“French like Revolution” Are you sure, Sir? – by Suleman Akhtar
Revolution in thoughts or revelation from stars, I’m not sure what prompted QET Altaf Hussain to articulate a French like revolution idea, intertwining it with Military coup in the same breath. I switched television channel as if his name was mistakenly blinking on news slide but I, myself was fallacious as it revealed later.
Political dictionary of Pakistan is already exhaustive with some heavy revolutionary terms i.e “Sharia Revolution” of JI, “Justice Revolution” of PTI, “Bloody Revolution” of Mian Shahbaz Sharif and now we have been introduced with this French “like” Revolution by QET Altaf Hussain which is strangely associated with “patriotic Generals” (As this term used by him) of our noble Army. Acknowledging my limited understanding and narrow conscious I’m incapable to comprehend this ideological mélange presented by QET Altaf Hussain.
Notwithstanding, let’s try to make it simple for us. According to Jeff Goodwin, a Revolution is “any and all instances in which a state and political regime is overthrown and thereby transformed by a popular movement in an irregular, extra constitutional and/or violent fashion” . There are many (debatable) socio-economic factors attributed to this drastic change in society depending upon its different modes i.e social, proletarian/communist, failed/abortive revolutions. While, taking into account French Revolution (1789-1799), that was the period during which whole social fabric of state metamorphosed from absolute monarchy to radical democratic republic separating Church from state affairs. Countless socioeconomic factors, particularly whole Renaissance Movement played vital role in paving the way for revolution.
Ignore, what was uttered about endorsing Martial Law/ Military coup by QET, it is not even worth wasting time or words upon. Let’s stick to pros and cons of a revolution in Pakistan. First and foremost, Multi-ethnicity of our region which is chief impediment in the way of collective/massive revolt as till now we’re not a nation as per any definition and highly supercilious when it comes to racial prejudice. Even under normal circumstances, ethnic violence deliberately deteriorating the social structure of Karachi. Secondly, inadequacy of some collectively acknowledged doctrine, as different school of thoughts widely prevail in this pluralistic society rendering almost impossible for all the inhabitants to gather beneath a single flag of struggle. At third, an extremely violent society where all sort of weapons are readily available and different religious and ethnic groups don’t hesitate to use them every now and then would highly be vulnerable to chaos/anarchy and end up with nothing.
So, where’s the solution? In my humble opinion Democracy, let me repeat, Parliamentary Democracy. This is the only solution if we really want to get rid of our centuries’ old misery. The system, which is capable of embracing different entities to let them work inside a common frame irrespective of their political, ethnic and/or religious affiliations. Undoubtedly, there are many flaws among persisting political administration but democracy itself is self reforming system always leaning towards betterment. Steady and gradual change towards prosperity is call of time. Listen to it !
Shaheen Sehbai “inciting” Civil War in Pakistan and his conclusion is based on Altaf Hussain’s statement:)
http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/aug2010-daily/23-08-2010/main.htm
Page 3: Monday, August 23, 2010, Ramzan 12, 1431 A.H
http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/aug2010-daily/23-08-2010/main3.htm
Shaheen Sehbai is a fool to the hilt who doesn’t even know that Thori Bund has nothing to do with Khursheed Shah:)
I wonder If Mr Altaf Hussain has even read Kerry Lugar Bill on Martial Law. What a fun that a British Citizen Mr. Altaf Hussain of a country i.e. Great Britain that has West Minister Type of Democratic System is talking about Martial Law Altaf asks ‘patriotic generals’ to act Monday, August 23, 2010 By Fasahat Mohiuddin http://www.thenews.com.pk/23-08-2010/Top-Story/
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has demanded of ‘patriotic Pakistan Army generals’ to take action against corrupt politicians, as was done in the past martial laws in the country, saying “MQM will openly support such generals.” He also asked the ISI high-ups and patriotic Army generals“now we should decide once and for all that Pakistan will not take dictation from the USA and will not compromise over its solidarity and integrity”.
Whereas reality is as under
COMMENT: WikiLeaks fiasco —Ali K Chishti Thursday, July 29, 2010 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20107\29\story_29-7-2010_pg3_3
Although the WikiLeaks fiasco is embarrassing for both the US and Pakistan, as it reflects the mistrust between the two closest allies in the war on terror, without each other’s support they cannot win the war on terror
WikiLeaks, a Swedish whistleblower project, consists of activist journalists who have previously leaked videos and articles embarrassing the US government. Only a couple of days back, it leaked more than 90,000 top secret documents of the US military, consisting of cables, internal memos and e-mails sent out to various Department of Defence (DoD) officials related to Afghanistan, revealing: i) how the coalition forces have killed thousands of civilians in unreported incidents; ii) Taliban attacks have soared; and iii) how NATO commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.
While President Obama’s national security adviser, General James L Jones deplored the disclosure of classified information on the plea that it “would put the lives of Americans and US partners at risk”, a top Pakistani diplomat responded that “the leaks are troubling and shows the nature of alliance and trust between the US and Pakistan, which could only be termed as ‘damaging’ to Pakistan and Pakistani military.”
The most disturbing aspect of the WikiLeaks is the ISI’s “working alongside al Qaeda” to plan attacks and, as the New York Times puts it, “The behind-the-scenes frustrations of soldiers on the ground and glimpses of what appear to be Pakistani skulduggery contrast sharply with the frequently rosy public pronouncements of Islamabad as an ally by American officials looking to sustain a drone campaign over parts of Pakistani territory to strike at Qaeda havens.” Another document on WikiLeaks points towards how the ISI trains group of insurgents and has a pool of suicide bombers, who are used to destabilise peace in Afghanistan. One such report from December 18, 2006 describes how suicide bombers are recruited and trained in Pakistan and sent out on missions where the Afghan National Police (ANP) helps them to carry out their missions.
The ISI and Pakistan would seriously have to do a lot of PR to get out of this latest scandal. The “word ISI in 90,000 document leaks appeared more than 50,000 times,” said a source from WikiLeaks who himself admitted that “the American soldiers and CIA seem to be ISI-phobic”. Accordingly to WikiLeaks: “We are not helping make an opinion about anyone — we are just interested in transparency.”
In what is the most direct allegation on the Pakistani top spy agency, the ISI, WikiLeaks gives an insider’s view of how top American defence officials view the ISI’s role, “which is a rigidly hierarchical organisation that has little tolerance for ‘rogue’ activity”. It is worth mentioning that, according to WikiLeaks, ISI’s S Wing, which deals with external operations, had been given “broad autonomy”. In another disturbing account, CIA’s deputy director Stephen R Kappes confronts Pakistani officials with evidence that the ISI helped plan a deadly suicide bombing on the Indian embassy in Kabul in July 2008. Yet another leak alleges that, in August 2008, a presumably “gone rogue” ISI colonel plotted to assassinate President Hamid Karzai, news which could potentially disturb Pakistan’s newfound relationship with Hamid Karzai.
More documents released by WikiLeaks suspect how PAKMIL, a word used to describe the Pakistan Army, helps the Taliban to destabilise ISAF/NATO in Afghanistan, describing the networks of Pakistani assets and collaborators that run from Pakistan’s tribal belt along the Afghan border through southern Afghanistan all the way to the capital Kabul.
And, finally, damaging details have come to the surface about Pakistan’s former top spymaster and general, Hamid Gul, who after almost two decades of retirement from the ISI, “does not seem to be out of work”. WikiLeaks documents indicate in detail that Hamid Gul still works tirelessly with the Haqqanis and Hekmatyar to destabilise Afghanistan. In some instances, the leaks give an impression that Hamid Gul acts as a ‘front man’ and a ‘proxy’ for the ISI. One report gives details of Hamid Gul meeting with the Afghan Taliban and “three older Arab men” to plan and avenge the death of Zamarai, an important al Qaeda leader, who was killed by a drone attack. According to another report, General Gul urged the Taliban commanders “to focus their operations inside Afghanistan in exchange for Pakistan turning a ‘a blind eye’ to their presence in Pakistan’s tribal areas”. General Hamid Gul, as usual, dismissed the reports, terming them as “another conspiracy” and “absolute nonsense”. A source from an intelligence agency confirmed that Hamid Gul had “always been in radars” and is known to make “random trips and communications to the tribal areas”.
To conclude, if WikiLeaks is to be believed (they have a reputation of being reliable), Pakistan has a lot of cleaning up to do. The timeframe of over 90,000 documents leaked was between 2004-2009 before the whole Af-Pak Policy was laid down by the new administration in the White House and prior to the US-Pak Strategic Dialogue in which General Kayani himself gave a long presentation winning many admirers within the US administration. Although the WikiLeaks fiasco is embarrassing for both the US and Pakistan, as it reflects the mistrust between the two closest allies in the war on terror, without each other’s support they cannot win the war on terror. Where the Pakistan military needs to come clean on folks like Hamid Gul, the US must realise that Pakistan has a legitimate concern in Afghanistan and try to stop such embarrassing leaks.
The writer is a political analyst. He can be reached at akchishti@hotmail.com
Altaf asks ‘patriotic generals’ to act Monday, August 23, 2010 By Fasahat Mohiuddin http://www.thenews.com.pk/23-08-2010/Top-Story/ He also asked the ISI high-ups and patriotic Army generals“now we should decide once and for all that Pakistan will not take dictation from the USA and will not compromise over its solidarity and integrity”.
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Would Mr. Altaf Hussain and MQM like to tell us all where are those “Honest” ISI High Ups and General, available , in the light of this: Jihad Inc by Ali K Chishti http://tribune.com.pk/story/25043/jihad-inc/
Altaf asks ‘patriotic generals’ to act Monday, August 23, 2010 By Fasahat Mohiuddin http://www.thenews.com.pk/23-08-2010/Top-Story/ He also asked the ISI high-ups and patriotic Army generals“now we should decide once and for all that Pakistan will not take dictation from the USA and will not compromise over its solidarity and integrity”.
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Honest Generals???? Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Open Letter to Gen.Aslam Baig Dear Aslam Baig Sahib,by Ali Chishti http://akchishti.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-letter-to-genaslam-baig.html
Altaf asks ‘patriotic generals’ to act Monday, August 23, 2010 By Fasahat Mohiuddin http://www.thenews.com.pk/23-08-2010/Top-Story/ He also asked the ISI high-ups and patriotic Army generals“now we should decide once and for all that Pakistan will not take dictation from the USA and will not compromise over its solidarity and integrity”.
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Honest Generals & ISI High ups???? I don’t what Mr Altaf Hussain want?
“QUOTE”
Brutes and Beasts – Haqiqi Ali Chishti October 26, 2009
http://www.chowk.com/articles/16554
The MQM has also experienced more sever divisiveness. In the summer of 1991, the breakway Haqiqi a faction from within MQM by the name of “Haqiqi” was formed by the then Intelligence Agencies and Military Intelligence in order to break MQM. This group which is widely believed to be the stooges of the military agency, the ISI was used to mainly to damage the party. Not surprisingly, given that divided militant movements are usually the most violent the result of the split has been a sharp increase in militant action. Afaq Ahmed and Aamir Khan had first surfaced towards the end of 1991. Once most trusted allies of leader of MQM, Altaf Hussain who also went on to guard Quaid-e-Tahreek, Altaf Hussain turned into the “moles” and brutes. Obviously this was a gradual process as both due to their criminal activities and involvement with certain establishment forces were kicked out by the party.
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Shaheen Sehbai’s defamation charges against Azeem Daultana, PTH and LUBP – by Pakistan Media Watch http://criticalppp.com/archives/18060
Pakistan will not take dictation from the USA and will not compromise over its solidarity and integrity” [Altaf Hussain]
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Altaf Hussain calls creation of Pakistan the Biggest Mistake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWAj7Awj2ks&feature=related
Altaf Hussain Visits India: His Keynote Speech Dean Ali November 8, 2004 http://www.chowk.com/articles/8314
Mr. Altaf Hussain and MQM “Conveniently” forgot their “Cooperation” with Musharraf Regime [1999 to 2007] who secretly supported Taliban and Ruthlessly Looted the Country through Bank Loan Write off and Default, here is a glimpse: “LIES”of General [R] Pervez Musharraf, Sharifs & Talibans. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2010/03/liesof-general-r-pervez-musharraf.html
ANALYSIS: Homeless, hapless and helpless —Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur Sunday, August 22, 2010 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20108\22\story_22-8-2010_pg3_4
Sindhi politicians have failed the people of Sindh and the present situation is an indictment of their record. Plans are afoot to make them even more defenceless by more unnecessary urbanisation
A relative who resides in Karachi recently advised obtaining national identity cards from Karachi. His logic? “Passports may soon be needed for travel to Karachi.” I regarded this as an ominous warning though others brushed it off as a joke. Urban development at the cost of rural Sindh and the consequential strain are a result of the malevolently engineered economic divide. The state also proceeded to create a vicious political divide and now Karachi is ruled by whoever has more guns. It augurs disaster and devastation.
Governance since 1947 has been heavily tilted in favour of certain ethnic, linguistic, institutional and religious sections and groups. Its outcome is the prevailing economic, political, social and religious divide that is now undoing the dream that they intended to strengthen.
In my piece, ‘Conned again’ (Daily Times, April 18, 2010), I wrote, “This increasing deprivation will certainly exacerbate the prevailing alienation and resentment among the Sindhi speaking people and could lead to a pre-independence Cyprus-like situation in the not too distant future but it seems the rulers are blind to such realities.”
Wasey Jalil, an MQM leader, demanded that the IDPs should be registered. He said, “It is our principled stand that people migrating to Karachi or any other region for whatever reason should be registered with the relevant authorities.”
The MQM’s principled stand demands that Sindhis should register themselves in Karachi, which is in Sindh since 1795 thanks to the Talpurs. Next, the Sindhis will be asked to register in Hyderabad and Shikarpur, etc. How would people react if the Sindhis took a ‘principled stand’ and demanded that all Karachites register if a natural disaster like a tsunami, earthquake or a cyclone struck Karachi? That would be termed as inhumane and ‘anti-Pakistan’, but apparently Sindhi IDP registration is kosher.
Some IDPs who came to Marwat Park were fired upon, supposedly by the land mafia but the video footage showed they were compelled to leave by the SHO Mahmoodabad. A Sindhi daily comprehensively summed up the situation, terming them as ‘homeless in their own homeland’.
