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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
ISLAMABAD: Once known for their rivalries, the two top intelligence agencies of the country — the Inter-Services Intelligence and Intelligence Bureau — have started developing greater understanding for coordinated efforts to meet the security challenges faced by the nation.
Sources said that during recent months, the spymasters heading these agencies — DG ISI Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar and DG Intelligence Bureau Aftab Sultan — had met three to four times to achieve the common objectives with greater cooperation and exchange of critical information.
These sources said that theincumbent DG ISI and the present IB chief had closely worked in Karachi during Lt Gen Rizwan’s tenure as the Rangers head. It is said that the IB had been of great help to the Rangers in getting after the terrorists and criminal gangs involved in heinous crimes.
“There is a feeling that old rivalries between the agencies may now only be the relics of the past,” a source said, adding that the situation where the two agencies were lacking coordination was always exploited by the country’s enemies.
The present working relationship may still be far from ideal but it is said that this is for the first time in the past many years that harmony is developing between these agencies for the success of the National Action Plan.
Although, the ISI has always been on the top owing to its resources and technology, the IB recently underwent a massive upgradation both in terms of human resource and technology that made the bureau far more effective than before.
Sources said that Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar has also been taken into confidence over how the IB has been overhauled by Aftab Sultan.The improvements in recent months in the area of countering terrorism are generally referred to better coordination between different spy agencies, police, Rangers and other law enforcers.
In Sindh, especially Karachi, the coordination is believed to be working in the best manner, which led to astonishingly successful joint operations against terrorists and organised criminal gangs.
In the KP province, it is said terrorist outfits have been productively targeted through coordinated efforts of the law enforcement agencies.After the December 16, 2014 Peshawar school attack, it was felt that without coordination between the intelligence and security agencies, the menace of terrorism could not be effectively checked.
Pakistan has more than 30 intelligence and security agencies but because of lack of coordination and inter-service rivalries, they had failed in the past to check terrorism and curb organised heinous crimes. The situation has become positive only during the recent months when these agencies have improved sharing of information between them.
There are some who underline the importance of establishing a formal mechanism where all the spy agencies and law enforcing entities are made to coordinate with each other under a well-defined system. It is said that in its National Internal Security Policy, the interior ministry had envisaged such a mechanism early last year but despite having been covered in the NACTA, it has not been practised as yet even after the announcement of the National Action Plan.
ISI, IB join forces, work wonders - thenews.com.pk
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
ISLAMABAD: Once known for their rivalries, the two top intelligence agencies of the country — the Inter-Services Intelligence and Intelligence Bureau — have started developing greater understanding for coordinated efforts to meet the security challenges faced by the nation.
Sources said that during recent months, the spymasters heading these agencies — DG ISI Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar and DG Intelligence Bureau Aftab Sultan — had met three to four times to achieve the common objectives with greater cooperation and exchange of critical information.
These sources said that theincumbent DG ISI and the present IB chief had closely worked in Karachi during Lt Gen Rizwan’s tenure as the Rangers head. It is said that the IB had been of great help to the Rangers in getting after the terrorists and criminal gangs involved in heinous crimes.
“There is a feeling that old rivalries between the agencies may now only be the relics of the past,” a source said, adding that the situation where the two agencies were lacking coordination was always exploited by the country’s enemies.
The present working relationship may still be far from ideal but it is said that this is for the first time in the past many years that harmony is developing between these agencies for the success of the National Action Plan.
Although, the ISI has always been on the top owing to its resources and technology, the IB recently underwent a massive upgradation both in terms of human resource and technology that made the bureau far more effective than before.
Sources said that Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar has also been taken into confidence over how the IB has been overhauled by Aftab Sultan.The improvements in recent months in the area of countering terrorism are generally referred to better coordination between different spy agencies, police, Rangers and other law enforcers.
In Sindh, especially Karachi, the coordination is believed to be working in the best manner, which led to astonishingly successful joint operations against terrorists and organised criminal gangs.
In the KP province, it is said terrorist outfits have been productively targeted through coordinated efforts of the law enforcement agencies.After the December 16, 2014 Peshawar school attack, it was felt that without coordination between the intelligence and security agencies, the menace of terrorism could not be effectively checked.
Pakistan has more than 30 intelligence and security agencies but because of lack of coordination and inter-service rivalries, they had failed in the past to check terrorism and curb organised heinous crimes. The situation has become positive only during the recent months when these agencies have improved sharing of information between them.
There are some who underline the importance of establishing a formal mechanism where all the spy agencies and law enforcing entities are made to coordinate with each other under a well-defined system. It is said that in its National Internal Security Policy, the interior ministry had envisaged such a mechanism early last year but despite having been covered in the NACTA, it has not been practised as yet even after the announcement of the National Action Plan.
ISI, IB join forces, work wonders - thenews.com.pk
@WebMaster @Horus @Oscar @Jango @nair @Areesh @Irfan Baloch @Aehter @Bratva @syedali73 @TankMan @Manticore and others
