Monday, August 31, 2009

Nazir Abbasi & Brigadier (R) Imtiaz: The Cold War Warrior

Nazir Abbasi was the most courageous and bold Sindhi student leaders who was killed by Zia-ul Haq’s brutal ISI. Then colonel Imtiaz (and later Brigadier) tortured him and his cruel ISI subordinates the likes of who continue to hunt Sindhis and Baluch even today. During the months of July and August, many in Sindh are celebrating sacrifice of Shaheed Nazir Abbasi as he was last arrested on July 30, 1980 by spy agency, who tortured him, until he died on August 9, 1989. An excellent write-up on him in Sindhi by Hasan Mujtab is accessible at the following link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13595152/shahid-nazir-abbasi - Nazir Abbasi – A legendary Hero of Sindh by: Khalid Hashmani, McLean, Virginia, USA http://iaoj.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/nazi-abbasi-a-legendary-hero-of-sindh/




Brigadier Retd. Imtiaz aka Billa - Former Number 2 of ISI - 1987 - 1989, and Director General Intelligence Bureau under Mian Nawaz Sharif's First Government - 1990 - 1993. READ MORE DETAILS Brigadier Retd. Imtiaz: Another Multifaceted Fraud. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/brigadier-retd-imtiaz-another.html General (R) Hamid Gul, Brigadier (R) Imtiaz & Jews http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/general-r-hamid-gul-brigadier-r-imtiaz.html Brigadier (R) Imtiaz 'Exposes' General (R) Hamid Gul http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/08/brigadier-r-imtiaz-exposes-general-r.html




Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday, she said her husband Nazir Abbasi was arrested in August 1980 and was killed on August 9, 1980 after being brutally tortured allegedly in the custody of Brigadier Imtiaz. — Photo by Online

KARACHI: Widow of Nazir Abbasi, Hamida Ghangro, has demanded that her husband’s killers should be taken to task. Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday, she said her husband Nazir Abbasi was arrested in August 1980 and was killed on August 9, 1980 after being brutally tortured in the alleged custody of Brigadier Imtiaz. Professor Jamal Naqvi and Kamal Warsi, who were arrested at that time along with Nazir Abbasi, also accompanied her. She said on her appeal an investigation was initiated against Brigadier Imtiaz in the tenure of Benazir Bhutto’s government but when the government was toppled the probe was also put on the back burner. She claimed Brigadier Imtiaz had killed her husband in custody. She also alleged that government officials had accepted that Nazir Abbasi was killed during custody.

‘We have all documentary proofs,’ she said, demanding the government to arrest and try Brigadier Imtiaz before a court of law. She also demanded Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo motu action in this regard. She said the case was filed on August 17, 1980, while the trial was halted after some hearings. An FIR of the case was also lodged and it is the police’s responsibility to investigate into the matter, she maintained. REFERENCE: Nazir Abbasi’s widow demands Brig. Imtiaz’s arrest Monday, 31 Aug, 2009 02:27 PM PST http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-nazir-abbasi-widow-demands-imtiaz-arrest-qs-09

Sunday, August 30, 2009

General (R) Hamid Gul violated article 6 of 1973 Constitution

Lt Gen (R) Hamid Gul. [Former Chief of ISI & MI]
After all these years the hollow and shallow Ex Servicemen Society and gentlemen mentioned below have damaged Pakistan beyond repair these damages cannot be undone only through apology. They should be tried for treason under Artcile 6 of 1973 Constitution and that is the only remedy. Have you noticed the height of arrogance and emptiness in our Praetorian Guards. Even after so much damage they are arrogant to the core.


As per 1973 Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan


PART I

6. (1) Any person who abrogates or attempts or conspires to abrogate, subverts or attempts or conspires to subvert the Constitution by use of force or show of force or by other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason.

(2) Any person aiding or abetting the acts mentioned in clause (1) shall likewise be guilty of high treason.

(3) [Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament)] shall by law provide for the punishment of persons found guilty of high treason.

An accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offense.


ISLAMABAD: Former chief of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt-Gen (retd) Hameed Gul on Saturday disclosed that the PPP could have got landslide victory in 1988 elections, if the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) had not been formed. Talking to a private TV channel, he said: ìYes, we had such reports and apprehension of massive PPP victory.î Gul said they feared that the PPP was returning to power after the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. I take the responsibility of forming the IJI, though it was not my idea,î Hameed Gul said. He said that even during Benazir Bhutto’s first visit to the ISI headquarters he told her about his role in forming the IJI. “We wanted the PPP opponents who had affiliation with the GHQ to unite them on one platform,” Gul said. He said ‘emergency’ was one of the options in 1988 after General Zia ul Haq’s plane crashed, but it was decided to go ahead with November 16 election despite request from opponents of the PPP to postpone it. He disclosed that even former Soviet Union sent a message to Pakistan that the 1988 elections could be sabotaged. Gul said: “This is for the first time I am disclosing that former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev sent his envoy with a message regarding apprehensions of sabotaging the 1988 election through foreign intervention.”

Asghar Khan - former Air Chief Marshall of the Pakistan Air Force, Chairman of the Tehrik-e-Istaqlaal political party, and a man renowned for his integrity and clarity - vociferously denounces Pak Army and intelligence agencies' interference in political process via distribution of cash to favored politicians. He explains how: (a) Army officers are obligated to obey only lawful commands of their superiors and should be prosecuted for bribery of politicians; (b) intelligence officials do not need a lawyer but only their conscience to decide which order are illegal; (c) there have never been any elections free from fraud since mid-70s; and (d) successive Pak governments have deliberately dragged ISI into domestic politics to suit their purpose. This interview was recorded in 2009 as part of "Policy Matters" program. REFERENCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r8-w5Cawrs [Courtesy: Kashif H Khan]

Asghar Khan: ISI Bribery of Pak Politicians -1/2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r8-w5Cawrs

Asghar Khan: ISI Bribery of Pak Politicians -2/2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOtna-6RZag&feature=related
Asghar Khan: ISI Bribery of Pak Politicians
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9varQhZWSUI
Asghar Khan: ISI's Role in Pak Politics -1/2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_4vZloT68
Asghar Khan: ISI's Role in Pak Politics -2/2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVl2w1vb7mY&feature=related

He said he was not aware of the conditions to hand over power to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, but said he was asked to brief her before she was handed over the power. “Benazir wanted a briefing from the Establishment so I was sent for this purpose and the meeting took place at her friend’s house in Karachi, which lasted over two hours, and I told her that the Afghan Jihad had not ended yet. There were two or three other things, which I briefed her and she said she understood the situation,” he said. He denied “Midnight Jackal” as intelligence plot and said it was Imtiaz’s personal plan. “No agency was involved but Imtiaz himself,” Gul said. The ex-ISI chief denied he ever sent a message to MQM chief Altaf Hussain to join IJI and rejected the allegation of former Intelligence Bureau director, Brig (retd) Imtiaz. “I never sent Imtiaz to Altaf with a message to join IJI but to express concern over allegations of collection of ìBhattaî by some elements,” he said. He predicted the victory of Afghans in Afghanistan and the US exit, but expressed concern over post-US Afghanistan situation and said a weak government was going to be set up there. “We failed to give up political system in Afghanistan after Soviet Union left and now I don’t see much will happen after the US exit, but Afghans will win,” he added. REFERENCE: Hameed Gul admits he formed IJI Sunday, August 30, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24196


Watch! How shamelessly Lt. General (R) Hamid Gul admitted his violation of 1973 Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan - DO TOK with Mazhar Abbas: AUG 29 ‘09Gen. (R) Hameed Gul (Former DG ISI) gives his candid views on his roles and on ISI’s history, its role in national politics.


