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Pakistan: Former spies to be 'declared
terrorists' in bid to curb ISI

Karachi, 9 Dec. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Pakistan has given the United States approval to submit the names of two former senior officials
to the United Nations' Security Council as declared terrorists. They are former director of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, Retired Lt. General
Hamid Gul and former ISI official, retired squadron leader Khalid Khawaja.

“There were accusations that the ISI had links with the militancy and therefore there was a demand to clamp down on the ISI but instead they are
aiming to take us on," said Khalid Khawaja. "Now you tell me what relations we have with ISI. We are retired people."

Sources said that the thread of investigations had begun with people considered to be the architects of jihad in South Asia during the post-Soviet
Russian era and who still support the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

Hamid Gul openly supported the Taliban-led resistance against NATO troops in Afghanistan while Khalid Khawaja provided relief to the families of
Al-Qaeda members who were killed and arrested by the Pakistani security forces.

He was the only person in the country who sourced houses for them to rent in Islamabad, supported their wives and children and arranged travel for
them to their countries of origin.

Khalid later founded an organisation called Defense for Human Rights which promoted the cause of missing people. Those people were allegedly
detained for months and in some cases for several years by the security forces without trial.

After the Red Mosque military operation in 2007, Khalid filed several cases in the court of law against former President Pervez Musharraf and then
corps commander Rawalpindi (now Chairman joint Chiefs of Staff Committee) General Tariq Majeed.

Sources said that this was the beginning and more names were expected to be added to the list, including former Chief of Army Staff General
Aslam Beg and the most charismatic among the jihadi circle who is often blamed by NATO for actively supporting the Taliban, retired Colonel Ameer
Sultan, known as Colonel Imam.

“By blaming the retired people, it is a conspiracy to tighten the noose around Pakistan's ISI," Colonel Imam told AKI in a telephone interview.

"By putting the names of General Hamid Gul and Khalid Khawaja they are actually laying the foundation to clip the wings of the ISI.

"ISI is the best secret service in a Third World country and rival to the agencies of developed countries. At this stage they just cannot bring ISI under
fire directly so in the first phase they are blaming the retired officials and in the next phase they will declare the whole organisation rogue.”

He said the retired officials were being unfairly targetted because they had criticised US policies many years ago

Colonel Imam served ten years exclusively in the ISI and trained the Afghan Mujahadeen to fight against the Soviets.

When the Taliban emerged in 1994, he was Pakistani consul general in the Afghan city of Herat where he supported the Taliban and guided them
as they mobilised in the bigger cities of Khost and Jalalabad and eventually captured Kabul. He is known as the "Godfather" of the Taliban.

“During 11 years of Afghan war the United States, Saudi Arabia, Brunei and other states collectively spent 500 billion dollars and defeated Soviet
Russia," he said. "Not a single US soldier was killed.

"So far the Americans have spent 700 billion dollars and they cannot make any difference. We have been trying to make them aware of the fact that
this is not the right approach they have for their nation and for their taxpayers,” Colonel Imam said.

Responding to US charges that General Gul provided training to the Taliban and raised funds for them he said:

“As far as support is concerned, I said in front of Americans at a seminar that I do support the Taliban. I pray for their success but neither I nor
General Hamid Gul has the money to give to the Taliban.

"We are retired people living hand to mouth. This is an electronic age any transaction can be traced any time. If they have any proof bring it forward,”
he said.

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ISI provided protection to LeT in Mumbai terror
attacks: report

Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, the Pakistan-based militant group, had the backing of the Islamic nation's spy agency ISI, which shared intelligence with
Lashkar and provided protection to it in the Mumbai terror attacks, a media report said on Monday.

American intelligence and counterterrorism officials were quoted by the New York Times as saying that LeT has quietly gained strength in recent
years with the assistance of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which has allowed the group to train and raise money while other militants
have been under siege.

Officials said though there is no hard evidence yet to link the spy agency to the Mumbai attacks, ISI shared intelligence with Lashkar and provided
protection for it.

The ISI has shared intelligence with Lashkar and provided protection for it, the officials told the paper, and investigators are focusing on one
Lashkar leader they believe is a main liaison with the spy service and a mastermind of the attacks.

"People are having to go back and relook at all the connections," one American counterterrorism official, who was among several officials who
spoke on condition of anonymity to the paper, was quoted as saying.

American and Indian officials believe that one senior Lashkar commander in particular, Zarrar Shah, is one of the group's primary liaisons to the ISI.
"He's a central character in this plot," one American official said.

As a result of the assault India's financial hub, American counterterrorism and military officials say they are reassessing their view of Lashkar and
believe it to be more capable and a greater threat than they had previously recognized.

Pakistani officials have denied any government connection to the siege on November 26-29, in which nearly 200 people were killed in Mumbai.

As American, European and Middle Eastern governments crack down on al-Qaeda's finances, Lashkar still has a flourishing fund-raising
organization in South Asia and the Persian Gulf region, including Saudi Arabia, the Times quoted counterterrorism officials as saying. The group
primarily uses its charity wing, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, to raise money, ostensibly for causes in Pakistan.

Lashkar, the Times noted, also has a history of using local extremist groups for knowledge and tactics in its operations. Investigators in Mumbai are
following leads suggesting that Lashkar used the Students' Islamic Movement of India, a fundamentalist group that advocates establishing an
Islamic state in India, for early reconnaissance and logistical help.

Hoffman told the paper that Lashkar had developed particularly sophisticated Internet operations, and that intelligence officials believed the group
had forged ties with regional terrorist organizations like Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia by assisting them with their own Internet strategies.

Pakistan is under intense international pressure, including from the US, to take action against the LeT for its involvement in the Mumbai attacks. The
Let was founded by militant ideologue Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who formed the Jamaat soon after the Lashker was banned in 2001.

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