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[UETAIN]

Arguably the most dangerous nation on Earth, Pakistan is a bubbling cauldronof corruption and crime, where grasping politicians, greedy generals,drug smugglers, and terrorists intermix in a volatile web, made more threateningby a nuclear bazaar operated as a national sideline. Corruption andcriminality run from the top down, with the political class constantly loot-ing the national treasury and distorting economic policy for personal gain.Bank loans are granted largely on the basis of status and connections. Therich stash much of their money abroad in those willing western coffers,while exhibiting little inclination to repay their rupee borrowings. Banks failand Pakistanis lose their meager savings. At the bottom, wretched and illiteratemasses seethe with discontent, a perfect nurturing ground for terrorism.It started a long time ago:In the distant past the East India Company used to siphon away a greatdeal of the assets and treasures of the Indian subcontinent or buy themat very low prices and send them abroad when the British ruled thecountry.But in recent decades it is the rich and crafty Pakistanis who have siphonedaway a large part of the resources of the country with unremittingvigor. That began when a part of our export earnings was allowedto be kept abroad, with the practice of under-invoicing the exports orover-invoicing the imports. And that was followed by retaining abroadan increasing part of the money obtained as kickbacks during the importof machinery from the late 1950s.Later, politicians in office, senior bureaucrats and top military commandersjoined them by sending their illegally earned money abroad.Subsequently, obtaining large bribes abroad and putting them in theirbank accounts there became the fashion. Some of the top rulers toojoined them merrily. . . .The total wealth siphoned away in this manner has been estimatedto be between 60 billion and 100 billion dollars.51Pakistan’s recent history has been dominated by two families—theBhuttos and the Sharifs—both merely tolerated by the military, the realpower in the country. When it comes to economic destruction, there’s not alot of difference among the three.Benazir Bhutto. Born in Karachi in 1953 and educated in privateschools, Benazir Bhutto graduated from Radcliffe College at Harvard Universityin 1973. Going on to Oxford for a master’s degree, she displayed herbudding political skills and was elected president of the Student Union in1977. Meanwhile, her father had become prime minister of Pakistan in 1971, was ousted in a military coup in 1977, and was executed in 1979 oncharges of conspiracy to commit murder. In and out of prison and house arrest,Benazir was not allowed to leave the country until 1984 but then returnedto lead the democracy movement two years later. Her father’susurper, General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, was killed in a mysterious planecrash in 1988, which also took the life of the U.S. ambassador ArnoldRaphel, and the head of the U.S. military aid mission to Pakistan, GeneralH.M. Wasson. Benazir was elected prime minister that year, served until herouster in 1990 on charges of corruption and nepotism, was reelected in1993, and ousted again in 1996, amidst more charges of corruption. Duringher two terms in office and since, what has come out portrays Bhutto andher husband Asif Ali Zardari as world-class thieves.Upon taking office in 1988, Bhutto reportedly appointed 26,000 partyhacks to state jobs, including positions in state-owned banks. An orgy oflending without proper collateral followed. Allegedly, Bhutto and Zardari“gave instructions for billions of rupees of unsecured government loans to begiven to 50 large projects. The loans were sanctioned in the names of ‘frontmen’ but went to the ‘Bhutto-Zardari combine.’ ”52 Zardari suggested thatsuch loans are “normal in the Third World to encourage industrialisation.”53He used 421 million rupees (about 10 million) to acquire a major interestin three new sugar mills, all done through nominees acting on his behalf. Inanother deal he allegedly received a 40 million rupee kickback on a contractinvolving the Pakistan Steel Mill, handled by two of his cronies. Along theway Zardari acquired a succession of nicknames: Mr. 5 Percent, Mr. 10 Percent,Mr. 20 Percent, Mr. 30 Percent, and finally, in Bhutto’s second termwhen he was appointed “minister of investments,” Mr. 100 Percent.The Pakistan government’s largest source of revenues is customs duties,and therefore evasion of duties is a national pastime. Isn’t there some way totap into this major income stream, pretending to fight customs corruptionand getting rich at the same time? Of course; we can hire a reputable (or disreputable,as the case may be) inspection company, have the government paythe company about a one percent fee to do price checking on imports, andget multimillion-dollar bribes paid to us upon award of the contracts. SocitGnrale de Surveillance (SGS), headquartered in Switzerland, and its thensubsidiary Cotecna, the biggest group in the inspection business, readilyagreed to this subterfuge. Letters in 1994 promised “consultancy fees,” meaningkickbacks, companies, Bomer Finances Inc. and Nassam Overseas Inc., controlled by
