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General (R) Ehtisham Zamir |
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| Former Head of ISI | | Born: N/A | | Profession: Anaylst | | Affiliation(s): Pakistan Army Personel | | Citizenship: Pakistani | | Views: 11,013 | Comments: 2 | Votes: 7 |
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General Ehtisham Zamir, the former head of ISI's political cell, has
admitted playing a key role in rigging the 2002 polls to favor PML(Q),
the pro-Musharraf faction of the Pakistan Muslim League. This was a
joint effort of the ISI's political cell and the National Accountability
Bureau. While it has been considered an open secret by many, this is
the first time the ISI's role in 2002 election rigging has been
confirmed by a former ISI top official who directly participated in it.
In September 2002, Zahid Hussain of The News Online reported as follows:
"For several weeks before the nominations were filed, Tariq
Aziz, President Musharraf's powerful principal secretary, had camped out
in Lahore, wheeling and dealing with politicians. The country's most
powerful bureaucrat had an important task assigned to him by his
military leader. His job was to knock together a pro-military alliance.
Aided by Major General Ehtisham Zamir, the head of the ISI's domestic
wing, and the crafty Brigadier (retd), Aijaz Shah a former ISI officer
and home secretary Punjab, Aziz finally manoeuvered a list of " loyal"
candidates for the National Assembly from the province. Most of them
belong to the PML (Q) and the Grand National Alliance, but there are
several others who, the military government believes, were willing to
cooperate."
In 2002, after a similar report in British newspaper
The Guardian, the Daily Times of Pakistan quoted Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi
as saying, "The report is totally fabricated as there is no political
wing at ISI. Such reports appearing at a time when the general elections
are just coming close might have some vested interest. Maybe the
reporter wants to project as if ISI is planning to manipulate the
elections, which is absolutely incorrect,"
Talking to Umar Cheema
of The News in Pakistan yesterday, Retired General Zamir, the head of
the ISI’s political cell in 2002, admitted manipulating the last
elections at the behest of President Musharraf and termed the defeat of
the King’s party, the PML-Q, this time “a reaction of the unnatural
dispensation (installed in 2002).”
The son of the well known
Pakistani satirical poet Mr. Zamir Jaffery, Maj-Gen (retd) Ehtesham
Zamir termed the 2008 elections ‘fairer than 2002’. He said the reason
behind their fairness is that there was relatively less interference of
intelligence agencies this time as compared to the last time. But he
stopped short of saying that there was zero interference in the 2008
polls.
Just a few days prior to the Elections 2008, the Army
Chief General Kayani issued orders barring officers from any
unauthorized meetings with Pakistani politicians, including the
president. The army commander also said the military wouldn't play any
role in staging the February 18 parliamentary elections, outside of
providing security.
It should be noted that the former Prime
Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto issued the executive order creating a
political cell within the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) with the
purpose of influencing political processes in Pakistan. This fateful
decision in 1975 eventually brought ZA Bhutto's own downfall when he
used this cell to unnecessarily rig the 1977 elections and was
overthrown and executed by General Zia-ul-Haq. It was also this cell
that helped Nawaz Sharif , a protege of General Zia-ul-Haq, get elected
as Prime Minister of Pakistan after the General's death in a mysterious
air crash followed by a brief term in office by Benazir Bhutto. In 1990
the ISI received 140m rupees (US$2.2m at current values) to rig national
elections, according to supreme court testimony by the then chief of
army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg. |
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