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Pakistan's Supreme Court takes action over spying by Western NGOs

Wednesday, 24 June 2015 11:16 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 24 June 2015 11:16 PM ]

Javed Rana

Press TV, Islamabad

Pakistan's Supreme Court has sprung into action over alleged espionage operations by Western NGOs using the convenient cover of relief work. The top court has ordered the government to provide details of NGOs operations in the country to help the court investigate the issue.

This is Pakistan's Supreme Court. Now all eyes are on this highest seat of justice after it decided to adjudicate the fate of Non Governmental Organizations or the NGOs allegedly involved in espionage operations.The judges inside this court building have ordered the government to produce all records of NGOs in order to find facts about their suspicious sources of funding?

Islamabad is under pressure from the U-S and Britain to allow Western NGOs to operate in the country in order to continue receiving financial aid for its ongoing development schemes.

As per leaks from American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, secretly spends over half of its 52-billion dollar black budget to locate Pakistan's nukes and monitor the region.

The government in Islamabad has decided to curtail the role of Western NGOs and has given them six months to follow new official regulations. Apparently Islamabad has two options: either to put up with the ongoing spying of American and British intelligence services in order to retain Western funding or expel them and lose the foreign aid.

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