Musharraf plans to downsize the ISI
Dated 4/10/2005
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Pakistan president General Parvez Musharraf has told his close aides and top corps commanders that the strength of the ISI will be chopped from sixteen thousand staffers in forty-six desks to nine thousand in twenty-two desks, but the Jammu and Kashmir and Middle East operations won
Citing financial constraints, Musharraf has said that ISI operations in Western and South East Asian countries would be reduced to merely support Pakistani mission activity, and for one diplomat, two intelligence officials will be henceforth posted, not ten to fourteen as now, and sometimes even twenty, and these cuts would be effected by December 2006.
But the Pakistani dictator has insisted that J and K and Middle East operations would remain intact at their present size, while with the change of Pakistan
