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Hamid Mir Attacked: Claptrap Allegations against ISI

Posted by admin in ISI-IMPREGNABLE PAKISTANS WALL on April 21st, 2014

 

Hamid Mir Attacked: Claptrap Allegations against ISI

By

Zaheerul Hassan

GEO TV anchor Hamid Mir was attacked by some unknown motorcyclists once he was on his way from Jinnah International Airport on Shara-e-Faisal to Geo News Office. He was targeted by gunmen near the Natha Khan Bridge. Hamid Mir was shot three times and was rushed to a private hospital where he underwent an operation.

 

All segments of life have condemned the attack but unfortunately GEO media group without any justification started alleging Lt General Zaheerul Islam along with others’ officers of country’s supreme intelligence agency “ISI” for the attack.

These claptrap allegations were supplemented with the already thrown rubbish, in which Hamid Mir recorded claimed that if he was attacked some ISI officials and the intelligence agencies Chief Lt General Zaheerul Islam would be responsible. The same was repeated on the TV Channels of specific group by Amir Mir who is brother of Hamid Mir and notorious for voicing against Pakistan Armed Forces, Intelligence agencies and nuclear programme.

Similarly, Hamid Mir had also been raising voice for anti state elements (so called missing persons). He has also been involved allegedly in suggesting TTP to assassinate Sqn Ldr (Retd) Khalid Khwaja. In this connection, someone uploaded the shocking audiotape of a conversation between Hamid Mir conversations with TTPHamid Mir Attacked: Claptrap Allegations against ISI. The audiotape has revealed that negative information that Mir passed on to the Taliban could have led to the execution of Khalid Khawaja, the retired Air Force official allegedly killed by a group calling themselves the ‘Asian Tigers’.

Recounting this vary incident here is that for ISI, it would have been very easy to prove the involvement of Hamid Mir in assassination of late Khalid Khawaja. In this regard ISI remained impartial but probably assisted him in extraction from this alleged murder case. Hamid Mir many times openly carried out negative propaganda against the states’ vital organs but even then patience has been shown by the government organizations. He deliberately used to carry out critics intelligence agencies in the issues of Saleem Shahzad, Bombay Attack and missing persons but State Missionary including ISI digested his criticism and note even asked the government to ban this anchor and his sponsored media group. He very openly deliberate used to defame the agencies which are in fact the foreign agenda.

The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) negated condemned the attack and prayed for Hamid Mir’s well being. ISPR spokesman stated that an independent inquiry must be carried out immediately to ascertain the facts. He added that raising allegations against the ISI or the head of ISI without any basis was highly regrettable and misleading.

PAKISTAN’S HERO

Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam , DGI

 

It has been observed many times this biggest media group has aired news or talk shows which indirectly or directly created chaos, instability and is promoting yellow journalism. This media group is playing foreign agenda of breaking, weakening and demoralized armed forces through yellow journalism. Basically, targeting of Hamid Mir might have been done by Pakistan’s Chacha Sam (USA),its Bhatija(nephew) India and Israel in a Black Cat OPS. One of my friends happened to be the class fellow of our Prime Minister and amongst few Pakistanis and also worked both in India and Israel for a US company. He disclosed that these folks operate close and personal. In a discussion, he very rightly pointed out that currently, Pakistan is in their crosshairs, specifically, and the success of ISI in thwarting many attacks has come to haunt it.

In short, alleging ISI for the nonsense is a deliberate attempt to demonize ISI and provide the current administration a reason for putting it under civil control or dismantle it.  Unfortunately, our PM does not have the vision to see through the great game. Pakistan media is being used and manipulated to pit people versus “rogue” ISI. Interestingly, GEO and Mr. Anil Ambani, an Indian tycoon, and an investor in GEO are up to no good. My friend again mentioned that Indian lobby is working on the premise that ISI is a rogue organization. Some years ago, they also worked on getting Pakistan declared as a “terrorist state.” However, ISI thwarted that attempt. Unfortunately, these people work in stealth mode and due to lack of literacy, lots of people back home do not figure out reasons for a lot of incidents in Karachi and Islamabad. As Chacha Sam leaves Afghanistan, Pakistan is viewed with suspicion and thus is in crosshairs.

Government of Pakistan should carry out proper probe through independent agencies and trace out the true motive behind targeting Hamid Mir, without any investigation alleging Lt General Zaheerul Islam and displaying his photograph on the channel thus off and on making deliberate attempt of defaming the country supreme intelligence agency and not paying tax to the state.

