The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would soon take legislative action to disband political wings of all intelligence agencies, including the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), said a news report. The government is considering amendments to the rules of business to hold the security agencies, including the ISI and the Military Intelligence (MI), accountable to the elected government, besides disbandment of their political wings, the report published in the English language daily The News said. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani has proposed to his co-chairman Asif Zardari a comprehensive legislative paper for the implementation of the Charter of Democracy (CoD). A number of constitutional amendments proposed by Rabbani had already been incorporated in the constitutional package while Zardari would possibly call another meeting of his legal aides to settle the conflicting issues put forward by Law Minister Farooq Naek and Rabbani. Rabbani's paper on the CoD implementation sought amendments to the rules of business not only to rein in the spy agencies but also to depoliticize them by disbanding their political cells. Through an amendment to these rules, he also seeks the formation of a committee, as envisaged in the CoD, to cut waste and bloat in the armed forces and the security agencies in the interest of defense and security of the country. All senior postings in the spy agencies would also be made with the approval of the government through respective ministries. The complete implementation of the CoD requires repeal of the 17th Constitutional Amendment while saving joint electoral reserved seats, lowered voting age and increase in seats, amendments to 17 articles of the Constitution, insertion of two new articles in the Constitution, repeal of the National Accountability Bureau or NAB and Anti-Terrorist Acts, amendments to several other acts and amendments to federal as well as provincial governments' rules of business. Besides, Rabbani's CoD paper also seeks constitutional amendments to allocate reserved seats for women to the parties on the basis of number of votes polled in the general elections by each party, increase in the strength of the Senate to accommodate minorities representation, inclusion of tribal areas and the North West Frontier Province or NWFP, holding of local government elections on party basis and constitutional protection to the local governments to make them autonomous and answerable to their respective assemblies as well as to the people through regular courts of law and review of all indemnities introduced by military regimes in the Constitution. __
