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REVEALED CONFIDENTIAL AFFIDAVIT

SUBMITTED TO SUPREME COURT

BY BRIGADIER (RETD) HAMID SAEED AKHTAR

FORMER HEAD OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN SINDH PROVINCE IN 1991

THE MAN WHO ADMITS TO HAVE BRIBED POLITICIANS IN 1990 ON ORDERS FROM HIGH-UPS TO RIG

ELECTIONS

SUPREME COURT DECIDED NOT TO MAKE THIS AFFIDAVIT PUBLIC IN NATIONAL INTEREST

I GOT IT FROM SOURCES AND DECIDED TO MAKE IT PUBLIC IN NATIONAL INTEREST

Thanks, Matiullah Jan

TEXT BEGINS(RE-TYPED VERSION):

1. In 1990 I was commanding an Artillery Brigade in D.I Khan, In the same year following an indigenous

uprising of Kashmiris in the Indian held Kashmir, both India and Pakistan deployed their forces in the borderareas. My brigade had just reached the border area when I received the orders to join regional office ofMilitary Intelligence in Karachi. I talked to the Corps Commander and submitted that I wished to be with my

troops during combat. I further pleaded that I had no intelligence background or formal training. CorpsCommander advised that my services are very urgently required at Karachi to control the deteriorating security

situation in Sindh. Accordingly, I reported to my new duty station and assumed command w.e.f 23 July 1990.

2. At that time MQM had recently fallen apart from the ruling political party (PPP). PPP workers had resorted to

taking revenge from MQM for their political betrayal through the use of force. MQM reacted even moreviolently, through their armed political workers. PPP, MQM, PPI, JI and JSM activists were relentlessly killing

each other. The daily death toll was 100-110 besides countless left wounded and incapacitated. PSF, APMSO,IJT and JSQM had taken prisoners the activists from their rivals and committed horrendous and inhuman

atrocities on them e.g drilling holes in knee joints with the drill machines and burning their delicate parts with

electric soldering machines. I immediately held meetings with Mr. Tariq Azeem, Dr. Imran Farooq and Mr.Saleem Shahzad of MQM, Prof. Ghafoor of JI, Dr. Hameeda Khoro and Mr. Mumtaz Bhutto JSF, Abdul Wahid

Aresar of JSQM and Mukhtar Awan of PPI and gave them strong message that if they did not stop killing, arson

and looting, army may be forced to step in to restore peace.

3. Initially the belligerent forces denied their involvement in the unlawful activities, however when irrefutable

evidence of their crimes was produced, they took the advice more seriously. Following were the visible effectsof intelligence intervention on security situation: (A) Within one week killing reduced drastically from 100-110

to 20-30 per day, (B) Exchange of prisoners of the belligerent sides was arranged and the exchange took placein Karachi Corp Headquarters.

4. All the above was achieved through negotiations and dialogue, not a single bullet was fired, nobody was

kept in illegal confinement and no torture was committed to extract information. The importance of my primary

task i.e intelligence and counter intelligence far outweighed my involvement in the internal security matters butat that time internal security had assumed greater importance.

5. Soon after, the provincial government launched a police operation against Muhajior populace residing in

Pucca Qila Hyderabad on a day when PM, COAS and Karachi Corps Commander were on a tour abroad andarmy units were out on annual exercise. In this operation police killed dozens of men, women and children.The matter was reported to higher echelons. The President Mr. Ghulam Ishaq Khan ordered the army to move

in and stop this carnage. Station Commander Hyderabad gathered about three hundred soldiers from thepersonnel left behind for guard duties and reached the site. On his intervention the police force withdrew. PM

Benazir Bhutto on her return to Pakistan gave a press statement that army had supplied POF made weapons to

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Muhajirs. Police had besieged Pucca Qila to recover these weapons. When police force was about to reach the

cache in Pucca Qila, army stepped in and took away the weapons in military vehicles. Everybody was shockedby this statement.

6. After this mahem, MRC (Muhajir Rabita Committee) gave a press statement that they (Muhajirs) were being

forced to look towards India for protection of their rights. India readily responded to the call by stating thatMuhajirs were Indias ex-citizens and India was obliged to ensure their safety and protection against state

terrorism and genocide.Such statements reminded one of the Indian interventions in former East Pakistan,which finally resulted in the dismemberment of our country.

7. Earlier that year the PM had also publicly criticized the army for crossing the red line by enriching uranium tothe levels which were not acceptable to big powers. She also gave an interview to BBC in which she mentioned

of her support to India in crushing Khalistan movement. Sometime later the PM also criticized the army forconducting annual exercise in the Sindh province without her consent. ISPR had to clarify through a press

release that under the law COAS was not obliged to seek anyones permission for conducting t raining exercisesin any part of the country. All such incidents were reported by the press media.

8. During the same year, the government also gave attractive jobs to the Al-zulfiqar activists in Railways, PIA,

Customs, KPT, Immigration, Exercise and Taxation and other sensitive departments, thus endangering national

security. These activists of AZO had been imparted proper training by India, in sabotage, arson, bomb blasts,

mass killings and other acts of terrorism. The authentic record of these terrorists was available with all theintelligence agencies. All these matters were reported to higher ups through normal command channels.

9. General perception of the common man was that the ruling party had got the votes but lacked the vision torun the country. Something appeared to be in the offing. On 16th August 1990, President Ghulam Ishaque

Khan dissolved the PPP government, using power under article 58 (2)b. In Sindh an interim government wasformed under Jam Sadiq Ali as the Chief Minister. (A) On 12 September 1990, DG MI major GeneralMuhammad Asad Durrani visited Karachi and gave following orders to me.(B) Open six accounts in different

banks and send me the title and number of each account. (C) Keep on monitoring these accounts. Some fundsshall be deposited in these accounts from time to time. You will keep me updated regarding the balance in

each account on weekly basis. CONFIDENTIAL PART OF AFFIDAVIT ENDS.