Can General Rizwan Akhtar clean up Pakistan's notorious ISI spy agency?

October 01, 2014 16:12

Pakistan's new spy chief, who takes up his post this month, comes to the job of running one of the world's most notorious intelligence agencies after two years trying to bring order to one of Asia's most troubled cities.

Former colleagues have nothing but praise for General Rizwan Akhtar's stint commanding the paramilitary Rangers during the internal security force's crackdown on the criminal mafias, armed wings of political parties and religious militants that dominate the teeming port city of Karachi.

"Before the start of the operation there was no fear of law-enforcement agencies,' said Ahmed Chinoy, head of Karachi's citizen police liaison committee. "With Akhtar, the fear was restored that they would be killed in an encounter, arrested or face the consequences.'

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