DGISI meets Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

[SHAMK9]

It's important coz your PM is the boss this time around

Nice joke

 

[Bratva]

As mentioned already that Mr.Islam has discussed about security situation of Karachi city.I am expecting some changes in my city

He was corps commander karachi befor becoming DG ISI. So naturally karachi would be his top priority

 

[AstanoshKhan]

...and why would a man brought in by the same ISI be afraid of each other?

 

[batmannow]

...and why would a man brought in by the same ISI be afraid of each other?

just because NS wasnt brought by ISI this time or even back in 99?
its all local controlling of local admins?
NS is good at it?
thats why when TuQ went in to demand the change in the electoral process, all of a suden NS felt affraid?

 

[gubbi]

They should always REPORT to your govt. It's their JOB. It's very important that you reverse this trend of other agencies just walking in to protect your 'interests'. The govt may be good or bad, but ultimately it's for you to work it out, not for them.

For a generation of Pakistanis, majority of whom have known nothing about real democracy but Army rule, it was indeed unsettling and a genuine shock to see a democratically elected complete its term and hand over reigns to another democratically elected administration, peacefully! For these people, non-intervention of the army in the State's affairs amounts to failure in leadership by the Army. These mis-guided people wouldnt know what is good for their own country in the long run!

 

[batmannow]

For a generation of Pakistanis, majority of whom have known nothing about real democracy but Army rule, it was indeed unsettling and a genuine shock to see a democratically elected complete its term and hand over reigns to another democratically elected administration, peacefully! For these people, non-intervention of the army in the State's affairs amounts to failure in leadership by the Army. These mis-guided people wouldnt know what is good for their own country in the long run!

yes a great example set by indian PM by kicking out the indian army cheif who went on air of the wrong doings of indian political elites buying wricked weapons & getting commisions on the dead bodies of indian soilders?
V K singh was indeed a miss guided SOB?lol or was the indian democrazy? decide yourself plz?

 

[Guynextdoor2]

yes a great example set by indian PM by kicking out the indian army cheif who went on air of the wrong doings of indian political elites buying wricked weapons & getting commisions on the dead bodies of indian soilders?
V K singh was indeed a miss guided SOB?lol or was the indian democrazy? decide yourself plz?

Irrelevant. The culture is of the Army chiefs to comment after they leave office, no one has said he shouldn't criticize but not in office. And yes, if the Indian PM says he should go, he should go. Period.

 

[OrionHunter]

What's new in that? He's the premier of the country and every institutional moncho works under his authority. I wonder why such meetings becomes news in our media?

But as is well known, the ISI has never been accountable to either the government or the Parliament. And it seldom takes the army itself into confidence for every action it takes - from Afghanistan to Balochistan to Kashmir. The ISI's 'S' Wing especially, is a law unto itself. The ends are specified by the army but the means adopted are beyond the parliament's/PA's oversight!

 

[Amaa'n]

But as is well known, the ISI has never been accountable to either the government or the Parliament. And it seldom takes the army itself into confidence for every action it takes - from Afghanistan to Balochistan to Kashmir. The ISI's 'S' Wing especially, is a law unto itself. The ends are specified by the army but the means adopted are beyond the parliament's/PA's oversight!

And you think this meeting will do good?....yeah right...good luck with that.....

 

[Amaa'n]

Really ? What if the government stops funding them ? Quit making a joke here. Both ISI and the Government are part of Pakistan and if you want to save this country and prosper, you need their cooperation.

Oh ma ma go read up on how agencies make their money all over the world

 

[SBD-3]

keep wishing it!
angels doesnt hve bosses, all they got is between them & thier god!

And angles don't need mouthpieces too

 

[AstanoshKhan]

But as is well known, the ISI has never been accountable to either the government or the Parliament. And it seldom takes the army itself into confidence for every action it takes - from Afghanistan to Balochistan to Kashmir. The ISI's 'S' Wing especially, is a law unto itself. The ends are specified by the army but the means adopted are beyond the parliament's/PA's oversight!

Which country's intelligence doesn't operate the same as ISI does? Agencies are always above the R&Rs of Govt... there's a reason why they're called as Intelligence Agencies... and such meetings doesn't mean the moncho is going to leak secretes to this empty headed PM.

