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PM removes National Security Adviser Mahmud Durrani

Haqqani, Haroon rush to Pakistan
Thursday, January 08, 2009
By Azim M Mian

NEW YORK: The statement by National Security Adviser General (retd) Mehmud Ali Durrani and his subsequent dismissal has created a difficult situation for Pakistan in Washington and world capitals.

To consider the situation and review the strategy, both the Pakistani ambassadors departed for home “coincidently” on the same day, sources told The News.

According to the sources, Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani and Permanent Representative to the UN in New York Abdullah Hussain Haroon have left for Pakistan for necessary consultations and new directions to deal with the situation arising out of developments and changed situation in the last two days. The statement, admitting that Ajmal Kasab is a Pakistani national, has generated some difficulties for the Pakistani government in Washington and elsewhere, whereas it also indicates that the Zardari government has a weak control over its advisers and ministers, who are at liberty to make loose statements on sensitive issues.

Departure of the two Pakistani ambassadors has been confirmed by their offices in New York and Washington.

Meanwhile, responding to a phone call, Ambassador Hussain Haqqani confirmed that he was in transit at the Dubai Airport for his Pakistan-bound flight. He told this correspondent that his visit to Pakistan was scheduled for some time for the reason to meet his mother and other family members. He said once he is in Pakistan, he would visit the Foreign Office for consultations. Ambassador Haqqani is expected to be back in Washington within a week to finalise the forthcoming visit of President Zardari to Washington in late January.

Due to his sudden departure, Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon could not participate in the UN Security Council debate on Gaza, and Pakistani Deputy Permanent Representative Farooq Amil delivered a strong-worded speech against the Israeli attacks.

Another two bunch of Amriki pithoo's rushing to Pakistan to perhaps 'save' their jobs after their colleague-in-arms was fired!! :disagree: This Hussain Haqqani is for sure on the US parole!
 
A simplest answer to all those questions about ZIA crash and Maj Gen Durrani lies in an exclusive edition of a magazine which was published on 17th Aug 1992....the name of the Magazine was Takbeer....

This issue was a sooooper hit over 3 different edition of the issue was published,the issue contains not only contain Exclusive pictures of C-130's wreckage but it also contains prints of secret Documents,letters too....and it has all answers....

The dilemma of situation is that the editor of this magazine was brutally assassinated and later on the magazine went in financial crisis and its publications stopped.

Can I find the transcripts online somewhere? What about the photographs. Why is there so much secrecy surrounding this today. I heard Ijaz-ul-haq wrote a book in urdu about this incident but why is nobody making websites and documentaries about this. It's important. Especially now in this time of crisis. People need to know how this whole thing worked.
 
Can I find the transcripts online somewhere? What about the photographs. Why is there so much secrecy surrounding this today. I heard Ijaz-ul-haq wrote a book in urdu about this incident but why is nobody making websites and documentaries about this. It's important. Especially now in this time of crisis. People need to know how this whole thing worked.

maqsad;sir
surly it will going to damge the image of , pakistan armed forces!:tsk:
 
Gilani, Zardari meet, discuss Durrani’s dismissal
dawn news today! website news

The meeting between the two lasted for an hour during which important national issues were discussed, including the dismissal of Mahmud Ali Durrani and the appointment of a new national security advisor.;)
President Zardari also reportedly said that while Pakistan was carrying out investigations on its side, India's continual allegations on the country were escalating tensions in the region.:eek::lol:
Earlier, President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani held a joint meeting with US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson in which several issues of national and regional significance were discussed, including the Pakistan-India tension, Ajmal Kasab and the national security adviser's dismissal.:wave:;):D
 
I like PM Gilani for his strictness.But now it is no use due to mishandling of this case and lot of controversy.
Here i will add Geo tv last night news anchor person comments
He was saying that "Geo had already prove it on 13 December, Geo believe in truth"
I am amazed what is the use of such truth which is against national interest.

So if Government is hiding secret news regarding any matter specially defense matter then Geo will present it as truth.

Imagine if Geo was present during early 90's then It is possible that Geo team go to Kahuta for special assignment to bring the truth that Pakistan has Nuclear Bomb.

It is war reality some time forces lose some area or major installations can be destroyed.
then one can expect from Geo in future War
Then they will say according our special report 30 PAF airplanes destroyed
10 square km area is capture by Indian forces in Sind.
major ammunition depot is destroyed bt indian attack

May God such thing never happened but this is part of the war
Responsible media hides such news to control the moral of forces and people
But i am afraid in case of Geo.
 
I like PM Gilani for his strictness.But now it is no use due to mishandling of this case and lot of controversy.
Here i will add Geo tv last night news anchor person comments
He was saying that "Geo had already prove it on 13 December, Geo believe in truth"
I am amazed what is the use of such truth which is against national interest.