I am not exaggerating the threat of a Cyprus-like situation; the recent frenzied revenge killings in Karachi and Hyderabad after MPA Haider Raza’s murder point to this grim reality. The state has allowed the MQM to accumulate power and guns because it has its own concept of nationality and nationalism, and in that frame the Sindhis count for naught.
Influential people in all provinces have been instrumental in selective breaching of embankments primarily to save their holdings. Khursheed Shah allegedly did not allow the breach of Ali Wahan embankment because he and his relatives had agricultural land there. The already deprived and devastated people have also been victims of theft and looting from their own Sindhi brethren. Morality and decency seems to have departed from the land of the Sufis as well.
You can see an endless stream of small trucks on highways loaded to the brim, taking people and their cattle to safer places. They need to have a place until the floodwater subsides and that is not happening any time soon as a second flood follows in the first’s wake. These floods have helped to highlight the extremely vulnerable and tenuous position that the Sindhis have within the state of Pakistan. Sindhi politicians have failed the people of Sindh and the present situation is an indictment of their record.
Plans are afoot to make them even more defenceless by more unnecessary urbanisation. Karachi, though prosperous, depends on the rest of Sindh for its needs, making it vulnerable to pressure. I am not an alarmist but the envisaged Zulfiqarabad is part of the grand urbanisation scheme aimed at depriving the Sindhi people of an outlet to the sea and leaving them completely at the mercy of the urban population.
A recent ordinance on Zulfiqarabad is brazenly unambiguous. It says, “The city (Zulfiqarabad), being developed as a port city, is supposed to help the government check migration of the rural population of the province to urban areas, mainly Karachi.” The Sindhi rural population’s migration to Karachi is seen as a problem but others are apparently welcome. Zulfiqarabad too will become the reason for massive dispossession of the Sindhi population in the same way as residents of the old Goths (villages) were dispossessed and displaced in and around Karachi.
Moreover it says, “Zulfiqarabad Development Authority (ZDA) will extend to such areas of Thatta district as specified by the government from time to time through notifications.” This means unbridled expansion until the aim of complete dispossession of the Sindhi people there and their relegation to second-class citizenship status is achieved.
This project is expected to utilise thousands of acres of barren land for useful purposes. By useful purpose they mean creating already in vogue DHAs. Salam Dharejo, writing in Newsline in September 2007, said, “The recent allotment of 12,093 acres to the DHA on the Super Highway adjacent to the Karachi toll plaza is the biggest-ever housing project of the DHA on agricultural land. The land in question is, indeed, ‘private’ in many respects. More than 10,000 people inhabit 15 different villages. And they are not squatters. These villages have been in existence for 600 years. Displacing people for the windfall profits is absolute injustice.”
In Zulfiqarabad, it is the DHAs and moneyed classes that will benefit and not the displaced Sindhis whose entire belongings fit in a small truck. In September 2008, the Senate was told that 881 acres of sea-front land was given to DHA on a 99-year lease at a premium of Rs 2.5 per square metre and an annual rent of 18 paisa per square metre, i.e. Rs 8.913 million as premium and Rs 641,758 as ground rent. Imagine if ever land will be given to the poor Sindhis on these terms. The Sindhis are being increasingly marginalised and are becoming homeless in their homeland. The ‘terra nullius doctrine’ is being surreptitiously implemented with the connivance of power hungry Sindhis. There is a real danger of them being relegated to Native American and Aborigine status. The Baloch would have long ago been relegated to that dishonourable status had it not been for the valour of those who gave their birthright more importance than their lives. The unchecked ascendancy of particular ethnic communities with the connivance of the state and power hungry politicians is eventually going to evoke a violent backlash from the Sindhis. Sometimes, natural calamities accentuate the sense of alienation and lead to a struggle for rights. Hopefully, the misery created by these floods will do the same.
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur has an association with the Baloch rights movement going back to the early 1970s. He can be contacted at mmatalpur@gmail.com
Isnt it now becoming too obvious?
1. Media highlighting the glorious role of Army in acting as saviour of the poor people of Pakistan
2. Politicians and especially the party in government is being maligned for its every action
3. And now we have an SOS from QET
Stage is set
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)
Imran Khan backs army rule too:
http://www.arynews.tv/english/newsdetail.asp?nid=36706
ISLAMABAD: After MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s statement regarding support for martial law, the chief of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said his faction would back military rule for ‘stability’ of the country, ARY NEWS reports.
For all their posturing, Imran, Altaf and the Sharif brothers are tied at their reactionary, chauvinist hips
Dr. Farooq Sattar claimed that MQM is a democratic party and that the statement issued by Altaf Hussain is being misinterpreted. Dr. Farooq defends Altaf’s ‘Martial Law’ statement Updated at: 2238 PST, Monday, August 23, 2010
http://www.geo.tv/8-23-2010/70397.htm
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STATEMENT AS PUBLISHED IN DAWN AND MQM’S WEBSITE:
Altaf wants army to act against corrupt leaders By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque Monday, 23 Aug, 2010 KARACHI,
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/altaf-wants-army-to-act-against-corrupt-leaders-380
KARACHI, Aug 22: In a surprise move, Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain said on Sunday that “the MQM will openly support the patriotic generals if they take any martial law-type action against corrupt politicians and feudal lords”.
In a telephonic address from London to a workers’ convention at the MQM headquarters here, Mr Hussain criticised the politicians, ‘feudal lords’ and army generals and also lashed out at the United States for what he called supporting the feudal lords instead of the masses.
A few hours after the address, MQM leader Farooq Sattar told a private news channel that Mr Hussain had not supported imposition of martial law, but rather issued a policy statement that reflected his ‘courageous’ stance. “The country is in the ICU (intensive care unit) and needs surgery,” Mr Sattar said.
Referring to the country’s chequered political history, Mr Hussain said the army generals had in the past directly or indirectly ruled Pakistan through martial laws, in clear violation of the mandate of millions.
“If these generals can topple political and democratic governments they can also take steps to weed out corrupt politicians and feudal lords.”
The MQM chief called upon “patriotic army generals” to stop supporting the feudals and corrupt politicians for the sake of the country. Action against corrupt politicians should be taken irrespective of which party they belonged to.
He said that at a time when the country’s integrity was at risk, well-known and senior politicians were playing a game of musical chair and trying to make it to the corridors of power.
Mr Hussain also criticised the country’s foreign policy and said it was ineffective compared to that of neighbouring India.
He said that during foreign trips Pakistani leaders and diplomats spent more time in shopping than in meeting world leaders and diplomats. In contrast, the Indian leaders pleaded their case in a far more effective manner.
The MQM chief said the war in Afghanistan was mainly between the Soviet Union and the United States, but in Pakistan it was portrayed as a conflict between Islam and the evil.
During the war, army generals and the so-called religious forces pocketed plenty of money. After the war, the army did nothing to change the country’s foreign policy, Mr Hussain said.
He said the army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) should decide once and for all that Pakistan would make no compromises over its sovereignty and integrity and that US dictations would be ignored.
About the worst calamity in Pakistan’s history, he said although many towns and villages had been wiped out, feudal lords had used their clout to divert floodwaters to save their own land. “Such feudal lords committed a crime against humanity and they should be tried for mass murder.”
He said he would like to ask where the funds donated by the international community after the 2005 earthquake had gone. “Why didn’t the government buy helicopters which would have been useful in providing relief to the flood-affected people now?”
He lauded the role of the army and said its personnel were doing their best to save their fellow countrymen affected by the calamity.
Mr Hussain said Pakistan desperately needed a change and the MQM could bring about that change and take action against corrupt leaders and feudal lords.
He asked US President Barack Obama to review his policies towards Pakistan.
Dr. Farooq Sattar claimed that MQM is a democratic party and that the statement issued by Altaf Hussain is being misinterpreted. Dr. Farooq defends Altaf’s ‘Martial Law’ statement Updated at: 2238 PST, Monday, August 23, 2010
http://www.geo.tv/8-23-2010/70397.htm
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Statement Published in Express Tribune: MQM to back martial law-like steps: Altaf Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2010. Hafeez Tunio 14 hours ago
http://tribune.com.pk/story/42032/mqm-to-back-martial-law-like-steps-altaf/
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain launched a blistering attack on politicians and feudal landlords on Sunday, accusing them of corruption and harbouring treasonous designs against the country.
Almost in the same breath, the MQM leader vowed to support “any patriotic general” who was prepared “to take action” against those venal politicians and feudal lords, even in the guise of martial law.
Altaf Hussain earlier accused corrupt politicians and feudals of plotting to “break Pakistan into pieces.” He made these remarks during a speech at a general workers’ meeting at Lal Qila Ground in Azizabad. According to him, feudal landlords do not want to see people of lower-middle and the middle classes in politics.
“If we have to choose between two evils, we will go for the lesser evil. If our generals are ready to take any initiatives against these ‘criminals who have looted and plundered this country’ then we will welcome them,” he said.
“If the armed forces can take control by derailing democratic governments, then why not come forward against these landlords and feudals?” he asked.
He appealed to the ISI and the armed forces to stop supporting the looters and landlords. He said that it is high time that people of this country decide that neither will take dictation from America nor any other country. “We have to be stronger at our own,” he said, making a pitch for an increased sense of sovereignty.
He pointed out the dire need for bringing about a French-style revolution in Pakistan. His party was ready to do just that in order to teach “these feudal lords” who are trying to save their property even in calamities.
Altaf Hussain claimed that the Tori bundh breach was man-made because it was intended to divert the flood water and save the lands and properties of these landlords.
“This is a criminal act and lots of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others are compelled to leave their abodes. This is the biggest catastrophe to have occurred in the living history of Pakistan,” he said. The MQM chief called for a murder case to be registered against those responsible for the breach.
He announced a donation of five million rupees for the flood victims and called upon workers and leaders of the party to come forward and help the people of the country in their hour of need.
He also spoke out against the foreign policy of the government, saying it was neither up to the mark nor independent. Instead, he said, the foreign policy is influenced by foreign powers. He also appealed to US President Barack Obama to review his policies on Pakistan.
The MQM leader took a dim view of the government’s plan to utilise international donor pledges for flood relief. “I fail to understand how the relief donations being received from abroad are being utilised,” he said.
Recalling the post-earthquake period, he said that the government had acknowledged that it could not carry out proper relief activities because of a severe shortage of helicopters. “But no one knows how the earthquake relief funds were utilised. Why did the government not purchase latest equipment and flying machines for rescue, relief and rehabilitation? The same scenario is being repeated now,” he added.
Dr. Farooq Sattar claimed that MQM is a democratic party and that the statement issued by Altaf Hussain is being misinterpreted. Dr. Farooq defends Altaf’s ‘Martial Law’ statement Updated at: 2238 PST, Monday, August 23, 2010
http://www.geo.tv/8-23-2010/70397.htm
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Statement published in The News International – Altaf asks ‘patriotic generals’ to act Monday, August 23, 2010
By Fasahat Mohiuddin http://www.thenews.com.pk/23-08-2010/Top-Story/
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has demanded of ‘patriotic Pakistan Army generals’ to take action against corrupt politicians, as was done in the past martial laws in the country, saying “MQM will openly support such generals.”
He expressed these views during a telephonic address from London at an emergent meeting of workers held at Lal Qila Ground on Sunday. He said that in the past, no political leaders were held responsible for corruption, either in the interest of the US or the West by the Army generals who took over power.
Altaf said that the Army generals ruled Pakistan directly or indirectly through martial laws and for more than half of the age of the country. “If these Army generals can topple political and democratic governments, they should also bring a similar martial law to weed out these corrupt political leaders,” he stressed.
Altaf demanded that assets assessment of political leaders should be made to find out how they collected so much wealth and property. He also asked the ISI high-ups and patriotic Army generals“now we should decide once and for all that Pakistan will not take dictation from the USA and will not compromise over its solidarity and integrity”.
Lashing out at the foreign policy of the country, he said it was ineffective when compared with the policy of the neighbouring country. According to him, when the policymakers go abroad, they spend most of their time in shopping. Altaf said these generals were also unable to change the foreign policy.
Referring to the flood situation, he said flood had caused great devastation but a conspiracy was hatched by feudal lords to divert the direction of floodwaters to save their lands. He demanded that these landlords should be tried for this act of ìcrime against humanityî.
The MQM chief also appealed to the patriotic Army generals to stop supporting feudal lords and corrupt politicians for the sake of Pakistan. He also lauded the role of the Army in relief efforts and saving human lives.
He also underlined the need for a revolution similar to the French Revolution in the country and said the MQM would go for the accountability of corrupt politicians to bring back all the wealth of the country to the national exchequer.
Criticising the role of the United States, Altaf demanded of US President Barack Obama to review his policies and stop supporting feudal lords and extend support to the people of Pakistan.
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First step should be the “withdrawal of Support from Federal and Provincial Government but wait: MQM IS A COALITION PARTNER OF PPP GOVT: FEDERAL INFORMATION MINISTER 19:44 PST
[Express Tribune update] LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE 2001 (AMENDMENT) PROMULGATED FOR FIFTH TIME 17:08 PST
[Express Tribune Update] and what is meaning of “Accomplice” Corrupt Person like Zardari is a President of Pakistan because MQM Nominated him:)
Altaf Hussain infact violate Article 6 of the constitution by inviting Army to to subvert the Constitution. He said
کرپٹ، جاگیردارانہ، سردارانہ اور “زردارنہ “نظام کے خاتمے کیلئے محب وطن جرنل مارشل کا قدم اٹھائیں تو انکی جماعت اسکی حمایت کرے گی
That means Open invitation to Army !
Article 6 says
High treason.
(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) [5] [Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament)] shall by law provide for the punishment of persons found guilty of high treason.
What a Joke, He is in government as well !
Zardari allies said Army should NOW come …………………………………………….
He also said that where is the donation which was received in 2005?