Bhutto and Zardari. Payments of $12 million were made to Swiss bank accounts
of the BVI companies.54 SGS allegedly has paid kickbacks on other inspection
contracts around the world. Upon being accused in the inspection
kickback scheme, Bhutto sniffed, “I ran the government to the best of my
honest ability. And I did it for nothing but acknowledgment and love.”55
Then there was the 1994 deal to import $83 million worth of tractors
from Poland. Ursus Tractors allegedly paid a 7 percent commission to another
of Zardari’s Caribbean companies, Dargal Associated. Bhutto waived
import duties on the tractors, costing the Pakistani government some 1.7
billion rupees in lost revenues. Upon discovery of this scheme the Poles hastened
to turn over 500 pages of documentation confirming the kickback.56
The Polish tractor deal was just a warm-up for the French fighter jet
deal. After the U.S. government cancelled a sale of two squadrons of F-16s,
Bhutto dangled a $4 billion contract for Mirages in front of the French—
Dassault Aviation; Snecma, the engine manufacturer; and Thomson-CSF,
producer of aviation electronics. Without missing a beat they allegedly
agreed to pay a “remuneration” of 5 percent to Marleton Business S.A., yet
another of Zardari’s British Virgin Island companies.57 This would have generated
a tidy $200 million for the Bhutto-Zardari couple, but unfortunately
for them she was driven from office before they could collect.
Ah, but the gold deal gave some comfort to these aspiring kleptocrats.
Gold is culturally important in the Asian subcontinent, in particular as a
way for women to accumulate wealth. Upwards of $100 billion is invested
in this unproductive asset in Pakistan, India, and surrounding countries.
Smuggling is big business. Ostensibly to regulate the trade, a Pakistani bullion
dealer in Dubai, Abdul Razzak Yaqub, asked Bhutto for an exclusive
import license. In 1994, yet another Zardari offshore company, M.S. Capricorn
Trading, was created in the British Virgin Islands. Later in the year, Jens
Schlegelmilch, “a Swiss lawyer who was the Bhutto family’s attorney in Europe
and close personal friend for more than 20 years,”58 opened an account
for Capricorn Trading at the Dubai branch of Citibank. According to a
1999 U.S. Senate report: “Mr. Schlegelmilch did not reveal to the Dubai
banker that Mr. Zardari was the beneficial owner of the PIC [private investment
company], and the account manager never asked him the identity of
the beneficial owner of the account. . . . Shortly after opening the account in
Dubai, Mr. Schlegelmilch signed a standard referral agreement withof 6 percent and 3 percent to two British Virgin Island (BVI) companies, Bomer Finances Inc. and Nassam Overseas Inc., controlled by
Bhutto and Zardari. Payments of $12 million were made to Swiss bank accounts
of the BVI companies.54 SGS allegedly has paid kickbacks on other inspection
contracts around the world. Upon being accused in the inspection
kickback scheme, Bhutto sniffed, “I ran the government to the best of my
honest ability. And I did it for nothing but acknowledgment and love.”55
Then there was the 1994 deal to import $83 million worth of tractors
from Poland. Ursus Tractors allegedly paid a 7 percent commission to another
of Zardari’s Caribbean companies, Dargal Associated. Bhutto waived
import duties on the tractors, costing the Pakistani government some 1.7
billion rupees in lost revenues. Upon discovery of this scheme the Poles hastened
to turn over 500 pages of documentation confirming the kickback.56
The Polish tractor deal was just a warm-up for the French fighter jet
deal. After the U.S. government cancelled a sale of two squadrons of F-16s,
Bhutto dangled a $4 billion contract for Mirages in front of the French—
Dassault Aviation; Snecma, the engine manufacturer; and Thomson-CSF,
producer of aviation electronics. Without missing a beat they allegedly
agreed to pay a “remuneration” of 5 percent to Marleton Business S.A., yet
another of Zardari’s British Virgin Island companies.57 This would have generated
a tidy $200 million for the Bhutto-Zardari couple, but unfortunately
for them she was driven from office before they could collect.
Ah, but the gold deal gave some comfort to these aspiring kleptocrats.
Gold is culturally important in the Asian subcontinent, in particular as a
way for women to accumulate wealth. Upwards of $100 billion is invested
in this unproductive asset in Pakistan, India, and surrounding countries.
Smuggling is big business. Ostensibly to regulate the trade, a Pakistani bullion
dealer in Dubai, Abdul Razzak Yaqub, asked Bhutto for an exclusive
import license. In 1994, yet another Zardari offshore company, M.S. Capricorn
Trading, was created in the British Virgin Islands. Later in the year, Jens
Schlegelmilch, “a Swiss lawyer who was the Bhutto family’s attorney in Europe
and close personal friend for more than 20 years,”58 opened an account
for Capricorn Trading at the Dubai branch of Citibank. According to a
1999 U.S. Senate report: “Mr. Schlegelmilch did not reveal to the Dubai
banker that Mr. Zardari was the beneficial owner of the PIC [private investment
company], and the account manager never asked him the identity of