So if Government is hiding secret news regarding any matter specially defense matter then Geo will present it as truth.

Imagine if Geo was present during early 90's then It is possible that Geo team go to Kahuta for special assignment to bring the truth that Pakistan has Nuclear Bomb.

It is war reality some time forces lose some area or major installations can be destroyed.
then one can expect from Geo in future War
Then they will say according our special report 30 PAF airplanes destroyed
10 square km area is capture by Indian forces in Sind.
major ammunition depot is destroyed bt indian attack

May God such thing never happened but this is part of the war
Responsible media hides such news to control the moral of forces and people
But i am afraid in case of Geo.

Thanks bro. GoP should do an audit of GEO to find their source of income.
 
America’s Foot Soldiers In Islamabad: Durrani’s Firing Reveals How Pakistan Is Penetrated At The Top


M. A. Durrani was busy leaking information to embarrass Pakistan internationally. He was part of an influential group in Islamabad that worked overtime to ensure Pakistan accepted blame for Mumbai and initiated action against the military and ISI without verifying the so-called evidence. Mr. Durrani says his leaks had the blessings of President Zardari. Who are they working for? Alarmingly, Pakistan’s security stands breached at the highest levels in the capital, where shady individuals are working for foreign interests with impunity. It is time for a major purge to cleanse Pakistani government and politics of foreign assets. Mr. Durrani should be debriefed as to whose interests he was serving in his sensitive position.


By AHMED QURAISHI




ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A secretive powerful group in the top corridors of the Pakistani government has been working overtime for the past few weeks to push Islamabad into publicly accepting the half-cooked ‘evidence’ provided by the United States and India that implicates Pakistan, its military and the ISI in the Mumbai attacks.


Two prominent names in this group are national security adviser Mehmud Ali Durrani and the Ambassador in Washington Husain Haqqani. They pushed hard for Pakistan to accept blame without verification and without pursuing other compelling leads in the Mumbai attacks. These other leads cast a wider net and significantly weaken India’s ‘Pakistan-only’ fixation.


The behavior of Mr. Durrani became particularly desperate in the last few days, and especially on Wednesday, Jan. 7. His boss, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, was not off the mark when he cited betrayal of Pakistan’s national security as the main reason for sacking Mr. Durrani.


The question is: Who was Mr. Durrani working for? There is even chatter about the possibility that he might be arrested and interrogated to determine whose interests he was serving. There is no question that his bold moves were sanctioned by President Zardari. It is also interesting to note that information minister Sherry Rehman came to Mr. Durrani’s rescue in the final stage of the bizarre power struggle that marked Durrani’s last few hours in office.


Given the traps created by this government for Pakistan and especially for the ISI after the Mumbai attacks, it is safe to conclude that Pakistan’s power echelons stand breached by individuals, like Mr. Durrani, who are keenly pursuing policy objectives of a foreign government or governments.


The conduct of Mr. Durrani, coupled with massive recent policy failures with direct bearing on national security, reinforce the need for a purge within the government and within the country’s political elite. Foreign governments have been able to penetrate both and cultivate assets. These ‘assets’ conduct their own private foreign policies directly with foreign powers without the approval or knowledge of the Pakistani state.


The Signs


Sitting in Washington, Ambassador Husain Haqqani has been wrangling with the Pakistan Foreign Office for several days now over the FBI evidence shared with Pakistan, which apparently includes a tape recording purporting to show a Pakistani citizen inside Pakistan talking to a Mumbai terrorist over telephone. Mr. Haqqani wants Pakistan to accept this piece of evidence as final proof that elements within Pakistan executed the attack on Mumbai. Other Pakistani officials disagree and say the audio tape and other information need to be verified by Pakistani experts to determine if it is fake or real. We don’t trust India and they don’t trust us. It’s as simple as that.


Durrani’s Suspicious Role


Behind the scenes, Mr. Durrani has been playing what amounts to a dirty role in this whole crisis with India. In the last week of December, he contacted a known Pakistani journalist working for the Wall Street Journal and leaked to him a ‘breaking’ a story: an activist of the defunct Lashkar Tayyeba in Pakistani custody had confessed to making phone calls to Mumbai terrorists.


It was strange that Mr. Durrani chose to leak this information to a U.S. newspaper. If the story was true [it wasn’t. It was officially debunked later] the Pakistani government would have released it through its spokespeople. The only plausible purpose of the leak was to embarrass Pakistan, quash the voices calling for evidence and verification, and push a weak government into accepting responsibility for the Mumbai attacks. It was a classic pressure tactic, in this case used by an insider – Mr. Durrani – against his own government.