Hameed Gul admits he formed IJI Part 1

Hameed Gul admits he formed IJI Part 2

Hameed Gul admits he formed IJI Part 3

Hameed Gul admits he formed IJI Part 4

Hameed Gul admits he formed IJI Part 5



The group of retired Pakistani generals and military officers who have asked General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf to resign as president of Pakistan have now reportedly decided to “apologise” to the nation “for imposing martial laws in the past, abrogating the Constitution several times, and not letting democracy flourish in the last 60 years”. The first “apology” session was to have taken place Thursday to which the retired brass had invited President Musharraf himself. REFERENCE: What the generals must apologise for Friday, February 01, 2008 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008/02/01/story_1-2-2008_pg3_1
Retired generals refuse to apologise,but want Musharraf to go By Umar Cheema Friday, February 01, 2008, Muharam 22, 1429 A.H. http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=12650

We must insist that General (Retd) Musharraf apologise for the Kargil Operation which was more an example of professional incompetence than defiance of the Nawaz Sharif government whom he accuses of having agreed to the operation. He must apologise for undermining the visit of the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee when Mr Sharif was prime minister. But at the same time we must insist that General (Retd) Hameed Gul should apologise for planning the disastrous Jalalabad operation in 1989 as a prelude to the ISI setting up a government of the mujahideen. He has been boasting of having organised the IJI against the PPP. He must apologise first to the PPP for having done the sordid deed; after that, he must apologise for lack of wits because the IJI could not maintain its two-thirds majority for long. REFERENCE: What the generals must apologise for Friday, February 01, 2008 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008/02/01/story_1-2-2008_pg3_1
Retired generals refuse to apologise,but want Musharraf to go By Umar Cheema Friday, February 01, 2008, Muharam 22, 1429 A.H. http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=12650


Read More Details

General (R) Hamid Gul, Brigadier (R) Imtiaz & Jews http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/general-r-hamid-gul-brigadier-r-imtiaz.html The Afghan Pipeline By Steve Galster. - 1 http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/10/afghan-pipeline-by-steve-galster-1.html The Afghan Pipeline By Steve Galster. - 2 http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/10/afghan-pipeline-by-steve-galster-2.html Ronald Reagan, William Casey and Jihad http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/ronald-reagan-william-case-and-jihad.html Brigadier (R) Imtiaz 'Exposes' General (R) Hamid Gul http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/08/brigadier-r-imtiaz-exposes-general-r.html


EVEN MORE ON General (R) Hamid Gul

Calamity of Ex-Servicemen Society - 1 http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/calamity-of-ex-servicemen-society-1.html
Calamity of Ex-Servicemen Society - 2
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/calamity-of-ex-servicemen-society-2.html Calamity of Ex-Servicemen Society - 3
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/calamity-of-ex-servicemen-society-3.html
Calamity of Ex-Servicemen Society - 4
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/calamity-of-ex-servicemen-society-4.html Calamity of Ex-Servicemen Society - 5 http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/calamity-of-ex-servicemen-society-5.html
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http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/calamity-of-ex-servicemen-society-6.html Calamity of Ex-Servicemen Society - 7
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/calamity-of-ex-servicemen-society-7.html

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Collaborators of General Zia's Quasi Martial Law Regime 1985 - 1988


Syed Zafar Ali Shah - Senator - Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz Group

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court’s Registrar on Thursday returned a petition filed by Senator Zafar Ali Shah seeking initiation of proceedings against former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf for treason - with irremovable objections. The registrar said the SC was not the proper forum for such a plea nor was the petitioner an aggrieved party. However, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Shah declined to comment, saying that he did not know that kind of objections were raised by the registrar. The PML-N had detached itself from the petition the same day it was filed, saying that it was the party’s consolidated view that such a move should be initiated in parliament. Reference: SC returns Zafar Ali Shah’s petition for Musharraf’s trial By Masood Rehman Friday, August 28, 2009 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\28\story_28-8-2009_pg7_8



Hand Picked Prime Minister of General Zia i.e. Late Muhammad Khan Junejo, General Zia, Fakhr Imam, and Former President of Pakistan Late Ghulam Ishaq Khan
As per 1973 Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan

PART I

6. (1) Any person who abrogates or attempts or conspires to abrogate, subverts or attempts or conspires to subvert the Constitution by use of force or show of force or by other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason.

(2) Any person aiding or abetting the acts mentioned in clause (1) shall likewise be guilty of high treason.

(3) [Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament)] shall by law provide for the punishment of persons found guilty of high treason.

An accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offense.

American Backed Pakistani Military Dictator General Zia ul Haq (1977 - 1988) was powerful and sole power in Pakistan [like General Musharraf was from 1999 to 2008] in those days and the then Prime Minister of Pakistan late. Muhammad Khan Junejo (hand picked Prime Minister of General Zia's Martial Law Assembly 1985 - 1988) was just a Democratic Façade of General Zia’s ruthless Military Establishment, like the Democratic Façade of Prime Ministers Zafarullah Jamali, Chuadary Shujaat Hussain and Shaukat Aziz but the real power was with General Zia then and real power was with Musharraf from 1999 - 2008. Keep in mind while going through the names of Junejo Cabinet under a Chief Martial Law Administrator General Zia [he was enjoying all power], Prime Minister and his several cabinet members were nothing but STOOGES. It was like PML - Q Government under General Zia who was enjoying complete and brute authority. READ AND ENJOY. OUR PRESENT Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani also served under General Zia's Martial Law and guess what the LOUDMOUTH PML-N LEADER Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister in Semi Martial Law Regime of General Zia and Junejo.

Former Martial Law Prime Minister of Pakistan, Late. Muhammad Khan Junejo (1985 - 1988)
AND SEVERAL JUNEJO CABINETS UNDER GENERAL ZIA AND ARMY RULE

Ist FEDERAL CABINET UNDER PRIME MINISTER (Mr. MUHAMMAD KHAN JUNEJO) FROM 10. 4. 1985 TO 28. 1. 86

Prime Minister Mr. Muhammad Khan Junejo - Culture & Tourism, Defence, Education, Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives, Health, Special Education &, Social Welfare. Interior, Petroleum & Natural, Resources, Religious Affairs and, Minorities Affairs, Science and Technology, States & Frontier Regions, Kashmir Affairs & Northern Affairs, Railways

1. Mr. Salim Saifullah Khan - Commerce, Petroleum & Natural Resources.

2. Prince Mohyuddin Baluch - Communications.

3. Dr. Mahbubul Haq - Finance & Economic Affairs, Planning & Development

4. Sahabzada Yaqub Khan - Foreign Affairs.

5. Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani - Housing & Works

6. Mr. Zafar Ali Shah - Industries, Food, Agriculture & Cooperatives.

7. Mr. Hamid Nasir Chattha - Information & Broadcasting, Health, Special Education &
Social Welfare

8. Mr. Iqbal Ahmad Khan - Justice & Parliamentary Affairs

9. Mr. Hanif Tayyab - Labour, Manpower & Overseas Pakistanis

10. Mr Ghulam Muhammad Ahmad Khan Maneka - Local Government & Rural Development, Culture and Tourism

11. Mr. Muhammad Khaqan Abbasi - Production, Education

12. Nawabzada Abdul Ghafoor Khan Hoti - Railways.

13. Mir. Zafarullah Khan Jamali - Water & Power

14. Lt. Gen(Retd) Jamal Said Mian - Culture & Tourism

15. Mian Muhammad Yasin Khan Watoo - Education

16. Kazi Abudl Majid Abid - Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives

17. Malik Nur Hayat Khan Noon - Health, Special Education & Social Welfare

18. Mr. Mohammad Aslam Khan Khattak - Interior

19. Syed Qasim Shah - States & Frontier Regions & Kashmir Affairs


MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Mr. Haji Tareen - Food, Agriculture & Cooperatives.

