Article

2008-08-09 India-Pakistan

Can Pakistan clean up its intelligence agency?

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2008-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 "Can Pakistan clean up its intelligence agency?"

Short answeer: No.

Long answer: Hell, no.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-09 01:02|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-08-09 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Does Pakistan desire to?
No
Then - No

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-09 01:13|| 2008-08-09 01:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Will the Donks purge their party of limousine and neo-Marxists?

No.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-09 09:18|| 2008-08-09 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd like to voice a contrary opinion here:

The reason the ISI is so "difficult to clean up" is because there's nothing to clean up. The large majority of ISI officers are career officers from other branches on a 2 year rotation.

The claim that the ISI is a rogue agency is complete horse manure. These officers have no separate identity and no separate interests from the rest of the Paki military. When diplomats talk about the "rogue ISI" they are really talking about the rogue military.

Our relations with the paki military right now reminds me of US-Japanese relations in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor: Both sides knew war was coming, but each side was waiting for the right moment.

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-08-09 11:40|| 2008-08-09 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Its so far gone the only way to clean it up is to dismantle it and rebuild it from scratch.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-09 11:43|| 2008-08-09 11:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Its so far gone the only way to clean it up is to dismantle it and rebuild it from scratch.

Funny, that's how I feel about Dar in its entirety.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-08-09 14:38|| 2008-08-09 14:38|| Front Page Top

23:53 Bangkok Billy
23:33 CrazyFool
23:30 bman
23:18 Johnathan Arbuckle
23:00 badanov
22:45 Old Patriot
22:35 ed
22:26 Steve White
22:18 Pappy
22:14 Chuck Simmins
22:09 phil_b
22:08 Chuck Simmins
22:06 Chuck Simmins
22:01 Chuck Simmins
21:48 ed
21:43 linker
21:25 Barbara Skolaut
21:23 3dc
21:22 Steve White
21:21 macofromoc
21:07 ed
20:55 ed
20:46 USN,Ret.
20:42 3dc