Using this deliberate leak, the Wall Street Journal came out with an elaborate story . Its editors somehow linked the alleged confession to ISI’s tense relations with elected governments in the 1990s. There was a separate box in the story that gave a timeline to the supposed tense relations.


In short, Durrani’s leak to Wall Street Journal became a condemnation of the ISI. Which seems to be the whole purpose of the Indian drama anyway. The leak also weakened the effect of foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s rare bold statement that demanded India deactivate its forward air bases, withdraw troops and defuse the war hysteria.


Durrani’s leak in effect threw the ball back in the Pakistani court.


Desperation


With Ambassador Haqqani’s failure to convince Pakistani officials to accept the American evidence, the pro-American lobby in Islamabad began to get desperate. U.S. military chief Adm. Mike Mullen flew into Islamabad to convince President Zardari to allow the Indian air force to conduct limited ‘surgical strikes’. He asked Zardari to deactivate the state of alert in the Pakistan Air Force for this purpose. The deal was sealed if not for the strong stand taken by the Pakistani military. Mullen returned empty handed.


The ‘Charge Sheet’


Mr. Durrani’s reign of double dealings at the top, as Prime Minister’s adviser on national security, makes the list of foreign policy blunders by the government appear deliberate and calculated and not just the work of incompetent administrators:


The immediate admission of guilt on behalf of ISI, when Mr. Gilani was told to accept sending ISI chief to New Delhi on India’s ‘summon’.

The weak, apologetic diplomacy in the face of Indian warmongering.

Misleading China in the U.N. Security Council voting, resulting in incriminating Pakistani individuals and organizations without evidence. Some observers even go as far as saying that this vote has smoothed the way for future sanctions on Pakistan and its military if and when major powers pursue this.

The Zardari government is suspected of having dragged its feet on issuing orders to the Pakistani military to raise the level of alert even when Indian army, air force and navy were moving to forward positions. The plot becomes sinister when the consequences of this reluctance become clear. A snap attack by India when the Pakistani military was not ready could have resulted in humiliation for the military. This would have emboldened the current government to take on a humiliated military and pursue the U.S. agenda of dismantling the ISI and transform the Pakistani military into a glorified police force at the beck and call of U.S. and India. This ‘ideal role’ for Pakistan is now openly discussed in Washington and is no longer a secret.

The Memorable 7 January


The actions of Mr. Mehmud Ali Durrani on this day show how desperate he had become to see Pakistan taking the blame and submitting before India. This portion of the story needs careful reading because it reveals how far this game goes to the top levels of the Pakistani government.


Mr. Durrani apparently leaked to an Indian TV channel and a couple of Pakistani news channels that Pakistan has accepted Indian ‘evidence’ that Ajmal Kassab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, was a Pakistani citizen. [Please click here for an incisive examination of the Indian and American ‘evidence’].


Mr. Durrani probably intended for this information to be quoted ‘anonymously’. But one of the journalists probably made the mistake of mentioning Durrani’s name.


Reacting to this, Pakistan’s second most senior diplomat, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, came out to deny that Kassab’s identity has been determined, in effect brushing aside Durrani’s leak.


To counter Mr. Bashir, Information Minister Sherry Rehman went a step further. She volunteered this information [that Kassab is a Pakistani] through a text message to a reporter of the American Associated Press news agency. Her move seconded Durrani’s.


Surprisingly, the government’s own Minister of State for Interior, Mr. Tasnim Qureshi, reacted angrily to Mr. Durrani’s leaks. He told reporters that Kassab’s Pakistani links mean little because Kassab was a “creation of Indian intelligence.”


Now, was Mr. Durrani acting alone in making the leaks? After being sacked, Mr. Durrani told Geo News that he consulted the President on all his moves.


This begs the question: Did President Zardari approve the calculated leaks to the media by Durrani and Sherry? If so, why? Why did they have to do it this way? Who were they hiding from? Why try to force the hand of the rest of the organs of the Pakistani state?


Does this mean that Mr. Zardari, Mr. Durrani, and Mr. Haqqani will leak confidential material to the media every time things don’t go their way? Why this act of desperation? Who were they trying to please?


Time For A Purge In Islamabad


A growing number of Pakistani officials and politicians have been cultivated by foreign governments in a variety of ways to pursue the goals of those governments. This foreign meddling and direct contact is confined in large part to the United States, and then to the United Kingdom. It is happening outside the knowledge of the Pakistani state and has reached dangerous proportions. Mr. Durrani’s story is a case in point.