He forget that he was engorging govt. that time too and his favorite Musraf was the president at that time
Altaf’s statement is the question mark for all those liberal fanatics, who used to support him on Altaf liberal and secular view and neglect his BHAI culture
Kashif Naseer says: August 23, 2010 at 3:28 pm He also said that where is the donation which was received in 2005? He forget that he was engorging govt. that time too and his favorite Musraf was the president at that time
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Musharraf’s Loot and Plunder right under the Nose of Mr. Altaf Hussain is as under and do read the name of “Wadera” and MQM was an ally:) REFERENCE: Guess who walked away with nation’s 100 bn rupees? By Rauf Klasra Friday, December 04, 2009 Chaudhrys, Saifullahs, Jatois, Legharis, Tawakals, Saigols,Jams, generals; some cases were genuine http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25898
ISLAMABAD: In a country where over 40 per cent of the population is said to be languishing under the poverty line with families surviving on less than $2 a day, the shameful revelation of the filthy rich getting loans worth over Rs100 billion written-off owing to their formidable clout is shocking the nation. And this shameful list carries some of the biggest names of our power elite. The names of Ch Shujaat and Ch Pervez Elahi were found among about 1,000 influential businessmen and Army men who got a total of Rs18 billion loans written-off from the government-owned banks during the first three years of the military government. The list was submitted in the NA when Zafarullah Jamali was the prime minister and Shaukat Aziz was the finance minister. The first loan of Rs70 million was outstanding against the Punjab Sugar Mills and was written off by the National Bank of Pakistan along with the actual loan amount. The mill was owned by Chaudhry Shujaat Husssain, Chaudhry Mansoor Elahi, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, Chaudhry Gulzar Mohammad, Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, Chaudhry Sabhat Elahi, Mrs Qisara Elahi (wife of Chaudhry Pervez Elahi), Mrs Kasur Hussain (wife of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain), Mrs Khalida Begum (wife of Gulzar Muhammad).
The second loan of Rs15 million was written off by the UBL outstanding against Punjab Sugar Mills. The beneficiaries were once again Ch Manzoor Elahi, Ch Shujaat Hussain, Pervez Elahi, Wajahat Hussain, Shafaat Hussain, Gulzar Ahmed and Mrs Qaisra Elahi, Khalida Begum, and Kauser Hussain. The UBL once again wrote off another loan of Rs34.1 million outstanding against the Spaco Private Limited. The beneficiaries were the same — Ch Pervez Elahi, Shujaat Hussain, Manzoor Elahi, Wajahat Hussain, Sabahat Elahi, Mrs Kauser Hussain, Qaisra Elahi. It may be added that these loans were written off after declaring their industrial establishments as “sick industry or on the pretext of bankruptcy.” Many of them denied having got their loans written-off.
The political sources claimed that Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif knew this troubling fact about the Chaudhrys of Gujrat. Even Imran Khan had been showing the official documents of another bank, which had also written off loans to get the Chaudhrys disqualified from contesting the elections. But his desperate pleas were never entertained by the Election Commission of Pakistan courtesy the might and clout these cousins enjoyed during the early years of General Pervez Musharraf in power. The sources said, on the basis of their own knowledge about the Chaudhrys loan write off, the Sharif brothers were agitating the issue of loan write-off in the media with the public demand to put all the loan beneficiaries on trial after recovering the written-off amounts. The mighty Chaudhrys of Gujrat — Ch Shujaat Hussain, Ch Pervez Elahi and their family members — reportedly got three different bank loans of Rs120 million written off from the National Bank and United Bank of Pakistan during their heady days of power. This has been revealed in the official record of the National Assembly library, which has now formally confirmed that several top politicians and their family members had quietly got several bank loans written off, which had been outstanding against their sugar and textile mills and other industrial units.
These bank loans were mainly written off by the state-run National Bank of Pakistan and United Bank Limited in the past. The official record available with The News, which was placed in the NA in the last one decade, revealed that a total of Rs30 billion loans were written off between 1985-2002, which had been outstanding against the top politicians and powerful industrial groups of the country. The list was compiled by the then caretaker government of 1993 led by Moin Qureshi. In 2007, Auditor General of Pakistan revealed in its report that during the period 2002-2007, a sum of Rs54 billion was written off by Musharraf government. Thus, total figure had reached to Rs85 billions. But, now the recent official report to the NA during the question hour revealed that the total figure of written-off loans had finally crossed over Rs100 billion, after adding the loan amounts written off during two years of PPP government since 2008.
The official list of loan write-off beneficiaries of different periods since 1985 to 2002 revealed that former speaker Gohar Ayub Khan’s family and former Chief Minister Balochistan Jaam Yousuf, are also among other prominent politicians, who got the loans written off from the banks. The three mighty business families of Pakistan are also among the beneficiaries of these loan write offs in the past. The former housing minister of General Pervez Musharraf -Abbas Sarfraz is also among the beneficiaries who got a massive loan against his sugar mill written off. Lt General Habibullah and Brig M Jan are among the list.
The Saifullah family of Lucky Marwat got four loans written off from different banks. The names of Anwar Saifullha Khan, Javed Saifullah, Hamayun Saifullah, Arbab Saddaullha Khan, Shah Jehan Khan, Nisar Khan are part of the list submitted in the NA in 1994 in response to a question by MNA Barjees Tahir. First, the Saifullah brothers got loans written off against their mill— Ms Kohat Textile Mills from the National Bank. The matriarch of the Saifullah family, Mrs Kalsoom Saifullah also got a loan of Rs12 million written off from NBP against Ms Frontier Towel Works, Kohat. Industrial bank also wrote off loan of Rs26 million of Javed Saifullah, Salim Saifullah, Hamayun Saifullah and others against Kohat Textile Mills. The MCB also wrote off loan against the Kohat Textile Mill. Jatoi family of Sindh also got a loan of Rs6.7 million written off from UBL. The beneficiary was Dr Ghafar Jatoi and his brothers. Leghari family also got Rs67 million loans written off from UBL. The beneficiaries included Jafar Khan Leghari, Jamil Ahmed Khan Leghari, Yousuf Khan Leghari, Tariq Khan Leghari, Atta Mohammad Leghari, etc.
Saigal group got the loan written off against Omaryar Limited, Lahore. The group got another loan of Rs4 million written off from the UBL. A loan of Rs10.3 million was written off by Investment Corporation of Pakistan. Iqbal Z Ahmed, Mrs Saira Ahmed also got a loan of Rs5.5 million written off from United Bank of Pakistan. Another small loan of Rs1.4 million got written off from UBL against Hassan Ali and company. A loan of Rs18 million was also written off against Hashoo Holdings.
Meanwhile, investigations conducted by this correspondent after going through the official record of the National Assembly Secretariat, where all these loan documents were placed from time to time since 1994, even Daewoo Corporation of Pakistan was one of the beneficiaries of such big loans written-off by the government banks. National Bank of Pakistan had written off a loan of Rs10 million against Daewoo. The loan was outstanding against Kim Waoo Choong, Kim Joun Sung, Lee Woo Bok, Yoon Nuke NEON, Chui Myoung Kul. The list showed that Karachi-based businessmen have been treated with exceptional kindness by the National Bank of Pakistan. According to the list of such people whose loans and principal amounts were written-off during the last three years, National Bank of Pakistan wrote off billion of rupees from taxpayers’ accounts. Most of the written-off loans went to the textile and industrial giants of the country owned by mighty businessmen, politically influential, former bureaucrats and military officers.
The big industrialists like Adamjee Industries owned by Farooq Sheikh, Mrs Shireen Farooq, Mumtaz Sheikh, Tahir Sheikh got Rs448 million written-off from the NBP. Mohib Textile owned by Asif Saigol also got Rs1.1 billion written-off in 2002. The other big names included in the list are First Tawakkal Modaraba owned by Abdul Qadir Tawakkal, Mohammad Rafiq Tawakkal, Alif Husain Mooney, Abid Hussain Rs621 million written-off, National Frutctose Limited owned by Shairullah Durrani got Rs681million written-off, Glamour Textile Mills owned by Iftikhar Ahmed Malik got Rs533 million written-off and others. Two foreign nationals also got the loans written-off. Pakland Cement got Rs10 million written off, Cast N Link owned by Anwar Ahmed got Rs159 million written-off. Taha Spinning limited got Rs64 million written off.
Following is the list of mighty individuals and business tycoons whose loans were written-off in majority of cases along with principal amount from National Bank of Pakistan (NBP).
KARACHI: Zahid Fazal (Farah Enterprises) Rs09 m; White Bird Chick Limited Rs8.2 m, Advance Computer Technology Rs1.1 m, Hamid D Habib of Balochistan Glass Rs6 m, Latif Paul of TS Latisons Rs0.5 m, Anisure Rehman of Zeb Enterprises Rs1.9 m, Chaudhry Mohammad Younis of Ice Land Cold storage Rs16 m, Mohammad Saleheen of Naveed Farbics Rs0.7 m, Younis Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Sultan Rs0.5 m, Azhar Jamil of Sindh Industries Enterprises Rs0.2 m, Mushtaq Ahmed Rs0.5 m, Asghar Ali Rs05 m, Fida Mohamamd Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Ismail Rs0.5 m, Abdul Sattar Rs0.5 m, Lal Mohamamd Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Akbar Baloch Rs0.5 m, Ghulam Farooq Rs0.5 m, Amir Baksh Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Naseem Rs0.5 m, M Shoaib Rs0.5 m, Liaqat Ali Khan Rs0.514 m, Khaliq Farooqi Rs0.5 m, Irfan Rs0.572 m, Irfan Rs0.572 m, Sikandar Rs0.5 m, Asrar Hussain Sarbazi Rs0.56 m, Abdul Hameed Rs0.576 m, Mohammad Yaqoob Rs0.576 m, Shafqat Rehman Rs0.575 m, Shahbaz Aqeel Rs0.575 m, Abida Sultana Rs0.509 m, Mohammad Hanif Rs0.5 m, Tarranum Baig Rs0.5 m, Hidyatullah Farid Rs1.3 m, Pak Hardware and Paint Rs0.9 m, Mohammad Ali Rs0.5 m, Sh Mohammad Zahid Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Ayub Rs0.5 m, Nadeem Ahmed Rs0.5 m, Mushtaq Ahmed Rs0.517 m, Mushtaq Ishaq Rs0.5 m, Mir Mohammad Baloch Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Altaf Hussain Rs0.5 m, Abdul Khalil Rs0.5 m, Abdul Rahim Khatri Rs0.517 m, Imam Buksh Rs0.535m, Abdul Hameed Rs0.576 m, Wideyat Ali Rs0.5 m, Rizwan Hasan Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Sarwar Rs0.5 m, Maqbool Hussain Rs0.5 m, Ali Asghar Rs0.512 m, Shahnawz Rs0.524 m, Jawed Floor Mills of Rana Mohammad Siddiqui Rs20 m, Muhammad of Madina Food Industries Rs1.45 m, Syed Qmar Hai of Indus Poultry Farm Rs0.55 m, Mian Maqbool Ahmed of Alam Shuttle Industries Rs2.432 m, M Yousaf Khan of Progressive Industries Enterprises Rs0.7 m, Abdul Rashid of Aziz Company Rs0.5 m, Nasir Hussain Shah of Shah Cotton Factory Rs5.4 m, Hazoor Khan Chanido of Chandi Floor Mills Dadu Rs0.7 m, Pir Sarfrarz Ahmed of Nawab Shah Rs0.8 m, Munawar Hussain Rs0.722 m, Manzoor Hussain of Al Imran Hotel Ranipur Rs0.6 m, Arjandas of Arjandas Rice Rs1.05 m, Atta Mohamamd Marri of Mari Fish Farm Rs0.7 m, Atta Mohammad Mari Rs1.4m, S Zaheer Hussain Shah Rs0.9 m, Mst Ashraf Begum Rs0.5 m, Mohammad Idris Rs0.6 m, Sardar Taj Mohammad Rs0.8 m,Sh Saleem Ali of Capital Flour Mills, Murdikey Rs3 m, Mohamamd Afazal of Arshaq and Co, Lahore Rs0.9 m, Sanullah from Gujranwala Rs0.6 m, Hassan Ali Khan of Lahore Rs0.5 m, Sh Abdul Rehman Rs1.33 m, Lali Akbar of Abbas Trader, Kasur Rs0.8 m, Tariq Mir of Mir Iron Store, Lahore Rs0.5 m, Mustafa Ali Mir, Lahore Rs0.6 m, M Latif of Arshad Latif Indus Rs6.3 m, Mohammad Riaz of Riaz Furniture House Rs0.8 m, Mohammad Amin Khan of Makran Int Rs1.7 m, Haji Mohammad Ishaq of Tariq Industries Rs0.9 m, Mian Mohammad Sarwar of Al Ahmed Knitting Rs1.3 m, Mohammad Ahmed of M A S Stell Mills, Lahore Rs0.9 m, Mian Hamid Sarwar of Shishmahal Hosiery Rs0.9 m, Sh Mohammad Ashraf of Ashraf Ice Factory Rs0.9 m, Gulshan Begum W/o Zubaidullah Khan of Lahore Rs0.5m, Iftikhar Ali of Lahore Rs0.5 m, Khalid Bashir Khokar of Lahore Rs0.5 m, Arshad Javed Ghurki, Lahore Rs0.5 m, Arshad Javed Khurki, Javed Ghurki, Mhammad Khalid, Jamshed Asghar Ghurki, Sohail Asghar Ghurki, Mrs Rubina of Unique Trading, Lahore Rs0.891 m, Mohammad Iqbal of United Factory Rs0.5 m, Syed Izhar Hussain of Bhatti Brothers Sheikhupura Rs0.9 m, Abdul Rauf Qureshi of Rauf Corporation Lahore Rs0.6 m, Dr Abdul Rauf of Leatheron Lahore Rs0.7 m, Sabir Javed Lhr, Rs 1.2m, Azfar Manzoor Lahore Rs1m, Mrs Qaiser Manzoor Lahore Rs 1.2m, Mohammad Iqbal Javed of Mughal Technical Indus Lahore Rs 0.4m, Mohammad Ishaq Khan of Zahid Industries Lahore Rs 1.5m, Khalid Hatyat of Millat Corporation Rs 0.4m, Mohammad Azhar Leghiar, Dewan Aashiq Hussain, Umer Hayat Bosan, Shauakt Hayat Bosan, Niaz Ahmed, Muzaffar Hussain Bokhari, Mushtaq Shah and Nazar Abbas of Hayat Textile Mills Lahore Rs 110 million, Ghulam Mustafa Khan of Nashika Impex Lahore Rs 4.3m, Mian Tajamal Hussain, Mian Nusratuddin, Mrs Azra Tajamal, Mrs Laila Nusrat, Mrs Saeeda begum of Chenab textile Mills Lahore Rs 25m, Mian Abdur Rehman of Abdulur Rehman and Com Bhwalpur Rs 1.6m, Mian Ghulam Owais Owasi of Owais Industries Bhwalpur Rs 0.9m, Shad Ahmed of Shahzad Cotton Rahim Yar khan Rs 0.9m, Ch. Mohiuddin of Five Star Industries Okara Rs 0.7m, Mohammad Ehsan of Ehsan Soap factory Lahore Rs 09m, Sh. Abdul Jabbar of Feroze Oil and General Mills Okara Rs 0.6m, Sh. Mohammad Latif of Baba Farid Roller flour mill, Pakpattan Rs 0.6m, Shafiqe Ahmed of Mehran Cotton Multan Rs 1.m, Asad Zuabir of Jhangir Industries Multan Rs 0.5m, Riaz Ahmed of Riaz Textile Mills Multan Rs 0.6m, Ch Niaz Muhmmad Multan Rs 0.5m, Zulifkar Ali Industries Multan Rs 0.8m, Hamid Azmat Sheikh of Azmat Towellers Industries Multan Rs 2.4m, Mohammad Hussain of Rafay Textile Industries Burewala Rs 1.4m, Mohammad Ashgar of Asif Oil Mills Kehror Pacca Rs 0.6m, Mohammad Iqbal of Mashal Cotton Kehror Pacca Rs 0.6m, Mohammad Iqbal of Asif Irfan Cold storage Mianchannu Rs 1.4m, Mohammad Nazir of Mudhwal Enginnering Khushab Rs 4.7m, Farooq Saigal, Usman Siagal, Umer Saigal, Saleem Saigal of Kohirnoo textile Mills Liaquatbabad Rs 29m, Abdul Rehman of Gatth Foundary Workshop Faisalabad Rs 7.3billion, Ashraf Textile Rs0.7m, Mohammad Ashraf Rs 1.2m, Universal enterprises Faisalabad Rs 1.m, Javed Autos Sargodha Rs 1.0, Khursheed Ahmed Shad Faisalabad Rs0.66, Imran Saleem Ch. Gujrat Rs 0.737m, Jhangir Saleemullah Gujrat Rs 0.9m, Adnan Aziz Trader Gujrat Rs1.2m, Inayat Industries Gujrat Rs 1.2m, M. Rashid General Metal Works Gujrat Rs 0.8m, Safdar and Com Gujrat Rs 2.2m, Younis-National Weaving Fact, Gujrat Rs 1.2m, S. Mohammad Oil Mills Attock Rs 1.286m, Imran Shah and Bros Rwalpindi Rs 1.03m, Hazara Wodden Mills Rawalpindi Rs 1.133m, Lt. Col Rabnawaz of Nawaish Gypsum Jhelum Rs 0.6m, Food Department of NWFP Rs 3.434m, Begum Noor Jehan Mardan Peshawar Rs 6.8m, K. Mahmoodullah of MS LTCF, Islamabad Rs3m, Seth Dawood Group of MS Pakistan Paper corporation Charsada Rs 19 million, Seth Sahbir Hussain of MS Castle Industries Haripur Rs 12 million, Fateh Weeolen Industries Rs5million, Juma Khan Quetta Rs 4.6 m, Abdul Qayum Quetta Rs 0.5m, Ghazi Khan Quetta Rs 0.7m, Syed Abdul Rashid Quetta Rs 0.9m, Zahoor Ahmed Quetta Rs 0.7m, Zahoor Ahmed son of Haji Abdullah Samad Quetta Rs 0.74m, Ahmed Khan Quetta Rs 0.814m, Jhangir Khan Quetta Rs 06m, Mirza Mohammad Quetta Rs 0.5m, Mir Khuda Bux Muri, Mir Nawaz Marri, Mrs Elsa Mariie Benazir , Ms Kamal Faria Marri and Miss Anita Marri Rs 1.7m, Malick Abdullah Jan Quetta Rs 0.7m, Ashraf shoe company Mirpur, Kashmir, Rs 6.4m, Abdulleh Saleh Rs 123m Saudia Arabia, Amjad Malick Karachi Rs 2.2m, Abdul Wahab Karachi Rs 2.4m, Ghazala Haq and Amjad Malick Karachi Rs 6m, Mir Mehraullah Mengal Karachi Rs1.2 m.
