06-26-2007, 06:17 PM
Nothing new, no harm repeating again.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Spymasters run Pakistan: report </b>
Pioneer.com
IANS | IslamabadÂ
Pakistan's Intelligence Agencies have gained unprecedented ascendancy since President Pervez Musharraf seized power. Their role has been the "solitary decisive factor", particularly since 2002, says a media report citing several instances.
The country's current anti-terror campaign and two controversial actions of the Musharraf regime -suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, and the house arrest of AQ Khan, the controversial father of the country's nuclear weapons programme -are being credited to the Intelligence Agencies.
<b>On the role of the Civilian Government, it says, "Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is not a person who has the habit of grudging or complaining. He is content with the room he has been provided to operate."</b>
<b>The "latest bomb shell" by the Intelligence Agencies, according to The News, is the March 9 suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, that took the nation by storm and shook President Pervez Musharraf and the entire applecart he is leading, the report says, adding that the agencies' role was "extremely critical and beyond an iota of doubt".</b>
The newspaper, however, did not cite any source for its report. "The Intelligence Agencies' role did not end with the creation of the judicial mess," says the report of the nationwide agitation that the presidential action has sparked.
"They had been very active in the damage control exercise so that the crisis turns out to be favourable to the boss at the end of the day. Hardly any member of the civilian set-up has been trusted as being capable of stemming the erosion at the public level," it alleges.
<b>"The reliance of the present top man, like his uniformed predecessors, on the intelligence agencies has been immense and plays the most singular role in his decision-making. It is through the Intelligence work that he gets the job done and relies on the conclusions of the spymasters,"</b> the newspaper said.
By comparison, "this mighty State structure had little dominant role in the decision-making process when Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto had ruled twice each.Â
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Spymasters run Pakistan: report </b>
Pioneer.com
IANS | IslamabadÂ
Pakistan's Intelligence Agencies have gained unprecedented ascendancy since President Pervez Musharraf seized power. Their role has been the "solitary decisive factor", particularly since 2002, says a media report citing several instances.
The country's current anti-terror campaign and two controversial actions of the Musharraf regime -suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, and the house arrest of AQ Khan, the controversial father of the country's nuclear weapons programme -are being credited to the Intelligence Agencies.
<b>On the role of the Civilian Government, it says, "Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is not a person who has the habit of grudging or complaining. He is content with the room he has been provided to operate."</b>
<b>The "latest bomb shell" by the Intelligence Agencies, according to The News, is the March 9 suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, that took the nation by storm and shook President Pervez Musharraf and the entire applecart he is leading, the report says, adding that the agencies' role was "extremely critical and beyond an iota of doubt".</b>
The newspaper, however, did not cite any source for its report. "The Intelligence Agencies' role did not end with the creation of the judicial mess," says the report of the nationwide agitation that the presidential action has sparked.
"They had been very active in the damage control exercise so that the crisis turns out to be favourable to the boss at the end of the day. Hardly any member of the civilian set-up has been trusted as being capable of stemming the erosion at the public level," it alleges.
<b>"The reliance of the present top man, like his uniformed predecessors, on the intelligence agencies has been immense and plays the most singular role in his decision-making. It is through the Intelligence work that he gets the job done and relies on the conclusions of the spymasters,"</b> the newspaper said.
By comparison, "this mighty State structure had little dominant role in the decision-making process when Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto had ruled twice each.Â
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