Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Justice Qazi Faez Isa inquiry commission in its report in wake of militant attack on the Civil Hospital, Quetta called upon the need to make the country`s leading intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), accessible to every citizen of the country.
It has been revealed in the media reports pertaining to said inquiry report that even the people, who wish to convey information to the spy agency about suspicious activities, have no means to contact it.
According to 110-page report the premier intelligence agency of the country neither has a website nor an email account. When the commission checked whether the spy agencies of other countries too were inaccessible, it found out that almost all the important agencies had made their contact details, like telephone numbers and email addresses, public.
The CIA, FBI and NSA of the United States have all provided their contact particulars on their publicly reachable websites, commission told.
The Military Intelligence Section 5, Secret Intelligence Service, National Counter Terrorism Security Office and the Counter Terrorism Command of the United Kingdom have also provided their contact particulars on their websites, according to the report.
” it wrote letters to the government functionaries, seeking information and answers to certain questions, the commission said.”
Subsequently, responses were received from the Establishment Division, Finance Division, ministries of interior, religious affairs, states and frontier regions, Federal Investigation Agency, ISI, National Counter Terrorism Authority and office of the NationalSecurity Adviser.
But none of the responses was on a letterhead. All of them were on plain pieces of paper which didn`t mention any address, email account or even a post office box number.
The responses from the governments of Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh followed the same pattern.
The report said the commission, which was constituted by the Supreme Court, faced considerable difficulty in ascertaining the whereabouts of the ministries, government departments and agencies.
