Rabia :
it’s a pretty strange situation. masood sharif khattak seems like he really wants to be interior minister. who knows, he would probably do a better job than Rehman Malik…

“QUOTE”

4 February 2001
See Sunday Times report: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/02/04/stifgnasi02002.html

Source: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/02/04/intelligence.pdf (1.6MB)
[4 pages. Misspellings in original.]

TOP SECRET

INTELLIGENCE BUREAU
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
94-UPPER MALL, LAHORE
No. ARV/2001/01 Dated 29-1-2001

The President,
Islamic Republic of Pakistan,
ISLAMABAD

THROUGH PROPER CHANNEL

SUBJECT: SHEER ABUSE OF POWER/ABUSE OF JUDICIARY.
Respected Sir,
I would like to bring it to your kind notice that I am an officer of Intelligence Bureau cadre and have been raised to the rank of Deputy Director out of my sheer hard work. I have always worked honestly, professionally and with full devotions. All my seniors will endorse the high level of my efficiency, professionalism and integrity. I have always pointed out any wrong doings irrespective of any pressure of my seniors. I have no political affiliations, whatsoever.
I, being a conscientious officer, would like to state that an extra-ordinary situation has compelled me to address you directly as I feel that this very sensitive and important matter, which may have very deep impact on the future and present functioning of the judiciary and politics of Pakistan, needs to be dealt at your level. I am constrained to inform you that during my long service career in a very sensitive organisation I have never come across of any such occasion where I was a witness to sheer abuse of state institutions including judiciary of Pakistan by any Chief Executive of the country for the mere satisfaction of his/her personal ego and vendetta. In the instant case, some important dignitaries of the past and the present are involved who have not only violated the Constitution of Pakistan but also crossed other human and legal limits. They have also violated the provisions of their oath, which they took while taking-over their high offices. They have committed such a crime, which no nation on the earth would ever tolerate.
The highly undesirable incident, which I am going to narrate below, in fact, relates to the trial of the Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Ms. Benazir Bhutto and her spouse conducted by the Accountability Court headed by Mr. Justice Malik Abdul Qayyum of the Lahore High Court. The events which have really shook my conscious and will also shake you and the whole nation are being summarised below.
With the start of the trial of Ms. Benazir Bhutto and her spouse in SGS Reference in the Accountability Court headed by Mr. Justice Malik Abdul Qayyum, the then Government ordered the Intelligence Sub-Bureau, Lahore for the monitoring of all the office, home and mobile telephones of Mr. Justice Malik Abdul Qayyum in order to keep him under constant observation. Accordingly, I, being the head of the section responsible for the observation/bugging of the telephones, started tapping the telephones of Mr. Justice Malik Abdul Qayyum.First of all Mr. Khalid Anwar called Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum and told that “Somebody is unhappy over the delay of hearing of this case. He has complained about the case to Saif that nothing has been done so far and why has it not been concluded.” He informed the judge that “the gentleman [Mian Nawas Sharif] was very unhappy” and asked the judge that “Now I am thinking if you could reach the final result within the outside limit of two weeks” and “So get it done on Monday”. In response, Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum informed the Minister that “It is being done on Monday. After this we have to give them some time for defence evidence and then the matter will be closed.”
During his first conversation with Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum, Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman directed him that “Kindly don’t do one thing. Please don’t give any further date.” to which the judge promised that “Now we are not going to give dates. We are going to finish it by the Grace of God. You don’t worry.”. In a conversation with his wife, Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum told her that “They have said, remove him” and on a further explanation by her wife, the judge stated that Nawaz Sharif has ordered for his removal because “They [Mian Nawaz Sharif] say that he has changed his loyalty.” When on his advice the wife of Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum informed Malik Pervez (brother of Justice Malik Qayyum) of this development, he remarked that “But this is Blackmailing” and while agreeing with him, the wife of Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum concluded that “Yes you are right; this is the limit that justice should not be done and only what they want should be done”.
In a subsequent conversation with Malik Pervez, Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum informed him that “Regarding the matter of judgement which you know, your friend the biggest boss (Nawaz Sharif) is specially sending two men, one Mehdi and other Pappu (Saif)” to the Chief Justice to ensure “that it should be done with in two days”.
In a separate conversation with Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman asked Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum “… we need a place when our man can sit. Kindly permit our man to sit in the room next to your room” to which the judge told him that he “would tell Khawar Sahib”. Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman then told the judge that “Then I am going to depute the man Feroz shah who will contact Khawar”. When the Judge discuss this development/requirement with the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice remarked that “If we avoid it, it is better for us otherwise the noose will be around our neck if this thing is exposed”. Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum in reply told him that “Khawar says that we can place the machine in the Registrar’s room” like “when you did it, it was also like this”.
Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman, in a separate conversation conveyed the directions of the Prime Minister to Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum and told him that “He [Mian Nawaz Sharif] has asked me to tell you for Monday” and asked him “Whatever you told me before, do exactly like that”. Mr. Justice replied that “I am trying my best. You don’t worry. You know how sincerely we are trying”.
Besides external/political pressure, Mr. Justice Rashid Aziz, the then chief Justice of Lahore High Court was also used to pressurize Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum. In a telephonic conversation, Mr. Justice Rashid Aziz informed Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum that “Yesterday when I went there, Mr. Yasir Arafat had come. He was busy with him in a meeting. He [Mian Nawaz Sharif] said just wait for ten minutes, twenty minutes, and half an hour. We will talk after lunch” and told Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum that “He [Nawaz Sharif] is a bastard”. When Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum enquired about the conversation, Mr. Justice Rashid Aziz told him that “he [Nawaz Sharif] says it has to be tomorrow” and enquired from Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum “Is everything ready?”. When Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum asked the Chief Justice that “You should have told him that it would finish only after they finish (defence evidence)” the Chief Justice told him that “He was saying that just do it”.
When Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum could not announce the judgement on the pre-determined day Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman called him and asked that “You were supposed to do it today”. Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum replied to him that “For your sake I had to beg her lawyer. I told him that I have to go abroad, I am not feeling well but I have to finish it first”. When Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman expressed displeasure over delay Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum asked him to “handle him [Mian Nawaz Sharif] and stated that “By the grace of God, this will be done and then both of us will go to him [Mian Nawaz Sharif] and seek forgiveness”. Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman asked the same judge to “Give me 100% confirmation that it will be done tomorrow”. In the same conversation Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum asked him about the punishment required to be awarded to which Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman told him that “whatever you have been told by him [Mian Nawaz Sharif]” i.e. “Not less than 7 years”. Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum suggested to him that the maximum punishment is not appropriate as “Seven is the maximum punishment and no body awards maximum” and requested Mr. Saif to ask him [Mian Nawaz Sharif] to which he promised to le him (Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum) know. In the same conversation Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum informed Mr. Saif that “I have already done about the fine and confiscation of the properties” and “their disqualification also”. Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman informed him that “Now more important is the state of madness in which he [Mian Nawaz Sharif] is” to which Justice Malik Qayyum requested him to “Beg forgiveness on my behalf”. Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum assured him that “Under all circumstances it will be done tomorrow. We are going to announce the judgement”.
In a separate conversation, Mr. Rashid Aziz described the madness of the Prime Minister to Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum and told him that “You can’t understand. Do you know what he [Mian Nawaz Sharif] is going to say? He is going to issue warrants for both of us. He has specially called me and told to advice you that what are you doing?” In reply Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum informed the Chief Justice that “90% I will try my best to finish it tomorrow”. Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum went on assuring the Chief Justice in the words “OK. Tomorrow I will, even if have to push it”. The Chief Justice told the judge that he has told him [Nawaz Sharif] that”It is already written and lying with us. He can sign it for you on it and you can keep it with you”.
In another conversation with Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum, Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman told the judge that he had asked him [Mian Nawaz Sharif] about the punishment to which he had directed to tell you that “Give them full dose”. Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman also informed the judge that “When I inquired about five or seven, he said I should ask you whey you would not like to give them full dose”. Explaining the strategy for the next day (the day of the announcement of the judgement) Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum informed Mr. Saif that “Whole day will be given. After eleven (11:00 AM) we would tell him to finish. After the interval at 11:00 AM, even if they disagree, we will not care” and “We will tell them, say whatever they want to say in their defence. It (order) is already prepared in written”. The judge went on explaining and stated that “So after half an hour, we will come back and announce it”. Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman then suggested to him that “Give the brief tomorrow but try to cover the maximum the brief the judgement”.
When the trial of Ms. Benazir Bhutto was over, Mr. Shahbaz Sharif, the then Chief Minister of Punjab rang up the judge and told that “I made a request to you” to which the judge replied that “Sir, I did finish that”. Mr. Shahbaz Sharif then informed him that “thank you very much. The matter regarding Ch. Sarwar [MNA], my elder brother has asked me to tell you that Sarwar should be favoured [in his disqualification case]” to which Mr. Justice Malik Qayyum promised that “It’s done, as desired by Mian sahib. As per his desire the matter is finished”.
During this process of close day to day observation of his phones, I was astonished to note that the judge was being dictated to obtain a judgement of their choice against Ms. Benazir Bhutto and Mr. Asif Ali Zardari by the then Federal Law Minister Mr. Khalid Anwar, Chairman Accountability Bureau, Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman and the then Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Mr. Justice Rashid Aziz, under the orders of from then Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, to hastily conclude the trial, announce conviction of Ms. Benazir Bhutto and her spouse with maximum punishment or seven years and forfeiture of her entire property. The Honourable Judge was pressurized to the extent that once he was called by the then Chief Justice of Lahore High Court at his residence to convey that Mr. Nawaz Sharif has asked to remove him (Mr. Justice. Malik Abdul Qayyum) as he (Mian Nawaz Sharif) has become doubtful of his loyalties. The Honourable Judge ultimately succumbed to the pressure and announced pre-written judgement against Ms. Benazir Bhutto and her husband by violating all norms of Justice, provisions of the Constitution of Pakistan and fair-play.
The whole conversation of these important Cabinet Ministers and the judges was part of the official record of the Intelligence Sub-Bureau, Lahore. I am also enclosing my affidavit along with 60-minutes recorded tape and its transcription with the view to assist your kind honour to proceed against two sitting judges, one of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the other of Lahore High Court, respectively, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Chairman Accountability Bureau Mr. Saif-ur-Rehman and the then Federal Law Minister Mr. Khalid Anwar.
I would also like to state that I have taken on against the most powerful group of politicians, two corrupt and immoral judges and hence I apprehend that I along with my family members are going to be harassed and victimized besides a serious danger to my life too. I also fear that the authorities in the Intelligence Bureau may try to terminate my services on false grounds but fact remains that I am just doing my duty by exposing to you bad elements in our judiciary. I, therefore, appeal to your honour to provide me protection and security against all such dangers. The aforementioned corrupt characters have not only brought bad name to the judiciary itself but also the image of our great nation. I would also like to make it clear that I have no motives whatsoever but I just want you to know as to what kind of havoc is being played by such people who had made mockery of justice without fear of the Almighty Allah.
In the light of the above facts, I would request: to your honour to kindly take necessary and appropriate action into the matter.
In the end I would once again like to reiterate the fact that I have no motives whatsoever in exposing these bad elements as I, being a civil servant, was duty bound to bring the wrong-doings of such like undesirable characters to the notice of such authorities which I am confident would take necessary action. I would also request you to kindly keep this summary confidential till you have taken a final action against them.
Thanking you In anticipation and I am confident that your kind honour, being the custodian of the Constitution of Pakistan and a former judge of the apex court of the country, would definitely proceed in the matter in accordance with the law.
Yours obediently,
[Signature]
(A. RAHIM)
Deputy Director/IB
Encl:
1. Copy of the transcript.
2. 65 Minutes recorded tape.
3. Affidavit.
cc:
1. Gen. Pervez Musharraf, The Chief Executive of Pakistan, Islamabad.
2. Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan, Islamabad.
3. Maj. Gen. Rafi-ullah Khan Niiazi, Director General, Intelligence Bureau, Govt. of Pakistan, Islamabad.
4. Mr. Jehangir Mirza, Joint Director General, PPHQ-IB Lahore.
Sd/-
(A. RAHIM)
Deputy Director/IB

Our Man Rehman Malik :)))) like Our Man Flint [Famous Spy Comedy]

Whodunnit? By Anjum Niaz October 28, 2007 http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/dmag16.htm

Whizzing past his 80th milestone, men like Naseerullah Babar are a vanishing breed: a compost of truth mixed with seasoned intelligence gathering that connects the dots. When General (retd) Naseerullah Babar leaves the world as we all mortals must, unrevealed intelligence will perish with him. As one whose loyalties are locked in with the Bhutto family, this old PPP guard has watched his revered leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged and his two sons murdered spawning 30 years of chilling intrigue and international espionage. He knows who killed them and the motive behind, but his lips are sealed. Now he worries for the daughter. Trying to pre-empt a violent end for Benazir Bhutto, has seen giving broad hints to whosoever asks: go look for the telltale signs that lead to her would-be assassins, he says. Given to television appearances, he speaks loud and clear unlike most mumblers whose words sound like ciphers.

