Jinnah father of ISI as well?

Jinnah father of ISI as well?
UNITED NEWS OF INDIA

ISLAMABAD, JAN 2: The role of Mohammed Ali Jinnah in the first 13 months of the creation of his country may come in for a fresh critical review after a new book claiming that the founder of Pakistan himself had ordered the formation of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to keep watch on `anti-state' politicians.

The latest book authored by Pakistani journalist Munir Ahmed says that Jinnah was the first leader of the country to assign a political role to the ISI. This role, the author claims, was institutionalised in 1975 by the then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. If Munir Ahmed's findings in the work Political Role Of Intelligence Agencies in Pakistan are correct, then it can be assumed that Jinnah had envisioned the role for armed forces in the governance of the country right from its creation.

He notes that politicians were accused of corruption and anti-state activities right from the beginning. Jinnah dismissed the Congress government of Dr Khan Saheb in 1947 and a few months later hedismissed Sindh Chief Minister M A Khuru on charges of corruption.

In the 13 months of his life in Pakistan, he was thoroughly disgusted with politicians even his own right-hand man Liaquat Ali Khan. Hence, his possible preference for the armed forces.

Munir Ahmed writes that since then the ISI and other intelligences agencies have become the real rulers of Pakistan. Victories and defeats in elections are manoeuvred by them. Sharif was toppled because of the ISI, just as was Benazir Bhutto before him, he adds.