The Pakistani Spectator

Within hours of the issuance of the July 26 Cabinet Division notification announcing the placement of the ISI and the IB under the Interior Ministry, the government issued a clarification that the ISI would continue to perform its functions under the prime minister and that the Cabinet Division’s notification was misinterpreted.

Even when some embarrassed and bewildered government officials and leaders were claiming misunderstanding over this issue, some leaders were still adamant that this was done on purpose and wast the right approach, and it should stay as it is, and that was the best course of action.

Conquering ISI is a long standing dream of Pakistan People’s Party.  They tried to did it in 1994 during the tenure of Benazir Bhutto, and tried to appoint their favorable retired army general the director-general of the ISI and tried to get this sensitive institution under their beck and call.

They have tried to do it again and this time they have tried to give it to the Rehman Malik, who is the advisor to the Prime Minister on the interior affairs. Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain of PML-Q has also alleged that previously PPP has to take their decision back in 1994, because some very top secret papers were leaked from the cell which was coordinating between the government and the ISI.

It’s strange how in the tenures of PPP, sensitive papers from cells get leaked, and how the lists of Sikh freedom fighters of Khalistan are leaked by none other other the then interior minister Aitzaz Ahsan (now champ of justice) on the orders of the then Premier Benazir Bhutto.