2. Mr. Zain Noorani - Foreign Affairs.

3. Rai Mansab Ali Khan - Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis

4. Begum Attiya Inayatuallah - Population Welfare

5. Mr. Islamuddin Sheikh - Production

6. Mr. Maqbool Ahmed - Religious Affairs & Minorities Affairs.

7. Syed Qasim Shah - States & Frontier regions & Kashmir Affairs

8. Mr. Shah Mohammad Khuro - Interior

9. Dr. Mohammad Asad Khan - Petroleum & Natural Resources.


SECOND FEDERAL CABINET UNDER PRIME MINISTER (MR. MUHAMMAD KHAN JUNEJO) FROM 28. 1. 1986 TO 20. 12. 1986

Prime Minister Mr. Muhammad Khan Junejo - Cabinet Secretariat, Defence, Planning & Development

1. Prince Mohyuddin Baluch - Commerce.

2. Malik Nur Hayat Khan Noon - Communications.

3. Mr. Ghulam Muhammad Ahmed Khan Maneka - Culture & Tourism.

4. Malik Nasim Ahmed Aheer - Education

5. Mian Muhammad Yasin Khan Wattoo - Finance and Economic Affairs

6. Kazi Abdul Majid Abid - Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives

7. Sahabzada Yaqub Khan - Foreign Affairs

8. Mr. Shah Muhammad Khuro - Health, Special Education and S. W.

9. Mr. Salim Saifullah Khan - Housing and Works

10. Syed Zafar Ali Shah - Industries.

11. Chaudhry Shujat Hussain - Information and Broadcasting

12. Mr. Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak - Interior

13. Mr. Iqbal Ahmed Khan - Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Religious Affairs and M.A.

14. Sardar Maqsood Ahmed Khan Leghari - Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis

15. Mr. Anwar Aziz Chaudhri - Local Government & Rural Development

16. Mr. Muhammad Hanif Tayyab - Petroleum & Natural Resources

17. Mr. Muhammad Khaqan Abbasi - Production

18. Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani - Railways

19. Mir. Haji Tareen - Religious Affairs & Minorities Affairs, Science & Technology

20. Mr. Hamid Nasir Chattha - Science & Technology

21. Syed Qasim Shah - States & Frontier Regions & Kashmir Affairs.

22. Lt. Gen. (Retd) Jamal Said Mian - Water & Power

23. Dr. Mahbubul Haq - Planning & Development

24. Mr. Wasim Sajjad - Justice & Parliamentary Affairs.


MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Syed Tasneem Nawaz Gardezi - Commerce

2. Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim Baluch - Communications

3. Mir Mehran Khan Bijarani - Culture and Tourism

4. Mr. Nisar Ali Khan Baluch - Education

5. Mr. Sartaj Aziz - Food, Agriculture & Cooperative

6. Mr. Zain Noorani - Foreign Affairs

7. Haji Muhammad Unis Elahi - Industries

8. Rai Mansab Ali Khan - Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis

9. Mr. Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat - Justice & Parliamentary Affairs

10. Mr. Islamuddin Shaikh - Production

11. Mr. Nisar Mohammad Khan - Railways

12. Mr. Maqbool Ahmed Khan - Religious Affairs and Minorities Affairs

13. Begum Afsar Riza Qizilbash - Health, Special Education and Social Welfare


THIRD FEDERAL CABINET UNDER THE PREMIERSHIP OF MR. MUHAMMAD KHAN JUNEJO, THE PRIME MINISTER FROM 22. 12. 1986 TO 29. 5. 1988

Prime Minister Mr. Muhammad Khan Junejo (23. 3. 85 to 29. 5. 1988)

FEDERAL MINISTERS

1. Malik Nasim Ahmed Aheer - Education. Communications, Health, Special Education &
Social welfare, Culture & Tourism, Interior

2. Mian Muhammad yasin Khan Wattoo - Finance & Economic Affairs Petroleum & Natural
Resources

3. Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim Baluch - Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives, Labour, Manpower & Overseas Pakistanis

4. Sahabzada Yaqub Khan - Foreign affairs

5. Mr. Muhammad Hanif Tayyab - Housing & Works Petroleum & Natural Resources

6. Ch. Shujat Hussain - Industries Production

7. Kazi Abdul Majid Abid - Information & Broadcasting, Water & Power.

8. Mr. Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak - Interior, Culture & Tourism, Communications, Railways

9. Mr. Wasim Sajjad - Justice & Parliamentary Affairs, Interior

10. Mr. Anwar Aziz Chaudhri - Local Govt. & Rural Development

11. Syed Qasim Shah - States & Frontier Regions, and Kashmir Affairs, Religious Affairs & Minorities Affairs

12. Mr. Iqbal Ahmed Khan - Federal Minister With out portfolio Local Government & Rural Development

13. Dr. Mahbubul Haq - Commerce, Planning & Development, Population Welfare Division

14. Mr. Shah Muhammad Khuro - Culture & Tourism, Labour, Manpower & Overseas Pakistanis

15. Haji Muhammad Saifullah Khan - Religious Affairs & Minorities Affairs

16. Mr. Nisar Mohammad Khan - Culture & Tourism

17. Syed Sajjad Haider - Education, Health, Special Education & Social Welfare

18. Major Gen. (Retd) Mohammad Bashir Khan - Production

19. Mian Ghulam Muhammad Ahmed Khan Maneka - Establishment Division, O & M Division

20. Malik Muhammad Naeem Khan - Health, Special Education & Social Welfare, Science and Technology

21. Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan - Population Welfare O & M Division

22. Sardarzada Muhammad Ali Shah - Railways

23. Mr. Wazir Ahmad Jogezai - Water and Power

MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Mr. Zain Noorani - Foreign Affairs with Cabinet rank

2. Sardar Ghulam Muhammad Khan Mahar - Health Division

3. Mr. Nisar Mohammad Khan - Railways

4. Begum Afsar Riza Qizibash - Special Education and Social Welfare

5. Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan - Commerce

6. Mr. Fateh Muhammad Muhammad Hassni - Communications

7. Rana Naeem Mahmood Khan - Defence

8. Mian Muhammad Zaman - Industries

9. Raja Nadir Pervaiz - Interior

10. Mr. Abdul Sattar Laleka - Labour, Manpower & Overseas Pakistanis

11. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan - Petroleum and Natural Resources.

12. Major Gen. (Retd) Mohammad Bashir Khan - Production

13. Malik Said Khan Mahsud - Water & Power

14. Syed Iftikhar Ali Bokhari - Finance and Economic Affairs

15. Syed Tasneem Nawaz Gardezi - Information and Broadcasting

16. Agha Atta Muhammad Khan - Railways

Friday, August 28, 2009

Spy vs spy: Brig Imtiaz is agent of US agencies: ex-director FIA by Shakeel Anjum


Brigadier Retd. Imtiaz aka Billa - Former Number 2 of ISI - 1987 - 1989, and Director General Intelligence Bureau under Mian Nawaz Sharif's First Government - 1990 - 1993. READ MORE DETAILS Brigadier Retd. Imtiaz: Another Multifaceted Fraud.
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/brigadier-retd-imtiaz-another.html General (R) Hamid Gul, Brigadier (R) Imtiaz & Jews http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/general-r-hamid-gul-brigadier-r-imtiaz.html Brigadier (R) Imtiaz 'Exposes' General (R) Hamid Gul http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/08/brigadier-r-imtiaz-exposes-general-r.html

Spy vs spy: Brig Imtiaz is agent of US agencies: ex-director FIA By Shakeel Anjum Friday, August 28, 2009

ISLAMABAD: Brig (retd) Imtiaz Ahmed is an American agent planted by the American agencies mainly to defame the Pakistani intelligence agencies, former director Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Malik Mumtaz Ahmad said on Thursday.

While addressing a press conference, he said after having played a key role in toppling the Benazir government in 1990, Brig Imtiaz was now bent on destabilising the present government.

Malik Mumtaz claimed that he had informed the then prime minister Benazir Bhutto through her special secretary (security) of the conspiracy plan ‘Midnight Jackal’ of Brig (retd) Imtiaz and Maj (retd) Amar. She contacted the then Army chief Gen Aslam Baig but he had denied.

Malik Mumtaz claimed that Benazir had sent her interior minister Nasirullah Khan Babar to Aslam Baig but the Army chief had again denied the report, asking him to produce evidence about the conspiracy.