Mohammad Sadiq of Chand Mills Karachi Rs 0.5m, MB Dhody Karachi Rs 3m, Sardar Mohammad of General Tractor Machinery Karachi Rs 3m, Noor Ali Group, Karachi got about Rs 3m written-off, Mohammad Hussain of Process Pakistan Rs 1.19m, Mohammad Sarfraz Paracha of East Asia Trading Karachi Rs 0.7m, Ghulam Ali Talpur Karachi Rs 0.6m, Lt-Col M . Jaffar Karachi Rs 2.7m, Noor Ali Hirani Karachi Rs 1.2m, Sun Publication Rs 1.3m, Tariq Jaffar Campher Pak Karachi Rs 10m, Mohammad Pervez, Col Akhlaq Ali Khan, Talibul Rasool, Abdul Jalil, Mohammad Yousaf Mirza of Allied Textile Mills Larkana Rs 296m, R Hasan Ali, Hyderabad Rs 0.9m, Mehboob Elahi of Sindh Tanneris Hyderabad Rs 4.89m, Haji and company Lahore Rs 0.9m, Syed Amjad Ali Gujranwala Rs 2.178m, Ch. Mohammad Anwar of Elegzender and co Rs 1.7m, Mohammad Younis of Younis Company Lahore Rs 8.4m, Sh Javed Iqbal and Brother LahoreRs 2.4m, Denn Autos Lahore Rs 1.8m, Begum Sherin Wahab, Abdul Qayum, Mumtaz Ahmed Abdul Jabbar, Mrs Sahiba Qayum of Sarhad Cresent Indsutries Rs 9.5m, Javed Zia, Mrs Kasur Javed, Salman Zai, Umer Javed, Miss Amber Javed nad Zafar Inami and Ghulam Rasool of Okara Textile Mills Rs 126million. And Fazal Elahi Malik, Teshin of Ally Hoisery Mills Lahore got Rs 0.7 million written-off.
In year 2000, the NBP wrote off many loans. In Peshawar Rs1 m of Mrs Aurangzeb of Ms Rahman Ice Factory was written-off.
FAISALABAD: Maryam Fatama weaving factory, Rs 4.5m, Ashfaq Hussain of Al Najaf Traders Faisalabad Rs 2.5m, Ch. Mohamamd Tufail of Rehan Cotton Primahal Rs 1.4m, Ms Sajja International F/abad Rs 0.5m.
MULTAN: Mohammad Hanif Rahm Yar Khan Rs1.0m, Mhamamd Aslam RYK Rs 0.9m, AJ Textile Industry RYK Rs6.9m, Madni electric traders Ahmedpureast Rs 0.666m, Ghulam Jaffar Jalwana Bhwalpur Rs 0.6m, Irfan Salman paper mills Sadiaqabad Rs 7.3m, Mian Tariq Gurmani and Suryia Iqbal Gurmani Thatta Gurmani Industries Kot Addu Rs1.5m, Al. Farooq Electronics Rs0.5m, Al Hasnaian Enterprises Rs 0.646m, Rizwan Textile Mills Rs0.6m, Mehboob Ahmed Rs 0.7m, Mohamamd Khalid Rs0.6m, Abul Sattar Rs 0.5m, Shahid Pervez Rs 0.7m, Al Azhar Textile Mills ( Mirza Azhar Beg nad Mrs Rafiqan Begum) Rs 6.4m, Barington Pharama of Pervez Iqbal Rs 1.9m, Jhandir Textile of Mohammad Akram Rs 0.5m, Mohammad Naeem of Four NS Fabrics Rs 1.3m, Mudasar Haider Chemica Rs1.5m, Sultan Wool Industries, Sahiwal Rs1.11m, Baby soap factory Kasoor Rs 2.7m, Mian AND Company Malsi Rs 0.7m Dhah Brothers weaving Vehari of Munir Khan, Sadia Shabnam, Raheem Baksh Rs 3.2m and Javed Cotton Industries Lodhran of Malik Usman, Malick Meraj Khalid and Mohammad Ajmal Rs 1.5m, and Mashallah Cotton factory Mailisi Rs 0.9m.
HYDERABAD: Sardian Paints Rs 2m, Al Amna Entp Rs 1m, MS Prince Rice Rs 1.3m, Niazi Ice Rs 1.44m, Associates Rs 0.766m, Jan Mohammad Rs 0.6m, Abdul Jabbar Rs 0.7m, Ali Gul Brohi Rs 1.1m, Abdul Majeed Rs 0.9m, MaliK Rice Mills Rs 2.7m, Intasia Entp Rs 43m, Expotex Limited Rs 49m, Excelisor industries Rs 5.1m, All Leather Limited Rs 1m, Mumtaz Mohammad Khan Zai Rs 0.772m, Sameer Garments Rs 0.8m, Rafiq Saigal, Afsar Khan, got two loans of Allied Paper Industries Karachi to the tune of Rs 35m written-off. Abdul Rashid Rs 0.5, Khan Ice Factory Rs 1m, Ashraf Traders Rs 0.7m, Anglo Universal Karachi Rs 0.7m, Gulf Food Industries Rs 0.8m, Makhdoom Traders Rs 0.5m, MA Footwear Rs 1.1m, Commodity Impex Rs 3m, Fetisal Grain Rs 1.2m, Aftab Garments Rs 0.6m, Citizen Process Rs 0.5m, Farm Products Rs 0.7m, Javed Iqbal Rs 0.6m, Masood Ahmed Qureshi Rs 1.14m, Moash Traders Rs 4m, Sabeena Enterprises Rs 8.9m.
LAHORE: Ms Jarral International Rs 1.8m, Ms Ghulam Hussain Rs 0.9m, Ehssan Machinery story Rs 0.5m, Tariq Mansoor Rs 0.8m, Zab Poly Proplyeine Products Rs 3.4m, Syed Waseem Ahmed Rs 0.55m, and M/S Wasjid Ali of Gulberg-II Rs 18m.
ISLAMABAD: Bashir Awan Rs 0.7m, Tariq Rehman Rs 0.7m, Amir Nawab Rs 0.9m, Azra Noreen Rs 2.2m, Nasir Fatima Rs 2.2m, Inamullah Saeed Rs 1.2m, M Safdar Rs 0.88m, Star Corporation Rs 2.735m, Mughal Ice Plant of Col Rafiq Baig Rs 1.3m, Shaheen Engineering Rs 2.2m, Fazal Electric Rs 0.7m, Malick Mohammad Akhtar Rs 0.5m, Yaqoob Brothers Rs 0.5m, Amjad Gilani, Tariq Gilani and Khalid Gilani of Nisa Enterprises Rs 0.5m.
EX-MBL: They belong to Karachi. Al Rehman Services Rs 0.6m, Baba Manna Rs 1.m, Saeedudin Zubair Rs 0.6m, Trade Link of Manzoor Qaider Rs 1.2m, Bhai Hashim Rs 0.7m, IK Corporation Rs 0.7m, M Farooq Rs 0.6m, and Saleem Khan Rawalpindi Rs 0.7m.
QUETTA: Sonmiani Fish Rs 2.2m, Abdul Qadier Rs 0.511m, Mohammad Alam Rs 0.5m, Hanid Moula Dad Rs 0.5m, Mohamamd Ramzan Rs 0.5m, Mohammand Hassan Rs 0.5m, Gul Mohammad Rs 0.5m, Mazar Khan Rs 0.5m, Faiz Ahmed Rs0.7m, Abdul Mateen Rs 0.86m, Shin Gul Tareen Rs 0.6m, Abdul Qadir Rs0.6m, Mohamamd Zahir Rs0.77m.
The loan written-off during year 2001:
KARACHI: Amed Trading Rs 2.9m, Farna Ice Rs 1.2m, Mohamamd Yasin Rs 1m, Shaffaf Ice Factory Rs 2.5m, Anwar Iqbal Rs 1.1m, Engineering Products Rs 1.5m, Indus Oil Expellers Rs 3m, Poshak International Rs 0.8m, Eastern Garments Rs 21m, Asif Owais Rs 0.6m, Nazir Ahmed Rs 0.8m, Mohammad Khursheed Khan Rs 0.5m, Mohammad Ramzan Rs 1m, General Traders Rs 10m, Quality Builders Rs 1.5m, Karachi Water Proofing Rs 0.9m, Mohammad Ramzan Rs 0.6m, Hukum Khan Rs 0.8m, Syed Raziddin Rs 0.5m, MS Tehseen Rs 0.5m, Yousaf Cheema Rs 0.7m, Jamil Rs 1.3m, Shabbir Ahmed Junami, Tasveer Ahmed Jumani, Taheree Ahmed Jumani, Azshraf Kahton, Salla Jumani, Shaukat Memon and Ms Shereen Jumani of Annud Textile Mills got a massive loan of Rs 279m written-off.
Abid Hassan Rs 0.5m, Haq Nawaz Dahri Rs 0.5m, Shah Nawaz Khan Rs 0.5m, Fizza Nazim Rs 0.8m, Mohammad Hayat Rs 0.5m, Nadeem Ahmed Rs 0.7m, FB Burki Ice Factory Rs 1.4m, Karachi Transport Corporation Rs 79m, Babar Rafiq Rs 0.6m, Nisar Ahmed Rs 0.5m, Qaisruzzman Rs 0.6m, Sajjad Hussain Rs 0.5m, Nasir Rafiq Rs 0.5m, Badar Ahmed Rs 0.5m, Manzar Farreed Rs 0.6m, Khalid Mehmood Rs 0.6m, Saeed Ahmed Rs 0.6m, Jawaid Textile Industries Rs 0.9m, Mansoor Yousaf Rs 0.5m, Mohammed Ismail Rs 0.5m, Aamir Hashmi Rs 0.551m, Sajid Ali Rs 0.7m, Mushtaq Hussain Rs 0.5m, Tahir Ehtasham Rs 0.6m, Mohamamd Noman Bhatti Rs 0.5m, Saleemuddin Rs 0.5m, Anissudin Rs 0.6m, Mobina Begum Rs 0.6m, Miss Tabassum Shehnaz Rs 0.6m, Mohaamd Yousaf Rs 0.6m, Mant Lal Maulal Rs 0.67m, Athar Batool Rs 0.78m, Shahid Khan Rs 0.5m, Azam Afraid Rs 0.6m, Syed Qasim Hussain Rs 0.539m, Syed Khaliluddin Rs 0.575m, Abdul Qayum Rs 0.681m, Mohammad Burhan Khan Rs 0.825m, Syed Khuram Raza Naqvi Rs 0.543m, Saad Ahmed Rs 0.6m, Hasan Shakeel Rs 0.8m, Ali Hassan Rs 0.534m, Mohammad Irfan Rs 0.55m, Shafiq Ahmed Rs 0.8m, Khwajamoinul HasanRs0.666m, Raza Hassan Rs 0.5m, Syed Afaq Rs0.6m, Syed Mohammad Nasim Ali, Rs0.6M, Mohammad Aslam Rs 0.6m, Syed Aslam Ali Rs 0.6m, Asif Rehman Rs 0.665m, Asif Rehman Rs 0.66m, Asim Ilyas Rs 0.5m, Adnanul HassaN Rs 0.8m, Syed Rasheed Ahmed Rs 0.5m, Monbina Afzal Rs 0.7m, Kamran Rauf Rs 0.7m, Najam Akthar Rs 0.8m, S Sharafifuddin Rs 0.8m and Imtiaz Hussain Zaid Rs 0.6m.
