khoji
April 25, 2014, 2:08pm
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Re: Hamid Mir shot and injured
The problem with this line of thinking is that it’s a loose-loose situation for the accused. How can you ever disprove that you were involved? If no evidence points to you, well then you’re obviously guilty because you suppressed it. If evidence does come out against you, then you’re guilty again.
I find it hard to believe that ISI is this inept. They might suck at their actual job but, by God, they know how to kill undesirable citizens of our own. If Hamid Mir was telling all and sundry about ISI’s determination to target him, don’t you think that the ISI might have known about it especially when they are monitoring journalists as claimed by all prominent journalists. They might have ensured plausible deniability instead of acting like a neighborhood thug. There’s more at play here than meets the eye.
ISI might be a terrible intelligence agency; they might’ve wronged all kinds of people; they might need reigning in. All that doesn’t excuse GEO’s drama for a second. The attack on Hamid Mir is quite separate from ISI’s past misdeeds and you need a lot more substantiation before you start blaming your own intelligence agency which has been the focus of a concerted international propaganda campaign for years.
That is a very nice post. Pretty much sums up the situation.