Of Cold War, Domestic Espionage, & Wiretapping

Civil society, politicians often raise hue and cry over the political work and operation by Intelligence agencies and to some extent their apprehensions are right on the mark but saying this that in “Civilized World” there are some Laws and Regulations for these operations particularly in connection with Telephone Tapping and Bugging, is far from reality . I wouldn't condone or support any political duties or charter for Intelligence Agencies unless Human Life is in danger, Threat to the Integrity of the Country or  to Sensitive Installations, such political duties must totally be the charter of Provincial Special Branches of Police. Political Duties or Operation affect the morals of Intelligence operatives and affect their operational capabilities in their genuine area of operation and i.e. Counter Intelligence or Operations within their country to counter the operations launched by hostile forces , what is being done in Pakistan that almost every Intelligence Agency and Police too are detailed on Political Duties thereby causing huge financial losses to national exchequer and criminal neglect to their actual duties which is ultimately to restore Order in the state.

Telephone Tapping and Bugging - 1 (Apna Apna Gareban 30/3/15)



Telephone Tapping and Bugging - 1 (Apna Apna... by SalimJanMazari

 Telephone Tapping and Bugging - 2 (Apna Apna Gareban 31/3/15)

 

Telephone Tapping and Bugging - 2 (Apna Apna... by SalimJanMazari

Since the days of General Ziaul Haq the use of Spy Agencies in Political Duties to make or break political parties and manipulate politics of the country has only harmed the country in a worse possible way and I will hold General (R) Mirza Aslam Beg, General ® Hamid Gul, General ® Asad Durrani, General ® Mahmud, Major ® Aamir , Brigadier ® Imtiaz , General ® Javed Nasir etc responsible for playing with the fate and destiny of this country and bringing country to the threshold of dismemberment . These Numskulls I mentioned earlier have no shame to admit on record that they have been in connection with US Central Intelligence in one way or another and in some cases with Mossad as well and then these very gentleman brag that they actually countered the Western Spy apparatus from harming Pakistan as if we are all some fools and cannot read what harm these gentleman have done to the federation by manipulating Pakistani politics via creating Ethnic and Sectarian goons in every province to counter those political parties who represent Federation, does Mehran Bank Scandal ring any bell?

To keep the record straight, the Civil Society, Journalists & Politicians need lots of reading about domestic espionage in the alleged Civilized World e.g read Patriot Act, Church Committee Report, Cointel Pro of FBI and particularly after Wikileaks and latest Edward Snowden leaks and list goes on and on. Why these politicians conveniently forget what they do with their political rivals in Pakistan via these Intelligence Agencies which they later condemn. Journalists should also accept the blame that these very journalists who complain about Intelligence agencies are often found promoting some of the very unsavory characters the names I mentioned above as “Guarding Angel or Knight in shining armour” .

References:

1 - Hamid Gul accepts responsibility for creating IJI http://www.dawn.com/news/760219/hamid-gul-accepts-responsibilty-for-creating-igi OCT 30, 2012

2 - MQM was established to counter Sindhi nationalists: Beg http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/05-Sep-2009/mqm-was-established-to-counter-sindhi-nationalists-beg 05 September 2009

3 - Only bean-spilling spooks can tell why http://www.dawn.com/news/850868/only-bean-spilling-spooks-can-tell-why SEP 01, 2009 by Zaffar Abbas

4 - 13 spymasters gather to stare at each other http://www.dawn.com/news/858125/13-spymasters-gather-to-stare-at-each-other OCT 09, 2009 by Azaz Syed

5 -  "Intelligence agencies are well-equipped to tackle subversive politics" By Aoun Sahi http://jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2009-weekly/nos-02-08-2009/dia.htm#5

6 -  Victimized for loyalty By Hafizur Rahman DAWN - Opinion; April 10, 2002 http://www.dawn.com/news/1062948/dawn-opinion-april-10-2002

7 -  Reforming the Intelligence Agencies in Pakistan’s Transitional Democracy Frédéric Grare http://carnegieendowment.org/files/pakistan_intelligence_transitional_democracy.pdf

8 - MQM in broad accord with Gul From Ather Ali DAWN WIRE SERVICE 20 July, 1995 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/zohkohb0i282t94/Area%20Studies/public/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1995/20Jly95.html#mqmi

9 -  Asghar Khan case verdict: An interesting peek into minds of then military bosses http://www.dawn.com/news/762661/sc-verdict-in-the-asghar-khan-case-an-interesting-peek-into-minds-of-then-military-bosses NOV 09, 2012