She is a very brave girl who has lost her father and two brothers.

Babar is trying to reach her but she is unavailable for him, or was until the last time I spoke with the retired major general who now lives in Peshawar. I tried contacting the Mohtarma but couldn’t get her, so I’ve sent a message through Farhatullah Babar, says the man who served BB during her two terms as a special adviser and later her interior minister. If I were BB, I’d listen to the grand old man. He seeks no baksheesh or a job to jockey for. Unlike her tribe of corrupt pelf-seekers mining a fortune during her two terms, Naseerullah Babar is solid as a rock and unbending as the army baton that he always carries tucked under his arm. Why did he leave Benazir Bhutto? It’s a personal issue, pat comes the general’s response. But we all know that Benazir’s deal with Musharraf was the breaking point. Babar could not bear the thought of his leader sitting with men like Aftab Khan Sherpao and Farooq Leghari after the way they stabbed her in the back.

Whizzing past his 80th milestone, men like Babar are a vanishing breed. A compost of truth mixed with seasoned intelligence gathering that connects the dots. He takes a principled stand where the lily livered would capitulate. Such men need to be lionised. Sadly, Benazir has opted for Rehman Malik, the former FIA chief who reported to General Babar when the latter was the interior minister. Malik rose to dizzying heights from a lowly grade 13 or 14 officer. Stories of Malik trying to worm his way through by bribing his seniors are still fresh in our minds. Come promotion time, he’d turn up at their homes with trays laden with designer suits. By golly, it worked! Today, he is Benazir’s confidant-in- chief and sticks close to her. The first face we saw after Benazir descended the airplane sporting baby pink tie and kerchief and waving to the crowds with a cheesy smile was Rehman Malik. Nor is Naseerullah Babar anything like Mustafa Khar, the unctuous fast-talking opportunist. On July 5, 1977, Khar changed camps and went over to General Chisti for his reprieve while Mr Bhutto was arrested and taken to Murree remembers Babar.

At my age it’s not appropriate to compromise with the military and seek a PPP ticket for the 2008 elections. But my loyalty to the PPP will remain grounded. It’s my national duty he tells me when I ask him whether he would like to serve BB again. Benazir showed respect when addressing her interior minister. She and the General Sahib liked to engage in intellectual dialogue. Unlike other cabinet ministers, I never saw Babar cringe before his young prime minister. He was in the centre of investigations when Benazirs two brothers were killed. I went to South of France when Shahnawaz died in July 1985. I know exactly what happened and who killed him. Why, then, has he not revealed the identity of Shahnawaz’s killers?

Because I was advised not to go beyond the drawn line, he says. The substance that killed Shahnawaz was used by very few countries. The FBI and the French authorities investigated independently but kept their findings secret because of certain international sensitivities. Was dictator Zia behind the act? Perhaps he wanted the Bhuttos wiped out altogether?

How ironical that 22 years down the road, ZAB’s daughter Benazir should wag a finger at Zia’s remnants who tried killing her in the early hours of October 19! When Ejazul Haq was asked whether he was a suspect in the eyes of Benazir, he merely grinned (just the way his dad used to) and dismissed the allegation as a farce.
Street lights once again are at the heart of murder and darkness. Remember the street lights in front of 70 Clifton were switched off when Murtaza Bhutto was ruthlessly gunned down? Who was the prime minster then? None other than his sister. Irony of ironies that today she should be talking of the street lights being turned off as the sun set on Drigh Road, now called Shahra-e-Faisal.

Naseerullah Babar was the interior minister. I know the people who had him bumped off. They dismissed the sister two weeks later because they wanted to seize power and heap all the blame on her for his death. Was it the civil and military clique — the Zia remnants that Benazir Bhutto keeps drumming up? The current provincial home secretary is a retired brigadier. He is a tradesman, not a terrorism expert says Gen (retd) Babar. The MQM backed security adviser Wasim Akhtar also does not get Babar’s vote of confidence. Every time there’s an attack, the government stonewalls it as a suicide attack and presents the nation with the head of the bomber, says Babar. The head is like massaging the story to throw everyone off the scent.

His patience with gauche intellectual weightlessness and conspiracy theories of our rulers is wearing thin. When General Asif Nawaz died, Nawaz Sharif got blamed for poisoning him to death. General Babar, who was in the government then, sent the hair samples of the deceased army chief to France and Russia. The final verdict: it was not poison but a heart attack that killed the handsome general. I had the moral courage to tell the nation and absolve Nawaz Sharif of the crime, says Babar. Today the blatherskites muddy the picture. Unless our people get wiser and braver God will continue to give them cowardly leaders like the present lot. Babar’s harshest barbs are reserved for General Musharraf which he has freely shared on national television.

I have seen General Musharraf in action during the 1965 and 1971 wars. I watched him from close quarters. To me he came across as a coward; corrupt; and a man of mediocre intelligence, says Babar, the soldier who won the highest award in courage.
During the 1965 war, Babar single-handedly captured an entire Indian company of soldiers (over 70 POWs) and was awarded the Sitara-i-Jurat. In the 1971 war, he commanded an artillery brigade and fought like a tiger on the battlefield getting badly wounded. He was decorated with the Hilal-i-Jurat. The decorated war hero famously threw his awards at the military tribunal that sent ZAB to the gallows. Who can then blame Babar for voicing disappointment with Benazir kowtowing with Musharraf and his army today? I’ d rather go and play a game of golf, meet with my friends, attend family functions and go grocery shopping than walk in the corridors of power, says the man who has not allowed age to interfere with his elan for life. His secret for a long healthy life?

I go to bed early and am an eternal optimist. We will come out of our current political crisis with flying colours.

Bravo! Encore!

