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The assassins and drug dealers now helping US
By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi
Telegraph
(Filed: 26/09/2001)
PAKISTAN'S shadowy intelligence service, one of the main sources of
information for the US-led alliance against the Taliban regime, is
widely associated with political assassinations, narcotics and the
smuggling of nuclear and missile components - and backing fundamentalist
Islamic movements.
Locally referred to as Pakistan's "secret army" and the "invisible
government", the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was founded soon
after independence in 1948. Today it dominates the country's domestic
and foreign policies. It is also responsible for manipulating the
volatile religious elements, ethnic groups and political parties that
are disliked by the army.
Modelled on Savak, the Iranian security agency and, like it, trained by
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the SDECE, France's external
intelligence service, the ISI "ran" the mujahideen in their decade-long
fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
According to Brig Mohammad Yousaf, who headed the ISI's Afghan Bureau
for four years until 1987, the counter-intelligence agency funnelled US
money and weapons to the mujahideen to minister the "time-honoured
guerrilla tactic of death by a thousand cuts" on the Soviet "Bear" that
collapsed soon after it was driven from Afghanistan in 1989.
The brigadier said: "It was the only way to defeat a superpower on the
battlefield with ill-disciplined, ill-trained tribesmen whose only asset
was an unconquerable fighting spirit welded to a warrior tradition."
Brig Yousef was writing in The Bear Trap, the book that succeeding
Pakistani administrations have tried to ban because it detailed the
ISI's methods.
In the early 1990s the ISI provided logistic and military support for
the Taliban, which emerged from Pakistani madrassahs (Muslim
seminaries), and helped it to seize power in Kabul five years ago.
Thereafter, it maintained a "formidable" presence across Afghanistan,
helping the Taliban, who are mostly Pathans, to consolidate their hold
over the country. The tactics used included bribery and raids that
wiped out entire villages of different ethnic tribes.
It is the knowledge gained of the Taliban into which the US is tapping
before it launches punitive raids against Kabul, military officials
said.
Intelligence sources said that the ISI-CIA collaboration in the 1980s
assisted Osama bin Laden, as well as Mir Aimal Kansi, who assassinated
two CIA officers outside their office in Langley, Virginia, in 1993, and
Ramzi Yousef.
Yousef and his accomplices were involved in the failed bomb attack on
the World Trade Centre in New York five years later. The intelligence
link-up also helped powerful international drug smugglers.
Opium cultivation and heroin production in Pakistan's northern tribal
belt and adjoining Afghanistan was a vital offshoot of the ISI-CIA
co-operation. It succeeded in turning some of the Soviet troops into
addicts.
Heroin sales in Europe and the US, carried out through an elaborate web
of deception, transport networks, couriers and pay-offs, offset the cost
of the decade-long "unholy war" in Afghanistan.
An intelligence officer said: "The heroin dollars contributed largely to
bolstering the Pakistani economy and its nuclear programme, and enabled
the ISI to sponsor its covert operations in Afghanistan and northern
India's disputed Kashmir state."
In the 1970s the ISI established a division to procure nuclear and
missile technology for the military from abroad, especially China and
North Korea. They also smuggled in crucial nuclear components and
know-how from Europe.
A director general, always an army officer of the rank of lieutenant
general, heads the ISI. Its current head, Lt Gen Mahmood Ahmed, is
assisted by three major generals heading the agency's political,
external and administrative divisions.
At the behest of Gen Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, the ISI's internal political
division is believed to have assassinated Shah Nawaz Bhutto, a brother
of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He was poisoned on
the French Riviera in 1985.
The ISI reportedly wanted to intimidate Ms Bhutto so that she would not
return to Pakistan to direct the multi-party movement for the
restoration of democracy. She returned home, only to be toppled by a
political movement fostered by the ISI soon after she became prime
minister in 1988.
The main concern for Gen Pervaiz Musharraf, the current leader of
Pakistan, is that the ISI's loyalties may still lie more with the
Taliban than with its own government and its new American "partner".
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