“He is playing in the hands of American agencies to destabilise the political system,” Malik Mumtaz averred. “He is opposing Mian Nawaz Sharif to get entrance in the PPP camp,” he added.

He appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo moto notice against Brig Imtiaz and reopen his corruption cases. He claimed Brig Imtiaz’s “anti-state activities” were creating confusion in the political system.

The former FIA chief alleged Brig Imtiaz had collected illegal wealth during his tenure as IB head. Malik said that a corruption case was lodged with the FIA after the brigadierís removal during the Benazir government. However, the FIA did not pursue the case in the court, and, consequently, it was dismissed.

Malik said Brig Imtiaz made 27 valuable properties and a heavy account in a bank of London, adding, he got himself freed from the cases by using his influence during the Nawaz government in 1997.

The second case of corruption against Brig Imtiaz was registered by the Account Appellate Bureau chairman in 2000, Malik said, adding that the detailed list of his properties was attached with the petition. The properties included three houses and three commercial units in Islamabad as well as foreign exchange bearing certificates to the tune of Rs 20.8 million.

He said a court sentenced Brig Imtiaz to eight years rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 7 million, also confiscating his assets. The court disqualified him for ten years for holding any public office or statutory or local authority. But he, taking advantage of the NRO, managed to retake his property.

Malik disclosed that before his “retirement at fault” from the Army in 1988, Brig Imtiaz had declared his total asset as a two-kanal plot at the Lahore Cantt Officers Society (Phase-II) and a 2,000-square-yard plot in the Defence Housing Society, Karachi. He questioned how Imtiaz made property worth billions of rupees as IB chief.

SOURCE: The News International

URL: http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=195414

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Spy vs spy: Another IB official speaks out by Usman Manzoor


Brigadier Retd. Imtiaz aka Billa - Former Number 2 of ISI - 1987 - 1989, and Director General Intelligence Bureau under Mian Nawaz Sharif's First Government - 1990 - 1993. READ MORE DETAILS Brigadier Retd. Imtiaz: Another Multifaceted Fraud. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/brigadier-retd-imtiaz-another.html General (R) Hamid Gul, Brigadier (R) Imtiaz & Jews http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/general-r-hamid-gul-brigadier-r-imtiaz.html Brigadier (R) Imtiaz 'Exposes' General (R) Hamid Gul http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/08/brigadier-r-imtiaz-exposes-general-r.html


Spy vs spy: Another IB official speaks out By Usman Manzoor Friday, August 28, 2009

ISLAMABAD: Another former senior officer of the Intelligence Bureau has broken his silence after the recent outbursts of Brig (retd) Imtiaz and has revealed that the former IB director-general had planned to register high treason cases against Benazir Bhutto, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Salmaan Taseer and Masood Sharif.

Following the recent disclosures of Brig Imtiaz, which have shaken both the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Rana Abdul Baqi, who had served under former IB director-general Masood Sharif and retired as senior director, in an exclusive interview with The News, disclosed that Brig Imtiaz wanted to try Benazir Bhutto and three others because they leaked secret tapes to an Indian journalist and got it published in India Today.

According to Baqi, the tapes which were leaked contained conversations between MNAs and Brigadier Imtiaz and Major Amir, and also included classified information about training camps of the Army and other strategic security information which may still be classified.

The former IB director said: “In 1991 after completing medical leave I reported at the IB headquarters and started waiting for my next posting, as I was previously working as personal staff officer to IB director-general Masood Sharif. One day, Brig Imtiaz called me in his office because he was upset with the episode of Salmaan Taseer, who had conducted a press conference against the architects of ‘Operation Midnight Jackal’ and India Today had also published some extracts of those secret tapes. The brigadier asked me how did Salmaan Taseer get those tapes? “He (Taseer) is an agent of RAW and India Today got those tapes through Taseer.” “Brigadier Imtiaz alleged according to his information Taseer got those tapes through me.”

“According to my sources, Masood Sharif and Benazir Bhutto got those tapes from you,” Brig Imtiaz blamed me, adding: “Benazir Bhutto gave those tapes to Taseer.” Imtiaz added apart from Benazir Bhutto and Salmaan Taseer, Aitzaz Ahsan was also present there and in his presence these tapes were handed over to Taseer.

“I want to initiate high treason case against these four because they have handed over classified national secrets to India and you (Rana Abdul Baqi) would become approver in the case and you would admit that these secret tapes were handed over to Taseer in your presence.

“I told Brig Imtiaz that I do not know Benazir Bhutto, Aitzaz Ahsan and Salmaan Taseer personally and I can not give any sort of false evidence. I was offered promotion by Brig Imtiaz and upon my refusal I was threatened of severe consequences and an inquiry was lodged against me and I was accused of leaking those secret tapes.”

“I told Brig Imtiaz that three sets of these tapes were prepared each containing 12 cassettes. One was sent to the Military Intelligence director-general; one to the Prime Minister Secretariat and the third was kept in IB director-general’s office. I don’t know how Taseer got those tapes. Brig Imtiaz constituted a committee to discuss my involvement in handing those tapes to Taseer.

Brig Imtiaz’s committee comprised Air Commodore Khalilullah Ghauri, Col Bashir Wali, who has remained IB director-general and Major Salim Khan.

The committee inquired from me and I gave a ten-page reply on how these tapes were distributed. The Army men took the last copy of these cassettes which was at IB director-general’s office and a receipt was also given of that episode.

“The committee exonerated me after getting satisfactory answers. Commodore Khalilur Rehman Ghauri told me Brig Imtiaz wanted to initiate high treason cases against Benazir Bhutto, Aitzaz Ahsan and Masood Sharif. I was asked to be careful as Brig Imtiaz could be dangerous. I only said I will not give any false evidence.”

To a question, the former senior IB director disclosed that the then-government did not pay any heed to Brig Imtiaz’s formula of vindicating the opposition. “Even the prime minister was shocked about Imtiaz’s formula,” said Rana Abdul Baqi, adding: “In 1997 Brig Imtiaz once again wanted to play his role but was reminded of the 1991 mistake.”

Brigadier Imtiaz, the mastermind of the Operation Midnight Jackal, when contacted termed all the allegations levelled by Rana Abdul Baqi baseless and said he never gave worth to Rana Abdul Baqi. He said Rana Abdul Baqi was sidelined by him when he assumed the charge of Intelligence Bureau. “I never thought of giving any important task to Baqi,” said the brigadier.

Brigadier Imtiaz said the Operation Midnight Jackal was kept alive against a person who has served his whole life serving the country. He said he, Major Amir, Malik Mumtaz (a RAW agent according to Brigadier Imtiaz) and two MNAs were discussing the political situation of Pakistan and mentioned that their views were not favourable to the incumbent regime and that the minor incident was termed the Operation Midnight Jackal. Brigadier Imtiaz said politics was, and is, discussed everywhere but that the minor incident has been kept alive till today.

He said Nawaz Sharif, Gen Nasir, Masood Sharif and Rana Baqi had taken MNAs in C-130 from the Rawalpindi Cricket stadium to Swat, which was unauthorised but no one had questioned that.

SOURCE: The News International

URL: http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24160

Kamran Khan, Mehrangate Scandal, GEO TV, The News & Jang Group of Newspapers.



