Musharraf has denied that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence was playing any destabilising role in his country's politics. Referring to the reputation enjoyed by ISI, Musharraf said it had been manipulated by the political leadership in the past, but disagreed that the intelligency agency had destabilised democractic governments in Pakistan. He said the ISI followed government directives. It is different that the civilian governments did not give the ISI any clear direction nor did they have a transparent strategy.
He said it was wrong to call ISI a government within government. He said under the military rule no one could dare to go against the government's wishes. "I make the appointments in ISI and if it does not act according to my wishes and government policy, I can dismiss them in a minute," he said.
Stating that the politicians themselves drag the military into politics, Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, said the ISI comes into the picture when there is disharmony between the government and the military.
Is it just me, or does that sound like the kind of remark a tin-hat makes a week or two before the Presidential Guard assassinates him and installs the next candidate? It sounds like he thinks he's struck a deal with ISI...Stalin was right about Beria.
The best thing for any military dictator to do is to quickly shoot the head of the Secret Police and put the head of Army Intelligence in his place. When the new guy appears to forget who put him there, loop back to initial line of this Do Until construct. The only way that a dictator can get out of this loop is when the Secret Police shoot him first, or a natural death intervenes.
Posted by Tom Roberts 2/16/2002 2:01:44 PM For Each Thug In INTELORG
     Shoot(Dead)
Next
or maybe...
while (!DeadYourself){
    KillGunnies();
}
Posted by Fred 2/16/2002 2:04:52 PM Sub PakPres()
Dim Inpower as Boolean, Popularity as Double
Do while Inpower
If Popularity<0.6 then Call Blame_Indians()
If Popularity<0.5 then Call Arrest_Opposition()
If Popularity<0.4 then Call Kill_Rivals()
If Popularity
Call Flee_to_Malaysia()
Inpower=False
End if
Loop
End sub
Posted by Mark B [markbyron.blogspot.com] 2/17/2002 2:56:46 AM |