Mr. Durrani was and remains an active member of something called the Balusa Group, created and financed by the U.S. government as a way to create influence in the upper echelons of the Pakistani government. The Americans say the purpose of this group was to bring peace between Pakistan and India through ‘Track II’ diplomacy. But the truth is that its members, like Mr. Durrani, were involved in lobbying for U.S. sponsored energy corridors between Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. A side goal was to convince Pakistan to give India unlimited access to Afghanistan and Central Asian republics as a free concession without asking for anything in return, like resolving Kashmir and water disputes.


Foreign Minister Mehmood Qureshi distanced himself from the group as soon as he assumed his new position. He wanted to ensure he was not linked to foreign interests while discharging important business of the state. However, Mr. Durrani and Mr. Husain Haqqani have not publicly ceased their associations with foreign policy groups and interests after becoming servants of the Pakistani state. Mr. Durrani has been serving the state for almost three years now without renouncing his foreign associations, and all of them happen to be tied to U.S. interests.


The result of the damage brought by Mr. Zardari, Mr. Durrani and Mr. Haqqani to Pakistan in the past few weeks is obvious. Pakistan’s wishy-washy diplomacy in the face of Indian belligerence and warmongering has emboldened New Delhi to pursue a tougher line with Islamabad. Officials in Washington and New Delhi are betting on the confusion created by the actions of Mr. Durrani to make it easier for them to extract concessions from Pakistan.


There is no question that the United States plans to expand the war in Afghanistan to include Pakistan. This is the only way to weaken the Pakistani military and firmly align Pakistan with American interests opposite China and others. The only way this is possible is with India’s help. People like Mr. Durrani are helping this happen from the inside. Such elements need to be purged form the system.


In conclusion, this is what Dr. Ayesha Siddiq, the author of Military Inc., had to say about Mr. Durrani when he was first appointed in government:


“The PPP selected Washington’s dream team to run foreign relations and national security. One is not sure that appointing Durrani as the National Security Adviser will do the job. The appointment (of Durrani) is in consideration of the general’s close ties with the US Pentagon. Not to mention the fact that Durrani owes his intellectual growth to Shirin Tahirkheli, a Bush administration adviser and former senior official of the [U.S. delegation to the] UN National Security Council”.


Enough said.

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America?s Foot Soldiers In Islamabad: Durrani?s Firing Reveals How Pakistan Is Penetrated At The Top Pak Alert Press
 
America’s Foot Soldiers In Islamabad: Durrani’s Firing Reveals How Pakistan Is Penetrated At The Top


M. A. Durrani was busy leaking information to embarrass Pakistan internationally. He was part of an influential group in Islamabad that worked overtime to ensure Pakistan accepted blame for Mumbai and initiated action against the military and ISI without verifying the so-called evidence. Mr. Durrani says his leaks had the blessings of President Zardari. Who are they working for? Alarmingly, Pakistan’s security stands breached at the highest levels in the capital, where shady individuals are working for foreign interests with impunity. It is time for a major purge to cleanse Pakistani government and politics of foreign assets. Mr. Durrani should be debriefed as to whose interests he was serving in his sensitive position.


By AHMED QURAISHI




ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A secretive powerful group in the top corridors of the Pakistani government has been working overtime for the past few weeks to push Islamabad into publicly accepting the half-cooked ‘evidence’ provided by the United States and India that implicates Pakistan, its military and the ISI in the Mumbai attacks.


Two prominent names in this group are national security adviser Mehmud Ali Durrani and the Ambassador in Washington Husain Haqqani. They pushed hard for Pakistan to accept blame without verification and without pursuing other compelling leads in the Mumbai attacks. These other leads cast a wider net and significantly weaken India’s ‘Pakistan-only’ fixation.


The behavior of Mr. Durrani became particularly desperate in the last few days, and especially on Wednesday, Jan. 7. His boss, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, was not off the mark when he cited betrayal of Pakistan’s national security as the main reason for sacking Mr. Durrani.


The question is: Who was Mr. Durrani working for? There is even chatter about the possibility that he might be arrested and interrogated to determine whose interests he was serving. There is no question that his bold moves were sanctioned by President Zardari. It is also interesting to note that information minister Sherry Rehman came to Mr. Durrani’s rescue in the final stage of the bizarre power struggle that marked Durrani’s last few hours in office.


Given the traps created by this government for Pakistan and especially for the ISI after the Mumbai attacks, it is safe to conclude that Pakistan’s power echelons stand breached by individuals, like Mr. Durrani, who are keenly pursuing policy objectives of a foreign government or governments.


The conduct of Mr. Durrani, coupled with massive recent policy failures with direct bearing on national security, reinforce the need for a purge within the government and within the country’s political elite. Foreign governments have been able to penetrate both and cultivate assets. These ‘assets’ conduct their own private foreign policies directly with foreign powers without the approval or knowledge of the Pakistani state.


