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Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) having taken Dawood Ibrahim into custody, along with his trusted lieutenant Chhota Shakeel and the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai blasts Tiger Memon, is the natural follow up of the US demanding handing over of the underworld Don to the US. It was also tactically wise for ISI to pick up Dawood and his trusted henchmen, Shakeel and Memon to effectively cover their tracks (Role) in the games Pakistan has been playing with Al Qaeda, Taleban, its neighbors as well as its partners in the War on Terror ‘WOT’. That intelligence agencies the world over see the development as an ISI attempt to save further embarrassment to the beleaguered Pervez Musharraf regime should Dawood get caught by American forces, is also not too difficult to conclude.
What is interesting though, is that the incident lays bare a common thread binding Pervez Musharraf, ISI and Pakistan. It makes nonsense of the claim that the first two are different power centers in Pakistan. If anything, the move is bound to expose the so called different centers of power in Pakistan as acting in tandem to one another in a well coordinated and orchestrated strategy. The possibility of Dawood and his henchmen being eliminated by Pakistan, since they have lost their utility to it, is remote. The reports that ISI may be eyeing Dawood’s vast assets should also not mislead the world into believing that the days of the Don are numbered. These assets can be multiplied for the ISI by the Don’s underworld connections without the former being called to account for its actions. Besides, Pakistan is yet to shake off the suspicion of harboring Al Qaeda and Taleban leadership on its soil. There is every likelihood, therefore, of Pakistan making serious efforts to preserve Al Qaeda & Taleban hierarchy and Dawood, the former for a future role in its grand design of a strategic depth in Afghanistan and a terror role for Dawood and his underworld to pursue its ‘thousand cuts’ agenda in India.
No matter what the end game, the move is bound to deprive Pervez Musharraf an alibi, at some later stage, of the ISI acting on its own to accommodate Al Qaeda, the Taleban and the terrorists wanted by the USA and India.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) having taken Dawood Ibrahim into custody, along with his trusted lieutenant Chhota Shakeel and the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai blasts Tiger Memon, is the natural follow up of the US demanding handing over of the underworld Don to the US. It was also tactically wise for ISI to pick up Dawood and his trusted henchmen, Shakeel and Memon to effectively cover their tracks (Role) in the games Pakistan has been playing with Al Qaeda, Taleban, its neighbors as well as its partners in the War on Terror ‘WOT’. That intelligence agencies the world over see the development as an ISI attempt to save further embarrassment to the beleaguered Pervez Musharraf regime should Dawood get caught by American forces, is also not too difficult to conclude.
What is interesting though, is that the incident lays bare a common thread binding Pervez Musharraf, ISI and Pakistan. It makes nonsense of the claim that the first two are different power centers in Pakistan. If anything, the move is bound to expose the so called different centers of power in Pakistan as acting in tandem to one another in a well coordinated and orchestrated strategy. The possibility of Dawood and his henchmen being eliminated by Pakistan, since they have lost their utility to it, is remote. The reports that ISI may be eyeing Dawood’s vast assets should also not mislead the world into believing that the days of the Don are numbered. These assets can be multiplied for the ISI by the Don’s underworld connections without the former being called to account for its actions. Besides, Pakistan is yet to shake off the suspicion of harboring Al Qaeda and Taleban leadership on its soil. There is every likelihood, therefore, of Pakistan making serious efforts to preserve Al Qaeda & Taleban hierarchy and Dawood, the former for a future role in its grand design of a strategic depth in Afghanistan and a terror role for Dawood and his underworld to pursue its ‘thousand cuts’ agenda in India.
No matter what the end game, the move is bound to deprive Pervez Musharraf an alibi, at some later stage, of the ISI acting on its own to accommodate Al Qaeda, the Taleban and the terrorists wanted by the USA and India.
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