitch about intel gathering. If we lived next door to India, we'd probably have a little something going, too, given the VHP, etc. And if we lived next to the Afghans we'd probably put a lot of money into it. But Pakland's active operations are so ham-fisted and out of the control of the civil government (or the country really does belong on the Axis of Evil list) that they have to be shut down for any kind of peace in the area. The more I see of the intertwinings of ISI with the fundo loons and the terror networks the more scared of them I become. And I'm just looking at the open source stuff. Betcha the guys at DIA, CIA and NSA have some really fragrant fruit. I just wonder what NSC is making of it.
    Posted by Fred 3/21/2002 12:21:21 AM
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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