Hypocrisy and Intellectual Dishonesty of Jang Group of Newspapers/The News International/GEO TV, specifically their touts e.g. Kamran Khan, Ansar Abbasi, Rauf Klasra and last but not least Shaheen Sehbai, knows no bound. One one hand their Editorial In the ring Thursday, August 27, 2009 states that,

"The hand of the so-called 'establishment', that shadowy entity comprising the army, the bureaucracy and the agencies among other forces, has long been a part of politics in Pakistan. The coming and going of governments, the downfall of individuals and all kinds of other events are attributed to it. But today, we apparently find this powerful entity locked in what appears to be an internal dilemma. According to a report in this newspaper and rumours that drift across Islamabad's leafy avenues, elements within the establishment are engaged in an all-out effort to discredit Nawaz Sharif, a man whose political career is said to have begun with the support of the same lobby. The purpose appears to be to save former president Musharraf from trial – and possibly by exposing or threatening to expose misdeeds from the past – pressurising Sharif to abandon the strident position he has taken on the issue. It has been alleged that key figures have attempted to use the media to advance their stance and that a Karachi-based political party is also being used for the same purpose. In the ring Thursday, August 27, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=195108&Cat=8&dt=8/27/2009
Whereas the same Jang Group of Newspapers relay/file these stories in their very NEWS Channel i.e. GEO TV and Newspapers i.e. Daily Jang and The News International that,

"KARACHI: According to the sworn undertaking of ISI’s former chief Lieutenant General (rtd) Asad Durrani, which he took before Supreme Court (SC) on July 24, 1994, that he was instructed in September 1990 by the then Chief of Army Staff (COAS), the former General Mirza Aslam Baig for provision of Logistic Support to embezzle money donated for election preparations from some Karachi traders and use the same donation money for Islami Jamhuri Ittehad (IJI) party. Asad Durrani was told that the instructions to misappropriate donation money were backed by the then government of Pakistan, according to his affidavit statement before SC. Subsequently, in pursuit of the instructions he received, he was forced to open some fake bank accounts in Karachi, Quetta and Rawalpindi while one donator from Karachi, by the name Younis Habib, deposited as much as 140 million rupees and the money from all accounts were transferred to other places according to the need for extension of logistic support to IJI party while the remaining money was transferred to a special fund, his sworn statement added. SOURCE/REFERENCE: Chief politicians embezzle donation money in Ishaq era Updated at: 0100 PST, Thursday, August 27, 2009 Thursday, August 27, 2009, Ramadan-ul-Mubarak 05, 1430 A.H ISSN 1563-9479 http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=85837 Chief politicians embezzle donation money in Ishaq era Updated at: 0137 PST, Thursday, August 27, 2009 http://www.geo.tv/8-27-2009/48287.htm


His statement further added, Rs10 million were given to Mir Afzal in NWFP province, Rs3.5 million to Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in Punjab, Rs5.6 million to Lieutenant General (rtd) Rafaqat for advertisement on media, Rs5 million to Jamat-e-Islami, Rs1 million to Begum Abida Hussain, Rs0.5 million to Altaf Hussain Qureshi and Mustafa Sadiq, Rs3.3 million to small groups, Rs5 million to Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi in Sindh, Rs5 million to Jam Sadiq, Rs2.5 million to Muhammad Khan Junejo, Rs2 million to Pir Pagara, Rs0.3 million to Molana Salahuddin, Rs5.4 million to small parties, Rs1.5 million to Humayun Muree, the son-in-law of Bugti, Rs4 million to Jamali, Rs1 million to Kakar, Rs0.7 million to Jam Yousuf, Rs0.5 million Bazinjo and Rs1 million were given to Nadir Mengal. It is pertinent to mention that the value in rupees of 12 grams of gold was Rs33 at the time when money was misappropriated while it stands at Rs29,000 today. SOURCE/REFERENCE: Chief politicians embezzle donation money in Ishaq era Updated at: 0100 PST, Thursday, August 27, 2009 Thursday, August 27, 2009, Ramadan-ul-Mubarak 05, 1430 A.H ISSN 1563-9479 http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=85837 Chief politicians embezzle donation money in Ishaq era Updated at: 0137 PST, Thursday, August 27, 2009 http://www.geo.tv/8-27-2009/48287.htm
Shamelessly, on 26 Aug 2009, GEO TV host Kamran Khan tried to mutilate and exploit certain events related with Mehran Bank Scandal by inviting former Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Justice Saeed-uz-zaman Siddiqui [Another Cheat we have in the name of Ex Chief Justice of Supreme Court] to have his opinion on Mehran Bank Scandal Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath 26th August 2009 [Gen Asif Nawaz Brother Shuja Nawaz] BY NEWSADMIN AT 26 AUGUST, 2009, 1:29 PM http://thecurrentaffairs.com/aaj-kamran-khan-kay-saath-26th-august-2009-gen-asif-nawaz-brother-shuja-nawaz.html


DAWN News TV Investigation Report with Masood Sharif – 6th January 2008 http://www.sharifpost.com/2008/01/06/dawn-news-tv-investigation-report/

DAWN 1



[NOTE: Hamid Gul admits that ISI political role was pre Bhutto DAWN News TV Investigation Report with Masood Sharif -- 6th January 2008]

DAWN 2



[NOTE: Hamid Gul admits that ISI political role was pre Bhutto DAWN News TV Investigation Report with Masood Sharif -- 6th January 2008]

DAWN 3



[NOTE: Hamid Gul admits that ISI political role was pre Bhutto DAWN News TV Investigation Report with Masood Sharif -- 6th January 2008]

DAWN 4



[NOTE: Hamid Gul admits that ISI political role was pre Bhutto DAWN News TV Investigation Report with Masood Sharif -- 6th January 2008]

DAWN 5



[NOTE: Hamid Gul admits that ISI political role was pre Bhutto DAWN News TV Investigation Report with Masood Sharif -- 6th January 2008]



WHAT THE PUBLIC DONT KNOW ABOUT THE FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE (R) SAEED UZ ZAMAN SIDDIQUI



BBC Documentary on Nawaz Sharif (PML - N) Corruption



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In 1993, justice Sajjad A. Shah gave the lone dissenting opinion when Supreme Court restored Sharif government by a majority decision. Two judges; Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and Saeeduzzaman Siddiqi asked chief justice Nasim Hasan Shah to take disciplinary action against Sajjad A. Shah for the language he used in his dissenting note. Chief justice didn?t take any action against Sajjad A. Shah but it caused a permanent rift. Supreme Court takes recess during summer vacations and if chief justice is out of country during recess it is not necessary to appoint an acting chief justice. In the summer of 1997, chief justice Sajjad A. Shah proceeded to an overseas trip. Incidentally second senior most justice Ajmal Mian was also abroad. Justice Saeeduzaman Siddiqi was in Islamabad when he was told that chief justice had left the country. He adjourned the proceedings, consulted lawyers and then called all supreme court registries to stop working. He declared that there was a constitutional crisis since no acting chief justice was appointed. He sent a letter to the federal government advising it to issue notification for appointment of acting chief justice. As he was the next senior judge, he was appointed acting chief justice. This caused a lot of bad blood between Saeeduzaman Siddiqi and Sajjad A. Shah and on his return Sajjad A. Shah conveyed his disapproval in writing. Reference: Judicial Jitters in Pakistan ? A Historical Overview Hamid Hussain Defence Journal, June 2007. http://watandost.blogspot.com/2007/05/judicial-jitters-in-pakistan-scholarly.html Alleged Trial of General Pervez Musharraf! http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/alleged-trial-of-general-pervez.html
December 01, 1997 was the darkest day in the history of Pakistan?s judiciary. Two orders were issued for the constitution of benches; one by chief justice Sajjad A. Shah heading a five member bench for hearing the cases while the other by justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqi heading a fifteen member bench to decide about the fate of Sajjad A. Shah. On December 02, two parallel courts were set up inside supreme court. Reference: Judicial Jitters in Pakistan ? A Historical Overview Hamid Hussain Defence Journal, June 2007. http://watandost.blogspot.com/2007/05/judicial-jitters-in-pakistan-scholarly.html Alleged Trial of General Pervez Musharraf! http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/alleged-trial-of-general-pervez.html


Former Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pakistan, Syed Sajjad Ali Shah narrating details as to how Mian Nawaz Sharif and PML - N had attacked the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1997.