the beneficial owner of the account. . . . Shortly after opening the account in
Dubai, Mr. Schlegelmilch signed a standard referral agreement with Citibank Switzerland private bank guaranteeing him 20 percent of the first
three years of client net revenues earned by the bank from each client he referred
to the private bank.”59 In other words, Citibank was contracting to
pay a finder’s fee for millions brought in from dubious sources. Citibank
went on to open three accounts in Switzerland for Zardari, with
Schlegelmilch as the signatory.
In October 1994, Citibank records show that $10 million was deposited
into Capricorn’s Dubai account by Razzak Yaqub’s company, A.R.Y. International
Exchange.60 In December, Razzak Yaqub received an exclusive import
license and proceeded over the next three years to ship more than $500 million
in gold to Pakistan. Additional deposits flowed into the Dubai and
Swiss Citibank accounts, and funds also were shifted to Citibank Channel
Island subsidiaries. The original ceiling on the accounts of $40 million was
reached quickly.61
Toward the end of her second term, the Bhutto case took a bizarre turn.
Representatives of the Pakistan Muslim League, an opposition party, met in
1995 with private investigators in London who offered documentary proof
from an unnamed source of Bhutto’s corruption, in return for a modest fee
of $10 million. That deal was not consummated, but two years later, with
Bhutto out of office and under investigation, the offer was reportedly concluded
for $1 million.62 The documents “appeared to have been taken from
the Geneva office of Jens Schlegelmilch.”63
In 2000 Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau, with the thankless
task of investigating corruption, drew upon these documents and other
sources and released details of assets and accounts belonging to Bhutto and
Zardari. Even to jaded observers, the scale of their holdings was stunning:
hundreds of properties, dozens of companies, and dozens of bank accounts.
A partial listing of only foreign holdings reported by the National Accountability
Bureau is provided in Table 3.4.64
Summarizing this and other documentation, the New York Times reported
that the material included “. . . letters from executives promising
payoffs, with details of the percentage payments to be made; memorandums
detailing meetings at which these ‘commissions’ and ‘remunerations’ were
agreed on, and certificates incorporating the offshore companies used as
fronts in the deals. . . . The documents also revealed the crucial role played
by Western institutions. Apart from the companies that made payoffs, and
the network of banks that handled the money . . . the arrangements made byTABLE 3.4 FOREIGN ASSETS ALLEGEDLY BELONGING TO BHUTTO AND ZARDARI
Country Properties/Companies Bank Accounts
United Rockwood Estate, Surrey, 20 Barclays Bank, 3 accounts;
Kingdom room mansion, 355 acres, polo National Westminster Bank;
grounds; 4 London flats Harrods Bank; Midland Bank
France Normandy chateau, in Crdit Agricole, 3 accounts;
Zardari’s parents’ name; Banque Nationale de Paris; Banque
Cannes properties La Henin
Switzerland Union Bank of Switzerland;
Barclays Bank (Geneva); Citibank
(Geneva); Banque Nationale de
Paris; Swiss Bank Corporation;
Credit Suisse; Pictet et Cie; Banque
Francaise du Commerce; Cantrade
Ormond Burrus; Banque Pasha
United Wellington Club East, Florida; Barclays Bank, New York;
States India Mound, Florida; Citibank, New York;
3 residential properties, UBS, New York
Florida; Lapworth Investment,
Florida; Intro Food, Florida;
Dynatel Trading, Florida; A.S.
Realty, Florida; Bon Voyage
Travel, Florida
British Bomer Finance, Mariston
Virgin Securities, Marleton Business,
Islands Capricorn Trading, Dargal
Associated, Fargarita Consulting,
Marvil Associated, Penbury
Finance, Oxton Trading,
Brinslen Investment, Climitex
Holding, Elkins Holding,
Minterler Invest, Silvernut
Investment, Tacolen Investment,
Tulerston Invest, Marledon
Invest, Dustan Trading,
Reconstruction and Development
Finance, Nassam Alexanderthe Bhutto family for their wealth relied on Western property companies,
Western lawyers and a network of Western friends.”65
Even the Swiss finally had had enough. Seventeen bank accounts linked
to Bhutto and Zardari were frozen. The two were charged with money laundering
in connection with bribes received from the inspection company
SGS and were convicted by a Swiss court in 2003, with fines and suspended
prison sentences. This was short-lived; the decision was overturned and referred
back to cantonal prosecutors upon appeal. Meanwhile, Zardari was in
prison in Pakistan from 1996 to 2004 on assorted charges.
Bhutto, with her father executed, two brothers assassinated, her mother
an amnesiac, her husband still troublesome, and she living in exile between
London and Dubai, portrays herself as the victim: “I never asked for power.
I think they [the Pakistani people] need me. I don’t think it’s addictive. You
want to run away from it, but it doesn’t let you go. . . . I think the reason
this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.”66
Save your tears. In the global collection of displaced leaders, Benazir
Bhutto may be the least sympathetic character of all.