 

[batmannow]

And angles don't need mouthpieces too

guss what?
they are angels with unlimited powers given to them by thier god, but in a confused anti ISI made by traitor media pakistan!
they do need to experss a bit of them?

 

[batmannow]

Irrelevant. The culture is of the Army chiefs to comment after they leave office, no one has said he shouldn't criticize but not in office. And yes, if the Indian PM says he should go, he should go. Period.

irrelevant is your concerns & posts on pakistan,s internal issues?
but just check how world prempt your hounrable PM instead?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/w...prime-minister-singh.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0Indians Grow Impatient With Taciturn Premier Amid Troubles
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: May 25, 2013


NEW DELHI — He speaks so softly that even his public comments are sometimes nearly inaudible. He has not held a formal news conference in India since 2011. And a pack of reporters were driven to hold a protest recently when he refused to participate in the routine political act of being photographed while filing for re-election in Assam State.
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When India’s technocratic prime minister, Manmohan Singh, came to office in 2004, his obvious shyness was widely applauded as a virtue, a sign of the probity and quiet dignity of this accidental politician.

In recent months, however, Mr. Singh’s diffidence has taken on a darker cast as he refuses to address a growing number of controversies swirling around him. The magazine India Today ran a cover article this month titled “Dr. Dolittle,” which called him a political liability. Tehelka, another major newsmagazine, asked on its cover, “How long can the prime minister evade scrutiny in a season of scams?”

Rajdeep Sardesai, a television journalist and analyst, labeled Mr. Singh’s reserve a curse in a recent column in The Hindustan Times.

“His silence is now construed as weakness, his limited communication seems evidence of a leader with much to hide, and the ‘privacy’ argument is now seen as a sign of political nonaccountability.”

The prime minister’s wallflower personality has come to define India on the world stage. When Chinese troops camped out for weeks recently on mountainous territory claimed by India, Mr. Singh’s muted response infuriated opposition politicians. And as the world’s great powers — the United States, China and Russia — have sought closer ties with India in recent years, Mr. Singh has either quietly rebuffed them or left them wanting more.

Troubled by corruption scandals, Mr. Singh’s Indian National Congress Party and its coalition partners in the government must face voters no later than next year. Their great hope is that a lackluster economy will rebound by then to provide enough of a lift to overshadow the coalition’s missteps.

The most damaging controversy concerns the corrupt allocation of licenses to mine coal. Mr. Singh was the coal minister when the licenses were given out, so his role is central. But the country’s leading corruption investigator revealed this month that Mr. Singh’s office had demanded changes to what was supposed to be an independent inquiry into the scandal.

Mr. Singh’s personal integrity, a signature asset in a country awash in political corruption, was suddenly in doubt. Members of his own party began calling for his resignation, albeit in anonymous remarks. Even allies who still believe in his honesty say that he is failing.

“In the Congress Party, people generally think that he is honest,” a senior member of the party said in a recent interview, speaking on the condition of anonymity so that he could discuss internal party affairs. “But they think, ‘What is the point of this honesty?’ It must be reflected in the quality of administration.”

Opposition politicians demanded the resignation of the law minister and, because of a separate bribery inquiry, the railways minister as well. And they renewed calls for Mr. Singh to resign as well. In the past, India’s governing coalition has blithely brushed aside such demands. But after repeated criticism by commentators for a failure to act, Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress Party, met with Mr. Singh on May 10, and the resignations of the two ministers were announced the same day.

That meeting demonstrated once again the odd dynamic at the top of India’s government. Mr. Singh holds administrative power; Mrs. Gandhi holds political power. Does Mr. Singh run the government or does Mrs. Gandhi? It is a question that has been asked again and again for nearly a decade, but it is one that neither Mr. Singh nor Mrs. Gandhi has chosen to answer convincingly. Even insiders say they have trouble explaining the relationship between the two, and a top party official recently said publicly that having two power centers had not worked well.

The two leaders sought this week to dispel rumors of a rift between them by publicly praising each another. “There are no differences between the prime minister and me,” Mrs. Gandhi said Wednesday. “There is collective leadership.”

Few analysts interviewed were persuaded. “It’s taken an excessively long time for commentators to recognize how thoroughly incompetent as a prime minister Manmohan Singh is and how politically weak he has always been,” said Ramachandra Guha, a historian and analyst.

