Jinnahpur Maps Existed
Nadeem Darr was a major in Sindh Rangers when he raided Muttahida Qaumi Movement headquarters Nine-Zero in 1990s and unearthed the alleged Jinnahpur conspiracy by recovering maps and flags of proposed state that was to be carved out of Pakistan. He claims MQM killed his son during Musharraf rule, in reprisal for exposing the Jinnahpur plan.
MQM maintains that it never conspired to break Karachi and other areas away from Pakistan and Jinnahpur conspiracy was a mere blame game. Fact or fiction? Daily Ummat talked to now retired Major Nadeer Darr on the issue that has reborn after Pakistan Peoples Party leader Zulfikar Mirza accused MQM of collaborating with the United State to divide Pakistan.
Darr, speaking at lengths, said he still stood by his statement that MQM had conspired against Pakistan and will continue to conspire so long as Altaf Hussain is protected in London. Security forces had no personal vendetta against MQM and we were just doing out job. It was not that we just worked against MQM, action had been taken against all criminals, he said.
Our information says that MQM has much more complex network than other criminal groups. It has several wings, unconnected and unidentified to each others. If an MQM worker unauthorized provides some information to other activists within the organization, he would be killed.
I have proofs that a man name Tariq from Aziz Abad was murdered in presence of Altaf Hussain for merely asking a question.
The former Ranger officer says there were only two close confidants of Altaf Hussain, namely Babar Ghauri and Saleem Shahzad. They both oversee a separate intelligence unit, which is used for recce in the targets area. A different wing is used for action against the target and that is called the operational wing. This wing is operated by the sector incharge and unit incharge is kept in the dark on any mission. The unit incharge only liaisons political and public contacts while the sector incharges job is to teach lessons and he is trained for this task. After intelligence gathering the sector incharge selects a hitman from its squad and brief him on the target, telling where it would be hit and how, said Maj. Darr, detailing the inner-working of MQM.
Asked how he was speaking with such certainty, Darr claimed Mustafa Kamal was involved in the killing of MQM chairman Azeem Tariq and the party had a history of elevating the killers to top posts, though Darr conceded that there were other reasons for Kamals nomination as Karachi City Nazim.
The Jinnahpur
MQM had approved Jinnahpur conspiracy in a January 1991 meeting that was attended by Azeem Ahmed Tariq, Imran Farooq, Farooq Sattar and Altaf Hussain. Jinnahpur idea had been floated by Imran Farooq but when Aamir Khan and Afaq picked up on the plan they had a disagreement with Altaf Hussain. They later broke away from the party to form MQM-Haqiqi but first they tried to convince Altaf Hussain that public would not welcome the plan. Altaf said we would use this slogan for political gains without implementing it, to ensure that if army takes action against us we could enlist help from India. He was speaking to pacify Aamir and Afaq but in fact he had been authorized to work on the plot, Darr says.
Aamir and Afaq later clashed with Altaf and Saleem Shazad was particularly pleased because he was averse to their possible elevation in the party as the two men were active politicians, he said.
Darr says maps, flags and documents on Jinnahpur had been recovered from sophisticated lockers at the Nine-zero headquarters of MQM. These were the master copies and another stock was found at Alkaram Squar, he added.
The original blue print of Jinnahpur showed Badin, Thatha, Hyderabad, Lasbeela and Karachi as part of new state. They plotted to break away this territory with Indian help and Thar was to be made part of India with area up to Mirpurkhas coming into MQM folds, Darr said.
Imran Farooq and Azeem Tariq, two of the four main players in Jinnahpur conspiracy, are now dead but Afaq and Aamir knew about it, he said.
The former officer said he had challenged ex-brigadier Imtiaz on his claims that no maps had been recovered from MQM offices. Darr also challenged Gen. (Retd) Naseer Akhtar for similar claims, saying that the former general had many petrol pumps in Karachi and his statements had come due to business consideration.
Nadeem Darr says he had to flee the country after his home and family was targeted.
I lost one son and second was wounded when I took left Pakistan with him in 2001. My house was burnt down. A government house in Guranwala was also set on fire. I survived assassination attempts in Islamabad and when I moved to Dubai hurdles had been erected for me to do business there.