 

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Nawaz Sharif. While Benazir Bhutto hated the generals for executing her
father, Nawaz Sharif early on figured out that they held the real power in
Pakistan. His father had established a foundry in 1939 and, together with
six brothers, had struggled for years only to see their business nationalized
by Ali Bhutto’s regime in 1972. This sealed decades of enmity between the
Bhuttos and the Sharifs. Following the military coup and General Zia’s assumption
of power, the business—Ittefaq—was returned to family hands in
1980. Nawaz Sharif became a director and cultivated relations with senior
military officers. This led to his appointment as finance minister of Punjab
and then election as chief minister of this most populous province in 1985.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, given Sharif ’s political control of
Punjab and eventual prime ministership of the country, Ittefaq Industries
grew from its original single foundry into 30 businesses producing steel,
sugar, paper, and textiles, with combined revenues of $400 million, making
it one of the biggest private conglomerates in the nation. As in many other
countries, when you control the political realm, you can get anything you
want in the economic realm.
With Lahore, the capital of Punjab, serving as the seat of the family’spower, one of the first things Sharif did upon becoming prime minister in
1990 was build his long-dreamed-of superhighway from there to the capital,
Islamabad. Estimated to cost 8.5 billion rupees, the project went through
two biddings. Daewoo of Korea, strengthening its proposals with midnight
meetings, was the highest bidder both times, so obviously it won the contract
and delivered the job at well over 20 billion rupees.
A new highway needs new cars. Sharif authorized importation of 50,000
vehicles duty free, reportedly costing the government $700 million in lost
customs duties. Banks were forced to make loans for vehicle purchases to
would-be taxi cab drivers upon receipt of a 10 percent deposit. Borrowers got
their “Nawaz Sharif cabs,” and some 60 percent of them promptly defaulted.
This left the banks with $500 million or so in unpaid loans. Vehicle dealers
reportedly made a killing and expressed their appreciation in expected ways.
Under Sharif, unpaid bank loans and massive tax evasion remained the
favorite ways to get rich. Upon his loss of power the usurping government
published a list of 322 of the largest loan defaulters, representing almost $3
billion out of $4 billion owed to banks. Sharif and his family were tagged for
$60 million. The Ittefaq Group went bankrupt in 1993 when Sharif lost his
premiership the first time. By then only three units in the group were operational,
and loan defaults of the remaining companies totaled some 5.7 billion
rupees, more than $100 million.67
Like Bhutto, offshore companies have been linked to Sharif, three in the
British Virgin Islands by the names of Nescoll, Nielson, and Shamrock68 and
another in the Channel Islands known as Chandron Jersey Pvt. Ltd.69 Some
of these entities allegedly were used to facilitate purchase of four rather
grand flats on Park Lane in London, at various times occupied by Sharif
family members. Reportedly, payment transfers were made to Banque
Paribas en Suisse, which then instructed Sharif ’s offshore companies Nescoll
and Nielson to purchase the four luxury suites.70
In her second term, Benazir Bhutto had Pakistan’s Federal Investigating