The government’s two-headed power structure has resulted in a confusing mix of policies. Over the past nine years, India’s government has built a vast infrastructure of welfare programs to feed and employ the rural poor and give them access to private hospitals — programs thought to result from Mrs. Gandhi’s socialist tendencies. But the government has also sought to attract foreign investment by opening protected sectors of the economy like retail and airlines to foreign competition — policies thought to result from Mr. Singh’s economic realism.

“Sonia and Manmohan have long been at odds on basic issues, and that has resulted in policies and politics that are at best confused and at worst contradictory,” said Sanjaya Baru, a former spokesman for the prime minister.

One of the few bright spots for the governing coalition is that its main political opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is in disarray. It was trounced this month in elections in a southern state, Karnataka, and a crucial ally in Bihar State has threatened to end its alliance. Its most prominent leader is a man reviled by many Muslims for having failed to prevent bloody riots in 2002.

So despite its many setbacks and worsening poll numbers, the governing coalition could win again next year. Some commentators have even suggested that Mr. Singh may serve a third term as prime minister, in part because Rahul Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi’s son, does not seem to want the job.

Pankaj Pachauri, the prime minister’s spokesman, said the government’s main problem was that neither Mr. Singh nor Mrs. Gandhi liked to brag, so few were aware of the government’s accomplishments. As a result, the government this month began a $3 million advertising campaign focusing on its achievements and recently released statistics showing major gains in income and life expectancy and decreases in infant and maternal mortality.

“The gift of this prime minister to this country is five years of extra life for everyone,” Mr. Pachauri said. “And that’s why Dr. Singh and Mrs. Gandhi have full confidence in each other.”


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His amazing stillness amidst the storm defies the laws of political gravity. His stony silence in a nation impatient for action is deafening. When India is challenged by the extra-territorial aggression or inhuman insensitivity of its difficult neighbours, he's an embodiment of detachment. When scandals swirl around him and his colleagues fall by the wayside, he floats above the tempest with see-nothing, hear-nothing, feel-nothing defiance. He is suspicion-proof as well as accountability-resistant. He is Dr Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, who is fast becoming a prime embarrassment for the Government, if not the country. For the UPA, the one-time mascot is all set to become a millstone.

It took the tragedy of an Indian prisoner in a Pakistani jail to remind India, for the umpteenth time, how much it misses a leader. Sarabjit Singh, brutalised by Pakistan, died in Lahore abandoned by India. India, in retrospect, didn't do enough to save his life. Pakistan could have been pressurised to send him to India or abroad for life-saving treatment, but Sarabjit belonged to a country which Pakistan had already taken for granted. When it was most required, India didn't have a leader who could stand up to Islamabad. Just a day earlier, on April 30, the Congress waited with bated breath for the Supreme Court verdict on the Government-tampered CBI affidavit on the coal scam. The party, usually keen to defend the Prime Minister, had gone into a shell. At its daily briefing, all they would say is: "The matter is sub judice." Eventually the court's decision to defer the substantive part of its hearing-it asked the CBI to file another affidavit explaining who all had changed what in its report-to May 6 won the Congress some time.

A kilometre from the Congress headquarters, in Parliament, the Opposition successfully stalled the conduct of all business with the singular exception of the Finance Bill. The BJP seized even that limited opportunity to attack the Government. Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj called UPA 2 the most corrupt Government since Independence. The Opposition's insistence on the resignations of Law Minister and Prime Minister on the Coalgate cover-up as a pre-condition to allowing Parliamentary business will cost the Congress. Crucial Bills like the Right to Food and Land Acquisition may be postponed to the Monsoon Session in July-August. The Opposition has other sticks to beat Manmohan Singh with. His weak responses to Chinese incursions in Ladakh have made him a figure of mockery. The elaborate cover-up being orchestrated by P.C. Chacko, Congress Chairman of the JPC, in the 2G scam has become another embarrassment for the Prime Minister. For the first time in nine years, Singh is all liability and no asset for the ruling alliance.

This is an excerpt from India Today cover story dated May 13, 2013. To read more, subscribe to the magazine.




my very innocent former indian army chief V K singh? just a victim of great political nonaccountability.”
we dont need that happens in pakistan, wouldbe happy if you keep it in india?