Nawaz Sharif (PML - N) Attacked Supreme Court 1



Nawaz Sharif (PML - N) Attacked Supreme Court 2



President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar had the audacity to meet chief justice Ajmal Mian in his chamber at Supreme Court and ask him not to appoint Justice Falak Sher as acting chief justice of Lahore high court as government did not like him. Chief justice declined but government went ahead and nominated a junior justice Allah Nawaz as acting chief justice. Reference: Judicial Jitters in Pakistan ? A Historical Overview Hamid Hussain Defence Journal, June 2007. http://watandost.blogspot.com/2007/05/judicial-jitters-in-pakistan-scholarly.html Alleged Trial of General Pervez Musharraf! http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/07/alleged-trial-of-general-pervez.html



Nawaz Sharif (PML - N) Attacked Supreme Court 3



Nawaz Sharif (PML - N) Attacked Supreme Court 4



Nawaz Sharif (PML - N) Attacked Supreme Court 5




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WHAT KAMRAN KHAN DIDN'T TELL IS AS UNDER FROM THE SAME SCANDAL!

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We never learn from history By Ardeshir Cowasjee dated 21 July 2002 Sunday 10 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1423 http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/20020721.htm

In September of 1994 Kamran Khan of The News and The Washington Post came calling. He told me how earlier that year he had asked for an appointment with the then leader of the opposition, Nawaz Sharif, to interview him on his relationship with the army and the security services whilst he was prime minister. He was asked to go to Lahore and meet the Mian. When on May 16 Kamran arrived at Nawaz's Model Town house, there was an army of men equipped with bulldozers demolishing the security fences and structures Nawaz had built on adjoining land, not his to build upon (akin to those built around Karachi's Bilawal House). The breakers had been on the job since dawn. Kamran found Nawaz angry but composed. He was amply plied and refreshed with 'badaam-doodh' and Nawaz, his information wizard Mushahid Hussain and he settled down to talk and continued to do so until late afternoon when Kamran left to fly back to Karachi. We never learn from history By Ardeshir Cowasjee dated 21 July 2002 Sunday 10 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1423 http://archives.dawn.com/dawnftp/72.249.57.55/dawnftp/weekly/cowas/20020721.htm


Nawaz opened up by congratulating Kamran on his Mehrangate exposures which had recently appeared in the press, asking how the inquiry was progressing, and giving his own views. They exchanged information, each believing the other was being informed. They talked about how COAS Aslam Beg (sporter of shades in the shade) managed to get Rs 14 crore (140 million) from Yunis Habib, then of Habib Bank. This was deposited in the 'Survey Section 202' account of Military Intelligence (then headed by Major-General Javed Ashraf Kazi). From there Rs 6 crore was paid to President Ghulam Ishaq Khan's election cellmates (General Rafaqat, Roedad Khan, Ijlal Hyder Zaidi, etc.), and Rs 8 crore transferred to the ISI account. After lunch, Nawaz brought up the subject of how Aslam Beg early in 1991 had sought a meeting with him (then prime minister) to which he brought Major-General Asad Durrani, chief of the ISI. They told him that funds for vital on-going covert operations (not identified by Nawaz) were drying up, how they had a foolproof plan to generate money by dealing in drugs. They asked for his permission to associate themselves with the drug trade, assuring him of full secrecy and no chance of any trail leading back to them. We never learn from history By Ardeshir Cowasjee dated 21 July 2002 Sunday 10 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1423 http://archives.dawn.com/dawnftp/72.249.57.55/dawnftp/weekly/cowas/20020721.htm

General (R) Mirza Aslam Beg - Former Chief of the Army Staff of Pakistan Army


Asghar Khan - former Air Chief Marshall of the Pakistan Air Force, Chairman of the Tehrik-e-Istaqlaal political party, and a man renowned for his integrity and clarity - vociferously denounces Pak Army and intelligence agencies' interference in political process via distribution of cash to favored politicians. He explains how: (a) Army officers are obligated to obey only lawful commands of their superiors and should be prosecuted for bribery of politicians; (b) intelligence officials do not need a lawyer but only their conscience to decide which order are illegal; (c) there have never been any elections free from fraud since mid-70s; and (d) successive Pak governments have deliberately dragged ISI into domestic politics to suit their purpose. This interview was recorded in 2009 as part of "Policy Matters" program. REFERENCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r8-w5Cawrs [Courtesy: Kashif H Khan]

Asghar Khan: ISI Bribery of Pak Politicians -1/2

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r8-w5Cawrs

Asghar Khan: ISI Bribery of Pak Politicians -2/2

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOtna-6RZag&feature=related
Asghar Khan: ISI Bribery of Pak Politicians

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9varQhZWSUI
Asghar Khan: ISI's Role in Pak Politics -1/2

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_4vZloT68
Asghar Khan: ISI's Role in Pak Politics -2/2

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVl2w1vb7mY&feature=related
Nawaz remarked that on hearing this he felt the roof had caved in on him. He told them he could have nothing to do with such a plan and refused to give his approval. The Washington Post had just broken Kamran's story and when I asked why it had not broken earlier, he told me how they check and recheck, and that in the meantime, he had been busy with the Mehrangate affair on which, between May and August, he had filed seven stories. We must again ask: was Nawaz capable of saying what he did? Yes. Did Kamran invent the whole thing? Not likely. Is The Washington Post a responsible paper with credibility? Yes. Everybody who is anyone in Washington reads it over breakfast. Has it ever made mistakes? Yes. What is so earth-shattering about using drugs to make money? Drugs have been trafficked and used for covert operations for ages, by warlords, statesmen, chieftans and generals, used to gain territory, to buy or to harm the enemy. Remember how the staid Victorians of the British empire used opium to China's detriment. Remember the Americans and how they traded drugs in Vietnam, and the Iran-Contra affair. Can we believe Aslam Beg? Judging by his behaviour and record, no. Are we expected to believe Asad Durrani, a clever professional spook? Of course not. We never learn from history By Ardeshir Cowasjee dated 21 July 2002 Sunday 10 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1423 http://archives.dawn.com/dawnftp/72.249.57.55/dawnftp/weekly/cowas/20020721.htm

Lt Gen (R) Hamid Gul. [Former Chief of ISI & MI]



Lt Gen (R) Asad Durrani. [Former Chief of ISI & MI]

Lt (R) Gen Javed Nasir. [Former Chief of ISI]


Lt (R) Javed Ashraf Qazi. [Former Chief of ISI & MI]



Have all our generals been upright men and played it right? Of course, yes. Otherwise would they have ended up the way they did? Ziaul Haq? Governor, rich General Fazle Haq? How about dubious politician, rich General Aslam Beg, Lt General Javed Ashraf Kazi first chief of the MI and then of the ISI, Nawaz's ISI chief, General Javed Nasir, sacked by General Waheed Kakar, General Asad Durrani of MI and ISI fame, summarily sacked by General Kakar, rewarded and re-employed by Benazir as her ambassador in Bonn, and dangerous politician, the firebrand fundo General Hamid Gul. How did Ejazul Haq, son of the pious General Ziaul Haq, and Humayun Akhtar Rahman, son of the powerful General Akhtar Abdul Rahman, become tycoons overnight? The story related above was printed in Dawn in my column of September 23 1994, and was never repudiated by any of the honourable gentlemen mentioned. Kamran Khan is still writing and when Nawaz Sharif returned as prime minister in 1997, Kamran was awarded the presidential Pride of Performance medal for journalism which was pinned upon his chest by none other than Rafiq Tarar, former justice of the Supreme Court and then head of state. We never learn from history By Ardeshir Cowasjee dated 21 July 2002 Sunday 10 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1423 http://archives.dawn.com/dawnftp/72.249.57.55/dawnftp/weekly/cowas/20020721.htm
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REALITY OF KAMRAN KHAN

Nawaz Sharif, Kamran Khan & National Interest
http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/nawaz-sharif-kamran-khan-national-interest/
GEO TV, Kamran Khan and Yellow Journalism - 1

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/03/geo-tv-kamran-khan-and-yellow.html
GEO TV, Kamran Khan and Yellow Journalism - 2

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/03/geo-tv-kamran-khan-and-yellow_19.html
GEO TV, Kamran Khan and Yellow Journalism - 3

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/03/geo-tv-kamran-khan-and-yellow_6719.html
GEO TV, Kamran Khan and Yellow Journalism - 4

