Pakistan, A report
The Binori town mosque, the largest Sunni deobandi educational institution in Pakistan. Its head mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai was the man behind the Taliban. The mosque was established in 1954.
Pakistan first entered the nuclear arena in March 1956, with the creation of the Atomic energy council, which was a governing board, and the Pakistan Atomic energy commission, PAEC.
In 1960 to 1961 the Pakistan institute of nuclear science and technology PINSTECH was completed in Rawalpindi and in 1963 a 5 megawatt light water research reactor was installed there.
In May 1965 Canada agreed to provide a nuclear power plant to be located in Karachi called the Karachi nuclear power project KANUPP.
The Saudi Arabian air force had secretly provided air cover for Karachi during Pakistan’s 1971 war with India.
In 1971 there were only 900 Madrassas in all of Pakistan.
After assuming control of the Pakistani government in December 1971 Bhutto placed the nuclear program under his direct control.
A heavy water natural uranium KANUPP reactor was completed in 1972.
On 20 January 1972 Bhutto secretly met with some of Pakistan’s top scientists and nuclear aides in Multan, he told them he wanted an atomic bomb.
In March 1973 Pakistan and France’s Saint Gobain Nucleaire signed a contract for the basic design for a large reprocessing plant.
1974, Hekmatyar created Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic party) made up of mainly ethnic Pashtuns and he forged close ties with Pakistan’s ISI.
Massoud stuck by Rabbani in Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic society) which was mainly ethnic Tajiks.
A second contract was signed in October 1974 with France’s Saint Gobain Nucleaire. The facility was to be located at Chashma, 120 miles southwest of Islamabad in the north central part of Pakistan. Pakistan had several reactors that might provide material for reprocessing into fissile material despite being under IAEA safeguards. A 500 megawatt reactor was planned, the Chashma reprocessing facility.
In 1975 Pakistan began to acquire the hardware and technology needed for a facility containing high speed centrifuges to separate U-235 from U-238. The key figure in that effort was Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan.
In February 1975 Munir Khan submitted a proposal to Bhutto for an enrichment project which included a centrifuge plant, a uranium mine at Baghalchor in Dera Ghazi Khan, a plant to manufacture uranium hexafluoride and a weapons design program. Research and development work on enrichment technology began under the cover of a false directorate.
Heavy water reactors at Multan and Karachi becoming operational in 1976. Also a team from the PAEC conducted a survey of the Chagai hills region, a remote section of the Baluchistan desert near the Iranian border, and selected the mountain at Ras Koh for a nuclear test site. A geological survey of the area followed to verify there was no ground water and to see if the 2,295ft mountain could handle a 20 kiloton nuclear test. Underground test site created, the first tunnel would be complete in 1980.
The possibility that China would take the uranium that Pakistan purchased from Niger and turn it into nuclear fuel is well as provide the heavy water for the KANUPP reactor was discussed in June 1977 and there was a visit by a Chinese delegation to Pakistan.
General Zia ul-Haq seized power from the Socialist Ali Bhutto, father of Benazir Bhutto.
August 1977 a month after Bhutto was ousted by his military, the French suspended deliveries for the SGN reprocessing plant, after US disclosure to French officials of Pakistan’s nuclear plans.
In June 1978 production of weapons grade plutonium, the SGN contract was terminated but 95% of the blueprints for the reprocessing plant were already provided to Pakistan by the time France backed out of the Chashma contract Pakistan was also pursuing the uranium enrichment path to the bomb.
Khomeini’s victory in 1979 led to the loss of vital US electronics listening stations based in Iran and trained on the Soviet Union. Zia accepted a CIA proposal to locate new facilities in Pakistan.
American intelligence analysts said Pakistan had undertaken a secret program to acquire nuclear weapons.
In 1979 Robert Gallucci at the US State department spoke of Pakistan’s nuclear activities. Meanwhile the French ambassador and embassy first secretary visited Kahuta area in June 1979. The road was blocked by two vehicles, six Pakistanis pulled the diplomats from their car and beat them. Pakistanis ordered the attack to frighten people away from the facility.
Akhtar Abdur Rahman was director general of ISI in Pakistan in 1982. The ISI and CIA secretly collaborated for decades. Zia appointed Akhtar to run ISI in June 1979 and he held the post for eight influential years.
3 July 1979, using intermediaries in Germany and elsewhere to disguise their involvement, CIA officers from near east division began to ship medical equipment and radios to Pakistan where they were passed to Zia’s intelligence service for onward distribution to Afghan guerrillas.
The Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic society) took control of unions in September 1979. The party was founded in 1941, it was a Leninist revolutionary approach to Islamic politics.
On 21 October 1979 Zia announced his intention to establish an Islamic order in Pakistan.
On 6 November 1979 in Islamabad Iranians draped their embassy with a banner denouncing the US and calling for a global Islamic uprising against the US superpower. Leftist students on campus also denounced America.