Khalid Beg Rs 0.5m, Mohammad Aman Rs 0.6m, Tariq Baloch Rs 0.666m, Mohamamd Mobin Sheikh Rs 0.6m, Ms Golden Plant Ind Rs 0.7m, S Ali Ahmed Zaidi Rs 0.7m, Siddiqi Rs 1.1m, Ms Pakistan Rs 1.4m, Ms Metropolitan Rs 190m,
Altaf Husain Shah Rs 0.5m, Mehmoodul Hassan Rs 0.5m, Mashiuddin Rs 0.9m, Aitzazuddin Rs 1.55m, Ihtashamuddin Rs 0.55m, FS Aizuddin Rs 0.5m, FS Ayazuddin Rs 1.6m, Mrs Shaim Fatima Rs 0.6m, Iqbal Shakoor Rs 0.6m, Mujeebuddin Rs 0.5m, Mrs Meharur Nisa Rs.7m, Anwar Raza Khan Rs 0.7m, Anwar Raza Khan Rs 0.7m, Mohmmad Jamil Rs 0.9m, Sardar Shakeel Rs 0.6m, Rashid Ali Rs 0.6m, Mohmmad Hanif Rs 0.8m, Abdul Shakoor Rs 0.6m, Adnan Husain Rs0.7m, Ahsan Anjum Rs 0.66m. Fareed Gul Rs 0.6m, Khuda Bux Rs 0.5m, M Faisal Rs 0.7m, Basir Alam Rs 0.6m, M Waseem Rs 0.65m, Mrs Rubena Rs 0.665m, Shahbaz Aqeel Rs 0.659m, Sharjeel Qaider Rs 0.5m, Tahir Anjum Rs 0.655m, Abdul Azim Rs 0.5m, Abdul Razak Rs 0.5m, Akhtar Hussain Rs 0.5m, Asif Sormoo Rs 0.554m, Fayyaz Ahmed Rs 0.544m, M Saleem Rs 0.5m, Sadia Bano Rs 0.5m, Moizuddin Rs 0.5m, Adul Haq Rs 0.54m, Mrs Kasur Perveen Rs 0.5m, Mohammad Rafiq Rs 0.55m, Mohammad Saleem Rs 0.5m, Rana Mohamamd Rs 0.545m, Rukhsan Begum Rs 0.5m, Rehan Shahid Rs 0.5m, Tahir Raza Rs 0.5m, Ashifaq Ahmed Rs 0.5m.
Year 2002: Following tycoons got their loans written-off in 2002.
Agri Autos Inds, Haleema Majeed Sons, Amie Investment, Sultan Textile Mills, Century Weaving, Husasin Towels, Durrani Associations, Nasir Khan, Muhammad Zafeef, Mohammad Usman, Ali Bux, Malick Munsif Khan, Mohammad Usman, Nabi Bux Baloch, Nisar Fatima, Akhar Bhugi Assoicates, Irfan Basharat, Samco Industries, Saeed Hasan, RN Stell products, Punjab Ceremic, Mahbub Ashraf, Gulberg Caterers, Samanabad enterprises, Azhar company, Sindhu Marbal company, Shabirruddin, Mohammad Husain, Rashid Sons, Rehman Oil Mills, Abu Bakar cold storage and oil factory.
BHAWALPUR: Shafi Oil mills, Ahmed Industries, Goheer Oil mills,
MULTAN: Union Straw paper board, jail traders, Omar Hardware, Khan Brothers cotton, Ali Intp, NK Medicot private limited, Al Munir textile private limited and Sadiqabad textile mills. Sinopak. (The list is still incomplete because of space constraints)
A few of those who got loans written off were genuine cases as they suffered sick industry or bankruptcy. Their loans were written off according to rules and prevalent law. Some of the beneficiaries, however, submitted bogus claims and the banks did not follow rules and regulations in writing off their loans.
Kashif Naseer says: August 23, 2010 at 3:28 pm He also said that where is the donation which was received in 2005? He forget that he was engorging govt. that time too and his favorite Musraf was the president at that time
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Musharraf’s Loot and Plunder right under the Nose of Mr. Altaf Hussain is as under
No ID no worry, get loans and get them written off also By Rauf Klasra Saturday, December 05, 2009 http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25915
ISLAMABAD: As if the generous writing off of loans worth Rs59.94billion during the General Pervez Musharraf reign wasn’t bad enough, now official documents show that hundreds of these borrowers were even given these loans with such casualness and deliberate neglect that not even the national identity cards of the borrowers were demanded by the banks, what to talk of other collateral and sureties. The official record of these written off loans submitted to the National Assembly and available with The News revealed that in an unbelievable large number of cases the lending institutions, a bank and another (now defunct) financial entity, had issued huge loans to the individuals without even getting their National Identity Cards (NICs) as per prudential requirements. The bank has not given any reason about how the loans were issued to these business parties and the individuals without getting their proper NICs as per requirements. One official has commented that this was not possible without the active collaboration of the bank officials as no bank could give loan to anyone without NICs. The following cases reveal just another ugly aspect of this sordid plunder of national wealth where, barring a few genuine deserving cases, billions were siphoned away by hundreds of corrupt businessmen colluding with equally corrupt bankers. There were some genuine cases where loans were written off in accordance with the rules. In all cases listed below, none of the cited borrowers had been forced by the lending institutions to submit their ID cards, an otherwise basic requirement.
The ID cards of five directors of Ms Bawani Industries were missing. This loan was ultimately written off. One foreign national Saral Dynamic Hardware Bobignv too managed to get a loan of Rs5.5million and later got his total outstanding Rs6.4million written off including the principal amount and Rs0.8million mark up. The loan was given in foreign currency to this foreign national. The two banks wrote off billions of rupees during the Musharraf era and in one case, the defunct bank wrote off a loan of Rs137million outstanding against four individuals.
First Tawakal Modrab Karachi got Rs 628million written off while the borrowers—-Abdul Qadir Tawakal, Rafiq Tawakal,Ali Husasin Mooney and Abid Husain did not even bother submitting their NICs. Shahfa Corporation Lahore and its owners Saluddin Ahmed Sahaf, Wajiddin Mahmood Shaf also got Rs146million written off. Regnet Dyeing and Finishing Mills also got Rs 91million written including Rs50million principal loan. Fatima Foods Lahore also got Rs 80million written off with Rs 40million principal loan waived off. National Garments also got Rs 335million written off including Rs 140million principal amount. In Multan Mohib textile got Rs 1.17billion written off including principal amount of Rs546million. In Karachi Bawani Industries got Rs 70million written off including 11.3million principal amount. The names of the fathers of borrowers are not on official record of the bank who got this loan written off. The papers show that even a London based n ex-employee of a bank, Abdul Haleem also got Rs 2.744million written off and now the bank says it did not have even the ID card of its own former employee available in record. His principal loan was Rs 2.7million which was written off.
Adamjee Industries also got Rs 48million written off including Rs168million principal amount. Farooq Sheikh, Mrs Shereen Farooq, Zafar Sheikh, Mumtaz Saleem, Tahir Sehikh got Rs 168million loan and got the whole principal wavied off. They also got the mark up of Rs225million written off too. Master Rubber Tyer owners Fayyaz Malik and Farooq Malik got 52m written off. Even an industrial unit Ms Metropolitan National Textile Karachi owned by Sikandar Ali Jatoi, Mazhar Ali Jatoi, Jamal Hassan, SM Masood was given the loan without any NICs. A sum of Rs190million outstanding the Jaoti family was also written off. The papers showed that even, the owners of Daweeo Corporation -Kim Woo Choong, Kim Joun Sung, Lee Woo Bok, Yoon Nuke Neon, Chug Myuong Kul did not submit their Ids at the time of obtaining Rs10.8million loan. Interestingly, the same amount was later written off by the bank. They got principal amount written off in addition to Rs2.3million mark up payable against this loan.
Even Ch Shujaat Hussain, Pervez Elahi and their family members who got Rs37.987 loan written off never produced their national identity cards. Hearts International Rawalpindi got Rs0.9million written off while the bank did not have the IDs of Dr Major Gen retired Zulifkar Ali Khan, Dr Abdus Qudus Khan, Mohammad Rafi, Shamim Ashraf Khan, Naheed Mashud Kiani, Rahat Azfa. Johoson and Philips also got Rs 64 million loan written off and there is no record of NICs of the borrowers-Bilal Ahmed Qureshi, Raja Ahmed Khan, Habibulah Baig, Rasid Y Chinoy, Abdul Rehman Khan, Syed Abdul Noor. Johnson and Philips again got another loan of Rs26million written off and once again the same borrowers did not give their NICs. Ahmed Chemical limited owners Aftab Khan, Jehan Ara Khan, Mahjabeen Ahmed, Sabiuddin Ahmed, Iqbal Ahmed Khan, Iram Aftab, Aftab Ahmed Khan NICs are not available. They got Rs0.6million written off. Ksornos Corporation Lahore also got Rs 4.3million written off. Again NICs of Sh Abdul Hafeez, Sh Imran Hafeez, Sh Salman Hafeez, Sh Nauman Hafeez, Qari Khalid Mahmood, Shahbaz Murad and Zahida Hafeez are not available in the record. Zodesh Limited got Rs 40million written off. The borrowers Zoraia Lashari, Imrana Lashari, Ms Lubna Lashari and Hayat Khan did not give NICs.
GUJRAT: Mohammad Akram Rs 2.5m, Fazal Hussain Rs 0.6m, Malik Mohammad Akthar 0.5m, Yaqoob Brothers Rs 0.5m, Nisa Enterprise Rs 0.5m (Islamabad).
Mohammad Saleem Rs0.7m,
QUETTA: Abdul Qadir Rs 0.511m, Mohammad Alm Rs 0.4m, Haji Moula Dad Kalat Rs 0.5m, Mohammad Hassan Rs 0.5m, Mohammad Ramzan Rs 0.5m, Gul Mohammad Rs 0.5m,
KARACHI: Babar Rafiq Rs0/6, Mosar Ahmed Rs 0.5m, Qaisaurz Zaman Rs 0.6m, Sajid Husain Rs 0.570m, Nasir Rafique Rs 0.531m, Badar Ahmed Rs0.596m, Mazhar Fared Rs 0.683m, Khalid Mahmood Rs 0.653m, Saeed Ahmed 0.61m, Jawad Textile Industries 1m, Masnoor Yousuf Rs0.536m, Mohammad Ismail Rs0.595m, Amir Hashmi Rs0.5m, Sajid Ali Rs0.7m, Mushtaq Hussain Rs 0.579m, Tahir Ehtasham RS 0.6M, Mohammad Noman Bhatti Rs 0.54m, Saleemuddin Rs 0.522m, Anisuddin Rs 0.522m, Monbina Begum Rs0.639m, Miss Tabasum Shehnaz Rs 0.6m, Mohammad Yousuf Rs 0.665m, Mant Lal Mault Rs 0.674m, Athar Maqbool Rs 0.7m, Shahid Khan Rs 0.5m, Azaam Afridi Rs 0.633m, Syed Qasim Hussain Rs 0.539m, Abdul Qayyum Rs 0.681m, Mohammad Burhan Khan Rs0.825m, Syed Khurram Raza Naqvi Rs 0.543m, Hassan Shakeel Rs 0.825m, Ali Hassan Rs 0.534m, Mohammad Irfan Khan Rs 0.550m, Shafiq Ahmed RS 0.820M, Ali Hassan Hassan Rs 0.534m, Mohammad Irfan Khan Rs 0.550M, Khawaja Moin Hasan Rs 0.666m, Raza Hasan Rs0.528m, Syed Afaq Moid Rs 0.679m, Syed Mohammad Nasim Ali Rs0.680m, Syed Aslam Ali Rs0.67m, Asif Rehman Rs 0.665m, Asim Ilyas Rs 0.5m, Adnan Hassan Rs 0.820m, Syed Rasheed Ahmed Rs0.5m, Mobina Afzal Rs 0.7m, Kamran Rauf Rs 0.74m, Najma Akthar Rs0.825m, S Sharifuddin Rs 0.825m, Imtiaz Hussain Zaidi Rs 0.6m, Khalid Baig Rs 0.589m, Mohammad Awan RS 0.6M, Tariq Baloch Rs0.668m, Mohammad Mobin Sheikh Rs 0.614m, Ms Golden Paint industries Rs0.7m, Mohammad Arshad Shakeel Rs 1.441m, Altaf Hussain Shah Rs 0.5m, Mehmoodul Hassan Rs 0.548m, Mashuddin Rs0.9m, Atizaudin Rs 1.5m, Wajihuddin Rs1.5m, Ihtashamuddin Rs 0.557m, FS Aizauddin Rs 0.5m, FS Azauddin Rs 0.58m, Mrs Rubina Rs 0.655m, Abdul Azim RS 0.556M, Abdul Razakk Rs 0.5m, Akthar Hussain Rs 0.519m, Asif Soomro Rs 0.554m, Fayyaz Ahmed Rs 0.544m, M Saleem Rs 0.539m, Sadiq Bano Rs 0.54m, Moizudin Rs 0.562m, Abdul Haq Rs0.5m, Mrs Kasuar Perveen Rs0.514m, Mohammad Rafiq Rs 0.551m, Mohammad Saleem Rs 0.591, Rana Mohmmad Rs0.545m, Rukhsana Begum Rs0.504m, S. Rehan Shahid Rs0.560m. Hssan Khan Rs 0.503m, Kashan Ali Rs 0.624m, Saleem Medical Store Rs 1.5million, Ms Huma Electric Inds Nameem Ullsah Rs 1.4m, Ms Tariq Electric Inds Rs 3.2m, Ms New National Steel Inds Rs 2.5million, Ms Kashmir Industrial Corp Rs 1.1m,
Irfan Basharat Rs 2.1m, Jhangir Hadier Rs 6.5m, Mohammad Sadiq Rs 2.66m, Punjab Ceremaic owners Zahid Shkeel Rs 7.6million, Ms Gulberg Caters owned by Mohammad Aslam Rs0.9m.