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/03/geo-tv-kamran-khan-and-yellow_6556.html
Intelligence Unit of News International and its background

Nawaz Sharif, GEO TV and Jang Group of Newspapers

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/12/nawaz-sharif-geo-tv-and-jang-group-of.html


Mr. Shaheen Shebai [Former Correspondent of Daily Dawn Pakistan, Former Editor of The News International, Ex Director News of ARY ONE TV Channel, Former Director of GEO News Network, and presently on of the many Editors of The News International, Jang Group of Newspapers, Pakistan] I hope you remember the background of Mr Shahin Sehbai [One of the Editor of The News International and earlier he was in Dawn], he had escaped from Pakistan [to save himself from the wrath of the Establishment headed by General Musharraf and Co particularly after the Controversy of Shaheen Sehbai's Story on the Murder of Daniel Pearl after the start of War on Terror] and Mr Shaheen used to run a Web Based News Service i.e. South Asia Tribune but suddenly Mr Shaheen Sehbai reappeared and closed his website [whereas Mr Shaheen during his self imposed exile in USA used to raise hue and cry against the Military Establishment that he and his family member's life is in danger] he returned to Pakistan and that too under the same Martial Law of General Musharraf and joined ARY TV Channel then GEO and then The News International [where he is presently working].


Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi and Ahmed Quraishi - 1 http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/01/shaheen-sehbai-ansar-abbasi-and-ahmed.html
Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi and Ahmed Quraishi - 2
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/01/shaheen-sehbai-ansar-abbasi-and-ahmed_16.html Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi and Ahmed Quraishi - 3
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/01/shaheen-sehbai-ansar-abbasi-and-ahmed_4176.html Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi and Ahmed Quraishi - 4
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/01/shaheen-sehbai-ansar-abbasi-and-ahmed_6769.html Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi and Ahmed Quraishi - 5
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/01/shaheen-sehbai-ansar-abbasi-and-ahmed_6433.html Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi and Ahmed Quraishi - 6
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/01/shaheen-sehbai-ansar-abbasi-and-ahmed_17.html

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

C.M. NAIM on Pakistan’s Conspiracy Theorists a.k.a. Urdu Columnists

C. M. NAIM is Professor Emeritus of Urdu at the University of Chicago. Besides being an acclaimed columnist, he has written extensively on Urdu language and literature and has translated widely from Urdu fiction and poetry.

Conspiracy theories naturally abound in these columns, with three dependable conspirators: America, India (i.e. Bharat in Urdu; never Hindustan), and Israel. The labels may change and become CIA, RAW, and Mossad, or Nasara (the Christians), Hunud (the Hindus), and Yahud (the Jews), but their axis of evil remains unchanged. The alliteration of the last two—hunud andyahud—makes them a favourite and indivisible pair; they generate an assertion that no one questions in Urdu in Pakistan….

The difference between the Urdu and English sister papers nurtured by the same family of publishers also stood out in stark contrast with reference to the reporting on a fatwa issued by some convention of Sunni ‘Ulema on May 17. According to Jang, the learned men of God had declared that it was haraam to commit suicide bombings, or cut the throats of Muslims. According to The News, however, the Sunni scholars had “termed the suicide attacks and beheadings as haraam.” The sages most likely meant what was said in English, but the Urdu version carried its own slant recklessly and never made it clear that the fatwa covered the necks of Muslims and non-Muslims alike. …

Finally, since I come from India, I must point out that Urdu newspapers in India are in no way better. Their columns and editorials carry similar feats of conspiratorial thinking and convoluted reasoning. And in rhetorical passion they can match any Pakistani columnist. I have written about them in the past, most recently in 2007 in a note concerning the treatment meted out to Taslima Nasreen at Hyderabad. -- C.M. Naim.

In A La-La Land - Some of the most popular Urdu Columnists in Pakistan seem to function in a world of their own creation—it challenges rational thinking. by C.M. NAIM


For the past five or six months I’ve been reading fairly regularly the web pages of three Urdu newspapers from Pakistan: Jang, Nawa-i-Waqt and the Express. I glance at the headlines cursorily then immediately turn to the columnists. Most days, each of the three carries a minimum of six columnists. Some of them are big names; they frequently appear on TV shows, get regularly invited to the President’s residence, and travel with the Prime Minister on important trips. These gentlemen never let you forget all that. One or two even give details of the food served on such occasions—there is always plenty of food served, not just a cup of tea, when they visit with any dignitary.

Some of them repeatedly tell us how uniquely they know the “history” of everything—how things actually happened, be it in Pakistan of here and now or any country in the past. They also inform us that had their advice been properly understood or taken, the disaster that followed in many cases could have been avoided. None of the sages has ever made a serious error of judgment. And if one of them ever makes a rare acknowledgment of that nature, it is always as a charge of betrayal on the part of some other party.

Conspiracy theories naturally abound in these columns, with three dependable conspirators: America, India (i.e. Bharat in Urdu; never Hindustan), and Israel. The labels may change and become CIA, RAW, and Mossad, or Nasara (the Christians), Hunud (the Hindus), and Yahud (the Jews), but their axis of evil remains unchanged. The alliteration of the last two—hunud andyahud—makes them a favourite and indivisible pair; they generate an assertion that no one questions in Urdu in Pakistan.

In these columns one discovers that M. A. Jinnah and Muhammad Iqbal were never correctly understood by except the particular columnist. They also offer amazing bits of ‘history’—often with a grand flourish. You can be sure to face something remarkable soon if the paragraph begins with the words: “Tarikh gavaah hai” “History is My Witness.” Fairly often a column might appear to have been written, not to communicate some idea or information, but for the sheer joy of writing those pretty words that, for plenty of Urduwalas, make it the “sweetest” language in the world.

Urdu newspapers—or for that matter, the English language ones—do not seem to employ fact checkers or copy editors for their columnists; they seldom carry any correction except of the most minor kind. One, in fact, wonders if their editors read them. One can be quite certain that the English newspaper editors and columnists in Pakistan don’t read them, not even if these Urdu columns appear in a sister publication brought out by their own publisher. In my limited experience of reading the columns in the Daily Times and the News fairly regularly—and inDawn, infrequently—I have not come across any column in English that commented in any fashion on some Urdu column or columnist. But the Urdu columnists are certainly read by a huge number of people, who save them and treat them as gospel truth. Recently one of them published a call for people to send him their saved cuttings of his column so that he could put together a book; in no time he had more than enough.

I must now offer some illustrations. But first I must hasten to add that not all Urdu columnists in Pakistan write in that manner. Quite a few—Hameed Akhtar, Zaheda Hena, Munno Bhai, Tanwir Qaisar Shahid, Asghar Nadeem Sayyad, Abdullah Tariq Suhail, Kishwar Naheed, Rafeeq Dogar, to name my own favourites—consistently write with clarity, sober reasoning, and in a manner that is both eloquent and passionate. As for the others—the majority—meet a few below.

Hamid Mir writes a regular column in Jang; he writes with passion but is usually quite careful. I was taken aback when I read his column on April 27. He gave it the title “Children, True of Heart.” In it he described a meeting he addressed where school children were present, and where one child stood up and told him something that he had not known before. The child pointed out, Mir wrote, that America was such a sworn enemy of Pakistan that when Pakistan was born in 1947, the United States refused to recognize it for two years. The U.S. did so, according to the child, because it expected Pakistan to collapse and disappear any day. Mr. Mir was so moved by the child’s fervour and knowledge about Pakistan that he decided to write a column and acknowledge his ignorance of the truth that even a child knew. (In fact the U.S.A. recognized Pakistan on August 15, 1947, and opened an embassy the same day; the first American ambassador arrived six months later.)