Within a month of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on 26 December 1979, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia for Pakistan. There he met up with Afghan leaders Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf.
Within a year of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan about one million Afghan refugees had fled to Pakistan. Soviet and Afghan secret services ran terrorist operations in Pakistan as far inland as Sind province. The KGB’s Afghan agents set up shop in Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta. They even hijacked Pakistani airlines.
During the 1980′s Pakistan established two facilities with a reprocessing mission. An experimental unit at PINSTECH in Rawalpindi and the nearby “new labs” plutonium extraction plant, possibly capable of extracting 22 to 44 pounds of plutonium a year, weapons grade material.
1981 Kahuta began operations and their were certain illegal export activities. Pakistan was developing a nuclear explosives capability and Pakistan was conducting a program for developing of a triggering package for nuclear explosive devices.
When Howard Hart arrived in May 1981 to take over as CIA chief of station in Islamabad. Intelligence collection to support the secret war in Afghanistan and to discover Pakistan’s nuclear secrets. He left a little over three years later.
Howard Hart ran the CIA’s clandestine program to arm anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan.
By 1983 Pakistan’s ISI, Afghan bureau, employed 60 officers and 300 non commissioned officers and enlisted men.
In 1983 China provided Pakistan with a complete design for a 20 kiloton nuclear weapon, which it had tested at Lop Nur. Pakistan was actively pursuing a nuclear weapons development program. The Kahuta facility was key to Pakistan’s weapons program.
Arrests in 1984, of three Pakistanis who were trying to illegally obtain 50 electronic triggering switches, krytrons, used for atomic bombs.
August 1984 president Reagan sent a letter to Pakistan’s Zia warning of grave consequences if Pakistan enriched uranium beyond 5%. Reagan also sent former deputy CIA director General Vernon Walters to Pakistan several times during the mid 1980′s.
Bin Laden had close relations with Sheikh Umar Abd al-Rahman who went to Pakistan in 1985.
In 1986 cold tests of a nuclear implosion device were conducted at Chaghai hills in Pakistan.
Together with bin Laden, Azzam set up the Afghan service bureau (MAK) in 1984. From 1984 to 1986 bin Laden spent most of his time in Afghanistan, moving to Peshawar in 1986.
1986 bin Laden met up with al-Zawahiri in Peshawar.
1986 to deliver cash to commanders, the CIA also begun to use the hawala system, an informal banking network in the Middle East and south Asia that permits an individual to send money to a small trading stall in say Karachi for instant delivery to a named recipient hundreds or thousands of miles away
Milton Bearden replaced William Piekney as CIA station chief in Islamabad July 1986.
By the summer of 1988 there were about 8,000 official religious schools and an estimated 25,000 unregulated ones, many of them clustered along the Pakistan Afghanistan frontier and funded by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
Bin Laden and associates acted on Azzam’s suggestions in August 1988 and set up a militant g4roup in the western Pakistani city of Peshawar.
1989 the leader of Sudan sent a delegation to Peshawar, al qaeda and Sudan relations.
Disputes erupted among Arab volunteers during mid 1989. The Soviets were gone. Tensions rose between bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam.
24 November 1989, a bomb containing 20 kilos of TNT activated by remote control, killed Azzam and his two sons, while he was on his way to Friday prayers in Peshawar. The attack was carried out by at least six members of the Egyptian family.
Midday 24 November 1989 Azzam arrived to lead Friday prayers at Peshawar Saba-e-Leil mosque. A car bomb detonated near the entrance killing him and his two sons. The crime was never solved. There were more suspects than facts?
December 1989 Pakistani intelligence reached out to bin Laden for money to bribe legislators to throw Benazir Bhutto out of office. ISI officers phones bin Laden in Saudi Arabia and asked him to fly to Pakistan to help organize a no-confidence vote in parliament against Bhutto’s government, to remove her from office. Then bin Laden worked with Pakistani intelligence against Bhutto in Islamabad.
1990 CIA sources reported that Pakistan’s generals had pushed their nuclear program to a new and dangerous level. Pakistan was now nearly in possession of nuclear bombs and the CIA knew it. This meant the end of American military and economic assistance to Pakistan $564 million in aid that year. Mirza Aslam Beg the army chief of staff opened talks in Tehran with the Iranian revolutionary guards about Pakistan nuclear cooperation with Iran. Pakistan could trade bomb making expertise for Iranian oil.
Some activists who were in Peshawar at the time sat the group attached to bin Laden was referred to as al qaeda as early as 1990.
A Pakistani military team went secretly to Washington to lay out an action plan for an early 1990 offensive. The plan included support for a rebel army built around Hekmatyar’s Lashkar-I-Isar or army of sacrifice. Pakistani intelligence had built up this militia force to compete with Massoud’s irregular army in the north. Hekmatyar’s army was becoming the most potent military wing of the ISI backed Muslim brotherhood networks based in Pakistan a force that operated in Afghanistan and also in Kashmir.