Rabia :
it’s a pretty strange situation. masood sharif khattak seems like he really wants to be interior minister. who knows, he would probably do a better job than Rehman Malik…

Mr. Masood Sharif’s Letter to Late. Ms. Benazir Bhutto

10 DECEMBER 2007

MASOOD SHARIF KHAN KHATTAK

PESHAWAR

NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE (NWFP)

PAKISTAN

TO: – MOHTARMA BENAZIR BHUTTO

CHAIRPERSON PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY

Dear Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto,

Assalam alaikum.

After resigning from the basic membership of the Pakistan Peoples Party on 27 Nov, 2007, I am writing this letter to you elaborating my views, as a common Pakistani, on some burning issues confronting Pakistan today and how these issues, in my opinion, need your
attention as a national political leader. Keeping my
past association with the PPP, and with you, I assumed
that I do have the privilege to write this letter,
irrespective of how variant my views maybe with the
current stance/political posture of the PPP.

This letter will also be sent to all those who
received my email addressed to you when I tendered my
resignation on 27 Nov, 2007. Thus, this letter is an
open letter which I am constrained to write because of
the numerous emails and phone calls that I received in
response to my resignation from the basic membership
of the PPP. All those Emails and phone calls urged me
to state the reasons that forced me to resign from the
PPP. Every one of them said that as Pakistanis they
had a right to know, especially so, in the given
political crisis prevalent in the country. Respecting
their viewpoint I had to make this letter an open
letter.

I hope this letter will, indeed, amplify, and make it
obvious, to everyone the precise reasons due to which
I resigned from the basic membership of the PPP. Many
people were very surprised on why I, who had served
the PPP so selflessly, so honestly, so sturdily and so
professionally, in the toughest of times, as well as
when I served you as your Intelligence Chief (DG IB)
when you were the Prime Minister, had resigned. They
too asked me vehemently to spell out the reasons.

After this letter I will put aside the aspect of my
resignation from the PPP and move on to serve Pakistan
in my own humble manner.

I, like millions of Pakistanis, believe in the BHUTTO
LEGACY which stands for “PEOPLE i.e. THE AWAM BEING
THE FOUNTAIN OF UNDILUTED POLITICAL POWER” – This
legacy was left behind by none other than your own
illustrious and incomparable father, SHAHEED ZULFIKAR
ALI BHUTTO.

On 04 April, 1979 , the darkest and most horrible day
in Pakistan’s political history, your great father
SHAHEED ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO did not walk to the
gallows alone and leave behind, for us all, THE BHUTTO
LEGACY. With him, on that day, marched every single
Pakistani in an invisible manner. Even those that may
have been his detractors walked with him on that black
day. I was a career army officer at that time. I too
marched with him. On that day Pakistan was gripped by
a devastating and extremely explosive silence. There
was not a heart that did not skip a beat. There was
not an eye that was not wet. Many Pakistanis, rich and
poor, did not eat for days.

Most of us were shameful of the fact that we had been
silent spectators while all that happened. In
contrast, today, when Pakistan’s judiciary is
literally being manhandled and beaten into submission,
most Pakistanis have, fortunately, chosen not to be
silent again, as in 1979, come what may. I have
decided, humbly, to be counted amongst those
Pakistanis.

All my personal sufferings and difficulties, including
three years of imprisonment, did not bother me at all
because of the strength of my belief and my political
adherence to the BHUTTO LEGACY. I have to admit that I
have not had the heart to see the diminishing of that
mighty legacy in recent months.

Today, whatever PPP might say through press statements
or press conferences, one has to have only a slight
bit of common sense (not even intelligence) to see
that the BHUTTO LEGACY that we all were ready to
sacrifice for, to any extent, stands effectively
neutralised. I am not the only one who feels like
this.

The people around you also know this but in their
eagerness to get some share in whatever power
structure that, they think, may soon be created just
keep pushing you on towards the path that can only be
politically disastrous for you. Your current political
posturing has already taken out a huge amount of sting
from your political standing, as well as that of the
PPP.

Because you are someone who has been my leader,
someone who cannot say that I have ever been insincere
to the Party, or yourself, even in the worst possible
times, I beseech you to change your political course
even now. You still have some time on your side to do
so. That time is passing away at a breakneck speed.

Synchronise your voice, without fear of any sort at
all, like you use to in the past, with the throttled
but very strong, powerful and volcanic voice of the
poor, downtrodden and honourable Pakistani citizens.
Synchronise your voice with that of the AWAM. Your and
my leader, and that of millions of silent and active
Pakistanis, was SHAHEED ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO. You have
always called him QUAID-E-AWAM and that is what he
rightfully was, and will always be.

The same AWAM, that holds SHAHEED ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO
in such high regard, as if he was still alive and
amongst them nearly 30 years after his judicial
murder, is calling on you to switch political course
for the PPP and march in step with them.

If you decide to ignore this clarion call they i.e.
the AWAM, the civil society of Pakistan, the people of
Pakistan as a whole, are going to give their verdict
against the PPP in the forthcoming very debatable and
controversial elections. The outcome of those
elections, even if favourable to you and the PPP, at
best, is going to be a short and temporary phase that
will then lead to another election that will truly be
free and will bring about a proper long lasting
Constitutional government.

As a two time former elected Prime Minister of
Pakistan and all set to take part in the forthcoming
elections, I would like to put before you just two
simple questions.

FIRST, CAN THERE BE A FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS IN A
COUNTRY IN WHICH IT’S SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE,
ALONGWITH A NUMBER OF JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT AND
OTHER ECHELONS OF THE HIGHER JUDICIARY, ARE LOCKED UP
SHAMELESSLY AS IF THEY WERE ORDINARY PICKPOCKETS?

SECONDLY, CAN THERE BE FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS IN A
COUNTRY WHERE, ALONGWITH THE SUPERIOR JUDICIARY THE
ELECTED SUPREME COURT BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
NAMELY, CHAUDHRY AITZAZ AHSAN, AND HIS OTHER
COLLEAGUES, ARE LOCKED UP.

I salute all these super souls. I also salute all
those who may not have attained personal fame but have
made themselves counted. They are now real life
legends – real life national heroes. Pakistanis from
across all sorts of divides unanimously applaud these
heroes.

I shall be failing miserably if I do not mention the
role of the media in educating the Pakistani civil
society and the general masses about how things stood
in the country over the recent past. I have to make a
special mention of GEO TV as it has now become a
symbol of media freedom by not submitting to the
unjust demands of the government spelt out under the
garb of code of conduct. I hope GEO never opens up as
anything other than what it was like, or better still.
Some channels have opened up but have no viewers as
they got back on air with hands folded and heads
bowed. We hope to see GEO back, even more vocal and
fearless.