Agency begin a probe into the financial affairs of Nawaz Sharif and his family.
The probe was headed by Rehman Malik, deputy director general of the
agency. Malik had fortified his reputation earlier by aiding in the arrest of
Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. During
Sharif ’s second term, the draft report of the investigation was suppressedThe records, including government documents, signed affidavits from
Pakistani officials, bank files and property records, detail deals that Mr.
Malik says benefited Mr. Sharif, his family and his political associates:
• At least $160 million pocketed from a contract to build a highway
from Lahore, his home town, to Islamabad, the nation’s capital.
• At least $140 million in unsecured loans from Pakistan’s state banks.
• More than $60 million generated from government rebates on
sugar exported by mills controlled by Mr. Sharif and his business
associates.
• At least $58 million skimmed from inflated prices paid for imported
wheat from the United States and Canada. In the wheat
deal, Mr. Sharif ’s government paid prices far above market value
to a private company owned by a close associate of his in Washington,
the records show. Falsely inflated invoices for the wheat generated
tens of millions of dollars in cash.71
The report went on to state that “The extent and magnitude of this corruption
is so staggering that it has put the very integrity of the country at
stake.”72 In an interview, Malik added: “No other leader of Pakistan has
taken that much money from the banks. There is no rule of law in Pakistan.
It doesn’t exist.”73
What brought Sharif down in his second term was his attempt to acquire
virtually dictatorial powers. In 1997 he rammed a bill through his
compliant parliament requiring legislators to vote as their party leaders directed.
In 1998 he introduced a bill to impose Sharia law (Muslim religious
law) across Pakistan, with himself empowered to issue unilateral directives in
the name of Islam. In 1999 he sought to sideline the army by replacing
Chief of Staff Pervez Musharraf with a more pliable crony. He forgot the
lessons he had learned in the 1980s: The army controls Pakistan and politicians
are a nuisance. As Musharraf was returning from Sri Lanka, Sharif
tried to sack him in midair and deny the Pakistan International Airways
flight with 200 civilians on board landing rights in Karachi. Musharraf radioed
from the aircraft through Dubai to his commander in Karachi, order-ing him to seize the airport control tower, accomplished as the plane descended
almost out of fuel. Musharraf turned the tables and completed his
coup, and Sharif was jailed.
But Sharif had little to fear. This, after all, is Pakistan. Musharraf needed
to consolidate his power with the generals, and Sharif knew details about the
corruption of most of the brass. Obviously, it is better to tread lightly
around the edges of your peer group’s own thievery. So Musharraf had Sharif
probed, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison, but then in 2000
exiled him to Saudi Arabia. Twenty-two containers of carpets and furniture
followed, and, of course, his foreign accounts remained mostly intact. Ensconced
in a glittering palace in Jeddah, he is described as looking “corpulent”
amidst “opulent” surroundings.74 Reportedly, he and Benazir Bhutto
even have an occasional telephone conversation, perhaps together lamenting
how unfair life has become.