The Signs


Sitting in Washington, Ambassador Husain Haqqani has been wrangling with the Pakistan Foreign Office for several days now over the FBI evidence shared with Pakistan, which apparently includes a tape recording purporting to show a Pakistani citizen inside Pakistan talking to a Mumbai terrorist over telephone. Mr. Haqqani wants Pakistan to accept this piece of evidence as final proof that elements within Pakistan executed the attack on Mumbai. Other Pakistani officials disagree and say the audio tape and other information need to be verified by Pakistani experts to determine if it is fake or real. We don’t trust India and they don’t trust us. It’s as simple as that.


Durrani’s Suspicious Role


Behind the scenes, Mr. Durrani has been playing what amounts to a dirty role in this whole crisis with India. In the last week of December, he contacted a known Pakistani journalist working for the Wall Street Journal and leaked to him a ‘breaking’ a story: an activist of the defunct Lashkar Tayyeba in Pakistani custody had confessed to making phone calls to Mumbai terrorists.


It was strange that Mr. Durrani chose to leak this information to a U.S. newspaper. If the story was true [it wasn’t. It was officially debunked later] the Pakistani government would have released it through its spokespeople. The only plausible purpose of the leak was to embarrass Pakistan, quash the voices calling for evidence and verification, and push a weak government into accepting responsibility for the Mumbai attacks. It was a classic pressure tactic, in this case used by an insider – Mr. Durrani – against his own government.


Using this deliberate leak, the Wall Street Journal came out with an elaborate story . Its editors somehow linked the alleged confession to ISI’s tense relations with elected governments in the 1990s. There was a separate box in the story that gave a timeline to the supposed tense relations.


In short, Durrani’s leak to Wall Street Journal became a condemnation of the ISI. Which seems to be the whole purpose of the Indian drama anyway. The leak also weakened the effect of foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s rare bold statement that demanded India deactivate its forward air bases, withdraw troops and defuse the war hysteria.


Durrani’s leak in effect threw the ball back in the Pakistani court.


Desperation


With Ambassador Haqqani’s failure to convince Pakistani officials to accept the American evidence, the pro-American lobby in Islamabad began to get desperate. U.S. military chief Adm. Mike Mullen flew into Islamabad to convince President Zardari to allow the Indian air force to conduct limited ‘surgical strikes’. He asked Zardari to deactivate the state of alert in the Pakistan Air Force for this purpose. The deal was sealed if not for the strong stand taken by the Pakistani military. Mullen returned empty handed.


The ‘Charge Sheet’


Mr. Durrani’s reign of double dealings at the top, as Prime Minister’s adviser on national security, makes the list of foreign policy blunders by the government appear deliberate and calculated and not just the work of incompetent administrators:


The immediate admission of guilt on behalf of ISI, when Mr. Gilani was told to accept sending ISI chief to New Delhi on India’s ‘summon’.

The weak, apologetic diplomacy in the face of Indian warmongering.

Misleading China in the U.N. Security Council voting, resulting in incriminating Pakistani individuals and organizations without evidence. Some observers even go as far as saying that this vote has smoothed the way for future sanctions on Pakistan and its military if and when major powers pursue this.

The Zardari government is suspected of having dragged its feet on issuing orders to the Pakistani military to raise the level of alert even when Indian army, air force and navy were moving to forward positions. The plot becomes sinister when the consequences of this reluctance become clear. A snap attack by India when the Pakistani military was not ready could have resulted in humiliation for the military. This would have emboldened the current government to take on a humiliated military and pursue the U.S. agenda of dismantling the ISI and transform the Pakistani military into a glorified police force at the beck and call of U.S. and India. This ‘ideal role’ for Pakistan is now openly discussed in Washington and is no longer a secret.

The Memorable 7 January


The actions of Mr. Mehmud Ali Durrani on this day show how desperate he had become to see Pakistan taking the blame and submitting before India. This portion of the story needs careful reading because it reveals how far this game goes to the top levels of the Pakistani government.


Mr. Durrani apparently leaked to an Indian TV channel and a couple of Pakistani news channels that Pakistan has accepted Indian ‘evidence’ that Ajmal Kassab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, was a Pakistani citizen. [Please click here for an incisive examination of the Indian and American ‘evidence’].


Mr. Durrani probably intended for this information to be quoted ‘anonymously’. But one of the journalists probably made the mistake of mentioning Durrani’s name.


Reacting to this, Pakistan’s second most senior diplomat, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, came out to deny that Kassab’s identity has been determined, in effect brushing aside Durrani’s leak.


To counter Mr. Bashir, Information Minister Sherry Rehman went a step further. She volunteered this information [that Kassab is a Pakistani] through a text message to a reporter of the American Associated Press news agency. Her move seconded Durrani’s.


