KARACHI, July 20: The Sindh High Court asked a federal attorney on Thursday to ascertain the authority that controlled the Inter-Services Intelligence and other agencies.
Deputy Attorney-General Akhtar Ali Mehmood produced an affidavit sworn by the defence secretary stating that the ministry had nothing to do with the detention of Balochistan Jamhoori Watan Party leaders Salim Baloch, Abdur Rauf Sasoli, Saeed Brohi and Brahim Saleh.
Identical statements on behalf of the defence and interior ministries were made as six other petitions alleging illegal confinement came up before a division bench consisting of Chief Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed and Justice Mohammad Afzal Soomro.** The defence secretary reiterated that the ISI and the Military Intelligence were not under the operational control of the defence ministry.**
Appearing for the alleged detainees, Advocates Noor Naz Agha, S.M. Iqbal and Rasheed A. Razvi submitted that stereotyped statements blandly denying knowledge of whereabouts of missing people were not sufficient to absolve the federal government of its obligations in this behalf.
The ministries concerned should not confine themselves to denying their responsibility only and should inform the court who else was responsible. Under whose operational control did the two agencies work, they asked.
The bench observed that the government was responsible for tracing the whereabouts of any citizen or individual disappearing in the country. The court should be informed of the controlling authority of the various agencies and who was to be held responsible if a person went missing.
The provincial and federal governments could not just wash their hands off their responsibility by saying that their whereabouts were not known or that they might have been detained by an agency not working under the control of a particular ministry. It asked the DAG to answer the questions raised by the petitioners’ counsel and adjourned the hearing of petitions to July 31.
i guess they are supposed to be controlled by army chief and primeminister.
they are not as much loose they are defined and are not much different from any secret agency i.e CIA, Mossad.
ISI and MI are very professional, patriotic organizations who have served the country well.
western media is HEAVILY biased against pakistan when it comes to anything. have look around and you'll see the major media outlets dominated by the Haters.
even the so called "hindustani muslims" journalists hate pakistan, or they just write crap against pakistan to make their paycheques.
but the reality is, the media is biased against pakistan, hence it will malign anything that is good for the country, especially its sensitive organizations.
im proud of the ISI and I fully support the military.
Keep in ur mind onethong no one can control agencies bcz they r independent body .About ISI is one of the efficient army agency in the world .I suuport ISI and proud of them .