Ex-ISI Chief Reveals
Secret Missile Shipments to Bosnia defying UN Embargo
Special
SAT Report
LAHORE: Pakistan defied the United Nations ban on supply of arms
to the Bosnian Muslims and sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles
were air lifted by the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, to
help Bosnians fight the Serbs, an ex-ISI Chief has officially
admitted in a written petition submitted before a court in Lahore.
The
document was submitted by Lt. General (Retd) Javed Nasir, who
was head of the ISI from March 1992 to May 1993, in a case he
filed against the owner and editors of the largest newspaper and
TV group of Pakistan, in an anti Terrorism Court. The court started
hearings of the case earlier this month.
The
document refers to the career of the ex-ISI Chief, recounting
his achievements and his credentials as a leading Islamic international
figure, who, he alleged, had been defamed by a report in the English
language newspaper ‘The News’, published by the Jang/News
Group, owned by Mir Shakil ur Rehman, the virtual media king of
Pakistan.
“The
complainant symbolizes the Islam loving populous of Pakistan by
being an active member of the Tableeghi Jamaat which stands and
works for the preaching of Islam…” his petition in
the Anti-Terrorism Court No III, based in Lahore, began. Click
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He
then recalled his role as ISI chief in putting together the Mujahideen
Government in Kabul, in April 1992 when Soviet-backed President
Najibullah was overthrown and US-backed Mujahideen took over Kabul.
In
self adulatory language, the General said in his petition: “On
14th March 1992 I was appointed as DG ISI and became an instant
international figure when in April 1992, through his persuasive
power and motivational talks he brought all the warring factions
of the Afghan Mujahideen to agree to the famous Peshawar Accord
and successfully installed the Mujahideen’s first Government
under (President) Mujadadi in Kabul.”
“A
true practicing Muslim, he would not compromise on the interests
of Islam and Pakistan,” the petition filed by Gen Nasir
said, and then revealed: “Despite UN ban on supply of arms
to the besieged Bosnians, he successfully air lifted sophisticated
anti-tank guided missiles which turned the tide in favour of Bosnian
Muslims and forced the Serbs to lift the siege, much to the annoyance
of the US Government.”
The
documents goes on to give details of how then the US threatened
Pakistan, then ruled by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to be declared
as a terrorist state, if Sharif did not remove him from the post
of the ISI chief.
“He
thus became the target of US, Indian and Secular minded lobbies
both inside and outside Pakistan. Having failed to buy him, the
US Government started a totally fabricated and mendaciously false
propaganda against him and demanded his removal as ISI chief,
failing which Pakistan would be declared a terrorist state,”
the petition filed by his lawyers in the court said.
“In
April 1993, the US Government finally warned Pakistan Government
in writing to remove the complainant as ISI’s head failing
which Pakistan was threatened to be declared a terrorists state.
It was therefore at the behest of the US Government’s official
demand that he was prematurely compulsorily retired from service
by the Caretaker Government of Mir Balkh Sher Mazari on 13th May
1993,” it said.
SA
Tribune learnt that the highly damaging disclosures by the ex-ISI
chief were objected to by the lawyers of the defendants, who had
the common sense to point out that these state secrets should
not be divulged by a person who was supposed to be responsible
and had occupied a sensitive post as the ISI chief.
But
despite the warnings, the petition of the General was not changed
and was included in the public record of the case against the
newspaper.