 

[Guynextdoor2]

irrelevant is your concerns & posts on pakistan,s internal issues?
but just check how world prempt your hounrable PM instead?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/w...prime-minister-singh.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0Indians Grow Impatient With Taciturn Premier Amid Troubles
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: May 25, 2013


NEW DELHI — He speaks so softly that even his public comments are sometimes nearly inaudible. He has not held a formal news conference in India since 2011. And a pack of reporters were driven to hold a protest recently when he refused to participate in the routine political act of being photographed while filing for re-election in Assam State.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and Sonia Gandhi, the National Congress Party president, share power.

Notes on the world's largest democracy.

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When India’s technocratic prime minister, Manmohan Singh, came to office in 2004, his obvious shyness was widely applauded as a virtue, a sign of the probity and quiet dignity of this accidental politician.

In recent months, however, Mr. Singh’s diffidence has taken on a darker cast as he refuses to address a growing number of controversies swirling around him. The magazine India Today ran a cover article this month titled “Dr. Dolittle,” which called him a political liability. Tehelka, another major newsmagazine, asked on its cover, “How long can the prime minister evade scrutiny in a season of scams?”

Rajdeep Sardesai, a television journalist and analyst, labeled Mr. Singh’s reserve a curse in a recent column in The Hindustan Times.

“His silence is now construed as weakness, his limited communication seems evidence of a leader with much to hide, and the ‘privacy’ argument is now seen as a sign of political nonaccountability.”

The prime minister’s wallflower personality has come to define India on the world stage. When Chinese troops camped out for weeks recently on mountainous territory claimed by India, Mr. Singh’s muted response infuriated opposition politicians. And as the world’s great powers — the United States, China and Russia — have sought closer ties with India in recent years, Mr. Singh has either quietly rebuffed them or left them wanting more.

Troubled by corruption scandals, Mr. Singh’s Indian National Congress Party and its coalition partners in the government must face voters no later than next year. Their great hope is that a lackluster economy will rebound by then to provide enough of a lift to overshadow the coalition’s missteps.

The most damaging controversy concerns the corrupt allocation of licenses to mine coal. Mr. Singh was the coal minister when the licenses were given out, so his role is central. But the country’s leading corruption investigator revealed this month that Mr. Singh’s office had demanded changes to what was supposed to be an independent inquiry into the scandal.

Mr. Singh’s personal integrity, a signature asset in a country awash in political corruption, was suddenly in doubt. Members of his own party began calling for his resignation, albeit in anonymous remarks. Even allies who still believe in his honesty say that he is failing.

“In the Congress Party, people generally think that he is honest,” a senior member of the party said in a recent interview, speaking on the condition of anonymity so that he could discuss internal party affairs. “But they think, ‘What is the point of this honesty?’ It must be reflected in the quality of administration.”

Opposition politicians demanded the resignation of the law minister and, because of a separate bribery inquiry, the railways minister as well. And they renewed calls for Mr. Singh to resign as well. In the past, India’s governing coalition has blithely brushed aside such demands. But after repeated criticism by commentators for a failure to act, Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress Party, met with Mr. Singh on May 10, and the resignations of the two ministers were announced the same day.

That meeting demonstrated once again the odd dynamic at the top of India’s government. Mr. Singh holds administrative power; Mrs. Gandhi holds political power. Does Mr. Singh run the government or does Mrs. Gandhi? It is a question that has been asked again and again for nearly a decade, but it is one that neither Mr. Singh nor Mrs. Gandhi has chosen to answer convincingly. Even insiders say they have trouble explaining the relationship between the two, and a top party official recently said publicly that having two power centers had not worked well.

The two leaders sought this week to dispel rumors of a rift between them by publicly praising each another. “There are no differences between the prime minister and me,” Mrs. Gandhi said Wednesday. “There is collective leadership.”

Few analysts interviewed were persuaded. “It’s taken an excessively long time for commentators to recognize how thoroughly incompetent as a prime minister Manmohan Singh is and how politically weak he has always been,” said Ramachandra Guha, a historian and analyst.

