Presidential Candidate "Zardari's" story of loot and plunders (Part one)

Asif Ali Zardari is a metaphor of loot, plunders and murders who is nominated as Presidential candidate by PPP, as a citizen of Pakistan we have the right to ask Election commission of Pakistan, to ask for local/oversea assets, bank accounts and share holders in his businesses. Moreover simultaneously accounts and businesses of Rahman Malik, Zulfiqar Mirza, Farahnaz Ispahani, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Gen. Mahmood Durrani, Sherry Rahman and some other persons directly or indirectly involved in corruption. Benazir, Zardari and Nusrat Bhutto declared total assets $ 1.2 million in 1996 and, did not disclosed any foreign accounts or properties, in 1990 Asif Ali Zardar declared "No assets" in 1990, and $402,000 in 1996.Benazir's highest income was declared $ 42,200 in 1996 (paid a tax of $5, 1100) and Asif Ali Zardari's highest declared income was$13,100 etc. He also murdered Murtaza Bhutto, Justice Nizam, Justice Nabi Sher Junejo and Aalam Bloch, last one was the judge of courts who was dealing with cases of Zardar, he was eliminated, all murders are cold blooded murders.

He is also suspect in Benazir's murder, being top beneficiary, what will be status of enquiry that PPP has asked from UNO, he will influence enquiry, as Mush did when Scotland team arrived for investigation, Min of interior was misguided whole team, now since it is very clear that everything happening in Pakistan has the basis of some kind of deal, Dubai deal, NRO, MQM's absence against Mush, and departure of Mush and many other incidences have three players, Generals "“ PPP "“ Anglo Americans.

Supreme Courts Bar Association, PML N, PML Q, APDM or any citizen must try to block his nomination, it is revival of Mush era, PPP is a fascist party, entire control over Pak Army will lead to escalation in civil war, and PPP will require same type of kick which Mush has received. Some available details are as under, which will be represented in installments, there are hundred thousand of pages which contain details of corruption, loot, barbarism and terrorism of Zardari. Pakistani's living overseas are requested to help in providing necessary details about assets, businesses and Bank accounts of Zardari-Benazir-Nusrat Bhutto. Remember history is repeating itself, rewind your memories that when "Aamir Lodhi" made deal with Zardari, his sister "Maleeha Lodhi" was appointed as Ambassador at Washington, now fear of exposure of plunders let Zardari appoint Hussain Haqqani and puppet of CIA Farahnaz Isphahani to shut mouths of peoples, and to scratch evidences of corruption of Zardari-Benazir spread over in different states of USA, UK, EU and Gulf countries.

Following data is collected and copied from different websites and papers, most comprehensive report was published by New York Times some years back, being most sacred newspaper in Islamic world (some says after Quran New York Times and Washington Post  but some consider them before Quran), NY Times report and parts of some other reports are also mentioned, click given links for complete reports to highlight plunders of Benazir and Zardari.

Murder investigation of Murtaza Bhutto:

Please watch video, Benazir and Zardari both were involved in his murder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2M9K_FkxI

Fatima Bhutto's statement:

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=110040&d=19&m=5&y=2008

Some overseas bank accounts of Zardari.

American Express Bank Switzerland

Barclays Bank (Knightsbridge Branch) (Account No. 90991473)

Barclays Bank, Kingston and Chelsea Branch, (Sort Code 20-47-34135)

Barclays Bank (Suisse) (Account No. 62290209)

Barclays Bank (Suisse) (Account No. 62274400)

Banque Financiei E Dela Citee, Credit Suisse 

Banque Centrade Ormard Burrus S A

Banque Pache S A

Banque Pictet & Cie

Banque La Henin, Paris (Account No. 00101953552)

Bank Natinede Paris in Geneva (Account NO.. 563.726.9)

Chase Manhattan Bank Switzerland

Citibank Private Limited (SWZ) (Account No. 342034)

Citibank N A Dubai (Account No. 818097)

Credit Agricole, Paris

Credit Agridolf, Branch 11, Place Brevier, 76440, Forges Les Faux

Credit Agricole, Branch Haute "“ Normandie, 76230, Boise Chillaum

Swiss Bank Corporation

Societe De Banque Swissee

Habib Bank (Pall Mall Branch).