Dr. A Q Khan of Kahuta fame writes regularly in both Jang and its sister English journal, The News. In his Urdu column on April 29, Dr. Khan claimed that President Obama had no authority of his own, that he was in fact totally controlled by the white men who stood to his right and left in photographs. He then asserted, without naming his sources, that President Obama had once asked that the Ka’ba should be destroyed, for that would put an end to all the conflicts the world was faced with. When I checked the English version I found it contained no mention of the Ka’ba. On inquiry, an editor at The News informed me that it had been deleted because it was based on hearsay. Apparently, hearsay was all right so long it was in Urdu.

Safir Ahmad Siddiqui, not a regular columnist, wrote a piece in Jang on May 17, denouncing any possible attempt on the part of the government to allow transit facilities to India in its trade with Afghanistan. Mr. Siddiqui reminded the readers: "what the Indians did to the Pakistanis POWs after the war of 1971-2 was of such cruel nature that historians forgot what Hitler and Mussolini had done in their prison camps." He then presented an analogy whose logic, not to mention factual accuracy, was mind-boggling. According to him Pakistan should learn something or other from Hitler and Poland. According to Mr. Siddiqui, Hitler wanted back his two lost seaports Alsace and Lorraine from Poland—no, I’m not making it up—and resorted to force only when Poland refused him even transit facilities. Therefore, Mr. Siddiqui concluded, Pakistan should also refuse India any transit facility.

The difference between the Urdu and English sister papers nurtured by the same family of publishers also stood out in stark contrast with reference to the reporting on a fatwa issued by some convention of Sunni ‘Ulema on May 17. According to Jang, the learned men of God had declared that it was haraam to commit suicide bombings, or cut the throats of Muslims. According to The News, however, the Sunni scholars had “termed the suicide attacks and beheadings as haraam.” The sages most likely meant what was said in English, but the Urdu version carried its own slant recklessly and never made it clear that the fatwa covered the necks of Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Abdul Qadir Hasan is a top-slot columnist in The Express—despite the name the paper is in Urdu. On May 17, he wrote:

"In 1948, 1965, and 1971, and now again in 2009 we are fighting a fourth war with India. In this war we fight not only India but also its two patrons, USA and Israel. This triad is bent on destroying us. And this war is much more dangerous than the first three wars. In those wars, armies faced and fought armies, but this time it is a clandestine war, in which one side consists of Bharat-trained and armed guerrillas, i.e. Taliban, and facing them on the other side stands the regular soldiers of Pakistan.”

This theme, common to so many columnists, was given its most perfervid interpretation five days later (May 22) by Dr. Ajmal Niazi, who is a top-slot columnist in Nawa-i-Waqt. He entitled his column: ''Pakistan will be the battlefield of the Third World War.” He made three powerful assertions—he did not use the word mubayyana (“alleged”) anywhere. (The word is rarely, if at all, used in Urdu columns.).

Seymour Hersh, Dr. Niazi claimed, had disclosed that Benazir Bhutto was killed at the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney, and by a death squad commanded by Gen. Stanley C Crystal. He further claimed that Z.A. Bhutto, Murtaza Bhutto, and Benazir Bhutto were all killed by the Americans. Finally, Dr. Niazi claimed that Benazir Bhutto had given an interview to Al-Jazira on Nov. 2, 2007, in which she had said that Osama bin Laden was already dead, and that he had been killed at the orders of Shaikh Umar Sa'id. But the Americans ordered [whom?] to have the remark deleted, because if bin Laden were already dead they—the Americans—would have had no reason to do what they did in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Having thus established to his own and his readers’ satisfaction a chain of reasoning, Dr. Niazi concluded his column with a scary flourish.

“The Western and American media are in an uproar over Pakistan’s nuclear bombs, but they should also listen to me. I’m telling them that if the nuclear weapons of Pakistan were put in any danger the third world war will immediately start. Then both India and Israel will cease to exist. What will the United States do then? The battlefield of ‘World War III’ will be Pakistan.”

Then there are the wonderful “insider’s exclusives” about the great ones. Here is Mr. Majeed Nizami, the chief editor and owner of Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation, in a letter to his main rival Jang (May 23), explaining a remark he reportedly had made.

“The bomb-exploder prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif had called a meeting of some 60 or 70 journalists and editors to seek their advice before deciding to have the nuclear tests. Many people of I.A. Haqqani’s ilk opposed the idea, and tried to frighten him by warning of America's wrath. He clearly seemed to waver. At that time I was indeed forced to speak to him firmly. ‘Miyan Sahib,’ I said to him, ‘explode the bomb otherwise the nation will explode you. We will explode you.' And Almighty Allah gave him the ability to explode the bomb. But before that could happen President Clinton phoned him five times, offered millions in bribe, and [finally even] threatened him [personally].”

And here is a charming vignette from one of Mr. Mahmud Sham’s columns—I regret my failure to note the date; it was sometime in May—that contained excerpts from his book of interviews.

“Dr Fahmida Mirza has vacated her seat for me and taken another chair. Now I'm seated on the chair next to the Daughter of the East, the first Muslim woman Prime Minister in the Muslim World, the Life Chairperson of P.P.P., Honourable Benazir Bhutto. Also present are other senior journalists, TV anchorpersons, newspaper proprietors, and her party's senior leaders. She wants to know if she should take part in the elections... It's a good thing that she is seeking advice from people who are outside her party. Most of us want her to take part in the elections. She is asking each person individually. The tea has come, together with Chaat. She herself enjoys Chaat. Her dupatta keeps slipping, but she never lets it fall. I'm seeing her after many years and so my feelings are intense.”

In this la-la land of column writing in Urdu in Pakistan three names stand out in my view: Irfan Siddiqui, Dr. Aamir Liaquat Husain, and Haroon-al-Rashid. All three are regular columnists forJang. The first two surpass everyone in finding ‘facts’ where facts may not exist; they also write with great verve in an Urdu that has all the flourishes and graces required in a ghazal. The third, Mr Haroon-al-Rashid, is in a class by himself. I cannot put into English his pyrotechnical Urdu and his riffs of free-association. He must be read in the original. But here is one sample each of Mr. Siddiqui’s and Dr. Husain’s insightful writings.

In a column in May—I apologize again for not noting the date—Dr Husain first defended himself against the charges of faking his doctorate degree, then wrote:

“Those who invoke the name of the Qaid-e-Azam should first show they have the samenafs [“lower self” in mystical thought]. He was educated in England, grew up surrounded by Western culture, and started his political life from the platform of a secular party. But when he became the leader of 'those who were his own' he never took removed his cap from his head or took off sherwani; he did not let his nafs rule over him for a moment; he did not use the broom of greed to sweep the yard of his desires (sic). He knew he was the leader of the Muslims, and so he always looked like them among them. He knew how to wear a suit much better than many who wear suits; he knew how to cross his legs and smoke cigars. He had seen such scenes many times in the durbar of the British, but he also understood that millions of people oppressed by the Hindus had whole-heartedly claimed him as their own. And so he gave all his wishes and desires the name of Pakistan, and never looked back to that Muhammad Ali who perhaps had some personal desires too.”

And here is Mr Irfan Siddiqui on a topic that was hot for a couple of days in May. He wrote in his column in Jang (May 23):

“President Zardari was in Washington. A schoolmistress named Hilary Clinton had him and the Clown of Kabul sit on her either side, and then lectured them. In every gathering, every meeting, and every function it was specially arranged that Hamid Karzai should be on the right hand [of the American dignitary] and President Zardari on the left. I do not recall any occasion in the past when an American Secretary of State conducted a meeting of two presidents in such a fashion.”

Finally, since I come from India, I must point out that Urdu newspapers in India are in no way better. Their columns and editorials carry similar feats of conspiratorial thinking and convoluted reasoning. And in rhetorical passion they can match any Pakistani columnist. I have written about them in the past, most recently in 2007 in a note concerning the treatment meted out to Taslima Nasreen at Hyderabad.

C. M. NAIM is Professor Emeritus of Urdu at the University of Chicago. Besides being an acclaimed columnist, he has written extensively on Urdu language and literature and has translated widely from Urdu fiction and poetry.

SOURCE: NEW AGE ISLAM / Outlook newsmagazine, New Delhi.

URL: http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1665