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What has, however, become the bone of contention between the provincial government and the federal interior minister is the powers of the Rangers to also investigate corruption related to terror-financing. While there is an urgent need to investigate such crimes, there is a belief that this should not come under the Rangers’ ambit, given that ideally this is something best handled by civilian agencies. This may be true, but then most of our civilian law-enforcement agencies, such as the FIA, the Intelligence Bureau, NAB and the police have in the past not displayed that they possess the capacity to unearth and prosecute white-collar crimes successfully. The need of the hour is that while the federal government seriously tries to enhance the capacities of the first three agencies for the purpose of unearthing terror-financing related crimes, the Sindh government on its part would need to build up the capacity and neutrality of its police force to perform the job that the Rangers are doing. So far, however, it hasn’t provided us with an effective, alternative mechanism. Meanwhile, let us hope Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would be able to cool down the tempers and find a way out of this political logjam.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 28th, 2015.
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