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Article: The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI
Article: The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI
Article: The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI
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Pakistan government has wavered between democracy and
dictatorship and as always its military-intelligence apparatus, the ISI, has
maintained strong go-between links with the successive USA Government administrations. ISI appears to be the only
covert apparatus in the intelligence world that maintained direct ties with
Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda; again, without doubt, as the “go-between” of
the ubiquitous CIA. Moreover, during the Cold War period, Osama bin Laden was
an important intelligent asset of the CIA.
General Zia ul-Haq created the ISI, during his dictatorship rule (1977-1988)
over Pakistan, in order to oversee intelligence on the
Afghan-Pakistani border. The development of the USA’s improved relationship
with the Pakistan General
Zia ul-Haq’s regime, also resulted with the reinforcement of the CIA-ISI nexus.
In the process of fiercely implementing his policy of the ‘Islamisation” of the Pakistan State, General
Zia, promoted the mushrooming of the religious schools, “madrassas”, all over Pakistan; the breeding ground for
Islamic militants and die-hard Jihadist, namely the “Mujahideen”.
These schools initially were mostly financed by the fanatical Islamic Wahabi
sect from the Saudi Arabia. Naturally,
under the control of the CIA, the ISI provided the militant “Jehadi” doctrine
and guerilla-style training of warfare. For all his zealous efforts, General Zia
had to ultimately pay the price with his death (in August 1988) when his
sabotaged plane crashed. There were
media reports suspecting CIA links with the untimely death of General Zia.
Pakistan government and the ISI
helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden in the war to get the Soviets out
of Afghanistan (1989). The fanatical Taliban government, supported by massive
aid from Pakistan’s military and intelligence throughout these years, under the
direction of the CIA, was no doubt tolerated by the USA, despite its inhuman
excesses under Sharia Law, because the ruling Taliban served its geopolitical
interests in the region. For the USA being in Afghanistan, by any means, meant
taking control
of the massive oil and gas resources of the Caspian Basin region.
Elsewhere, the CIA used ISI as go-between
the Islamist militant outfits for carrying covert operations in Balkans, Caucasus – Chechnya and Dagestan and Central Asia
including China’s Xinjiang-Uigur region. These terrorists
were indoctrinated and trained in the CIA-sponsored camps in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. Even during the civil war in Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Muslims were provided support
arranged through the ISI network including war-experienced Mujahadeen and huge quantities of weapons and ammunition. USA
even turned a blind eye to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards infiltration of fighting
men and rockets into Bosnia.
The
funding in particular came and still does from the oil-money rich Saudi Islamic Wahhabi sect, other Gulf States, as an economic aid, from their large corporate establishments and their private
citizens, as charity and donations, and not the least from a host of illegal
activities such as, drug-money laundering, stolen oil from pipelines,
counterfeit money, and smuggling of weapons including nuclear materials, also prostitution, kidnapping and so on. In the past, Afghanistan’s fertile opium fields contributed to over 70% of
world’s heroin while CIA
assets controlled this heroin trade for US strategic reasons.
To be continued ...
Paul Rodricks,
Author & Freelance Writer.
I invite your comments and queries. Thank you.
Paul Rodricks
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