Lots of brave people have emerged in the media over
the last few months. Dr Shahid Masood, Hamid Mir,
Kamran Khan, Talat Hussain, Ansar Abbasi and many more
are now household names just like Chaudhry Aitzaz
Ahsan, Mr Ali Ahmed Kurd, Justice (retd) Tariq
Mahmood, Munir A Malik and company. Their names have
already found a place in the history of the now
inevitable creation of the new look Pakistan.

The Chief Justice, other judges of the higher
judiciary who did not accept the PCO, lawyers and the
media persons that I have mentioned, and thousands of
others whom we do not know by name, will all go down
in our history as the pioneers and engineers of what
is bound to happen, and, in fact, is about to happen –
the emergence of a truly independent Pakistan where
law will reign supreme and information will flow
freely thus leaving no room for deviations for anyone,
however high and mighty. The Constitution will then
not be thrown out of the window as if it was a used
tissue paper.

The foundation stone, or the first brick, for the
struggle for that truly democratic and independent
Pakistan, which is now on the verge of emerging, was
actually laid on 04 April 1979, when SHAHEED ZULFIKAR
ALI BHUTTO, still being the first elected Prime
Minister of The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was
walked to the gallows in that very Constitutional
capacity – The Prime Minister. To my understanding he
was the Constitutional Prime Minister even at the time
he was taken to the gallows. As a Pakistani my head
hangs in shame on that event.

Whether SHAHEED ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO’S own founded PPP
now upholds the BHUTTO LEGACY, or not, such an extreme
sacrifice on the part of the founder of the PPP
towards the cause of millions of downtrodden
Pakistanis can never go in vain – and it will not.

This was proved, most unexpectedly, when Iftikhar
Muhammad Chaudhry, now the Chief Justice of the people
of Pakistan (not only of the Supreme Court alone), in
the Army House, on 09 March, 2007, and in the presence
of powerful uniforms galore, was given the courage by
ALLAH THE ALMIGHTY to refuse to resign and thus to lay
the second brick towards attaining the truly
democratic and independent Pakistan that my generation
has yearned for through all these endless and utterly
wasted decades.

There is no coming back now. No power can undo these
two bricks now cemented together by the civil society.
Things may be delayed but only for a while. Pakistanis
i.e. educated and enlightened Pakistanis have taken to
the streets for a just cause i.e. an independent
judiciary and the restoration of the judiciary to what
it was prior to the imposition of emergency on 03
Nov,2007. Success is guaranteed and Pakistan has to
become truly independent if it has to survive.
Survive, it will, INSHA ALLAH.

Having said that, I sincerely urge you to forsake all
the ill advised and ill fated political strategies
that have been recently adopted by the PPP and come
out openly to get in step with the people of Pakistan
before it is too late and before events have overtaken
you and the PPP. Time available to you is getting
limited by the hour.

With all the sincerity I can muster, I have to say,
unambiguously and as emphatically as it can be said,
that should you carry on with your present political
strategy, PPP and your own political future will be
damaged far beyond what you might imagine at this
point of time.

That polls are rigged in a masterly fashion in
Pakistan is a stark reality. We also know that most
people think, rightly or wrongly, that actual
political power in Pakistan lies with the Army and
that the will of the people is always rigged so why
not negotiate political power with them i.e. the Army
itself or the ruler that it imposes on the country –
like General Musharraf, with or without uniform, in
this case.

If this is the advice and hypothesis that you are
currently following, on the advice of some people, for
whom being in powerful seats is the only
consideration, then I guess the few political traitors
of the PPP who formed the Patriots in 2002 and joined
General Musharraf’s bandwagon were right in doing so
at that time (2002) and that the majority of the PPP
that did not go with them were wrong in staying
faithful and loyal to the PPP. The rest should also
have followed the traitors. But they did not because
of their belief in the BHUTTO LEGACY.

As to who was right and who was wrong I shall say, as
vociferously as it can be said, that the PPP turncoats
who had formed the Patriots in 2002 were wrong then,
and I will also add that you too will be wrong, now,
should you go down the same road that they went on
five years ago. If today, instead of calling on the
support of the people of Pakistan you negotiate power
sharing the people of Pakistan will never forgive the
PPP and its leadership in the next general elections .

The people of Pakistan expect the PPP to stand with
them unconditionally in sorting out the mess in which
the country finds itself. The people will pay back the
PPP whenever a free and fair election is then held and
that will be power, not shared power.

The Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his
small band of marvellous men led by the dauntless
Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan rallied immeasurable public
support by calling out to the collective wisdom and
conscience of the people of Pakistan and then we all
saw how General Musharraf, with all his power
trappings, was so humbled.

General Musharraf finds himself politically isolated,
vulnerable and in political quicksand even now while
those frail looking Judges appear like caged tigers
waiting to be released and let loose by the civil
society of Pakistan. The political quicksand for Mr
Musharraf is getting stickier and deeper by the day.
That is the power of the people. The power spelt out
by the BHUTTO LEGACY.

The present political strategy of the PPP,
unfortunately, does not show that PPP is in harmony
with the voice and feelings of the masses. Who would
know better than you that the vast majority always
speaks through the ballot paper and I am afraid that
what the people of Pakistan are going to say through
the ballot box is not going to be good music for the
PPP. I know that numerous people around you will paint
you a rosy picture and ask you to ignore what I am
saying but it is not going to be long before the
damage is done. The day of reckoning, 8 Jan 2008, is
around the bend.

Having spent twenty years with the PPP and having been
your Intelligence Chief (DG IB) during the time that
you were the Prime Minister I am positive, beyond an
iota of doubt, that you personally believe in what I
am saying. I know you believe in the people, almost
like faith, in the political sphere. It was this faith
of yours in the people of Pakistan that had made them
vote for you so that you were Prime Minister twice
despite the masterly rigging and machinations of sorts
against you. They will not be voting for you and the
PPP if you and the PPP are seen as Musharraf’s
extension in any way whatsoever – this, unfortunately,
is the case at this point of time.

The people of Pakistan will vote you in a third time
too and no one will be able to do anything, anything
at all, to stop it if you go to the people of Pakistan
wholeheartedly – like in 1987, the good old ‘Zia Jawey
Jawey’ days to the applause of millions. I am sure you
remember all that with a huge amount of rightly placed
pride.

