Our Intelligence Agencies in Pakistan (Ishraq Ahmed Hashmi)

Pakistan is not only a security state, but it is not wrong to call it a state of secret agencies. There is an intelligence agency like ISI which is the strongest and most powerful agency in Pakistan in terms of resources and which is considered one of the biggest and best intelligence agencies in the world. Powerful and resourceful intelligence agency like IB (Intelligence Bureau) is also working here. Its cadres are not only spread from Karachi to Chitral, but its cadres are also working abroad. MI (Military Intelligence) is also working here under the shadow of the army. Similarly, Air Force and Navy have their own separate intelligence systems. In addition, each Corps Headquarters has a separate information gathering system called Corps Intelligence. In order to keep the provincial governments and the police informed, there are secret agencies in the center and the four provinces called Special Branches and thousands of people are associated with it. Similarly, separate intelligence agencies are working in every major organization. For example, Customs has a separate intelligence department. Similarly, ANF has a separate communication system.

Although Pakistan's intelligence agencies are not equipped with the latest equipment like the intelligence agencies of developed countries, they are also not as backward as the third world agencies. Since Pakistan was a frontline state even during the Cold War, not only our intelligence agencies had access to the spying equipment of countries like the United States and Great Britain, but despite all this, we see That our secret agencies have completely failed in maintaining the atmosphere of law and order in the country and dealing with the criminal elements. Terrorists are running rampant from Khyber to Karachi. Suicide bombings have become a daily routine. The aforementioned institutions were present and active, but because of them, the situation of South Waziristan and that of Swat happened. Whether it is the deteriorating situation in the tribal areas or the deteriorating peace and order situation in Pakhtunkhwa, the unrest in Karachi or the terrorist incident in Quetta, everywhere our rulers continue to make excuses that "RA" and others are among them. The secret agencies of the countries are involved but the question is that when the officials of agencies like "RA" are coming from India and preparing operatives for themselves on our soil, why can't our intelligence agencies stop their way in their own country?

It is not at all that the personnel of our intelligence agencies are incompetent or unprofessional. In the past, these agencies have not only competed against but also defeated secret agencies like the Soviet Union's KGB, India's RAW and Israel's Mossad. Even now the personnel of Pakistan's secret agencies are trained on the highest professional basis.

Even now there are thousands of patriotic and talented people in these organizations but these secret organizations are not being allowed to do their real work. The main function of these institutions is to monitor and report the enemies of the country and criminals. Their job is to thwart the conspiracies of secret agencies of enemy countries, but unfortunately they rarely get the opportunity to perform this real duty within Pakistan. Here these institutions have been involved in politics. Sometimes these institutions are engaged in forming Muslim League (Q). Sometimes they are engrossed in creating patriots within the People's Party. Sometimes they have to hold a referendum and make the person in charge of the government successful in it, sometimes they are entrusted with the responsibility of making certain parties successful and others fail in the elections, and Masha Allah, these institutions of ours continue to perform these duties well. are These institutions have played a key role in every political movement within the country. These same institutions created alliances like IJI. Muslim League (Q) was formed overnight with the achievements of these institutions. With his blessings, newly formed parties like Muslim League (Q) continued to succeed in elections. These institutions made Imran Khan a leader and reached the chair of the Prime Minister with great efforts, but on the other hand, these institutions could not find out who is responsible for breaking Pakistan. Who is the killer of General Zia and other generals on the plane with him? Who killed Benazir Bhutto and on whose instructions was Murtaza Bhutto shot? How was Osama bin Laden living in Abbottabad? etc. Or maybe these institutions have found out, but these investigations are not being brought before the nation.

It is repeated that our intelligence agencies are not less than others in any respect. Some of their people have also created eternal stories of sacrifices. They also conduct amazing sting operations like the arrest of Kulbhushan Yadav, but if they are unable to completely control the problem of terrorism, one of the main reasons is that there is no proper coordination between these intelligence agencies. Their information is not collected in one place nor is it analyzed in one place but sometimes these agencies are in competition with each other and also proper management of information of these agencies to the police for action. no . The United States created the Homeland Security Agency to collect information from intelligence agencies and pass it on to relevant agencies for action, and there was no incident after 9/11. Necta was created for this purpose in Pakistan, but intelligence agencies are not ready to accept its supremacy. Therefore, either NECTA should be made powerful and resourceful on the lines of Homeland Security, or an alternative arrangement should be made to improve coordination between intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies so that the efforts of these agencies can adequately benefit the nation.