Asghar Khan case: Aslam Beg, Asad Durrani come face to face
ISLAMABAD: Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg says he had vehemently warned afterwards view arch Lieutenant General (retd) Asad Durrani opposite boring a troops into “political engineering” forward of a 1990 elections.
Beg’s revelations come as partial of his matter to a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) group probing a purported placement of estimated Rs 1.48 billion among politicians to change a 1990 polls in a country.
“I called [General] Asad Durrani and warned him to be clever in a doing of those funds. After this, we never again discussed this matter with him. we gave him no names of politicians or a income to be distributed, given this was wholly his domain, and he was obliged for saying to a president,” Beg pronounced in his created matter submitted to a FIA and a peak court.
“Durrani disregarded a army’s order by opening several accounts in a name of 202 Survey Section, placed underneath his authority for operational comprehension functions only. we came to know of this crack of trust usually in 1996 when he so deposed in his confirmation before a Supreme Court. we have had no believe of who all operated this account. we knew Brig Hamid Saeed as operational commander 202 Survey Section and not as a comment hilt and supports distributor to a politicians. He [Durrani] claims to have distributed funds, and available in his hand-written records as proof, that have no legality. Similarly, Durrani claims carrying distributed funds, with no witnesses, no created or written explanation of such transactions. It is a perfect lie. Durrani concerned 202 Survey Section in this diversion intentionally, to engage a army in his contemptible deed, so uncivilised of an officer of his rank,” a matter read.
Beg intended critical allegations opposite Durrani by observant that Durrani got so tighten to a Pakistan Peoples Party’s tip leadership, that “while in uniform he started attending PPP executive executive cabinet meetings, that was reported to a afterwards army chief, General Abdul Waheed, who soon late him from use due to error of a officer”.
“In Oct 1993, when Benazir Bhutto returned to power, she offering an ambassadorial pursuit to Durrani, that he supposed and before move to Germany he discussed a ‘Game Plan’ with her, that was suggested by Durrani himself, in his hand-written confessional minute he wrote from Bonn to a primary minister. In this letter, he talked about a dual objectives of a conspiracy: To put General Beg on a pad and aim a opposition,” Beg indicted Durrani.
In this minute Durrani also gave names of few politicians, who perceived Rs8 million, while a remaining Rs6 million were given to a Director External Intelligence, Beg revealed. “He [Durrani] serve pronounced that a operation was in a believe of a army’s high command. As a matter of fact, a choosing engineering by a ISI, had been going on given 1975, and was in everybody’s knowledge,” Beg claimed.
Beg continued serve that Durrani after holding a assign requested him to place a 202 Survey Section deployed in Sindh underneath his authority for improved coordination of comprehension in a province. The 202 Survey Section, ordered by Brig Hamid Saeed was therefore placed underneath Durrani for a duration of one year for comprehension functions only, Beg’s matter read.
The supervision was scheming to reason a elections when army comprehension sensitive him that, on orders of a President’s Election Cell, Younis Habib had placed some supports for a logistic support of a entrance elections, Beg said.
“I therefore called on a boss and gave him a news that he already knew and said, ‘Don’t worry, Durrani will take caring of it. He knows how to hoop it.’ The boss gave me no orders given his choosing dungeon was doing those matters,” Beg said, adding, “He [Durrani] was not saying to me either, because, a new procession was being followed given 1975, when PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by a special presentation gave ‘political responsibility’ to a ISI. And this ‘political responsibility’ was never challenged by a justice of law. That was a reason that from 1990 to 1994 there was a sum vacant for me about ‘the ISI’s domestic responsibility’.”
Beg also removed that it was Jul 1994 when PPP’s interior apportion Maj Gen (retd) Nasirullah Babar pennyless a news of value of supports to a politicians in 1990 on a building of a House. “I was repelled and surprised, though couldn’t scrutinise about it either, given Durrani was posted as envoy to Germany and a 151-HQ in Islamabad hold no record of such transactions,” Beg said.
“Asghar Khan filed a command petition opposite me with a Supreme Court of Pakistan,” Beg said, adding that a record started, divulgence what all had happened during a inserted duration from 1990 to 1996.
“I detected that: it was a swindling hatched by a afterwards FIA executive Rehman Malik, during a insistence of Benazir Bhutto, that carried a hate opposite me, for several reasons: (i) Since we was a tighten associate of General Zia-ul-Haq, who hanged her father, she deliberate me equally guilty. (ii) She believed that we upheld President Ishaq Khan who discharged her supervision in 1990. (iii) She blamed me for utilizing a 1991 elections,” Beg claimed.
Beg explained in his matter how he believes a personal hate of a former primary apportion incited into revenge, saying that Benazir’s ‘grudge’ was moulding into a swindling and was executed as a ‘woman’s vendetta’.
“In fact, given 1988, when she took over as a primary minister, she continued to uncover her dislike for me,” pronounced Beg, adding that Rehman Malik cultivated ties with Durrani, while he was a view arch from Aug 1990 to Mar 1992.
Once Nasirullah Babar done a list of beneficiaries open in a National Assembly in Jul 1994, Durrani got really dissapoint during this crack of trust and voiced his beating in his confirmation antiquated 31-10-1997 submitted with a justice later, Beg pronounced in his statement.
A few weeks after Rehman Malik visited Germany for a second time with a typed minute containing a list of purported recipients of funds.
Durrani sealed a minute “under special circumstances,” i.e., underneath duress, given it was not a list he had given to PM Benazir Bhutto, Beg said. However, that was a quid pro quo for a ambassadorial assignment, he claimed.