Pakistan: Shah To Be Fired
June 01, 2007 13 22 GMT
Retired Brig. Ijaz Shah, the current director-general of Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau, will soon be fired, Pakistani sources said June 1. Shah was allegedly working as a mole and is accused of consistently working to undermine the government of Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. In addition to coordinating efforts with Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry even before the legal crisis erupted over his suspension, he was responsible for issuing orders to raid TV stations and tarnish the government’s image. This information has not yet been confirmed.
As anyone following politics closely ought to be familiar with Brigadier (Retd.) Ijaz Shah’s name, reputation and background as:
*- A close Musharraf friend and associate for many years, and a dyed in the wool loyalist of the General’s.
A previous Home Secretary of Punjab (where, together with Major General Hussain Mehdi, then Director General, Punjab Rangers, he ‘delivered’ Punjab to Musharraf in the 2002 elections).
A nominee of Musharraf’s as High Commissioner to Australia, only to have his nomination embarrassingly rejected by the Australian Government.
From February 2004 onwards the powerful head of the Intelligence Bureau.*
He was recently named along with the heads of MI and ISI - in the Chief Justice’s affidavit - as being present at the Army Camp on 9 March during the five hour period of unlawful detention that the CJ had to undergo on Musharraf’s instructions.
The army and agencies turning on each other after their failed attempt to subjugate the nation it seems. Good news for Pakistanis, bad news for army landlords.
It’s been 4 days since this rumour was published and still no firing.
You people seem so desperate to believe that the army will turn on itself and its leadership that you are willing to leap onto and latch onto rumours from unfamiliar sources that quote unnamed people as the origin of their data
he made a reputation when he fired the very generals who were instrumental in the 1999 coup, Gen Usmani and Gen Mehmood, he will do it again to save his skin
Exactly. Usmani and Mahmood were fired despite helping Musharaff with the overthrow of Nawaz Sharif, yet he fired them - keeping in mind the old tradition for ' one crook never to trust another crook ' - as such Musharaff got rid of them as soon as he could.
He's become a paranoid joker - as most dictators do when they begin to hear the bells toll.
Exactly. Usmani and Mahmood were fired despite helping Musharaff with the overthrow of Nawaz Sharif, yet he fired them - keeping in mind the old tradition for ' one crook never to trust another crook ' - as such Musharaff got rid of them as soon as he could.
He's become a paranoid joker - as most dictators do when they begin to hear the bells toll.
Flame: Granted some of the posts in this thread had gone on a tangent, but they were in the context of this thread, and I think something is wrong when you remove a page-and-a-half worth of posts from a thread because they weren't discussing what the thread opener intended. It's one thing when it's idle chit-chat in General or Cafe, but all these posts WERE parts of a valid conversation, that you have removed altogether because of your 'Moderator' powers. If every thread opener had the powers to do this, there wouldn't be much to read on Gupshup.
So next time one of my threads gets multiple conversations going, may I pm you to remove two pages of conversation because the people weren’t following “my” agenda in “my” thread? Shouldn’t the moderators be a little less personal about their “own” threads?
it was a light hearted comment so pls take it as such. And I will not allow anyone to "discuss" minorities/ethnicities like they were being discussed in this thread or this forum. 2 pages or 10.
I think Mush is so weak, he can not fire his DG ISI or anyone else who is Hum Pyala aur Hum Nawala. In past Zia-ul-Haq could not fire Fazlul Haq (Former NWFP Governor, ultimately killed by his clan),