Surprisingly, the government’s own Minister of State for Interior, Mr. Tasnim Qureshi, reacted angrily to Mr. Durrani’s leaks. He told reporters that Kassab’s Pakistani links mean little because Kassab was a “creation of Indian intelligence.”


Now, was Mr. Durrani acting alone in making the leaks? After being sacked, Mr. Durrani told Geo News that he consulted the President on all his moves.


This begs the question: Did President Zardari approve the calculated leaks to the media by Durrani and Sherry? If so, why? Why did they have to do it this way? Who were they hiding from? Why try to force the hand of the rest of the organs of the Pakistani state?


Does this mean that Mr. Zardari, Mr. Durrani, and Mr. Haqqani will leak confidential material to the media every time things don’t go their way? Why this act of desperation? Who were they trying to please?


Time For A Purge In Islamabad


A growing number of Pakistani officials and politicians have been cultivated by foreign governments in a variety of ways to pursue the goals of those governments. This foreign meddling and direct contact is confined in large part to the United States, and then to the United Kingdom. It is happening outside the knowledge of the Pakistani state and has reached dangerous proportions. Mr. Durrani’s story is a case in point.


Mr. Durrani was and remains an active member of something called the Balusa Group, created and financed by the U.S. government as a way to create influence in the upper echelons of the Pakistani government. The Americans say the purpose of this group was to bring peace between Pakistan and India through ‘Track II’ diplomacy. But the truth is that its members, like Mr. Durrani, were involved in lobbying for U.S. sponsored energy corridors between Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. A side goal was to convince Pakistan to give India unlimited access to Afghanistan and Central Asian republics as a free concession without asking for anything in return, like resolving Kashmir and water disputes.


Foreign Minister Mehmood Qureshi distanced himself from the group as soon as he assumed his new position. He wanted to ensure he was not linked to foreign interests while discharging important business of the state. However, Mr. Durrani and Mr. Husain Haqqani have not publicly ceased their associations with foreign policy groups and interests after becoming servants of the Pakistani state. Mr. Durrani has been serving the state for almost three years now without renouncing his foreign associations, and all of them happen to be tied to U.S. interests.


The result of the damage brought by Mr. Zardari, Mr. Durrani and Mr. Haqqani to Pakistan in the past few weeks is obvious. Pakistan’s wishy-washy diplomacy in the face of Indian belligerence and warmongering has emboldened New Delhi to pursue a tougher line with Islamabad. Officials in Washington and New Delhi are betting on the confusion created by the actions of Mr. Durrani to make it easier for them to extract concessions from Pakistan.


There is no question that the United States plans to expand the war in Afghanistan to include Pakistan. This is the only way to weaken the Pakistani military and firmly align Pakistan with American interests opposite China and others. The only way this is possible is with India’s help. People like Mr. Durrani are helping this happen from the inside. Such elements need to be purged form the system.


In conclusion, this is what Dr. Ayesha Siddiq, the author of Military Inc., had to say about Mr. Durrani when he was first appointed in government:


“The PPP selected Washington’s dream team to run foreign relations and national security. One is not sure that appointing Durrani as the National Security Adviser will do the job. The appointment (of Durrani) is in consideration of the general’s close ties with the US Pentagon. Not to mention the fact that Durrani owes his intellectual growth to Shirin Tahirkheli, a Bush administration adviser and former senior official of the [U.S. delegation to the] UN National Security Council”.


Enough said.

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America?s Foot Soldiers In Islamabad: Durrani?s Firing Reveals How Pakistan Is Penetrated At The Top Pak Alert Press

thorosius; dear sir,
great input!:tup:
thanking you from the bottom of my heart!:tup::enjoy:
 
Can I find the transcripts online somewhere? What about the photographs. Why is there so much secrecy surrounding this today. I heard Ijaz-ul-haq wrote a book in urdu about this incident but why is nobody making websites and documentaries about this. It's important. Especially now in this time of crisis. People need to know how this whole thing worked.

The answer is already given by batmannow....just imagine if top personnel of prestigious military organization got their name involved in assassination of their Head of State,an ambassador of a foreign country and many other military personnel ......the whole de-classified investigation will only harm the image of Pak Military nothing else....no one will hang the original culprit.
 
ISI launches cy-war against Durrani



Islamabad: The Inter-Services Intelligence agency in Pakistan appears to have launched a coordinated cy-war (psychological war ) against the country’s former National Security Adviser, Major General (retired) Mahmud Ali Durrani, aimed at proving that he was an American agent in Islamabad working for American and Indian interests.

Journalists and publications who are close to the establishment in Islamabad are being used to project the line that after Major General (retired) Durrani, the “agents” who are pushing Islamabad into publicly accepting the “half-cooked evidence” provided by the United States and India in relation to the November 26, 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai, are Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani and Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman.

