On 6 July 2007, Pakistani police discovered an anti-aircraft gun ominously positioned along the secret flight path of then-President General Pervez Musharraf. His plane had just taken off from the tightly secured Chaklala airbase in Rawalpindi. That such a weapon could be placed along a classified route, despite the intense surveillance and secrecy, underscores the endemic rot within Pakistan’s national security establishment.
It wasn’t the act of a lone actor—it was a symptom of a state devoured by its own clandestine organs. The mystery behind the leaked itinerary remains unresolved, but what it reveals is the true character of Pakistani politics: a theatre of uncertainty, sabotage, and internal treachery among its own intelligence services. Civilian intelligence, military intelligence, and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)—each mistrusts the other, each entrenched in its own fiefdom, each accountable to no one but its own corrupt hierarchy.
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