Kashif Naseer says: August 23, 2010 at 3:28 pm He also said that where is the donation which was received in 2005? He forget that he was engorging govt. that time too and his favorite Musraf was the president at that time
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Musharraf’s Loot and Plunder right under the Nose of Mr. Altaf Hussain is as under
Five generals also got their loans written off Sunday, December 06, 2009 By Rauf Klasra http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25928
ISLAMABAD: If you thought that only civilian and politicians got billions of rupees worth of loans written off from state-owned banks, you thought wrong. Records now show that many top military officers got their loans written off. This lucky lot included five lieutenant generals, two major generals and a battalion of other senior uniformed beneficiaries, with some Army (mis)managed institutions to boot. The Army controlled institutions also got their share from the national plunder with the Army Welfare Trust (AWT) got a massive loan written off worth Rs 14.49 million from a state-owned financial entity, which is now defunct (hardly a surprising fate).
Some of the cases were, however, genuine as their loans were written off in accordance with rules.
According to the official list of loan write-off beneficiaries tabled in the National Assembly, Lt General (retd) Ali Kuli Khan and his father Lt General Habibullah Khan had their loans written off. General Kuli had shot to prominence when he was ignored by the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in favour of Gen Musharraf in a bid to succeed General Jehangir Karamat as the next COAS. The list shows that General Kuli Khan got two loans written off from the Allied Bank of Pakistan while he was still serving in the Army in the mid 90s. The first loan was of Rs1.8 million and second was Rs1.6 million outstanding against Janana De Malucho Textile Mills Limited, Kohat owned by his father General (retd) Habibullah Khan. General Kuli was then one of the directors of the textile mills. After the death of General Habib, he became the chief executive of this textile unit. General Habib, too, was a beneficiary of this loan write off. It’s a little known fact that Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had once served as the staff officer to General Ali Kuli Khan during his stint as Chairman Joint Chiefs of staff in 1998 when Jahangir Karamat was the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). General Kuli shot to prominence within the ruling political circles when he was heard opposing the forced resignation of General Kamarat and had indicated to make Nawaz Sharif ‘fall in line’ if he became the next COAS. Later, Gen Kuli Khan had denied this charge in an interview with this correspondent. But, Ch Nisar Ali Khan had also confirmed to this correspondent in an interview that Ali Kuli was not elevated to the post of the Army chief precisely for this reason after some of his quotes were conveyed to Nawaz Sharif. Talking to The News from Peshawar, General (retd) Ali Kuli Khan said that he “did not remember” getting any loan written off by him during his military service. General Kuli said, “There might be some rescheduling of the loans by the banks outstanding against the mills.” He said only the politicians get loans written off by using their clout. Of course, general can dare anyone argue with that logic.
Lt General (retd) K M Azhar, who later became active in politics, of Rex Breen Batteries got Rs16 million written off by the Agriculture Development Bank. His business partners were Misbah Azhar, Sward Azhar, Ahmed Jamal Siddiqui, Syed Ijaz Ahmed Hashmi, Mauro Dr Bashir Ahmed. Lt General (retd) SA Burkey and Lt General (retd) Safdar Butt also figure amongst the happy generals benefiting from the state institutions generosity. Another prominent name on the list is that of Air Marshal (retd) A Rahim Khan. Air Marshal (retd) Viqar Azeem also got Rs15 million written off from Pakistani Kuwait Investment Co. Lt General (retd) SA Burkey, Major General Zahid Ali Akbar, Brig MM Mahmood, Begum Omar Mahmood, Saeed Ahmed also got loans written off. Gohar Ayub Khan, brother of General Kuli Khan—Raza Kuli Khan also got a loan of Rs7.2 million written off against Rehana Woolen Mills. Tariq Ayub Khan, Zahid Ahsan, Ahsan Khan were the directors of the mills whose loan was written off by the financial institution SAPICO.
Major General (retd) M Mumtaz from Abbottabad, Lt Colonel (retd) Shaukat and Major (retd) Tajuddin Rs1.2 million, Major General (retd) Ghaziuddn are also in the list. Major General (retd) G Umar also got Rs8.5 million written off from the Agriculture Development Bank. Lt General (retd) Safdar Butt, Major General (retd) Abdullah Malik, Brig (retd) M M Mahmood, Col (retd) M Zafar Khan, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Mrs Hamida Farhat also got benefits from the UBL. General (retd) Abdullah had resigned after the military coup of General Zia and had opposed the military take over of July 1977. Talking to The News, Brig (retd) Mahmood denied that his industrial unit EFF, EFF Industries had got the loan written off. He clarified that he had entered into an agreement with the bank but this package was never implemented until recently. The list also names Brig (retd) M A Baig and Qamar Ahmad, BA Siddiqi, Zubair Rashid, Mohammad Sadiq Baig, Riazur Rehman, Mrs Mamomnna Khatoon, Mrs Mehr Riaz, Mr Taufiq Ahmed Rs 1.09 million (UBL). Lt-Col (retd) Ch M Anis Ahmed, Col Atta ullah, Shahid Atta, Mst Qamar un Nisa Rs 2.6 million, Irfan Rice Mills of Col (retd) Nazar Hussain Rs 1.6 million, Mehr Textile Mills, Chakwal, Col Mohammad Ayub Khan, Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Ch Asad Ali Khan, Mrs Sultana Zakia, Mohammad Nawaz, Ch Ghulam Ali Khan. Major General (retd) Khadim H Raja, Air Marshal (retd) A Rahim Khan, Mrs Sattar Azim Khan also got loan written off. Mohammad Textile Mills Limited of Air Commodore (retd) Amanullah got a loan of Rs95 million written off from the UBL. His other business partners were Khurshid Alam, Mohamamd Rafiq, Mrs Bilquis Begum, Tanveer Ahmed, Naseer Ahmed, Begum Sultana Fammay Khan, Sobia Fammy Khan. Air Vice Marshal (retd) Ata Elahi Sheikh of the National Fructose Limited also got Rs43 million written off. His business partners were Shakirullah Durrani, Mohammad Aslam, Qamaruzaman, Syed Safiullah, Dr Mohammad Yousuf, Khan Akbar Majeed and TR Sariq. Sairani Cotton Ginning Factory owners Capt (retd) Shahraz Latif and his business partners Shahnaz Latif, Ch Mohammad Ashraf also got loan written off. Air Marshal (retd) A Rashid Sheikh, Air Vice Marshal (retd) S Moinur Rab, Group Captain (retd) Mohammad Ismal Khan, Salman Rashid of Sky Rooms Limited got Rs 8.4 million loan written off. Brig (retd) SM Bakar Naqvi, Mian Ahmed Rabbani, Pervez Iftikar Khan, Abdul Aziz, NM Khanzada and Major (retd) Afzalul Haq also among the beneficiaries.
Col (retd) M Yaqoob of Aswan Tentage and Canvas got a huge loan of Rs276 million written off from Bankers Equity. His other business partners were Col (retd) M Yaqoob, Mohamamd Afzal Chugtai, Mohammad Siddiqi, Haji Ghulam Sabir and Idris Ahmed Butt. Farook Pulp of Mjaor Nasim A Farooqi, Naeem A Farooqi, Pervez Farooqi, Munir Ahmed Khan and Saleem Farooqi got 2.1 million loan written off. Captain (retd) Shaukat of Locus Enterprises got Rs8.8 million written off. His business partners were Wiqar Abbas, Khalid Khan, Col (retd) M Sadiq Khan, Nabil Hasan, Masoud Abbasi and Abdul Razak. Raja Iftikar Kiani of Ms Alliance Textile Mills, Jhelum got a wavier of Rs16 million from the MCB.
A Lt-Col, who owned the Meditex Intl got Rs6.322 million written off from the HBL. His business partner was Col (retd) Bashir Ahmed. Commander Abdul Latif also got Rs 10 million written off. Shangrila Macropole Inn, Lahore got Rs4.3 million loan written off. Brig (retd) Mohammad Aslam Khan and Co got Rs4.3 million written off. Feroz Sons Textile Mills Mirpur owners Col (retd) Munir Hussain, Nasim Farms’s and Major General (retd) Qazi Nasim Majeed are also among the beneficiaries. Col (retd) Saleem of Special Iron and Steel Mills Limited, Lt General (retd) Habibullah Khan, Brig (retd) M Jan Hahang M Khandawala, Raza Kuli Khan, Col (retd) M Sharif Khan, Begum Tehmina Habibullah, M I Khurram, M Nazir Khan and IA Khurram are also among the beneficiaries. Major (retd) Mohamamd Anwar, S Aijaz Ali Shah, S Amjad Ali Shah, S Ghulam Qadir, S Aftab Ali Shah, S Ali Gohar Shah, S Amin Shah also on the list. Lt-Col (retd) M Jaffar, JH Dinshaw Rs 7.2 million, Chemphar Pakistan Limited of Brig (retd) Shareef Rahat, Captain (retd) AM Murad and Major (retd) Tariq Baig are also among the beneficiaries.
Kashif Naseer says: August 23, 2010 at 3:28 pm He also said that where is the donation which was received in 2005? He forget that he was engorging govt. that time too and his favorite Musraf was the president at that time
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Musharraf’s Loot and Plunder right under the Nose of Mr. Altaf Hussain is as under. Mr. Altaf Hussain in yestreday’s statement had called ISI High ups to intervene and now read what ISI did under the very nose of MQM:)
REFERENCE: The man, who rigged 2002 polls, spills the beans By Umar Cheema Sunday, February 24, 2008 http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13159
ISLAMABAD: The main wheeler and dealer of the ISI during the 2002 elections, the then Maj-Gen Ehtesham Zamir, now retired, has come out of the closet and admitted his guilt of manipulating the 2002 elections, and has directly blamed Gen Musharraf for ordering so. Talking to The News, the head of the ISI’s political cell in 2002, admitted manipulating the last elections at the behest of President Musharraf and termed the defeat of the King’s party, the PML-Q, this time “a reaction of the unnatural dispensation (installed in 2002).” Zamir said the ISI together with the NAB was instrumental in pressing the lawmakers to join the pro-Musharraf camp to form the government to support his stay in power. Looking down back into the memory lane and recalling his blunders which, he admitted, had pushed the country back instead of taking it forward, Zamir feels ashamed of his role and conduct. Massively embarrassed because he was the one who negotiated, coerced and did all the dirty work, the retired Maj-Gen said he was not in a position to become a preacher now when his own past was tainted.
He said the country would not have faced such regression had the political management was not carried out by the ISI in 2002. But he also put some responsibility of the political disaster on the PML-Q as well. The former No: 2 of the ISI called for the closure of political cell in the agency, confessing that it was part of the problem due to its involvement in forging unnatural alliances, contrary to public wishes. Zamir’s blaming Musharraf for creating this unnatural alliance rings true as another former top associate of Musharraf, Lt-Gen (retd) Jamshed Gulzar Kiyani has already disclosed that majority of the corps commanders, in several meetings, had opposed Musharraf’s decision of patronising the leadership of the King’s party. “We had urged Musharraf many times during the corps commanders meeting that the PML-Q leadership was the most condemned and castigated personalities. They are the worst politicians who remained involved in co-operative scandals and writing off loans. But Musharraf never heard our advice,” Kiyani said while recalling discussions in their high profile meetings.
He said one of their colleagues, who was an accountability chief at that time, had sought permission many times for proceeding against the King’s party top leaders but was always denied. Kiyani asked Musharraf to quit, the sooner the better, as otherwise the country would be in a serious trouble. Ma-Gen (retd) Ehtesham Zamir termed the 2008 elections ‘fairer than 2002’. He said the reason behind their fairness is that there was relatively less interference of intelligence agencies this time as compared to the last time. But he stopped short of saying that there was zero interference in the 2008 polls. “You are quite right,” he said when asked to confirm about heavy penetration of ISI into political affairs during the 2002 elections. But he said he did not do it on his own but on the directives issued by the government. Asked who directed him from the government side and if there was somebody else, not President Musharraf, he said: “Obviously on the directives of President Musharraf.” Asked if he then never felt that he was committing a crime by manipulating political business at the cost of public wishes, he said: “Who should I have told except myself. Could I have asked Musharraf about this? I was a serving officer and I did what I was told to do. I never felt this need during the service to question anyone senior to me,” he said and added that he could not defend his acts now.
“It was for this reason that I have never tried to preach others what I did not practice. But I am of the view that the ISI’s political cell should be closed for good by revoking executive orders issued in 1975,” he said. Responding to a question regarding corruption cases that were used as pressure tactics on lawmakers, he said: “Yes! This tool was used, not only by the ISI. The NAB was also involved in this exercise.” Former corps commander of Rawalpindi, Lt-Gen (retd) Jamshed Gulzar Kiyani said majority of corps commanders had continued opposing Musharraf’s alliance with top leadership of the PML-Q. “Not just in one meeting, we opposed his alignment with these corrupt politicians in many meetings but who cared. Now Musharraf has been disgraced everywhere, thanks to his political cronies.”
Imran Bhai also supports Military intervention;
http://daily.urdupoint.com/featured_137937_1_2.html
Kashif Naseer says:
August 23, 2010 at 3:28 pm
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So what do you think of Imran Khan’s statement Kashif Nasir? Is he guilty of treason too and should liberal “fascist” be worried of him too? Not a good day for Islamist fascists I see.
PML-N wants action against Altaf Hussain under Article 6
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20108\24\story_24-8-2010_pg1_7
* Nisar asks SC and CEC to take notice of MQM leader’s statement for inviting military to take over
* Rules out any backing from Pakistan Army for the statement
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan asked the Supreme Court and the chief election commissioner (CEC) on Monday to take notice of a statement issued by Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain, under Article 6 of the constitution for inviting the military to intervene in politics.
Talking to reporters on Monday, Nisar criticised Altaf’s statement, in which he had asked “patriot generals” to take action against politicians and stated that his party would support a martial law if it was imposed in the country.