According to one report, a powerful group, of which Haqqani and Rehman are prominent members, is working overtime for the past several weeks to convince their superiors for Pakistan to accept “blame without verification and without pursuing other compelling leads” in connection with the Mumbai attacks.

The report further goes on to say that Major General (retired) Durrani’s behaviour over the last few days, “and especially on January 7” has been “particularly desperate”, and that there are rumours in circulation that he could be arrested and interrogated to “determine the interests he was serving”.

'Durrani sacked to halt action against terrorists'

There is a view that Durrani has had the backing of both President Asif Ali Zardari and Rehman, and that there was an attempt by Rehman to rescue Durrani from his eventual sacking.

The report further goes on to say that Durrani’s conduct and the recent security-related policy failures of the government “reinforce the need for a purge” both within the government and the political elite. It is being claimed in the corridors of power here that foreign governments have been able to breach both institutions and cultivate assets, who have been “ conducting their own private foreign policies directly with foreign powers, without the approval or knowledge of the Pakistani state.”

Durrani has been allegedly accused of contacting a Pakistani journalist working for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in December and leaking the story of a Lashkar activist confessing to making phone calls to the Mumbai terrorists. It is now being said that Durrani was seeking to embarrass Pakistan and quashing the voices calling for evidence and verification – a classic pressure tactic by an insider.

The WSJ is said to have come out with an elaborate story, linking the alleged confession to the ISI’s tense relations with elected governments in Pakistan since the 1990s. Durrani, it seems, wanted to expose the ISI for its role in clandestine attacks on India, a view that has always been projected by the Indian establishment.

Durrani's dismissal in larger national interest: Gilani

As far as Ambassador Haqqani is concerned, the report says that he has been insisting with his superiors in Islamabad that Pakistan accepts the FBI evidence on a tape recording that purportedly shows a Pakistani citizen in Pakistan talking to one of the terrorists involved in the 26/11 mayhem. Critics of this stance are saying that this information needs to be verified by Pakistani experts to determine its accuracy.

Haqqani’s failure to convince Islamabad, according to the report, has made the pro-American lobby desperate enough to send the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, to Islamabad to convince President Zardari to “allow the Indian Air Force to conduct limited surgical strikes” and to “deactivate the state of alert in the Pakistan Air Force” for this purpose. Admiral Mullen failed in his mission.

A four-point charge sheet has reportedly been prepared to showcase foreign policy blunders while Durrani was NSA, and it includes the following:

Immediate admission of guilt on behalf of the ISI, when Gilani was told to accept the sending of ISI Director General to New Delhi on India’s summons.

The weak, apologetic diplomacy in the face Indian war-mongering.

Misleading China in the UN Security Council voting, resulting in incriminating Pakistani individuals and organizations without evidence

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The Zardari Government is suspected of dragging its feet on issuing orders to the Pakistani military to raise the level of alert even when Indian defence forces were moving to forward positions.

The report particularly focuses on the events of January 7 when Durrani apparently leaked to an Indian TV channel and a couple of Pakistani news channels that Pakistan has accepted the Indian evidence that Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, was a Pakistani citizen.

The report says that Durrani may have wanted this story to be leaked anonymously, but one journalist made the “error” of naming him.

Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir sought to deny Durrani’s leak, but Information Minister Rehman went a step further and text messaged that Durrani was right in naming Kasab a Pakistani citizen.

The report says that Durrani is an active member of the “Balusa Group” created and financed by the US Government to lobby Washington’s interests in the upper echelons of the Pakistani Government, with the stated prime objective of maintaining peace between Pakistan and India through track II diplomacy. However, according to sources within the Pakistani establishment, the group was also involved to promote US energy interests in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, and to convince Pakistan to let India have unlimited access to Afghanistan and the Central Asian republics, a concession sans returns.

It concludes by saying that Durrani, as an insider, has facilitated US moves to expand the war in Afghanistan, weaken the Pakistani military and firmly align Pakistan with American interests opposite to China and others, with India’s help, and therefore, there is a need to purge individuals like him on a priority basis.

ISI launches cy-war against Durrani - Sify.com
 
ISI launches cy-war against Durrani



Islamabad: The Inter-Services Intelligence agency in Pakistan appears to have launched a coordinated cy-war (psychological war ) against the country’s former National Security Adviser, Major General (retired) Mahmud Ali Durrani, aimed at proving that he was an American agent in Islamabad working for American and Indian interests.

Journalists and publications who are close to the establishment in Islamabad are being used to project the line that after Major General (retired) Durrani, the “agents” who are pushing Islamabad into publicly accepting the “half-cooked evidence” provided by the United States and India in relation to the November 26, 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai, are Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani and Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman.

