He is reputed to have infiltrated the Golden Temple in the 1980s posing as an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer, spent many years in Pakistan, turned in insurgent leaders in Mizoram and Kashmir, and negotiated the infamous release of hostages aboard hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 in Kandahar in 1999.
Throughout the past few months, with the support of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights Pervez Rashid has attempted to quietly pass bills in the Aiwān-i bālā and the Qaumī Asimbli'e that would expand the reach of the Inter-Services Intelligence, which is run by the state.
Several paragraphs of the bill mention:
- The police, if granted permission from both the Inter-Services Intelligence as well as the National Security Council, have the right to bug properties of those with suspected links to terrorism, treason, and crimes against the state. It shall not be legally required for the person whose information is targeted to be informed of the tapes, even after arrest.
- For those who are suspected of links to the mentioned above, there is no legal limit in the length of detention in a maximum security prison.
- Viewing of the online information of citizens living in the country will be made legal for the ISI to investigate, in cases of suspected terrorism, treason, or crimes against the state.
It is yet to be seen if the nation's people will see this as a good move, a bad move, or will they see it at all?
##Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence for the Pakistan Federation
After conducting covert espionage undertakings within New Dhaka and Kabul in the People's Republic of Afghanistan territory amidst the coup d'etat by the 'Zahirid Caliphate', the Inter-Services Intelligence has resolved to, in the interest of preserving and safeguarding Islamic values within Afghanistan, and preventing the resurgence of Communist ideals, provide USD $235,000,000 to the Zahirid Caliphate.
Authorized by the Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence, Muhammad Ishaq Hasan
Faith, Unity, Discipline ~ Pakistan
Today a controversial bill was passed which allowed Pakistan the legal right to spy on governments of other countries. While the practice is already commonplace, Pakistan is one of few countries to legalise the actions, after following in Germany's footsteps. Espionage holds penal punishment in most countries, but with the cases of whistleblowers in the West, Pakistan cannot risk allowing whistleblowers to emerge in Pakistan, or information regarding Pakistan to be leaked by Western or Eastern governments.
This is a new expansion of what many people dub to be, "Hackistan", which is Pakistan spelled with a H, to represent the word hack. The country wishes to expand its cyber warfare opportunities, and with recent other surveillance bills passing, organisations fear that Pakistan will become a surveillance state.
This is an automatic summary, original reduced by 29%.
> Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu today alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence were involved in terrorist activities in Bangladesh.
> "Jamaat-e-Islami has a legacy of relating to terrorism in Bangladesh as it directly opposed the Liberation War in 1971 and played the role of collaborating with Pakistani forces," Inu said while addressing a press conference at Bangladesh High Commission in India.
> When asked about the status of militancy in Bangladesh, the minister said about 90 percent of the people arrested in connection with around 40 terror-related incidents in the last one year "Have roots in Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami."
> "Both Jamaat and Pakistan's ISI are involved in terrorist attacks in Bangladesh," he added.
> The information minister, who held talks with his Indian counterpart M Venkaiah Naidu and National Security Adviser Ajit K Doval in India, said Pakistan "Has a very bad track record regarding terrorism. It was the aggressor on Bangladesh during the Liberation War in 1971.".
> Inu pitched for greater cooperation between Bangladesh and India in the field of information especially "To counter the propaganda by terrorists and communal elements which thrive on misinformation and distortion of religion."
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