Habib Bank AG, Moorgate, London EC2

Habib Bank AG Zurich, Switzerland

National Westminster Bank, Barking Branch, (Account No. 28558999).

National Westminster Bank, Edgware Road, London

National Westminster Bank, Alwych Branch (Account No. 9683230)  

Pictet Et Cie, Geneva

Union Bank of Switzerland (Account No. 552.343, 257.556.60Q, 433.142.60V, 216.393.60T)

Propertied of Zardari in United States

Whether in the name of Asif Zardari and/or managed by Shimmy Qureshi are?

Apartment at New York (In March 2007 journalists were provided photos of wooden main gate of that apartment, there Benazir was standing with a dog).

12165 West Forest Hills, Florida

Escue Farm 13,524 India Mound, West Palm Beach

3,220 Santa Barbara Drive, Wellington Florida

13,254 Polo Club Road, West Palm Beach Florida

3,000 North Ocean Drive, Singer Islands, Florida

525 South Flager Drive, West Palm Beach, Florida

Holiday Inn Houston Owned by Asif Ali Zardari, Iqbal Memon and Sadar-ud-Din Hashwani

Stud farm in Texas

Wellington Club East, West Palm Beach  

Properties of Zardari in France:

La Manoir De La Reine Blanche and property in Cannes

France is famous as Bhutto's son Shahnawaz Bhutto was killed there, he had Afghan wife (sister of first wife of Murtaza Bhutto, and mother of Fatima Bhutto), PPP put blame on Gen Zia for seeking political advantage, truth is not that PPP is telling, it has other storey which require separate column. However taking advantage from dead bodies shows the mentality of PPP's politics how criminal mentality its leaders have.

Properties of Zardari in Belgium:

12-3 Boulevard De-Nieuport, 1000, Brussels, (Building containing 4 shops and 2 large apartments)

Chausee De-Mons, 1670, Brussels

Properties of Zardari in United Kingdom:

355 acre Rockwood Estate, Surrey (Now stands admitted)

Flat 6, 11 Queensgate Terrace, London SW7

26 Palace Mansions, Hammersmith Road, London W14

27 Pont Street, London, SW1

20 Wilton Crescent, London SW1

23 Lord Chancellor Walk, Coombe Hill, Kingston, Surrey

The Mansion, Warren Lane, West Hampstead, London

A flat at Queensgate Terrace, London

     Houses at Hammersmith Road, Wilton Crescent, Kingston and in Hampstead

It is also speculated that a palace owned by Rahman Malik at London, where major political meetings were held, is also Zardari's property, because Rahman Malik belongs to a poor family of Sialkot, his relatives are mostly barbers (hair dressers) in that area. He is has no power to own a 5 million $ villa at posh area of London.

Front companies in foreign countries:

A  S Realty Inc. Palm Beach Gardens Florida

Bon Voyage Travel Consultancy Inc, Florida

Bomer Fiannce Inc, British Virgin Islands

Brinslen Invest S A, British Virgin Islands

Chimitex Holding S A, British Virgin Islands

Capricorn Trading S A, British Virgin Islands

Dustan Trading Inc, British Virgin Islands

Dynatel Trading Co, Florida

Elkins Holding S A, British Virgin Islands

Fagarita Consulting INc, British Virgin Islands

Intra Foods Inc. 3376, Lomrel Grove, Jacksonville, Florida     

Mariston Securities Inc, British Virgin Islands

Marleton Business S A, British Virgin Islands

Marvil Associated Inc, British Virgin Islands

Pawnbury Finance Ltd, British Virgin Islands

Oxton Trading Limited, British Virgin Islands

Minister Invest Ltd, British Virgin Islands

Silvernut Investment Inc, British Virgin Islands

Tacolen Investment Ltd, British Virgin Islands

Marlcrdon Invest S A, British Virgin Islands

Reconstruction and Development Finance Inc, British Virgin Islands

Nassam Alexander Inc.