According to one report, a powerful group, of which Haqqani and Rehman are prominent members, is working overtime for the past several weeks to convince their superiors for Pakistan to accept “blame without verification and without pursuing other compelling leads” in connection with the Mumbai attacks.

The report further goes on to say that Major General (retired) Durrani’s behaviour over the last few days, “and especially on January 7” has been “particularly desperate”, and that there are rumours in circulation that he could be arrested and interrogated to “determine the interests he was serving”.

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There is a view that Durrani has had the backing of both President Asif Ali Zardari and Rehman, and that there was an attempt by Rehman to rescue Durrani from his eventual sacking.

The report further goes on to say that Durrani’s conduct and the recent security-related policy failures of the government “reinforce the need for a purge” both within the government and the political elite. It is being claimed in the corridors of power here that foreign governments have been able to breach both institutions and cultivate assets, who have been “ conducting their own private foreign policies directly with foreign powers, without the approval or knowledge of the Pakistani state.”

Durrani has been allegedly accused of contacting a Pakistani journalist working for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in December and leaking the story of a Lashkar activist confessing to making phone calls to the Mumbai terrorists. It is now being said that Durrani was seeking to embarrass Pakistan and quashing the voices calling for evidence and verification – a classic pressure tactic by an insider.

The WSJ is said to have come out with an elaborate story, linking the alleged confession to the ISI’s tense relations with elected governments in Pakistan since the 1990s. Durrani, it seems, wanted to expose the ISI for its role in clandestine attacks on India, a view that has always been projected by the Indian establishment.

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As far as Ambassador Haqqani is concerned, the report says that he has been insisting with his superiors in Islamabad that Pakistan accepts the FBI evidence on a tape recording that purportedly shows a Pakistani citizen in Pakistan talking to one of the terrorists involved in the 26/11 mayhem. Critics of this stance are saying that this information needs to be verified by Pakistani experts to determine its accuracy.

Haqqani’s failure to convince Islamabad, according to the report, has made the pro-American lobby desperate enough to send the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, to Islamabad to convince President Zardari to “allow the Indian Air Force to conduct limited surgical strikes” and to “deactivate the state of alert in the Pakistan Air Force” for this purpose. Admiral Mullen failed in his mission.

A four-point charge sheet has reportedly been prepared to showcase foreign policy blunders while Durrani was NSA, and it includes the following:

Immediate admission of guilt on behalf of the ISI, when Gilani was told to accept the sending of ISI Director General to New Delhi on India’s summons.

The weak, apologetic diplomacy in the face Indian war-mongering.

Misleading China in the UN Security Council voting, resulting in incriminating Pakistani individuals and organizations without evidence

ISI plans 'Islamic Republic of Pakistan' by 2020 in India

The Zardari Government is suspected of dragging its feet on issuing orders to the Pakistani military to raise the level of alert even when Indian defence forces were moving to forward positions.

The report particularly focuses on the events of January 7 when Durrani apparently leaked to an Indian TV channel and a couple of Pakistani news channels that Pakistan has accepted the Indian evidence that Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, was a Pakistani citizen.

The report says that Durrani may have wanted this story to be leaked anonymously, but one journalist made the “error” of naming him.

Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir sought to deny Durrani’s leak, but Information Minister Rehman went a step further and text messaged that Durrani was right in naming Kasab a Pakistani citizen.

The report says that Durrani is an active member of the “Balusa Group” created and financed by the US Government to lobby Washington’s interests in the upper echelons of the Pakistani Government, with the stated prime objective of maintaining peace between Pakistan and India through track II diplomacy. However, according to sources within the Pakistani establishment, the group was also involved to promote US energy interests in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, and to convince Pakistan to let India have unlimited access to Afghanistan and the Central Asian republics, a concession sans returns.

It concludes by saying that Durrani, as an insider, has facilitated US moves to expand the war in Afghanistan, weaken the Pakistani military and firmly align Pakistan with American interests opposite to China and others, with India’s help, and therefore, there is a need to purge individuals like him on a priority basis.

ISI launches cy-war against Durrani - Sify.com

jeypore; dear sir
if a media strom can be lanch to dismentle a pakistani president(pervaiz musharaf), why not a media trail of a suspected US-backed , pakistani National Security Adviser?:angry:
all the accusations against him , found proven afterall?:agree::hitwall:
 
ISI dont really have to do anything regarding durrani. we already knew durrani wasnt gud for the country. and indians should stop cryin about y he was fired. it was our decision and no one can question it
 
From what i read above it appears that he was a traitor, if so, good ridden.
 
From what i read above it appears that he was a traitor, if so, good ridden.

asq; sir
no we cant , call him a traitor, but we can say that , his services arnt required any more!;):)
 

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