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Pakistan’s military is ready to help stem a tide of political and ethnic violence in the city of Karachi, if the civilian government asked it to do so, a newspaper Sunday quoted country’s powerful army chief as saying.

Chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has told the newspaper that the Pakistan military’s ready to help in assisting its government to fight off those ethnic and political violence at Karachi.

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Finally India used its water weapon, Pakistan Flood 2010, which was feared ever since the independence of Pakistan. India did not had the ability to use these rivers before, but since they have built dams now, they can do a lot.

Kashmir is the source origin for main rivers coming into Pakistan and India, Pakistan always had its reservations for India controlling Kashmir and having the option to use the water in these rivers against Pakistan. That was the reason a treaty was signed in Karachi on September 19, 1960 by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President of Pakistan Mohammad Ayub Khan.

According to the Indus Water Treaty, Pakistan share of rivers are Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. India started to build Baglihar Dam on river Chenab which holds Pakistani share of the water in 1999. Weak Govt. of Pakistan tried to protest on number of occasions for Indian violation of Indus Water Treaty, and issues Pakistan could face in result of it.

Although we have not seen any reports on how much water India has been releasing during the monsoon season in the main stream media. Some blogs and websites have shown their concern about Indian dams in Kashmir having the capacity to flood Pakistan in the same fashion as it happened in Pakistan Flood 2010.

Despite the visible risks Pakistani Government failed to reach a consensus within the country to build more dams in Pakistan to secure water, create more power and save itself from water shortages and floods in rainy seasons.

Many experts from Pakistan are critisizing Musharraf for not dealing with India on the issue of setting up dams on the rivers. Still struggling Pakistani Government was eager to take Indian aid for flood victims than investigating into the facts of Pakistan Flood 2010.

ISI is one of the best and very well organized intelligence agency in the world. It was founded in 1948. In 1950 it was officially given the task to safe guard Pakistani interests and national security inside and outside the country. Its primery objectives are not only to safeguard Pakistani interests, but also, reinforcing Pakistan power base in the region.

The ISI is tasked with collection of of foreign and domestic intelligence; co-ordination of intelligence functions of the three military services; surveillance over its cadre, foreigners, the media, politically active segments of Pakistani society, diplomats of other countries accredited to Pakistan and Pakistani diplomats serving outside the country; the interception and monitoring of communications; and the conduct of covert offensive and wartime operations.

Structure of ISI

Joint Intelligence X: JIX

It serves as the secretariat which co-ordinates and provides administrative support to the other ISI wings and field organizations. It also prepares intelligence estimates and threat assessments.It provides administrative support to the other major divisions and regional organizations of the ISI.

Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB)

One of the largest and most powerful divisions of the ISI, monitors political intelligence.The JIB consists of three subsections, with one subsection devoted to operations involving India, other operations involve, anti-terrorism and VIP security.

Joint Counter Intelligence Bureau (JCIB)

Responsible for oversees intelligence operations in Central Asia South Asia, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Israel and Russia also responsible for field surveillance of Pakistani diplomats stationed abroad, if need be monitoring foreign diplomats as well .

Joint Intelligence/North (JIN)

Conduct ISI operations for Jammu and Kashmir , including monitoring Indian forces deployed within disputed Kashmir forcefully held by India.

Joint Intelligence Miscellaneous (JIM)

Responsible for covert offensive intelligence operations and war time espionage.

Joint Signal Intelligence Bureau (JSIB)

It includes Deputy Directors for Wireless, Monitoring and Photos, operates a chain of signals intelligence collection stations, and provide communication support to its operatives. It aslo collects Intelligence through monitoring of communications channels of neighboring countries.

Joint Intelligence Technical (JIT)

Not much is know about this section however it is believed that JIT include a separate explosives section and a chemical warfare section.

The ISI maintains one more primary sections in addition to the seven outlined above that is the Joint Intelligence Technical division.