Break out of the shell. Break the shackles put around
your ankles by people around you who are of far lesser
political acumen, and more so, of courage than your
own self. Come into your very own. It is late already
but, as yet, not too late.

From you, the people of Pakistan want a repeat
performance of those great days of 1987. The people of
Pakistan loved that defiant anti status quo Benazir
Bhutto. In that Benazir Bhutto they saw, and still see
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, whom they have loved so immensely
in acknowledgement of his ultimate sacrifice for their
rights and for having given a tongue to the poorest of
the poor amongst Pakistanis. You are on the centre
stage. I, for one, wish to see the Benazir Bhutto I
knew and served – The Benazir Bhutto of the people of
Pakistan.

Just that one picture/video clip on the print and
electronic media of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry in an ordinary black business suit sitting in
front of a uniformed General Musharraf, looking
sternly and straight into his eye, and saying “I shall
not resign” put life into the people of Pakistan.

You shall receive the same response if you defy the
status quo, like you did in the past. Times have
changed as it must be dawning on you with each passing
day since your return to Pakistan in October 2007. For
the sake of Pakistan and its people I urge you, most
sincerely, to realign the PPP with the people of
Pakistan . You will see the difference yourself.

The people have now finally awakened and there will be
no going back for them without real risk to the very
integrity of Pakistan, if their voice, or their vote,
is stifled anymore .

They are only looking for someone to come forward and
lead them – like u did in 1987. There is still time to
alter the present political course of the PPP. If you
and the PPP do not do that then I will have to say
that a political leadership, at the national level,
which is termed as “circumstantial leadership” will
surely emerge. I can see that happening. It is
nature’s course. If there is a vacuum something or
someone has to fill it.

The support from the people of Pakistan for the Chief
Justice was an open manifestation of the political
hatred that they now have for a dictatorship, in
general, and for the regime led by General Musharraf,
whatever the façade, in particular.

I am truly proud of the fact that one of my colleagues
from my PPP days made the peoples support for the
Chief Justice possible. He was ably supported by some
of the bravest and best men in Pakistan. Whenever the
history of the independence of Pakistan’s judiciary is
written the name of our much esteemed colleague
Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan will be written there in bold
and golden words because of his and his colleagues
spearheading the lawyers’ movement, mustering the
support from the masses, and contesting the Chief
Justice’s case and winning it brilliantly.

What is now happening to Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, being
a PPP candidate on a MNA seat but kept in detention as
punishment for siding with the Chief Justice, has only
raised his image to unimaginable levels at the
national and international levels.

For the PPP, Aitzaz’s unfair and totally vindictive
detention alone should have been reason enough to walk
away from the sham elections that we are soon to
witness.

He, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, deserves all praise,
appreciation and gratitude from all Pakistanis as do
all his other colleagues. The case of people’s power
was put forth superbly. They are all now household
names and national heroes in their own rights.

Over the past six months or so, you have had the rare
and very enviable political option of acquiring the
leadership of the entire lot of political parties in
Pakistan. I had recommended this option to you when we
met in Dubai in May 2007. The PML (N) leadership,
including Mian Nawaz Sharif, was imploring you to come
to the All Parties Conference (APC) held in July 2007
in London. If you had attended the APC meeting in
London, in July 2007, your political stature would
have been immensely raised. Those who tell you that
you did the right thing by not attending the APC are
not being honest with you at all.

Even the religious party conglomeration MMA were
saying openly on the electronic media, before the
London APC, that they would like to go to Dubai to
meet you and seek your support against General
Musharraf’s government. The option of trying to take
the lead of all the political parties of Pakistan in
the struggle to restore true democracy in Pakistan was
the option that I think you should have adopted
specially so as that would have been in consonance
with the will and the voice of the people of Pakistan
as well as the BHUTTO LEGACY.

The opportunity should have then been taken. The
option is still open, but not for long, and it should
be grasped with both hands. You will need a team of
real courageous and sharp men and women to handle it
as, in my honest opinion, your present inner cabinet
will never measure up to this gigantic political task.

Let us face facts as they are. Whatever exists today
is Musharraf’s Regime. Whatever existed since 12 Oct,
1999, to date was also Musharraf’s Regime. Whatever is
going to emerge after the 08 January 2008 elections is
also going to be, effectively, Musharraf’s Regime and
will certainly be very short lived. Even if you become
the Prime Minister it will still be Musharraf’s
Regime. There should be no doubt on this aspect at all
and choices should be made in the light of this
reality.

General Musharraf’s losing hold over political power
is now a reality and how long it might take for him to
lose total control is a matter of time only. That, it
is going to happen in the foreseeable future is a
foregone conclusion. Had General Musharraf not lost a
substantial measure of political power Mian Nawaz
Sharif and you would not have been in Pakistan today.

The true measure, of any political leader, lies in how
correctly he/she can determine when it is time to go
respectably and also upon the quality of successor(s)
he/she leaves behind. So it will really be up to
General Musharraf himself to decide. Many will think,
and I agree, that the time to leave was quite long
ago.

Almost a decade in power is by itself a factor that
will contribute towards quickening General Musharraf’s
total loss of political power. This is why, in
countries like USA, you may be the best man on earth
but you can be the President of the USA for eight
years and no more. When that (Musharraf’s total loss
of political power) happens the Government formed as a
result of the forthcoming elections, even if it has
you in the Prime Minister House, will go with him with
no hope of ever being voted back by the people of
Pakistan. Is this a good political option for the
PPP?

The people of Pakistan are the only permanent feature
in Pakistani politics and they identify themselves
with the BHUTTO LEGACY – power to the people. For you
and the PPP the only choice is to be in step with the
people of Pakistan if the BHUTTO LEGACY and the PPP is
to be saved from a huge political disaster. There is
still time albeit very little.

The decision about what course to go on is, without
any doubt, yours and that decision is now going to be
a make or break decision for your own political future
and that of the political inheritance SHAHEED ZULFIKAR
ALI BHUTTO left for the people of Pakistan, THE PPP.

These are truly defining moments for the future
politics of Pakistan, in fact, for the very future of
Pakistan itself and today it is the judiciary, the
lawyers, the students and other professions that are
writing the script for the future of politics in
Pakistan. The PPP is nowhere in sight on that stage
where the script is being written.

