shimatoree
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A rumor is / or has been going around that President Zardari of Pakistan is or has been on the Heroin smuggler's list of the Drug Enforcement Agency of the USA.
Does anyone know anything about this has any more info on this matter ?
It is said that this rumor started after the arrest of the famous heroin smuggler Ayub Afridi by the DEA in Dubai sometimes ago.
Found this but I am still searching for some 'more real credible evidence'.
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3145
The situation in Pakistan is not much better. The U.S. mainstream media have never mentioned the February 23 report in the London Sunday Times and that Asif Ali Zardari, now the Pakistani President, was once caught in a DEA drug sting. An undercover DEA informant, John Banks, told the Sunday Times that, posing as a member of the U.S. mafia, he had taped Zardari and two associates for five hours; Zardari discussed how he could ship hashish and heroin to the United States, as he had done already to Great Britain. A retired senior British customs officer confirmed that the government had received reports of Zardari's alleged financing of the drug trade from “about three or four sources.” Banks “claimed the subsequent investigation was halted after the CIA said it did not want to destabilise Pakistan.”
This one has some substance in it:
http://www.ukcia.org/research/Geopolitics/asia.php
1998 seizures of opium dropped to 5 metric tons compared to 8.5 tons in 1997, while heroin fell from 5 tons to 3 tons, and hashish from 115 tons to 65 tons. The levels during the first 11 months of 1999 remain more or less on a par with 1998, including seizures of 10 tons of opium, 3.5 tons of heroin, and 60.5 tons of hashish....It is also notable that the offensives launched in Kashmir by Islamic groups supported by the Pakistani military are on each occasion preceded by intense activity by armed groups of Pashtun and Baluch irregulars along the Afghan and Iranian borders, and in particular in the villages of Dalbandeen, Rabat, Qila, Nushki, Nokundi, Saindak, and Chatt. Added to this is the fact that Saudi Arabians are building a veritable chain of mosques and Koran schools in this region whose exteriors resemble fortresses more than religious establishments. It was precisely in this region that the ANF seized 25.427 tons of drugs between January 1999 and March 2000, including 16.320 tons of hashish, 7.630 tons of opium, and 1.417 tons of heroin....The Return of Haji Ayub Afridi
The saga of Haji Ayub Afridi is a good illustration of the troubling links between traffickers and politicians in Pakistan, as well as the shady deals made by the United States with both sides. One of Pakistan's most important traffickers, Haji Ayub Afridi, returned to Pakistan on August 25, 1999 after serving a three and a half year sentence in a U.S. prison and paying a $50,000 dollar fine. From his refuge in Kabul and with an Afghan passport, Afridi voluntarily traveled to Dubai, from where he boarded a cargo flight to the U.S. in December 1995 after "negotiating" with American authorities. Hardly had his feet touched Pakistani soil when the ANF arrested him and detained him at first in a secret location for six weeks. He is today imprisoned in Karachi and awaiting trial for the export of 6.5 tons of hashish seized at Antwerp, Belgium, in the 1980s. Even those close to him do not hide the fact that he also became an important heroin trafficker during the war in Afghanistan.
Haji Ayub owns a palace reminiscent of A Thousand and One Nights in Landi Kotal, part of the Khyber tribal agency not far from the Afghan border. A warrant for police to bring Haji Ayub before the court was first issued in 1983 following the discovery of 17 tons of hashish in a warehouse in Baluchistan. Three years later he was the subject of a wanted notice issued after a smuggler arrested in Belgium denounced him as his supplier. At the time he was under the protection of authorities in the tribal agency, which in theory he could not leave. The military coup against Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on August 6, 1990 allowed him to be one of eight deputies elected to Parliament from the tribal agencies (FATA) and to consequently benefit from parliamentary immunity. He ran under the ticket of the Islamic Democratic Alliance, the coalition of the new Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. On May 16, 1992 he was even part of a delegation of 60 Pakistani tribal chiefs which traveled to Afghanistan to mediate between antagonists there.