“I will call upon the apex court and the CEC to take notice of the statement and take action against Altaf Hussain under Article 6 of the constitution for trying to sabotage and act against the spirit of the constitution,” the PML-N leader said.
Nisar said that PML-N would submit a privileged motion against Altaf Hussain in the National Assembly in the next couple of days. He claimed that the MQM leader was “compromising elected institutions”.
“If Altaf Hussain is so eager to get in the good books of generals, it will be better for him to un-register the MQM as a political party and instead register it as a regiment of the Fifth Corps (the Karachi Corps) of the Pakistan Army,” Nisar said, adding that politicians were not supposed to issue such statements.
Responding to a question, Nisar ruled out the possibility that the statement had received any support from the Pakistan Army. “ In my opinion, no army general can be so short-sighted to back such a statement,” he said. He said that the statement had been issued at a time when the country was trying to recover from devastating floods.
On issue of establishment of an independent commission for rehabilitation of flood-affected people, Nisar claimed that the presidency had “sabotaged” the proposal and not the provinces, as claimed by the government.
Sindh local govt polls postponed Tuesday, August 24, 2010
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20108\24\story_24-8-2010_pg7_13
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan promulgated the Sindh Local Government (Fifth Amendment) Ordinance 2010 on Monday, an announcement said. In section 179-A of the ordinance, the following shall be substituted for sub-section 5: “On dissolution of the local governments and councils, after enactment of the new local government law, the government shall request the chief election commissioner for holding the elections of local governments on a date as may be fixed by the government.” The fifth amendment shall come into force at once, the announcement added. staff report
Floody politics: MQM casts seditious stone at ally By Muhammad Akram http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20108\24\story_24-8-2010_pg7_21
LAHORE: Irked by the inflow of flood-affected people from interior Sindh to the province’s urban centres, the challenges and retaliation by Pakhtuns – led by the ANP – and the disappointment in convincing the PPP for a bigger share from the local bodies are factors behind the MQM’s invitation to a ‘patriotic general’ of the Pakistan Army to intervene and deal with politicians in the way ‘notorious’ during martial laws.
As an ally of the PPP and ANP this outburst by MQM chief Altaf Hussain is the second major attempt to destabilise the current coalition government, the previous one being an ‘advice-cum-threat’ to the president to step down in the wake of the military establishment’s opposition to the Kerry-Lugar Act for the sake of democracy.
The current threat to the political dispensation, which attracts a sedition case under Article 6, appears to have come out of reports in the international media expressing apprehensions that the elected government is facing threats to its survival at the hands of power establishment in the wake of the massive floods and a ‘growing disenchantment’ and ‘failure of the administration’ to extend a befitting response.
The previous attempt by Altaf came after certain cosmetic changes brought to the Kerry-Lugar law, thanks to extensive diplomacy by the Obama administration. The matter between the PPP and MQM had been further resolved in numerous meetings held between Altaf and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Altaf’s current call for a military intervention on the pretext of ending corruption and dislodging the feudal system has received a big ‘no’ from all political forces, including the PML-N, which chooses to snub him than offer a sympathetic hearing. The PML-N had, in fact, ridiculed Altaf’s now-known habit of staying in power and playing the role of an opposition party.
The MQM had the best time getting rid of the feudal system and cleansing the society of corruption when it was a partner in the nine-year-long quasi-military government of Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, opined PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal.
The MQM was best advised by smaller political parties from Sindh asking it to first quit the government then see how it could call for a military intervention. The PPP, on the other hand, has decided not to respond to the MQM for now and focus on relief activities.
A PPP member from the Sindh cabinet told Daily Times the time to do politics would come after floodwaters submerge, and with it the politics being pursued by the political orphans will also end.
He said the PPP would not let anyone stop the people from interior Sindh to settle in the relief camps set up in Karachi and Hyderabad. “These are our cities built on our land,” he said and added, “We have belonged to this land for centuries, not those who only sought shelter here.”
Talking to Daily Times from Islamabad, a federal cabinet member from Sindh said, “There are no buyers for the MQM’s conspiracy theories, even in the military establishment.” Gone are the days when the MQM could blackmail a ruling political party or the other by using its card of being a party of the establishment, maintaining, “The PPP cannot be threatened by military intervention.”
Talking about the PPP’s future political relationship with the MQM, the minister said the party would like to continue with the MQM until it gets done with providing relief to the flood-hit people. The PPP has had enough of its ally in Sindh in this two-and-a-half-year relationship and a future course would be devised considering the role of its allies, he added.
According to political pundits, Altaf’s call for a military intervention is not a sudden outburst, but a well-thought out statement aimed at warding off a situation that could arise if flood victims choose to settle in the province’s urban centre for a period longer than being anticipated by the MQM.
The MQM, already facing a challenge from Karachi’s Pakhtuns, cannot afford to have a Sindh-Pakhtun duo deal with it politically as well as numerically, particularly as Karachi is already boiling from frequent target-killing incidents.
The political pundits say a lacklustre response from the MQM in flood-relief activities in interior Sindh, southern Punjab and Pakhtunkhwa, compared to those during the 2005 Kashmir quake, is an evidence that the party had already taken political measures to ward off the influx of flood-hit people in Karachi and Hyderabad.
The Sindh government, a political observer said, would not mind if the flood victims took shelter in the province’s two big cities for long and would encourage them to settle permanently. With the party in government, the observer added, it will be easy for the PPP to get them enrolled in voters’ list before the pending local bodies elections to be held later this year or early next year.
According to political observers, it would be interesting to see how the independent judiciary reacts to this statement by a leader whose party was duly blamed for the May 2007 bloodbath in Karachi when CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry – then sacked by the MQM’s favourite military dictator, Musharraf – had gone there to address the Karachi Bar Association. The observers said though there is no point that the judiciary should react to the statement, it would be a test case at a time when its claims to be a protector of democracy in the country.
EDITORIAL: Marching towards tyranny, again? Tuesday, August 24, 2010 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20108\24\story_24-8-2010_pg3_1
Altaf Hussain, chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has appealed for a “martial law-like” intervention by “patriotic generals” against “corrupt feudals and landlord politicians”. Coming from someone whose party is known for its ethnic exclusivism — despite pretending otherwise of late– and various other crimes like land grabbing, bhatta (protection money), torturing and/or murdering dissenters, Mr Hussain’s statement could have been laughed at for its sheer absurdity. The only problem is, this is no laughing matter.
When General Musharraf was in power, we witnessed a militarisation of the state and society. Because of this, the people lost respect for the army. Ever since General Kayani became the chief of army staff (COAS), he has tried to portray himself as a professional soldier with no interest in politics. Under General Kayani, the army has refurbished its image by protecting our territorial integrity and internal security, which is its primary task. Apart from fighting the Taliban, the military has been at the forefront of rescue and relief efforts during the floods. This has done the army’s image much good. On the other hand, the incompetence of the incumbent civilian democratic government is no secret; allegations of massive corruption against the government and its track record have not helped matters either. After the recent floods, despondency can be felt all over the country. It seems that the public has lost faith in the incumbents. An anti-government lobby is now trying to exploit this situation to its advantage. Thus, the MQM chief’s ‘call’ for a not-so-divine intervention by the army at this point in time may be a reflection of not just that anti-democratic lobby but some signals from the powers-that-be may also have something to do with it.
The MQM came into being with the support of the intelligence agencies to counter Sindhi nationalism. Since then it accumulated more and more power and eventually got out of hand, a la the Taliban. After a few ups and downs in its relationship with its mentors, the MQM is back in the game and wants to return to the fold of the establishment. Altaf Hussain’s statement has been criticised by almost every political party. Some have even gone so far as to suggest the ultimate penalty for him since this is a clear violation of Article 6(1) of the constitution: “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.” This may only be wishful thinking because Mr Hussain has only ‘suggested’ a military intervention while no military dictator has ever been tried under this Article even though they directly subverted the constitution. Dr Farooq Sattar has denied that his party chief has asked for a martial law; he claims that Mr Hussain has taken a bold stance and has his finger on the pulse of the public. Now this is going a bit too far because despite the public’s reservations about the incumbents, no sane person wants a return of military rule. Those who oppose democracy argue that we would be electing the same faces even if the present government completes its tenure since there is a dearth of alternatives. This is true, but if one were to rationally think about it, the only way to find new leadership is to continue with the democratic process.
It would be wise if Mr Hussain could think with a cool mind instead of giving an open call to the military to seize power. Pakistan has already suffered greatly in its history by not adhering to democratic norms. Military interventions have brought nothing but pain to us and a fresh one will not bring anything new. Democracy on the other hand is a painfully slow process but to develop our institutions, there is no other alternative in sight. We should let it take its normal course instead of delving into tried and failed interventionist territory.
Nisar blames judiciary for fake degree chaos By Amir Wasim Tuesday, 24 Aug, 2010 http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/nisar-blames-judiciary-for-fake-degree-chaos-480
ISLAMABAD: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has held the judiciary responsible for the present state of ‘confusion’ on the issue of fake degrees.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Chaudhry Nisar whose party was in the forefront of the movement for restoration of deposed judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, also challenged the judiciary to take cognisance of the statement of MQM chief Altaf Hussain urging army generals to take “martial law-like action” against corrupt politicians.
“You always remain in search of issues to take suo motu notices. Now take action because a person has openly talked about abrogation of the Constitution in broad daylight,” the PML-N leader said, seemingly unhappy with the judiciary for some reasons as he did not explain under which law the judiciary could initiate such an action merely on the basis of a statement.
He announced that his party had decided to move a privilege motion on the issue and termed the MQM chief’s statement “part of a well-designed and well-orchestrated strategy”.
However, in response to a question, he ruled out the possibility that Mr Hussain had made the statement at the behest of army.
Chaudhry Nisar said that had the judiciary taken a clear-cut stand on the issue of fake degrees while hearing the petition challenging the academic qualification of PPP MNA Jamshed Dasti, there would have been no confusion today.
“Why did the Supreme Court allow Mr Dasti to resign and get himself re-elected?” he asked.
Chaudhry Nisar also asked the MQM not to support the toothless accountability bill that the government wanted to bring in parliament if it was serious about its demand for action against the corrupt people.
Replying to a question, the opposition leader rejected Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s claim that Nawaz Sharif’s proposal for setting up an independent flood relief commission could not materialise because of opposition from the provinces.
He said that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had told him that the issue was never discussed at the meeting of the Na- tional Disaster Management Commission.
At last Imran Khan [Taliban Supporter] and Mr Altaf Hussain [Secular] are on same line of supporting Martial Law: Imran Khan also “supports” Martial Law “Revolution” – He says that he will welcome Military Coup:) http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1101036135&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20100824
What a Fun that arch Rivals i.e. Mr Altaf Hussain and Sir. Imran Khan share common “Goal:) lets have a look at Imran Khan’s earlier support for Musharraf Martial Law [MQM was an Ally] Imran Khan’s Support: Then Musharraf Now Taliban! http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/12/imran-khans-support-then-musharraf-now.html
Imran Khan says his party would support “a Revolution” like this [read Martial Law] and guess what JANG/GEO Group are also supporting the upcoming Martial Law: Similarities between Shaheen Sehbai & Asghar Khan Letters. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/11/similarities-between-shaheen-sehbai.html
Imran supported “General Musharraf” Revolution in 1999 by supporting PCO Judiciary! Imran Khan hailed PCOed Judiciary!
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/08/imran-khan-hailed-pcoed-judiciary.html
MQM chief’s remarks Tuesday, 24 Aug, 2010
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/editorial/mqm-chiefs-remarks-480
VIEWED from any angle, the comments made on Sunday by MQM chief Altaf Hussain are deeply disturbing. Usually, the MQM never tires of pointing out its secular, democratic credentials at every turn, positioning itself as the last line of defence against religious extremists and at the vanguard of the fight against a landed aristocracy that exercises outsized influence over the national political set-up. However, reconciling the party’s avowed positions with Mr Hussain’s latest comments is well nigh impossible. It is a sad reality here that military interventions have never taken place in a vacuum, with sections of the political spectrum invariably playing the role of cheerleaders and enablers.
There appears to be some need to revisit the basics here. Of the 63 years of Pakistan’s existence, less than half have been spent under democratically elected leaderships. So it would only be fair to assume that for all the problems that afflict the country, the Pakistan Army deserves to shoulder a sizeable portion of the blame. The track record of military dictators confirms this: each of the last three generals who have run Pakistan has exited with the country in dire straits. Gen Yahya Khan of course presided over the break-up of Pakistan; Gen Zia left the country awash in guns, drugs and a toxic ideology; and Gen Musharraf exited with the country on the verge of economic collapse and racked by internal violence. In the past, just as Mr Hussain urged on Sunday, generals have indeed taken over with the declared goal of cleansing the body politic of ‘corrupt politicians’. But each time the generals have eventually found themselves political bedfellows with many of the very same politicians they initially condemned. If the army has a magic wand to clean up Pakistan’s politics, it has yet to show it to the people of Pakistan. A decade ago, Gen Musharraf promised many of the same things generals invariably promise, but delivered on none. The MQM would know this better than most because it had a seat at the table of power under Gen Musharraf.
Dismaying as the comments made on Sunday may have been, it is reassuring that at least the initial reaction from across the political spectrum has been to express faith in the democratic process. Poor governance, endemic corruption and a withering state all undoubtedly exist here — but the only cure for such deep-rooted malaise is time and patience. Unhappily, in the past, every option but the obvious has been tried here: the repeated and peaceful transfer of power from one government to the next. Perhaps politicians need to recommit themselves to preventing history from repeating itself.
MQM sticks to Altaf’s demand Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Shaheen Sehbai http://www.thenews.com.pk/24-08-2010/Top-Story/105.htm
WASHINGTON: The top MQM leadership in London is not at all concerned about the reaction in Pakistan to Altaf Hussain’s call to the Pakistan Army to save the country and a senior adviser says we will continue to make our efforts while staying within the system.
As a storm was unleashed by Altaf Bhai’s speech on Sunday, with every political party heaping scorn on him for trying to derail the system, the MQM leadership believes the debate on changing the system has begun and this will lead to some positive result.
Asked specifically why the MQM was not trying to change the corrupt political leadership through the constitutional process available, an MQM leader, who is considered to be the thinking wing of MQM London, wondered why we could not follow the example of French leader Charles de Gaulle. He asked me to study what the French general had done for his country.
