"No one can make a career out of the ISI," General Qazi said. "ISI people are serving armed forces officers and after three years they go back."
Apparently some people were making a career out of it:
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On another note, talking of a changing institutional mindset of the armed forces it may soon bear some long denied peace fruits in the restive areas of Waziristan. While insisting upon keeping the juiciest and most revealing parts of his discussion as "off the record", a contemplative but visibly happy Asfandyar Wali promised the coming of a hitherto meaningful peace accord in the region. "Insha Allah, in the coming 25 to 30 days, we should have inked a peace contract bearing the signatures of no less than 250 tribal Sardars and elders". That would indeed be a milestone and who knows, the real turning point in our desperate quest for peace.
This development (hopefully) may have its roots in the revision of the tribal area policy when the then DG ISI, Ashfaq Kayani took charge of this spy outfit. According to an informed insider, the paradigm shift started with his shifting out of intelligence officers who had been posted in the region for the past many years. Due to such long and uninterrupted associations, they instead of changing the socio-political landscape had themselves become a part of it. Becoming a hostage to the phenomenon of personal considerations taking preference over professional judgments and obligations.
Ensconced comfortably in a cafeteria corner, the seasoned ANP president was in no mood to spill any beans but his typical nonchalant shrug of shoulders betrayed him when he feigned ignorance about what is being described as his critical role in drumming some sense in the power duo of Negroponte and Boucher who were here just some days back.
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Seems like some positive developments are in the offing, and the reference to "peace deals with Tribal Sardars and elders" rather than "taliban", seems a positive change in direction.