The best decision is a decision taken to alter course
after a disastrous decision has already been taken and
partly implemented.

There is still time, though that time is now very
limited, for you to do exactly this and alter your
political course in order to harmonise it with the
wind of change in the country.

Having said all that on national affairs I will
address myself to one more important aspect which lies
in the field of International Relations/Affairs and as
it affects us domestically. This aspect is also
related to your stand on the “war on terror”.

We are aware of the fact that the vast majority of
people in USA, in particular, in the West, Europe and
other countries that are US allies in the Iraq and
Afghan wars, in general, are immensely against these
wars. They voice their anti war feelings freely.

The first decision that the newly elected Australian
Prime Minister, Mr Rudd, has taken is to announce that
there will be no Australian combat troops in Iraq by
mid-2008. The Presidential candidates in USA itself
are not hesitating in saying to the people, from whom
they expect votes, that when they are voted into the
White House they will bring the Iraq and Afghanistan
wars to an end.

In USA there was also a thwarted legislative move to
link further funding for the Iraq and Afghan Wars with
a withdrawal date that was to be around the end of
2008. Every day numerous voices, within and outside
the western governments, are raised to end these two
wars.

In Spain, in Italy, and now in Australia the elections
have been decided by mainly this one issue – Iraq and
Afghan wars. People who were against these wars won
and became Prime ministers in place of the people who
took these countries to these wars. The writing,
therefore, is on the walls i.e. the people of the west
and we in the east want peace with each other. No one
wants these wars.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair did not have one
comfortable day in office after he took Britain to war
in Iraq and Afghanistan . The British press, on this
matter, was very harsh and hard on Tony Blair. Blair,
a man who was a thrice elected Prime Minister through
popular vote, has now gone totally unsung, in fact,
with a bad taste in the mouth because the British
people now know that he lied to them when he took
Britain to war.

Keeping what I have just said, in mind, I and all
Pakistanis (if somehow they could actually join this
discussion) ask you why is it that in Pakistan our
political leaders, including yourself, do not express
similar anti-Iraq and anti- Afghan war views candidly,
and in public?

All Pakistanis think it is time that our leaders also
tell the world that we consider these wars most
unjust. Pakistan’s political leaders have to now stand
up for us, and you have to be in the forefront, and
get counted on this aspect in order to be with the
sentiments of the people of Pakistan, in general, and
those of the NWFP, in particular. Our leaders have to
educate the west that we Pakistanis are a very peace
loving, hospitable and progressive people.

Yes, we are a religious minded nation and adhere, very
proudly, to the Islamic teachings. At the same time we
are NOT repeated NOT militants, extremists or
terrorists. We are just simply honourable, dignified
and peace loving Muslims and are proud of this fact.
Religious freedom for all in Pakistan is imbibed in
our much maligned Constitution.

What our leaders do not do for the Pakistani people
others do for us to project us as a people who believe
in tranquillity, progress, prosperity, peace and
harmony with everyone.

Recently some US human rights activists (Medea
Benjamin and Tighe Barry, members of the US human
rights group Global Exchange and the Women’s peace
group CODEPINK) came to Pakistan and held a vigil
outside the house of Aitzaz Ahsan, the detained
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association because
they had not been given permission to see Aitzaz. They
have since been deported. I am proud of what they had
to say about Pakistanis in a press conference. They
said:-

“Aitzaz Ahsan and the other lawyers and judges still
under detention must be released and reinstated before
there can even be talk about free and fair elections
in Pakistan,”

“The US government, if it wants to support democracy
in Pakistan, should be supporting the lawyers,
journalists, students and civil society, not
Musharraf.”

“We were amazed by the reaction of the Pakistani
people to our gesture of solidarity. All night long
and then again the next morning, people came on foot,
bike and car to show support for us,” said Barry.
“They brought us soup, tea, sandwiches, sweets,
flowers. It was so touching. One woman who came to see
us said, ‘If someone shows us a little bit of love,
we’ll shower them with love in return.’ That is
certainly what we felt,” says Benjamin. “We were
visited by students, businessmen, government workers,
women with their young daughters (dressed in pink),
labor leaders, lawyers. A journalist came at 1am with
tea, cookies and warm jackets for us to wear. The
police stationed outside Mr. Ahsan’s home built us a
campfire to keep us warm. We left the vigil in awe of
the generosity, kindness we received from the
Pakistani people.”

This understanding of the Pakistani people needs to be
spread in the west, without any fear, by our political
leaders.

Coming back to the aspect of wars that I was dealing
with I shall say that I have been an infantry officer
for nearly 20 years in the Pakistan Army and have
actually seen a war (1971), am a graduate of the
Command and Staff College of the Pakistan Army and
have participated in active counter insurgency
operations. I am also someone who has directed,
personally, one of the most successful anti-urban
insurgency operation in recent history of the world.

With all that experience I know for sure that the
fighting stamina of the unconventional forces always
outlasts the fighting stamina of the conventional
forces, no matter how powerful, conventionally, they
may be. This is why peace was negotiated in Ireland in
the recent years after a very long period of
hostility. This is why the Vietnam War eventually
ended. This is why the Soviet Union of yesteryears had
to abandon its occupation of Afghanistan in the
eighties.

This is precisely why I am suggesting that it is time,
in fact overdue now, for our leaders to advocate the
peaceful negotiations path to the powers that today
occupy Iraq and Afghanistan . The negotiations will
have to take place and peace will have to return,
eventually and inevitably. It has to. But will it not
be better if Pakistan’s political leaders respectably
stand up now and convince the world powers that its
time to look for peace as soon as possible. After all
Pakistan is suffering immensely due to these wars on
its doorsteps.

If a peaceful solution to years of fighting and bomb
blasts can be reached on the table in Ireland the same
should also happen in Kabul and Baghdad if the will is
there and if magnanimity is shown by the more powerful
players in the spiralling and aimless wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq.

Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries on ALLAH THE
ALMIGHTY’S earth, has been subjected to wars for
centuries by others . In the recent and contemporary
past (1979), war was thrust upon Afghanistan through
an invasion by the erstwhile Soviet Union. All was
fair as long as the Soviet Union was defeated.
Pakistan is to date feeling the adverse effects of
that war. These effects have now been compounded by
the present occupation of Afghanistan by the USA and
its allies. In the process, since 1979, the poor
Afghans have been in an endless state of war. They
have lost generations to war. Where is the free
world’s conscience on this aspect?