10 - Brig Imtiaz's arrest demanded for communist leader's murder http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/31-Aug-2009/brig-imtiaz-s-arrest-demanded-for-communist-leader-s-murder by Amar Guriro - 31 August 2009

11 - Sectarianism the Players & the Game by Azmat Abbas http://www.scribd.com/doc/184839525/Sectarianism-the-Players-the-Game-by-Azmat-Abbas 

12 - Amnesty International Report on Shia Genocide in Pakistan 2002 http://www.scribd.com/doc/178645945/Amnesty-International-Report-on-Shia-Genocide-in-Pakistan-2002

13 - Asghar Khan Case Detailed Judgement (Mehran Bank Scandal) http://www.scribd.com/doc/112690424/Asghar-Khan-Case-Detailed-Judgement-Mehran-Bank-Scandal 

14 - Human Rights Crisis in Karachi (1996 Amnesty International) http://www.scribd.com/doc/258709822/Human-Rights-Crisis-in-Karachi-1996-Amnesty-International

15 - Operation Cleanup Against MQM 1992 - 1 http://www.scribd.com/doc/259781709/Operation-Cleanup-Against-MQM-1992-1

16 -  Operation Cleanup Against MQM 1992 - 2 http://www.scribd.com/doc/259781642/Operation-Cleanup-Against-MQM-1992-2

17 - Operation Cleanup Against MQM 1992 - 3 http://www.scribd.com/doc/259781510/Operation-Cleanup-Against-MQM-1992-3

18 - Operation Cleanup Against MQM 1992 - 4 http://www.scribd.com/doc/259781573/Operation-Cleanup-Against-MQM-1992-4

19 - Operation Cleanup Against MQM 1992 - 5 http://www.scribd.com/doc/259798975/Operation-Cleanup-Against-MQM-1992-5

20 - Afaq says he, Altaf got money from Younus http://www.dawn.com/news/704058/afaq-says-he-altaf-got-money-from-younus MAR 19, 2012

21 - Aslam Beg likes to remind visitors that he was one of a group of army officers trained by the C.I.A. in the 1950’s as a “stay-behind organization” that would melt into the population if ever the Soviet Union overran Pakistan. Those brigadiers and lieutenant colonels then trained and directed the Afghan jihadis. In the Land of the Taliban By ELIZABETH RUBIN Published: October 22, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/magazine/22afghanistan.html?pagewanted=all

22 - CIA trained Pak army officers for Soviet invasion: Gen Beg http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/23-Oct-2006/cia-trained-pak-army-officers-for-soviet-invasion-gen-beg October 23, 2006 by Khalid Hasan

23 - Pakistan got Israeli weapons during Afghan war http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/main/20-Jul-2003/pakistan-got-israeli-weapons-during-afghan-war July 20, 2003

24 - Charlie Wilson’s war by Masood Haider DAWN - Features; July 23, 2003 http://www.dawn.com/news/1064817

25 -  Church Committee Reports http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/contents.htm

26 - US agency spied on Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King http://www.dawn.com/news/1045922/us-agency-spied-on-muhammad-ali-martin-luther-king SEP 28, 2013 ED PILKINGTON

27 - COINTELPRO is an acronym for the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program, which was used in the 1960s to monitor, manipulate and disrupt social and political movements in the United States. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Black Panthers, anti-Vietnam War activists, and the American Indian Movement were among the program’s targets. Democracy Now! has extensively covered COINTELPRO and its aftermath, as well as similar tactics still used against today’s generation of political activists. COINTELPRO http://www.democracynow.org/topics/cointelpro

28 - Mufti Shamzai — a profile http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/31-May-2004/mufti-shamzai-a-profile 31 May 2004 

29 - Ex-CIA chiefconfirms Pakistan was bullied http://www.dawn.com/news/244946/ex-cia-chiefconfirms-pakistan-was-bullied ANWAR IQBAL MAY 01, 2007

30 - Zulfikar commission suggested law to legalise IB working http://www.dawn.com/news/707007/zulfikar-commission-suggested-law-to-legalise-ib-working MAR 31, 2012

31 - It`s never a quick fix at the CIA http://www.dawn.com/news/488045/itaes-never-a-quick-fix-at-the-cia SEP 02, 2009

32 - How a jilted Karachi woman saved Pak N-programme by Rauf Klasra Thursday, May 28, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=22396&Cat=13&dt=5/29/2009

33 - Brig Imtiaz reveals CIA plots by Ansar Abbasi Tuesday, September 01, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=24241&Cat=13&dt=9/1/2009 

34 - Demand to reopen Abbasi murder case AUG 10, 2009 http://www.dawn.com/news/949184/demand-to-reopen-abbasi-murder-case 

35 - The politics of Brigadier ‘Billa’ BY Tahir Hasan Khan Monday, August 31, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=195836&Cat=4&dt=8/31/2009

GEO TV plays with the Innocent Lives, Hamper/Tamper with Investigation & Crime Scene.

Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza paid tribute to the personnel of the Sindh police and the Frontier Constabulary for fighting against terrorists with valour and bravery. He spoke against the terrorists as well as a section of private news channels for misreporting the figures of dead and wounded. “What system they [news channels] have evolved which informed them about the quantity of the explosives used in the blast, make and number of the engine before the police, the CID, the ISI and other law-enforcement agencies.” He accused the media of scaring the people and vowed to sue them in a court of law. - The forensic evidence was badly spoiled by the onslaught of media personal and unconcerned people at the crime scene. REFERENCES: Another MQM walkout over flood tax By Habib Khan Ghori http://www.dawn.com/2010/11/13/another-mqm-walkout-over-flood-tax.html Witnesses say some terrorists may have escaped By S. Raza Hassan http://www.dawn.com/2010/11/13/witnesses-say-some-terrorists-may-have-escaped-html

WITHOUT ANY DETAILED INVESTIGATION HOW DOES THE GEO TV/JANG GROUP KNOW THE "EXACT DETAILS"

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Terror revisits Karachi; 13 dead, 140 hurt

Updated at: 2200 PST, Thursday, November 11, 2010 KARACHI: At least 13 people have been killed and 140 others sustained injuries in a powerful blast at CID building located near Sindh Chief Minister House in a very sensitive area of the metropolis, Geo News reported Thursday. According to sources, the attacker(s) driving a truck, bearing number N 219121, and packed with 1000 kilograms of explosive material detonated it inside the premises of the building of Central Investigation Department (CID) located in the red zone of the metropolis, completely destroying the building. Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan took no time in claiming responsibility of the attack. It is pertinent to mention here that 6 terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were brought into the CID building yesterday for investigation. Just before the explosion, some terrorists came in another vehicle and traded gunshots with the police at the CID building, eyewitnesses said. Ambulances shifted the bodies and wounded to nearby hospitals where emergency has been declared. A number of houses located near Civil Lines were also damaged while the powerful shock wave released by the blast also shattered windowpanes of a number of surrounding buildings. Office of DSP Saddar was also partially damaged as a result of the blast which left a 10-12 ft deep crater on the ground at the site of the attack. Sindh Home Minister, Dr.Zulfiqar Mirza who reached the site of the blast said the attack appears similar to the one that targeted Marriot Hotel in Islamabad. He also said that a truck packed with explosives slammed into the CID building causing the massive blast. Heavy machinery has been made available at the blast site to remove the rubble. Death toll is feared to rise further as more people might have been buried under the debris. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani have expressed shock on the tragic incident and condemned it in the strongest terms. Both of them have ordered high level inquiry into the deadly attack in the heart of Karachi – the biggest city of Pakistan. REFERENCE: Terror revisits Karachi; 13 dead, 140 hurt Updated at: 2200 PST, Thursday, November 11, 2010 http://www.geo.tv/11-11-2010/74204.htm "UNQUOTE"

Senseless, Cruel and Third Rate Pakistani Media plays with the life of Innocent

Former president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists Mazhar Abbas said that on the whole media’s role in the entire episode left a lot to be desired. “We go by the official version and don’t even use words like ‘alleged’. We (the media) must be very careful when an allegation is being levelled against someone,” said Mr Abbas. He said that the electronic media totally ignored these guidelines and did not even express regret if someone had been cleared by court or law-enforcers through an inquiry. “Throughout his ordeal, Faiz remained quite confident but we were devastated. We spent sleepless nights since Sunday when it all began,” his family members said. REFERENCE: ‘Therapy shoes’ passenger mulls action against ASF By S. Raza Hassan Saturday, 15 May, 2010 http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/local/therapy-shoes-passenger-mulls-action-against-asf-550

