Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz opened yet another Pandora’s Box on Sunday when he claimed that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), especially its “S wing”, was not only out of the Pakistan government’s control but also directly affected the results of elections in the country. In an interview with CNN, Ijaz accused the ISI of intervening in the political affairs of Afghanistan using the Haqqani network. He also said there was a lot of evidence available on the secret agency’s involvement in setting the political stage in its own country. “Many times in the past,” he elaborated, “it has been authentically and very authoritatively reported by the Pakistan media that the ‘S’ branch was involved in manipulating the results of elections and doing things of such nature inside Pakistan.”
The same “S wing” of the ISI was also mentioned in the controversial memo sent to General Mike Mullen. He also said this was an organ of state that nobody could control and the army tried to obstruct whatever the government planned to do through it. “There happened a lot of bad things after May 2 behind which there definitely were some secret hands,” said Ijaz. It would take some 30 to 40 years for Pakistan’s civilian governments to bring the army under its control, he added.
ISI out of govt’s control, claims Ijaz