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MQM&FUNDOS DESTRUCTION OF KARACHI: There goes the neighbourhood: As Garden East declines, the Ismaili community looks to move elsewhere

Posted by admin in Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on February 6th, 2014

 
 
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There goes the neighbourhood: As Garden East declines, the Ismaili community looks to move elsewhere
 
By Zeenia Shaukat, October 15, 2013
 

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The apartment buildings and the Aga Khan Park, just a few metres away from the Jamaat Khana in Garden East, are covered with wall-chalking, such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Zindabad (above). PHOTO: ZEENIA SHAUKAT

 
KARACHI: The debris of a demolished building obstructs pedestrians as they rush to make it to the Jamaat Khana on time. As an elderly couple tries to avoid the splash of the gutter water flowing on the street outside the Aga Khan Park, the man inadvertently runs into a motorcycle coming from the opposite direction. He is helped by the volunteers assisting people to get to the Jamaat Khana safely.
 
An hour later, on their way back, as commuters pick groceries from the shops located around the Britto Road, extortionists casually go about their business, quietly instructing the shopkeepers to handover the “Daily”. Two more hours into the dark, shots of gunfire from Patel Para replace the now lowered down traffic noise.
 
This is the account of an evening of a large majority of the Ismaili community living in Garden East. Their troubles have just been compounded by an immense sense of insecurity following the attack on the Karimabad Jamaat Khana on August 13. The residents had, however, sensed such an attack long before from hints appearing all across the locality. The apartment buildings and the Aga Khan Park, just a few metres away from the Jamaat Khana, are covered with wall-chalkings which scream, “Jiye Taliban!”, “Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Zaindabad”, and “Long Live Sipah-e-Sahaba”. 
 
A professional painter Ali-Muawiya has also scrawled a message for the women of the community, “Pardey daar aurat haqeeqi aurat hoti hai [A veiled woman is a real woman],” on the park’s wall. Community volunteers admit that they feel extremely vulnerable on duty in the evenings. “The female visitors are frequently harassed by young men coming from Patel Para. We have to tread very carefully to protect the community people as well as avoid any unnecessary confrontation,” shared one volunteer.
 
In the grip of violence
 
The people of Garden East are among those who have witnessed Karachi’s degeneration from a close range. The vertical spread of housing units has replaced 70- to 100-year-old colonial structures. The latest regressive building regulations rid builders of the obligation to keep space for car parking and playgrounds. The restricted space curbs more than just movement – young boys are forced to take to the streets for casual sports, battling the constant flow of vehicles. 
 
Due to the fear of harassment, girls are not allowed by their parents to step out of house “unnecessarily”. Street crimes are common as criminals find their easy targets in people struggling to move between parked cars and flowing gutters. Episodes of public violence have become a norm of the first six months of the year alone seven bodies were found from the Garden area, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal. Three traffic wardens were murdered close to the Jamaat Khana in the month of April.
 
A struggling community
 
The Ismaili community has mostly remained apolitical even though their late spiritual leader Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III is known to be among the pioneers of the idea of Pakistan. The community, however, displayed a fair degree of interest in the democratic engagement.
 
The 2013 elections saw one of the highest voter turnouts in NA-252 constituency covering the Garden East area [321,191 registered voters with over 53% turnout compared to 277,553 with 42% turnout in the 2008 elections]. The community members also volunteered at the polling stations but the enthusiastic participation and the spirit of volunteerism, unaccompanied by citizen action or a movement to influence change, did little for the plight of the Garden East. The writer is a resident of Garden East.
 
Changing demographics, landscapes
 
The area’s demography and landscape are changing rapidly. The Ismaili population, which originally moved here in the 1940s and later to live close to the world’s biggest jamaat khana which can accommodate over 20,000 people, is emigrating to either Clifton/Defence or abroad, out of security fears. Though they are being replaced by the Ismailis from Karimabad and Kharadar, the area is now quietly being taken over by a growing migration of non-Ismaili communities, especially Memons, Pashtun and Baloch.
 
The biggest mosque of the area, Pakola Masjid, is now surrounded by five other mosques within walking distance. Garden East’s only park, Aga Khan Park, has been completely shut for any activity apart from occasional sports and Eid prayers. There is a section for women that opens only for certain hours in the day. Unlike other parks in the city, the AK Park has been walled rather than grilled. While drug addicts manage to sneak into the park, its locked gates make it inaccessible for the public of the area.
 
The changes in demographics have had a very deep impact on the community’s living, sense of security and interaction with the society. In the 1980s and the 1990s, the community used to host weekly youth events that enjoyed packed attendance at the community ground next to the Jamaat Khana. Today, security concerns allow no such activity.
 
Published in The Express Tribune, October 16th, 2013.

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