After escaping, what appeared to
be a suicide attack in the shape of memogate, the Pakistan People
Party government now plans effort to tame the country`s principal spy
service the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) through parliamentary
legislation and make it fully `answerable` to parliament and the
government. Pakistan’s leading
English newspaper daily Dawn reported on Monday that a 19-page draft of
a bill has been submitted in the Senate by president`s spokesman
Senator Farhatullah Babar and may be taken up during the session
commencing from Monday (today).
Dawn said the proposed Inter-Services
Intelligence Agency (Functions, Powers and Regulation) Act, 2012
suggests that the ISI should be answerable to parliament and the prime
minister.
The newspaper said it recommends
internal accountability and a better discipline system within the agency
to put an end to enforced disappearances and victimisation of political
parties.
The newspaper observed that t is for the first time that a serious
effort is being made to streamline the affairs of the agency which has
always remained under criticism.
The PPP government’s past suggest that
it would make no delay to shun the idea of taming the ISI if it sees a
new “scandal” is going to strike it.
The government had earlier dropped a plan to bring the ISI under the civilian control following the army reaction.
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