But sensing that the military was not going to tolerate for long the corruption and chaos which characterized Nawar Sharif's first government, the barons of the tribal zones, including Haji Ayub, switched their support to the opposition headed by Benazir Bhutto, and participated in the manoeuvres which allowed the Pakistani President, Ishaq Khan, to dismiss Prime Minister Nawar Sharif on April 18,1993. This favor earned him a new immunity. However, his candidacy in the following elections was rejected and he was forced to go into hiding, dividing his time between Pakistan's tribal areas, Afghanistan, and the United Arab Emirates. He was approached by the Americans (with Benazir Bhutto herself acting as intermediary), who allegedly promised him a lenient sentence most likely in recognition of "services" he provided during the war in Afghanistan. In the end he accepted to go to the United States.
Numerous observers believe that Haji Ayub's arrest reveals ulterior motives on the part of Nawaz Sharif. The move violates international norms according to which a person should not be judged twice for the same crime. But these observers suggest that Nawaz Sharif may hope to use Haji Ayub's testimony to implicate Benazir Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, imprisoned on corruption charges since October 1996, and Rehmat Shah Afridi, director of the Frontier Post, a newspaper favorable to the opposition, who was arrested in April 1999. Arrest warrants were issued for Haji Ayub and a half-dozen members of his family in July 1995 by a special court in Peshawar, which also called for the seizure of Haji Ayub's assets, estimated at $2.7 million. The case has dragged out in the courts aver since, which observers attribute mainly to the resources at the defendants' disposal. Some think the charges may one day be dismissed by the statute of limitations.
shimatoree
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semirza
The issue this raises is monumental.
A superpower ends up having an accused on their DEA list as President of the most strategic and crucial country.
Imagine the reason as to why Zardari's policies are what they are and why ?
I am stunned! Dazed by the number of pages that have been written on Zardari and his atrocities. Not even one word of praise that I have found, all negative.
The cyber world is talking about Mr. Zardari his heroine smuggling and money laundering. If we add two chances before and the ongoing now of corruption than it all fits nicely. Anyway I am still on the lookout for some crucial evidence.
My head bows low having a President who is on DEA list. As if a reputation of Mr.10% was not enough.......
shimatoree
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Please check your mail.
No doubt, zardari is controversial personality, and may be many corruption charges true, but
This media and targeted compaign is not because of his corruption, it is anti ppp and anti bhutto compaign. If zardari leave ppp and join PML noon or other party, then nobody will be talking about him. we can see many corrupt zardari in other parties, they looted pakistan with both hands but nobody talking about them. Now they are declared heros.
These peoples are always in hunt to find false or true stuff against ppp and bhuttos in international media to progress their anti bhutto propoganda. They don't care how much this can go against interests of pakistan.
(Bhutto dushmani mein yeh kesi bee haad tak ja saktey hein, hum ne es sey bee ziada bhutto dushmani dekhi ha, jab Mr Bhutto apney judicial murder se pehlay jail mein tha aur en logoon ne us ke khalaf raat din aik kar rakha tha, keh kaheen woh bach na jay.
First as a 'suspect' then 'subject to Investigation' and later 'convicted of crime'; sentenced passed not from a court in Pakistan but from abroad.
Such convicts are not a target as made to look like by their propagandists com apologetics but as and when convicted are plain out right criminals.
shimatoree
Member
I am amazed that there are actually people in this world who can extra-polate one person's crimes and speculate that the accusations against that person are some sort of pre-meditated conspiracy against some other party or person.
Oh to bring forth the accusation of money laundering-( and drug trafficking ) against Zardari is somehow in reality an attempt at dishonoring ZAB or BB or PPP is a very fanciful notion.
Read the accusation.
Read against who it is.
Is it so difficult to read what is written ?
Zardar's noble deeds have no bearing on the reputation of Z.A.Bhutto, B.B or even PPP.
Abroad when ever Zardari is mentioned he is rememberd as Mr.10% the nick he has earned all by himself only for his own self.
larki
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now this is a fraud list of Pakistani people dont how true it is but you can have a look maybe the answer you seek is there in the jumbles of the mumbles of back biting.
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