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Monday, May 28, 2012

Blamed for terror, Pak struggles with ISI, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad
Blamed for terror, Pak struggles with ISI
By Amit Baruah , Hindustan Times
New Delhi, July 28, 2008

On Saturday, an official press release announced in Islamabad that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, before leaving for Washington, had placed the ISI and the Intelligence Bureau under the administrative, financial and operational control of the Interior Ministry “with immediate effect”.

As Pakistani newspapers front-paged the story on Sunday, the government issued yet another press statement saying that its previous order had been misunderstood and the ISI would continue to report to the prime minister.

“The ISI will continue to work under the PM, an official spokesman clarified late Saturday night. The spokesman said the earlier notification regarding control of ISI was being misunderstood…” the official Associated Press of Pakistan news agency reported.

“The ground reality is that the ISI is a law unto its own,” M.K. Bhadrakumar, a former Indian diplomat, who dealt with Pakistan for years, told HT. “There’s just no way a serving general can report to the Interior Ministry.”

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