Talking on the adjournment motion, Home Minster Dr Zulfiqar Mirza criticised the reporting of some media sections regarding the attack on the CID police headquarters. “We will knock the doors of judiciary against false reporting and sensationalism of media that is creating panic,” he said. The minister said the media claimed that about 1,000 kg explosives were used in attack and questioned if the terrorists had told the media about the weight or they had some laboratories to know the force of the blast? - Giving an example of incorrect reporting, Mirza said that a news channel claimed that around 1,000 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the blast even though no official confirmed that. “Did the terrorists inform the media houses directly or do they have laboratories where they can find out the force of the blast?” he questioned. REFERENCES: SA condemns attack on CID office By Masroor Afzal Pasha Saturday, November 13, 2010 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\11\13\story_13-11-2010_pg12_4 Mirza derides media for ‘incorrect’ reporting on blast November 13th, 2010. http://tribune.com.pk/story/76607/mirza-derides-media-for-incorrect-reporting-on-blast/

A Glimpse of Maddening Media Frenzy which caused serious Mental and Financial Shock to a Family

KARACHI, May 14: The Muscat-bound passenger detained at the airport on Sunday night and later given a security clearance by a joint interrogation team for wearing ‘therapy shoes’ is preparing to sue the Airport Security Force for damages, his family members told Dawn on Friday. Faiz Mohammad was detained by the ASF for wearing shoes fitted with electric circuit and batteries and was presented before the media as a potential “terrorist”. The 30-year-old bearded passenger was booked on a Thai Airways flight (TG-507) on May 9. He remained in custody for almost three days, though no FIR was registered against him. “Following his detention, Faiz was confident and explained to ASF officials that he had purchased the shoes from the market where they are readily available, but what left him shaken was that he was led away in handcuffs and presented before the electronic media [as a potential terrorist],” recalled Niaz Mohammad, who was present outside the airport at that time but was unable to do anything for his younger brother. It was through television channels that the family learnt about what Faiz was going through at the airport. They [the electronic media] were so quick to air the footage of Faiz that they did not even verify the facts, said Niaz, adding that the harrowing episode left his family traumatised and nearly jeopardised his brother’s career.

After thorough grilling, it turned out that Faiz was wearing the “Good Vibrations” shoes, described on a website as “designed to massage away the aches and a pain throughout the day rather than after the damage is done”. The Muscat police started their own investigations and visited the place of his residence and questioned Faiz’s friends. They finally cleared him of suspicion, said Niaz. Faiz, who was earlier working for a construction company, had a company visa which ended with his job there. He managed to set up a business there in partnership with some investors, who recently sent him a visa. However, they became scared when they learned about his ordeal. “They were about to cancel the visa some three days back, but we have persuaded them not to do so as things have been sorted out,” explained Niaz.

“Even when Faiz was being taken to the police station, we were told that he would be released soon, as there was no FIR or other incriminating evidence against him,” his elder brother said. But with so much media hype whipped up, it seemed that Faiz had already been convicted even without an FIR, his brother complained. Niaz said his brother’s passport and ticket were seized by the police but he was likely to get the travel documents back in a day or two. He added that though there was generally a three-day deadline to claim a ticket refund, Thai Airways had been kind enough to fully refund the ticket without making any deduction keeping in view of the ordeal Faiz went through. Niaz said that intelligence sleuths were still buying therapy shoes from the market to show to their superiors that such shoes were available at Teen Talwar, Nagan Chowrangi and other markets of the city.

Former president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists Mazhar Abbas said that on the whole media’s role in the entire episode left a lot to be desired. “We go by the official version and don’t even use words like ‘alleged’. We (the media) must be very careful when an allegation is being levelled against someone,” said Mr Abbas. He said that the electronic media totally ignored these guidelines and did not even express regret if someone had been cleared by court or law-enforcers through an inquiry. “Throughout his ordeal, Faiz remained quite confident but we were devastated. We spent sleepless nights since Sunday when it all began,” his family members said. They said that though it was finally over the kind of damage they and Faiz Mohammad suffered was indescribable. Niaz said they had not been issued any document following the interrogation by the JIT stating that Faiz was innocent all along, but “we expect that court will in some way address our grievances”. Faiz is unmarried and has an elder brother and a sister. “He has a diploma in civil engineering. We are self-made people and are proud of the fact that our father used to be a construction worker,” his elder brother said. The ASF spokesman was unavailable for comment. REFERENCE: ‘Therapy shoes’ passenger mulls action against ASF By S. Raza Hassan Saturday, 15 May, 2010 http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/local/therapy-shoes-passenger-mulls-action-against-asf-550