 

[UETAIN]

Military, Inc. The Pakistani military controls some of the largest business
conglomerates in the nation and has monopolies in several areas of production
and services. As chief of the army, Musharraf heads a vast empire of industrial,
commercial, and real estate interests worth an estimated $5
billion.75 A principal function of these businesses is to serve as a private
piggy bank for the privileged military hierarchy.
Four foundations, originally created to provide welfare for retired soldiers,
are now bloated enterprises employing tens of thousands and generating
hundreds of millions in annual revenues. The largest is Fauji
Foundation, fauji meaning “military.” Each of the armed services has its own
individual foundation: Army Welfare Trust, under Army GHQ; Bahria
Foundation, under Navy HQ; and Shaheen Foundation, under Air Force
HQ. The vast scope of these foundation holdings can be seen in the range of
their subsidiary operations, as shown in Table 3.5.As for the rest of the commanding heights of the economy, what the
military does not own it controls. Active or retired officers have recently or
still now head the National Highway Authority, the water and power agency,
the tax collection agency, Karachi Electric Supply, the Employees Old Age
Benefit Institution, the Federal Public Services Commission, the National
Accountability Board, and much more.76 Musharraf reportedly has appointed
some 500 officers to positions as chairmen, directors, agency heads,
and commissioners, permeating every aspect of the economy. You cannotTABLE 3.5 PAKISTANI MILITARY FOUNDATION HOLDINGS
Foundation Holdings
Fauji Foundation Fauji Cereal, Fauji Poly Propylene Products, Fauji Sugar Mills,
Fauji Oil Terminal, Fauji Cement, Fauji Corn Complex,
Fauji Kabirwala Power Company, FONGAS, Fauji Jordan
Company, Fauji Fertilizer Company, Mari Gas Company
Army Welfare Army Welfare Sugar Mill, Askari Housing Scheme, Army
Trust Welfare Shoe Project, Askari Welfare Rice Mill, Army Welfare
Woolen Mill, Askari Welfare Pharmaceutical Project, Army
Welfare Hosiery Unit, Askari Stud Farms, Askari Commercial
Bank, Askari Fish Farm, Askari Commercial Enterprises,
Askari Welfare Saving Scheme, Askari Power Limited, Askari
Associate Limited, Askari Information Service, Askari Leasing,
Magnesite Refineries Limited, Askari Aviation
Bahria Bahria Construction, Bahria Bakery, Bahria Holdings, Bahria
Foundation Catering and Decoration, Bahria Dredging, Bahria Security and
Systems Services, Bahria Coastal Services, Bahria Travel and
Recruiting Agency, Bahria Diving and Salvage, Bahria
Complexes, Bahria Shipping, Bahria Town and Housing
Schemes, Bahria Ship Breaking, Bahria Farming, Bahria Harbor
Services, Bahria University, Bahria Deep Sea Fishing, Falah
Trading Agency, Bahria Paints
Shaheen Shaheen Airport Services, FM-100 radio channel, Shaheen Air
Foundation Cargo, Shaheen Knitwear, Shaheen Air International,
Shaheen System, Shaheen Aerotraders, Shaheen Complexturn around in Pakistan without putting money into service coffers. With
what is almost certainly the largest holdings on the Karachi Stock Exchange77
and vast holdings outside the exchange, the military owns, controls,
and directs the economy of the country and is not about to give it up.
And what do rich generals do with their money? Why, they take it offshore,
just like rich politicians and rich businesspeople. Court papers have
listed innumerable generals, other officers, and their family members withsubstantial foreign bank accounts. This is part of the reason why Nawaz
Sharif was allowed to go into exile in Saudi Arabia; he knew their foreign
holdings well.
Pakistan’s pursuit and attainment of nuclear weapons and transfer of
bomb-building components provides a frightening example of the many
failings of the Pakistani state. A.Q. Khan stole centrifuge blueprints in Europe
and then returned home to build a secret nuclear lab near Islamabad,
supported by the notorious BCCI. According to a thorough New York Times
report, Dr. Khan boasted, “My long stay in Europe and intimate knowledge
of various countries and their manufacturing firms was an asset.”
Business executives and merchants, including German, Dutch and
French middlemen, flocked to Pakistan to offer price lists for high-technology
goods and learn what Pakistan needed. The multilingual Dr.
Khan led the acquisition effort. His shopping spree spanned the world.
“Africa was important because of the materials needed. . . . Europe was
crucial for bringing in high-tech machines and components. Dubai was
the place for shipments and payments.”78When Khan purchased components from his willing suppliers, he
bought much more than needed by Pakistan alone, apparently with the
early intent of selling nuclear materials to other countries. By the late 1980s
he was supplying Iran, by 1991 North Korea, and at least as early as 1997
was in negotiations with Libya. The Libyan deal leaked, caused an international
uproar, and Khan was forced out of the lab bearing his name. He
made a public confession and was immediately pardoned by Musharraf and
allowed to keep the millions in property and cash he had accumulated in
Pakistan and abroad. Reports suggest that his daughter hastened out of the
country with documents and a videotape in which Khan claims that “all the
chiefs of army staff since 1977, including Musharraf, were aware of his
actions.”79
The bottom line on Pakistan is that ruling elites were and continue to
be thoroughly corrupted, and western business and banking sectors have in
the past and continue today to service their corruption. Billions of dollars
have been siphoned abroad, millions of people are deprived and uneducated,
drugs move freely, terrorism finds accommodation, and nuclear sales
threaten global stability.

 

[v r imran k]

issy parhay ga kon?allam tahir ulqadri sb

 

[Zafar Malik]

acchi batki qasmi ne iss ko sarahna chahiye .noore ka pupi hai tu kiya kabhi kabhar theek bol leita hai .