Westminster Securities Inc.

Laptworth Investment Inc 202, Saint Martin Drive, West Jacksonville

Note: For remaining see part two

Earthman

International Professor

The National Reconciliation Order absolved politicians, bankers and bureaucrats "” but not ordinary citizens "” charged with corruption offenses from 1988 to October 1999, when Mr. Musharraf grabbed power in a bloodless coup. The five cases against Mr. Zardari that were dismissed last week ranged from charges that he took $10 million in kickbacks from a gold importing company to allegations that he improperly used government funds to build a polo ground at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad.
 
In the gold case, Mr. Zardari was charged with taking bribes from ARY International Exchange, a gold bullion dealership based in Dubai, in exchange for awarding the company an exclusive license in 1994 to import more than $500 million worth of gold that was used in Pakistan's jewelry businesses. A report on private banking and money laundering in the United States Congress in 1999 said Mr. Zardari had accumulated $40 million in Citibank accounts. In describing the ARY case, the report cited allegations that some of Mr. Zardari's Citibank accounts were used to "disguise $10 million in kickbacks for a gold importing contract in Pakistan." Mr. Zardari always denied the charges, and the head of the company, Abdul Razzak Yaqub, denied he had paid bribes.
 
Another case that was dismissed by the anticorruption court involved charges that Mr. Zardari had received illegal commissions from two Swiss companies, Cotecna, and Société Générale de Surveillance, after the companies were awarded a contract for pre-shipment inspections for imports to Pakistan. That case is also being tried in Switzerland. In 2003, a Swiss magistrate found him and Ms. Bhutto guilty on money laundering charges, and ordered them to return $12 million to the Pakistani government. The couple fought the charges vigorously and appealed the case, prompting a new investigation by the Swiss authorities that resulted in new charges of aggravated money laundering.
 
Mr. Zardari, who has various health problems and declined to show up at hearings in Geneva after his release from prison in 2004 on the grounds that he was too ill, has continued to appeal the case, now being heard by the court of appeals there. In Britain, Mr. Zardari faces a civil case brought in connection with a country manor with hundreds of acres in southern England where he made extensive renovations, including the installation of an imitation of a local pub. The Pakistani government is seeking to recover the money that Mr. Zardari used to pay for the manor on the grounds that it was ill-gotten gains. People involved in the case said last week that the case was still active and being contested by Mr. Zardari.
 
The corruption charges against Mr. Zardari stem from his actions during Ms. Bhutto's two terms as prime minister, a time when he was known as "Mr. 10 Percent" because of allegations that he demanded a cut of contracts after his wife assumed office in 1988. She was dismissed in 1990 after two years in office, and Mr. Zardari served three years in prison from 1990 to 1993 on corruption charges that were never proved. In her second term, from 1993 to 1996, he wielded more power as minister of environment and investment

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Benazir Bhutto: The fall of a corrupt puppet

"I had the chance to meet her (Benazir Bhutto) on several occasions, in which she expressed interest in Israel and said that she hoped to visit upon returning to power." -Shimon Peres (President of "Israel", pictured above with Benazir Bhutto at a "socialist international" (sic) conference)

Update: December 30th - According to a hand written will of Benazir Bhutto, she wanted her husband to take over as chairman of the Pakistan's People's Party (PPP). Zardari, apparently also brought in his and Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal as co-chair. A father son team.

