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Intelligence Agencies And Law

Intelligence agencies and law

This is a very disturbing matter, as it more or less confirms the universal belief that our intelligence agencies are rogue agencies, and are above the law and the Constitution.…

The Intelligence Disconnect

The intelligence disconnect

It happens every time. There is a terror incident somewhere in the country, and shortly afterwards we find out that there was intelligence available of an imminent attack. And one…

Restructuring Intelligence

Restructuring intelligence

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) of the UK ‘monitors communications worldwide for intelligence purposes’, and works under the foreign secretary. The British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee oversees the functioning…

Indo-Pak Intelligence Cooperation

Indo-Pak intelligence cooperation

Post-9/11 and post-26/11 Mumbai, one would think that exchange of intelligence information among friendly agencies was occurring as a matter of course—to help fill information gaps, to verify sources and…

Intelligence On Intelligence

Intelligence on intelligence

Much of the loss of resources and mental peace caused by cases such as the memo affair, the Adiala Eleven and involuntary disappearances could have been avoided if the working…

Regulating The Agencies

Regulating the agencies

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan recently offered a sound suggestion. He proposed a regulatory framework for the detention powers of intelligence agencies. The Missing Persons Commission has also recommended a similar…

Too hot to handle Dr Farrukh Saleem

Tomorrow, the disruptor-in-chief will be sworn in as the 45th president of the US. On his first day in office, he plans to issue a hundred executive orders. The disruptor-in-chief…

Taming the judiciary

WHAT happened inside and outside parliament last weekend was nothing less than a tragicomedy. Rarely has Pakistani politics stooped so low. Some 400 members of both Houses remained virtually captive for days…

APS and after

For a parent, the loss of a child remains a searing wound that just will not heal. And when a parent is one of many whose progeny’s lives were snuffed…

How Pakistan’s VPN ban undermines rights

Over the past year, Pakistan has teetered on the edge of digital oppression, and the proposed ban on ‘unregistered’ VPNs could be the tipping point toward becoming a fully mass-surveilled…