De Gaulle was the French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during the World War II and later founded France’s Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first president from 1959 to 1969. from 1959 to 1969. According to Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia, he was a veteran of World War I in the 1920s and 1930s and escaped to Britain and gave a famous radio address, broadcast by the BBC on 18 June 1940, exhorting the French people to resist Nazi Germany and organised the Free French Forces with exiled French officers in Britain.
He gradually obtained control of all French colonies – most of which had at first been controlled by the pro-German Vichy regime – and by the time of the liberation of France in 1944 he was heading a government in exile, insisting that France be treated as an independent great power by the other Allies. De Gaulle became prime minister in the French Provisional Government, resigning in 1946 due to political conflicts.
After the war he founded his own political party, the RPF. Although he retired from politics in the early 1950s after the RPF’s failure to win power, he was voted back to power as prime minister by the French Assembly during the May 1958 crisis. De Gaulle led the writing of a new constitution founding the Fifth Republic, and was elected president of France, an office which now held much greater power than in the Third and Fourth Republics.
As president, Charles de Gaulle ended the political chaos that preceded his return to power. De Gaulle oversaw the development of French atomic weapons and promoted a foreign policy of national sovereignty from U.S. and British influence. He withdrew France from NATO military command -although remaining a member of the western alliance – and twice vetoed Britain’s entry into the European Community.
Despite having been re-elected as president, this time by direct popular ballot, in 1965, in May 1968 he appeared likely to lose power amidst widespread protests by students and workers, but survived the crisis with an increased majority in the Assembly. However, de Gaulle resigned after losing a referendum in 1969. He is considered by many to be the most influential leader in modern French history.
The MQM leader’s reference to De Gaulle indicates many new lines of thinking going on in London as many similarities can be seen in De Gaulle’s political career and the life and struggle of Altaf Hussain while in exile in Britain.
To the criticism as to why the MQM was still part of the corrupt system it was criticising, the top MQM adviser said: “We are working while staying within the system. If we had been out of the system, we would have been facing operations like in the past. But this system is corrupt and we will continue to improve it.”
Another MQM source in London, while explaining the extent of corruption in the top political leadership, pointed out that it should be investigated who has just purchased the Penthouse at No 1 Hyde Park in London at 140 million pounds ($222 million).
The source said the six-bedroom apartment at Knightsbridge stretches across two floors and boasts bullet-proof windows, a panic room and views across the Serpentine. The new owners – who have already exchanged contracts – will also have access to 24-hour room service from the neighbouring Mandarin Oriental hotel, and protection from SAS-trained security guards. The price tag makes the penthouse the most expensive property in Britain, passing the £115 million paid for a flat at the exclusive 8 St James’s Square development in Westminster.
MQM must push for a change within the system; Altaf Bhai should leave coalition first; force mid-term polls, not invite a dictator Tuesday, August 24, 2010 By Ansar Abbasi http://www.thenews.com.pk/24-08-2010/Top-Story/126.htm
ISLAMABAD: No Mr Altaf Hussain, you are wrong. Your recipe to cleanse the Augean stables is flawed, unconstitutional and simply shocking. Your outburst negates the established principles of rule of law that is mandatory for justice and fair play in any society and for which we have been struggling since March 9, 2007. You have not only unmistakably invited ML but proposed dictatorial rule of one man that would be disastrous for my Pakistan.
One’s despondency and disappointment from the Zardari-Gilani government to which Altaf Bhai’s MQM is an integral part is perhaps far more grave than what the MQM chief apparently claims. Undoubtedly the present regime is thoroughly corrupt and the worst example of bad governance. Time has also proved that Prime Minister Gilani is also helpless, hopeless, incompetent and lacks courage and is a mere burden on the system for his inaction and incapability to steer the country away from the challenges facing the nation. This is known to all that democracy is being used by the present rulers to give cover to their corruption, misrule and bad governance.
Everyone knows that Zardari and the bunch of corrupt coterie surrounding him are on a suicide mission and have emerged as the greatest threat to democracy. The question that arises here is if, because of corruption, bad-governance and misrule of the rulers and regime, we should condemn democracy and let another dictator come, it would ruin everything. Targeting democracy would mean bowing down to whims and wishes of one man, moving against our own rights, abrogating Constitution and weakening institutions including independent judiciary and free media.
It sounds strange that no-confidence against the system is coming from Altaf Hussain whose party is vital part of the corrupt federal as well as Sindh government. Being part of it, the MQM is bound to share the burden of all the wrongs being done by the Zardari-Gilani duo.
Instead of targeting democracy, why don’t Altaf Bhai and his party hit the corrupt government and the corrupt rulers? The MQM, which has served as B-Team of General Musharraf during his nine-year dictatorial rule, should now serve democracy and as a first step get out of the coalition. The party can also exert pressure on the regime to behave by setting the conditions of good governance, across the board accountability and corruption free government if the PPP wants the MQM to stay in the coalition.
Following democratic norms, the MQM has the option of leaving the federal government. It would mean the immediate collapse of the Gilani regime. The PPP, which has just 126 members in the National Assembly and has made the government with the support of MQM, ANP, JUI(F), independents and others, can’t survive if it loses the support of 25 MQM MNAs. The collapse of the government could pave the way for re-adjustments of political divide within the National Assembly. It would mean forming a new government. Otherwise, we have mid-term elections. These are all democratic means to handle the kind of situation we are confronting today.
Hatred against Zardari should not be allowed to turn into hatred against democracy. Just to recall Altaf Bhai, the present lot ruling the country had made its way into the corridors of power because of the NRO, which was promulgated and negotiated by the Generals. Therefore, Altaf Bhai, please let the cleansing be done by the system instead of the Generals, who have failed every time they ruled the country. Let’s start differentiating between democracy and government. We have the kind of rulers who have given us the sham democracy. Instead of reverting to the military rule we all should struggle for genuine democracy, genuine people who should serve people instead of serving the rulers.
my suggestion…let all corrupts go more corrupt…let them go to the extreme..just create a police force that could do the cleansing but be fair in its obligation…
u forgot the communist revolution of PPP
yes democracy is the solution… but how can those parties deliver it that are themselves transferred as heirlooms from one generation to another.
Background of Mr. Altaf Hussain’s statement!
US diplomat Bryan D. Hunt meets Altaf Hussain
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114106&Itemid=2
KARACHI, Aug 21 (APP): US diplomat, Bryan D. Hunt met with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Chief Altaf Hussain at the International Secretariat, of MQM’s office in London.The meeting lasted for nearly three hours and different issues of mutual interest came under discussion, said a statement issued by MQM here on Saturday.The flood devastations, relationship between Pakistan and US, war against terrorism, the role of Pakistan Army in flood relief to the affected people and the overall political situation of the country, came under discussion.
During the meeting, Altaf Hussain briefed the diplomat about the plight of millions of Pakistanis were living shelter less. They were compelled to drink contaminated water resulting, waterborne diseases as this situation is becoming from bad to worse, he added. Altaf Hussain informed Bryan D. Hunt that Pakistan is playing a vital role in war against terrorism and Pakistan’s army should not be ignored as they are now fighting for Pakistan’s survival.
He also said that the Army is playing a valuable role in relocating people, affected by heavy floods and in their rehabilitation. He further said that it was the need of the hour that the international community particularly United States to help the people so that flood stricken people could be saved from starvation.
Altaf Hussain said that there is need to adopt a realistic and practical approach to the regional issues.
Altaf Hussain said that the MQM was the only secular, liberal and democratic political party of the country that seeks to represent middle class people of the country. He said that the MQM was in favor of inter-faith harmony and believed in a liberal and democratic society where each religious entity would have equal rights.
The US diplomat said the US would not leave Pakistan in this hour of crisis and provide help to the flood victims. He lauded the efforts of MQM after the devastating earthquake in 2005 and hoped that MQM would play a leading role in rehabilitation of the people, affected by the floods. The members of the MQM Rabita Committee in London were also present during the meeting.
APL detests calls to military rule in Pakistan
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114301&Itemid=2
LONDON, Aug 24 (APP): The UK-based Association of Pakistani Lawyers (APL) has criticised call for a military rule in Pakistan and termed it ‘unacceptable and against any logic’. Responding to MQM Chief statement asking Army generals to take action against corrupt politicians, APL Chair Amjad Malik said such assertion was against the very basis on which Pakistan was founded by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. In a statement, he said Pakistan’s progress lay in democracy, rule of law, justice and free media and not in martial laws from which the country has suffered a lot in the past.
Malik said at this juncture when the country is passing through economic hardships which have now been accentuated by unprecedented floods, the statement by the UK-based MQM leader smacked of his maturity and political wisdom.
APL has also condemned the extra judicial killing of two brothers in Sialkot and called for a judicial enquiry into this brutal act carried out in broad day light.
The Association observed that no one in the state has power to authorize capital punishment except a court of law.
If these brothers were suspected of committing a crime, police should have arrested, investigated, challaned and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are guilty as charged before a court of law.
“The way these two teenagers were inhumanly and degradingly treated, and police allowed them to be killed in their presence, tortured and mutilated their dead bodies is not only a crime of a highest order but affects the moral fabric of any society which aspires to progress on faith, discipline and rule of law”.
Hypocrisy and Double Talk of Imran Khan on Martial Law – ISLAMABAD: After MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s statement regarding support for martial law-like steps, the chief of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said his faction would back military rule for ‘stability’ of the country, ARY NEWS reports. Ref Imran Khan backs army rule, too Updated:Monday August 23 , 2010 9:55:03 PM http://www.arynews.tv/english/newsdetail.asp?nid=36706
but read
Today’s News [Thursday, August 26, 2010 Ramzan 15, 1431 A.H.]
http://www.thenews.com.pk/26-08-2010/Top-Story/171.htm ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said that MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain’s statement to incite the Army to take over could in no way be condoned.In a statement here, the PTI chairman, however, said that the MQM leader’s statement was a clear admission of the failure of the ruling coalition. He contended that instead of seeking the Army’s intervention, the MQM should have left the government and pressed for the mid-term polls.He was of the view that it was time to go for fresh elections under the aegis of the judiciary. Imran noted that it was not the military’s mandate to interfere in politics and their meddling had already cost the nation dearly.Imran lauded the Army’s role in the ongoing flood relief operations and said there was no logic in dragging it into political mopping up operations.
What a Fun that arch Rivals i.e. Mr Altaf Hussain and Sir. Imran Khan share common “Goal:) lets have a look at Imran Khan’s earlier support for Musharraf Martial Law [MQM was an Ally] Imran Khan’s Support: Then Musharraf Now Taliban! DETAILS: http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/12/imran-khans-support-then-musharraf-now.html
Imran Khan says his party would support “a Revolution” like this [read Martial Law] and guess what JANG/GEO Group are also supporting the upcoming Martial Law: Similarities between Shaheen Sehbai & Asghar Khan Letters. DETAILS: http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/11/similarities-between-shaheen-sehbai.html
Imran supported “General Musharraf” Revolution in 1999 by supporting PCO Judiciary! Imran Khan hailed PCOed Judiciary! DETAILS: http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/08/imran-khan-hailed-pcoed-judiciary.html
Imran Farooq’s murder linked to rows within MQM party- by Farhad Jarral 27 September 2010 http://criticalppp.com/archives/24436
Imran Farooq’s Murder: Altaf may not return to lead the ‘revolution’ By Shiraz Paracha 19 September 2010 http://criticalppp.com/archives/23094
MQM leader Imran Farooq assassinated in London 16 September 2010 http://criticalppp.com/archives/22940
BBC Hard Talk : MQM Muhammad Anwar Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq36z52CwDk
BBC Hard Talk : Part 2 MQM Muhammad Anwar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXF0gCNEidU
Altaf accuses foreign powers of plotting to eliminate him
By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque Monday, 27 Sep, 2010 http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/altaf-accuses-foreign-powers-of-plotting-to-eliminate-him-790
Mr Hussain said the murder of Dr Imran Farooq was a link in the chain and news analysis and columns published in the international press gave a clear indication about which party and personality were being targeted. He referred to the BBC programme “Hard Talk” in which the host asked coordination committee member Mohammad Anwar why the MQM leader (Mr Hussain) had not been removed.
“This has implications for the situation… what was the purpose of this question?”
Saleem Shahzad expelled from MQM Rabita Committee Saturday, February 14, 2009 [The News and Jang] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:daTZSTmCaXgJ:www.thenews.com.pk/print3.asp%3Fid%3D20309+aleem+Shahzad+expelled+from+MQM+Rabita+Committee&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pk
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has expelled Saleem Shahzad from its Rabita Committee on account of his personal and secret activities and contacts. Besides, MQM activists have been asked not to contact another Rabita Committee member, Muhammad Anwar, on any issue.
According to a press release issued by the MQM on Friday, anyone found contacting Saleem Shahzad would be expelled from the party. Similarly, the MQM activists have been directed instead of contacting Muhammad Anwar they may contact the Rabita Committee in Karachi or the party’s international secretariat. The party took the decision on the basis of Anwar’s suspicious activities and his disinterest in the affairs of the party, the statement said.
Meanwhile, MQM’s senior member and in-charge of its Labour Division Anees Ahmed Khan, advocate, has voluntarily resigned from the basic membership of the MQM, the statement said.
Another MQM statement said on the grounds of serious violation of organisational discipline and involvement in activities outside the organisation, the Rabita Committee had suspended the following activists of the All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organisation (APMSO) for an indefinite period: Ejaz Qureshi and Mohsin Shahab (University of Karachi unit); and Mohsin Ahsanul Haq (NED unit). When contacted, MQM spokesman Faisal Sabazwari offered no comments, saying: “Whatever the MQM has to say in this regard, it has stated in the press release.”
Saleem Shahzad expelled from MQM By Our Staff Reporter
February 14, 2009 http://www.dawn.com/2009/02/14/nat3.htm
KARACHI, Feb 13: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement expelled on Friday its senior leader Syed Saleem Shahzad from the party for his alleged ‘mysterious’ activities. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the party’s coordination committee. A statement issued from the MQM’s London secretariat said any party member found in contact with Mr Shahzad would lose his membership.
A former MNA and London-based MQM leader, Anis Ahmed Advocate, resigned from the party and stated that in future he would have nothing to do with the views and actions of the MQM, the statement said. Meanwhile, the MQM directed its workers not to contact Mohammad Anwar, another senior London-based member of the coordination committee.
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