Zardari's corruption is detailed below, I won't place too much emphasis on Bilawal's age 'cause there are lots of 19 year olds who are far more mature than many 70 year olds. But what does need to be mentioned is that he left the country at age 11, he can barely, if at all, speak the language of the country Urdu, let alone any of the provincial languages. Infact, his contact with Pakistan, in all probability, has been limited to the mansions where his mother and father lived. And he has no plans on staying in Pakistan, he is off to England to continue his "studies" at Oxford - and so, this is "democracy?" Is it any wonder that Muslims all over the world find this word to be more and more suspect?

A few months back (October 18th, 2007) Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan at the behest of a three way arrangement between herself, the hated dictator puppet Musharraf, and the United States. At the outset of this arrangement, it was clear that Bhutto would provide the democratic facade to the neo-colonial project of the US in Pakistan.

For Benazir Bhutto, the decision to return to Pakistan was sealed during a telephone call from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just a week before Bhutto flew home in October. The call culminated more than a year of secret diplomacy -- and came only when it became clear that the heir to Pakistan's most powerful political dynasty was the only one who could bail out Washington's key ally in the battle against terrorism.

It was a stunning turnaround for Bhutto, a former prime minister who was forced from power in 1996 amid corruption charges. She was suddenly visiting with top State Department officials, dining with U.N. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and conferring with members of the National Security Council. As President Pervez Musharraf's political future began to unravel this year, Bhutto became the only politician who might help keep him in power.

In many ways she was the ideal US face on the "democracy promotion" lie: Benazir was "educated" at the Imperial University of Harvard, she was articulate when speaking the lies of imperialism (couched in terms of "democracy") and could even appeal to some of the lslamophobic liberal-left crowd with her fake social-democratic credentials, and she was considered "beautiful" by the gossip rags. The icing on the cake was her recent conversion to staunch secularist ideas (wrapped in a half covered head scarf ) and she now opposed the Islamic political parties within Pakistan (not that these "Islamic parties" in Pakistan have much to offer). I say recent conversion, because Benazir was the one who gave the go ahead to the horribly sectarian anti-Shia (and anti-Iran) Taliban, who took over Afghanistan in the late 1996s.

The Taliban took power in Kabul in September 1996. It was during Bhutto's rule that the Taliban gained prominence in Afghanistan. She viewed the Taliban as a group that could stabilize Afghanistan and enable trade access to the Central Asian republics, according to author Stephen Coll.[18] He claims that her government provided military and financial support for the Taliban, even sending a small unit of the Pakistani army into Afghanistan.

But before Benazir could return to Pakistan there was some work to be done:

1. Musharraf had to be convinced that his time was up - and now it was Benazir's time to serve the US.

This took some arm twisting, but he was convinced, he would allow Benazir to become the PM if he was allowed to remain the President.

2. The pending corruption charges in Pakistan had to be dropped.

Since few, if any of the big landlords (feudals) or capitalist industrialists are prosecuted for corruption anyways, this was no big deal.

3. Two acts had to be passed in order to allow Benazir to take the helm.

i) A National Reconciliation Act that would absolve her of all of her past corruptions

ii) Another constitutional amendment was to allow her to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the third time (and allow Musharraf to remain President).

These two ammendments were pending challenges in Pakistan's Supreme Court when Busharraf declared his martial law, got rid of the judges, and installed his own kind. These new judges, in blind obedience, did whatever was asked of them.

The declaration of martial law by Busharraf led to some minor concerns for Benazir because she came under some slight pressure from her liberal-elite supporters - so she made some half hearted attempts to challenge the measures. However, the declaration of martial law, and deposing of the judges were as much for her benefit, as for Musharraf. And she eventually backed off any direct confrontations, and was happy to continue as if nothing had changed. Benazir, now free of the corruption charges, free of any other constitutional road blocks, went into political deal making mode for her party to "win" the biggest share of seats.

These deals were to maintain the status quo in Pakistan, it would allow her to gain Prime Ministership with a host of loyal landlords and industrialists backing her, who would continue to have a free hand to loot the country of its wealth and resources. And her patron, the US, would continue its neo-colonial project unhindered about any worries about Pakistan not being a "democracy."