Political leaders, because they shape the lives of
generations, must know “that a war can only breed
another war and can never bring about any solution or
peace”.

As a Pakhtun myself, it is extremely painful for me to
see and hear about Pakhtun blood being spilt at
random in Waziristan, Swat, in the madrassahs of
Bajaur etc, on the Pakistani side, and in the entire
Pakhtun belt of Afghanistan. I also truly wonder why
should a British, US or any other soldier from any far
off country come and get killed in Afghanistan or
Iraq. Why should all this happen at all? Why cannot
all be at peace with each other? The good of the world
lies in peace and in initiatives aimed at development
of the world’s most backward areas. That is how
friends are made. These wars must be brought to an
immediate end if the deep scars are to be healed
between the east and the west.

The tribal people from Waziristan where the Pakistan
Army is currently operating have always come to fight
side by side with it whenever the Pakistan Army went
to war with India be it in 1947-48, 1965 or 1971 (to
which I am an eye witness). They were always there at
the battle front in Kashmir by the hundreds, with
their own personal weapons. In fact, Azad Kashmir owes
it’s geography to these very tribal people from NWFP
who fought an organised Indian Army in the Kashmir war
of 1947-48. It is also now my prayer that Pakistan and
India should never ever go to war again. Not ever
again.

The question that goes begging then is – why is it
that these same tribal people now have to fight the
Pakistan Army itself? What went wrong? Where did it
all go wrong? Why?

These are questions that our political leaders have to
relate themselves to and find a solution that brings
the Pakistan Army and our own tribal population at
peace with each other. Blazing guns and gunship
helicopters will not provide any solution. The scars
will only get deeper.

People in the west are screaming hoarse against these
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . Why is it that there is
not even one such voice in Pakistan amongst our
political leaders? Years of aimless fighting and, as
yet, there is no solution in sight. Iraq has by now
seen many thousands of innocent Iraqis die on the
roadsides. Can anyone calculate how many more people
must have become widows and orphans because of these
aimless deaths?

Yours could and, in fact, should be the voice from
Pakistan for projecting Pakistan and for advocating an
end to the Iraq and Afghan wars because you are heard
by the western audiences.

Reverting back to Pakistan, do we think that the
situation that exists in Pakistan today can go on
endlessly and that it will not shake the very roots of
our country’s integrity in the not too distant future,
if not controlled quickly? This is the ultimate
question I shall leave you with.

I, on my part, will say that the solution lies with a
leader who has the solid support of the people of
Pakistan and if this was not true General Musharraf’s
government(s) would have been successful in creating
the Pakistan we have yearned for – that NEW LOOK
PAKISTAN – a Pakistan which can feed its own people,
create employment for them, provide them with
education, provide them with social services and make
foreign policies that are in consonance with the
desires of the people, have the best of dignified
self respecting relations with the whole wide world.

To end, I will remind you that in 1992, when I was a
serving bureaucrat, I had written a letter to the then
President Mr Ghulam Ishaq Khan and had been extremely
forthright in my assessment of the then existing
situation in Sindh and how it could adversely affect
the very integrity of Pakistan. No serving bureaucrat
must ever have written as bluntly as I did in 1992 to
a very powerful sitting President.

I had then sent a copy of that letter to you and you
were, at that time, a former Prime Minister. You had
appreciated my assessment in a very generous manner
and had hoped that I would continue doing the same.

I had also sent a copy of that letter to the then
(1992) Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif. He too, very
kindly, wrote back to me saying that the way I had
assessed the situation and the recommendations that I
had outlined in that letter was proof of my well
meaning intentions and that my letter also conveyed,
appropriately, my very high sense of patriotism. I am
grateful to him for having said those kind words to
me. It is a different matter that when he became Prime
Minister again, in 1997, one of the first things he
did was to dismiss me from the service of Pakistan
only because I had been your Intelligence Chief.

I did not, in 1992, know that one day in late 2007 I
will be writing a letter like this one to you after
having resigned from the basic membership of the PPP.
I do hope you will read this letter too in the same
spirit with which you read and appreciated my letter,
in 1992, addressed to the then President late Mr
Ghulam Ishaq Khan.

On my part, I have written this letter with the same
sense of sincerity for you and the PPP that you have
seen me demonstrating all through my association with
the PPP and during the time I was your Intelligence
Chief and all the way till 27 November 2007 when I
resigned from the basic membership of the PPP.

As my views, contained in this letter, clearly
indicate there was no way I could have carried on and
be part of the current PPP political posture. Thus, on
27 November 2007, I parted ways with the PPP.

The prerogative to take any decision either way is
yours. The prerogative of what happens to your
political status and to the PPP itself, at the ballot
box, depending on what decisions you now take, is
undoubtedly that of the AWAM – the people of Pakistan.

May ALLAH THE ALMIGHTY be your Guide and your
Protector and help you in making the best decisions
for the PPP, your own self and, most importantly, for
Pakistan. Amen.

Best regards.

Sincerely ,

(MASOOD SHARIF KHAN KHATTAK)

question to everyone here.. rehman malik is incompetent is everyone is saying in television and newspaper.
i just want to ask everyone here whether Aftab sherpao or Faisal Saleh Hayat were better then him as interior minister.

Faisal Raza Abidi majlis i shaam gharibian bapa kar deta hay…..nasalan ganda admi ha syed kehla kar toheen ka murtakib ho reha ha

More power to Senator Faisal Raza Abidi. He has slain many a fire and brimstone spewing dragons on TV talk shows and has always emerged from the fray unscathed.It is a treat to watch this dreamy eyed Jiala when he hears out with extreme patience all the venomous lies,half truths and innuendos against PPP. And then he sort of comes out of his dreamy spell and pounces upon the detractors with extreme ferocity of truth and logic often aided by a quote of Maula Ali.God! I love him.

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I fell upon this page by chance while going through google search for something else. I am providing a self explanatory remark of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto dated May 2007 i.e. just 7(seven) months prior to her tragic assassination. May ALLAH THE ALMIGHTY Bless her soul the best of Heavens. Amen Suma Amen. Would she write what she wrote in this remark in May 2007 if it was not true? No and I will say an emphatic NO. I have put this remark here only to put the record straight. Best wishes and prayers for everything good in your lives… for all who may read this ..

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