The US Central Intelligence Agency paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over more than 350 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the United States, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has said, The Times reported.
The assertions come in the military ruler's upcoming memoir "In the Line of Fire", serialised in The Times.
Musharraf does not reveal how much Pakistan was paid for the 369 Al-Qaeda suspects he ordered should be handed over to the United States, the newspaper said, noting, however, that such payments are banned by the US government.
The newspaper does not, however, print or quote the excerpts which make the allegations.
In response a US Department of Justice official was quoted as saying: "We didn't know about this. It should not happen. These bounty payments are for private individuals who help to trace terrorists on the FBI's most wanted list, not foreign governments. "
The Pakistani's leader's claims come after he said last week that former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage had threatened to bomb Pakistan if it did not back the United States in the so-called "war on terror" in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, described by Musharraf as "what has to be the most undiplomatic statement ever made".
"Our relationships with international leaders is not something we are prepared to talk about," a CIA official told The Times.
Musharraf also writes that he was so angered by American demands in the wake of the September 11 attacks, which he calls "ludicrous", that he "war-gamed the United States as an adversary."
"There would be a violent and angry reaction if we didn't support the United States," an excerpt from his book reads.
"The question was: if we do not join them, can we confront them and withstand the onslaught? The answer was no".
He said that two days after the attacks, the US Ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlain brought to him a set of seven demands including "blanket overflight and landing rights" and "use of Pakistan's naval ports, air bases, and strategic locations on borders".
Musharraf said Pakistan gave no "blanket permission" for anything.
The military leader also says that he decided to make the revelations to counter claims that Pakistan had not done enough to combat Al-Qaeda in the war on terror.
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Those who took money from ISI some of the names available on the net:
The recipients included Khar 2 million,
Hafeez Pirzada 3 million,
Sarwar Cheema 0.5 million
Mairaj Khalid 0.2 million
5,05,680" (advocate Mirza Adil Beg, Aslam Beg's nephew, the then president
of the KBA, confirms that the KBA received the money)
In January 1992 USD 20,000 was sold @ 26.50 and 5,30,000 was credited to the
account. Thereafter all debits: "Arshi c/o Gen. Baig (sic.) 2,90,000; Cash
paid to Gen. Shab 2,40,000; Cash Friends 1,00,000 [Aslam Beg's organization,
FRIENDS, Foundation for Research on National Development and Security]; Cash
TT to Yamin to pay Gen. Shab 3,00,000; Cash TT to Yamin Habib 12,00,000 ;
Cash Friends 1,00,000 ; Cash Friends 1,00,000 ; Cash paid through YH
10,00,000 ; Cash Friends TT to Salim Khan 2,00,000 ; Cash 1,00,000 ; Cash
Towards Friends 5,00,000 ; Cash Asif Shah for Benglow 35,000 ; Cash Friends
1,00,000 ; Cash Friends 1,00,000 ; Cash TT through Yamin for Friends
1,00.000 ; Cash paid to Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim 2,00,000 [he confirms having
received the money from General Beg as fees and expenses for defending him
in the contempt of court charge brought against him - PLD 1993 SC310] ; Cash
paid through TT to Yamin for Friends ; Cash paid to Fakhruddin G Ebrahim
1,28,640 [he confirms receipt for fees/expenses for contempt case] ; Cash
Guards at 11-A 10,500 ; Cash TT for USD 240,000 Fav. Riaz Malik to City Bank
(sic.) New York 68,76,000 ; Cash Friends 1,00,000; Cash Guards at 11-A
10,500 ; Cash Mjr. Kiyani 10,000; Cash mobile phone for Col. Mashadi 28,911
; Cash TT fav. Qazi Iqbal and M Guddul 3,00,000 ; Cash Mjr. Kiyani 10,000 ;
Cash TT to Peshawar 3,00,000 ; Cash deposited at Karachi A/C EC [Election
Commission] 3,00,000 ; Cash Guards 24,000 ; Cash TT to Quetta 7,00,000 ;
Cash mobile bill of Col. Mashadi 3,237 ; Cash TT to Peshawar Br. 4,00,000 ;
Cash deposited at Karachi Br. 4,00,000 ; Cash Guards 11,520 ; Cash TT to
Peshawar for EC 2,00,000 ; Cash TT to Quetta for EC 2,00,000 ; Cash Guards
5,760 ; Cash Mjr. Kiyani 5,000 ; Cash A/C Guards 8,640 ; Cash th. YH
2,00,000 ; Cash A/C Guards 5,760 ; Cash TT to Salim Khan 1,00,000."
Nawaz Sharif received (in rupees) 3.5 million,
Lt General Rafaqat [GIK's election cell] 5.6 million,
Mir Afzal 10 million,
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi 5 million,
Jam Sadiq Ali 5 million,
Mohammed Khan Junejo 2.5 million,
Pir Pagaro 2 million,
Abdul Hafeez Pirzada 3 million,
Yusuf Haroon 5 million [he confirms having received this for Altaf Hussain
of the MQM],
Muzaffar Hussain Shah 0.3 million,
Abida Hussain 1 million,
Humayun Marri 5.4 million.
Jamaat-i-Islami Rs 5 million,
Altaf Hussain Qureshi and Mustafa Sadiq Rs 0.5 million,
Arbab Ghulam Aftab Rs 0.3 million,
Pir Noor Mohammad Shah Rs 0.3 million,
Arbab Faiz Mohammad Rs 0.3 million,
Arbab Ghulam Habib Rs 0.2 million,
Ismail Rahu Rs 0.2 million,
Liaquat Baloch Rs 1.5 million,
Jam Yusuf Rs 0.75 million,
Nadir Magsi Rs 1 million,
Ghulam Ali Nizamani Rs 0.3 million,
Ali Akbar Nizamani Rs 0.3 million.
General Mirza Aslam Beg Rs 140 million;
Jam Sadiq Ali (the then chief minister of Sindh) Rs 70 million;
Altaf Hussain (MQM) Rs 20 million,
Advocate Yousaf Memon ( for disbursement to Javed Hashmi, MNA, and others)
Rs.50 million;
1992 - Jam Sadiq Ali Rs 150 million;
1993 - Liaquat Jatoi Rs .01 million;
1993 - chief minister of Sindh, through Imtiaz Sheikh Rs 12 million;
Afaq of the MQM Rs 0.5 million;
1993 chief minister of Sindh, through Imtiaz Sheikh, Rs. 01. million;
1993 - Ajmal Khan, a former federal minister, Rs 1.4 million;
1993 - Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister,
Rs 3.5 million;
27/9/93 Nawaz Sharif,
former prime minister, Rs 2.5 million;
26/9/93 Jam Mashooq Rs 0.5 million;
26/9/93 Dost Mohammad Faizi Rs 1 million;
Jam Haider Rs 2 million;
Jam Mashooq Rs 3 million;
Adnan, son of Sartaj Aziz, Rs 1 million;
Nawaz Sharif and Ittefaq Group of Companies Rs 200 million
Sardar Farooq Leghari 12/12/93 (payment set/off) Rs 30 million - 6/1/94 Rs
2.0856 million - 19/3/94 Rs 1.92 million."
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