A Pakistani NGO reported that nearly half of the candidates on the PPP (Benazir's party) are feudal landlords, and most of the rest are connected to super wealthy industrialist types. Far from being a savior of democracy (in the better sense of this word) Bhutto was a savior of the feudals and industrialists.

Benazir was indicted at a Swiss court on charges of creating off shore companies to receive kick backs from government contracts.

Benazir and Zardari were, thus, paid $8,190,085 in the account of Bomer Finance Inc. at UBS Geneva; and $3,807,338 in the account of Nassam Overseas Inc. at Barclays Geneva; a total of $11,997,423. Both Benazir and Zardari were sentenced "to reimburse" these proceeds of "the unfair management of the public interests" of Pakistan which were "laundered in Switzerland". There were $2,484,000 in the account of Bomer and $3,748,373 in the account of Nassam at Barclays. Bomer transferred to Hospital Middle East Inc. at UBS, Geneva, $5,502,292. All these, totalling $11,734,665, were ordered to be confiscated.

And:

Bhutto's twin posts, as prime minister and finance minister, gave her virtually free rein. Zardari became her alter ego, riding roughshod over the bureaucracy although he had no formal economic powers until Bhutto appointed him Investment Minister, reporting only to herself, in July 1996. They maintained an imperial lifestyle in the new prime minister's residence in Islamabad, a $50 million mansion set on 110 acres on an Islamabad hilltop.

Within days of moving in, Zardari ordered 11.5 acres of protected woodland on an adjoining hilltop to be bulldozed for a polo field, an exercise track, stabling for 40 polo ponies, quarters for grooms and a parking lot for spectators. When a senior government official, Mohammed Mehdi, objected to paying for the project with $1.3 million diverted from a budget for parks and other public amenities, Zardari "categorically told me that he does not appreciate his orders to be examined and questioned by any authority," according to an affidavit filed with the Pakistani investigators by Mehdi. A few months later, with the work in progress, Zardari had Mehdi dismissed.

The investigators say that Zardari and associates he brought into the government, some of them old school friends, began reviewing state programs for opportunities to make money. It was these broader activities, the investigators assert, more than the relatively small number of foreign deals revealed in the documents taken from the Swiss lawyer, that netted the largest sums for the Bhutto family.

It does need to be noted that none of what Benazir and her husband Zardari (aka Mr. 10%) did was out of the ordinary for the Pakistani elites. This is more of a reminder that, while the mainstream media is potraying her as a martyr for "democracy," she was, in reality, nothing more than a petty thief who deserved to have been tried in a court of law, and should have been serving out a jail sentence for corruption, not running for Prime Ministership.

Benazir's closeness to the present US regime was even more disturbing; in a recent statement, she made the incredible claim that

"In the past the United States would support dictatorships but now it is supporting democratic forces, which is a sign of encouragement for all the democracy-loving people."

Aside from her unstinting support of the US war on "terror" (i.e. war on Islam and Muslims) she did not have a single word of criticism for the continued US occupation of Afghanistan, and Iraq, and was all for having regular consultative meetings with US state department officials to coordinate her return to power.

Pakistan is undergoing its most difficult crisis yet, and without leadership, and no cohesive indigenous based ideology, the army is the only institution that can manage to stay in power. But a center that is based on such a high level of corruption, and obedience to imperial masters will not be able to hold on for any length of time. And unless there emerges a real grassroots movement for social and economic justice with an Islamic identity that would appeal to the masses, it will be difficult, if not impossible for the country to maintain its integrity.

See also:

A look at the "official narrative" surrounding the fall of Benazir Bhutto

They blame Musharraf by Robert Fisk

Tariq Ali on Democracy Now

Daughter of the West (Benazir Bhutto) by Tariq Ali