The government’s two-headed power structure has resulted in a confusing mix of policies. Over the past nine years, India’s government has built a vast infrastructure of welfare programs to feed and employ the rural poor and give them access to private hospitals — programs thought to result from Mrs. Gandhi’s socialist tendencies. But the government has also sought to attract foreign investment by opening protected sectors of the economy like retail and airlines to foreign competition — policies thought to result from Mr. Singh’s economic realism.

“Sonia and Manmohan have long been at odds on basic issues, and that has resulted in policies and politics that are at best confused and at worst contradictory,” said Sanjaya Baru, a former spokesman for the prime minister.

One of the few bright spots for the governing coalition is that its main political opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is in disarray. It was trounced this month in elections in a southern state, Karnataka, and a crucial ally in Bihar State has threatened to end its alliance. Its most prominent leader is a man reviled by many Muslims for having failed to prevent bloody riots in 2002.

So despite its many setbacks and worsening poll numbers, the governing coalition could win again next year. Some commentators have even suggested that Mr. Singh may serve a third term as prime minister, in part because Rahul Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi’s son, does not seem to want the job.

Pankaj Pachauri, the prime minister’s spokesman, said the government’s main problem was that neither Mr. Singh nor Mrs. Gandhi liked to brag, so few were aware of the government’s accomplishments. As a result, the government this month began a $3 million advertising campaign focusing on its achievements and recently released statistics showing major gains in income and life expectancy and decreases in infant and maternal mortality.

“The gift of this prime minister to this country is five years of extra life for everyone,” Mr. Pachauri said. “And that’s why Dr. Singh and Mrs. Gandhi have full confidence in each other.”


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Manmohan Singh: He is suspicion-proof as well as accountability-resistant.

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His amazing stillness amidst the storm defies the laws of political gravity. His stony silence in a nation impatient for action is deafening. When India is challenged by the extra-territorial aggression or inhuman insensitivity of its difficult neighbours, he's an embodiment of detachment. When scandals swirl around him and his colleagues fall by the wayside, he floats above the tempest with see-nothing, hear-nothing, feel-nothing defiance. He is suspicion-proof as well as accountability-resistant. He is Dr Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, who is fast becoming a prime embarrassment for the Government, if not the country. For the UPA, the one-time mascot is all set to become a millstone.

It took the tragedy of an Indian prisoner in a Pakistani jail to remind India, for the umpteenth time, how much it misses a leader. Sarabjit Singh, brutalised by Pakistan, died in Lahore abandoned by India. India, in retrospect, didn't do enough to save his life. Pakistan could have been pressurised to send him to India or abroad for life-saving treatment, but Sarabjit belonged to a country which Pakistan had already taken for granted. When it was most required, India didn't have a leader who could stand up to Islamabad. Just a day earlier, on April 30, the Congress waited with bated breath for the Supreme Court verdict on the Government-tampered CBI affidavit on the coal scam. The party, usually keen to defend the Prime Minister, had gone into a shell. At its daily briefing, all they would say is: "The matter is sub judice." Eventually the court's decision to defer the substantive part of its hearing-it asked the CBI to file another affidavit explaining who all had changed what in its report-to May 6 won the Congress some time.

A kilometre from the Congress headquarters, in Parliament, the Opposition successfully stalled the conduct of all business with the singular exception of the Finance Bill. The BJP seized even that limited opportunity to attack the Government. Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj called UPA 2 the most corrupt Government since Independence. The Opposition's insistence on the resignations of Law Minister and Prime Minister on the Coalgate cover-up as a pre-condition to allowing Parliamentary business will cost the Congress. Crucial Bills like the Right to Food and Land Acquisition may be postponed to the Monsoon Session in July-August. The Opposition has other sticks to beat Manmohan Singh with. His weak responses to Chinese incursions in Ladakh have made him a figure of mockery. The elaborate cover-up being orchestrated by P.C. Chacko, Congress Chairman of the JPC, in the 2G scam has become another embarrassment for the Prime Minister. For the first time in nine years, Singh is all liability and no asset for the ruling alliance.

This is an excerpt from India Today cover story dated May 13, 2013. To read more, subscribe to the magazine.




my very innocent former indian army chief V K singh? just a victim of great political nonaccountability.”
we dont need that happens in pakistan, wouldbe happy if you keep it in india?

Don't try to give us your bad influence