BCCI collapsed in 1991 it was used by terrorists.
bin Laden left Saudi Arabia for Pakistan and in april 1991 he sent al Qaeda members to build cells in Saudi Arabia.
The CIA had a few paid agents in Afghanistan tracking down Mir Amal Kasi, the Pakistani who on 25 January 1993 opened fire on CIA employees arriving at the Langley HQ. Kasi killed two and wounded three then he fled back to Pakistan.
Evidence of a North Korean Pakistani nuclear relationship went back to 1997-98 Kim Jong Il and his generals decided to pursue uranium enrichment. 2000 uranium enrichment program.
Adil Charkaoui flew to Pakistan from Canada in 1998 to study Islam, but the Canadian slipped across the Afghanistan border to a barren terrorist training base called Khaldun camp. Also there at the time were Ahmed Ressam of Montreal and Mustapha Labsi.
February 1998 bin Laden issues a joint declaration with the Islamic group al Jihad the Jihad movement in Bagladesh and the Jamaat ul Ulema e Pakistan under the banner of the World Islamic front saying Muslims should kill American civilians anywhere in the world.
23 February 1998 bin Laden formed his alliance, the world Islamic front for the Jihad against Jews and crusaders.
28 May 1998 Pakistan tests nuclear weapons.
August 1998 al Qaeda lost its sanctuary in Pakistan and relocated to Afghanistan.
1999 a UN study said illegal exports from Afghanistan to Pakistan was about $1 billion and from Afghanistan to Iran $140 million. The Taliban’s cut in these was estimated by the world bank at $75 million.
12 October 1999 a covert operation to send 60 Pakistani commandos to Afghanistan to capture or kill bin Laden is aborted when a military coup overthrows Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif.
12 November 1999 a series of attacks involving rockets, explosives and car bombs aimed at US installations in Islamabad. Rockets fired at US, UN offices in Islamabad injuring one person.
2000 Iqbal Akhund. Trial and error. The advent and eclipse of Benazir Bhutto. Oxford UK uni press.
2000 SK Ghosh. Pakistan’s ISI network of terror in India. New Delhi APH publishing corp.
April 2000 a poster circulated in Pakistan showing burning US Indian and Israeli flags and a Kalashmikov to free the world from US control. Al qaeda was seeking revenge by destroying the USD existing order.
2001 attacks by Kashmiri militants may have pushed India and Pakistan close to the nuclear brink.
As late as August 2001 meetings were heldf in Pakistan to discuss the pipeline business. One of these in Islamabad 2 August 2001 Christina Rocca Asian affairs at the State department met the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdyul Salam Zaeef, while negotiations were underway the US was making plans to invade Afghanistan, central Asian gas pipeline
11 September 2001 attacks in the US…
Pakistan, UAE based Saudi born Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, aka, Mustafa Ahmed, coordinated the funding for the 9/11 attacks.
13 October 2001 Pakistani police fire into a crowd of anti-American protesters near an airbase outside Islamabad killing one and injuring several others.
17 October 2001 President Bush directs the release of $50 million in aid to Pakistan bringing the total to $100 million.
19 October 2001 during one of the heaviest days of air strikes UN high commissioner for refugees estimated that 3,500 Afghans crossed the border into Pakistan.
28 October 2001 attack on a church when 6 masked gunmen shot up a church in Bahawalpur killing 15 Pakistani Christians. No group claimed responsibility but various Muslim militants groups were suspected.
Early November 2001 Two Pakistani nuclear scientists under investiation by the US for their links with al qaeda arrived in Burma .
November 2001 – Uranium enrichment plant North Korea. Pakistan’s scientists were the source of instructions on how uranium was enriched.
10 November 2001 bin Laden tells a Pakistani journalist that he possesses nuclear and chemical weapons. He denied knowledge of the anthrax attacks in the US.
12 December 2001 Christian science monitor reports that bin Laden escaped from his mountain hideout in Tora Bora Afghanistan 10 days ago and is in hiding in Pakistan.
18 December 2001 President Bush freezes the assets of two additional groups suspected of supporting terrorism. He says Umnah E-nau a Pakistani based group assisted bin Laden’s efforts to acquire information about nuclear technology. Bush calls Lashkar-e-Tayyaba LeT a stateless sponsor of terror that operates from the Kashmir region.
2002 the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohommad, al qaeda’s head of the military committee commissioned Jayashi-e-Mohammad member Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh to kill Daniel Pearl.
2002 British born Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh’s 2002 role in the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl. It was via email that Omar Sheikh lured Daniel Pearl to his death. The reporter was proimised an interview with Sheikj Mubarik Ali Gilani of Islamic Jamaat-ul-Fuqra.
2002 according to Daniel Pearl Sony corp used a smuggling network in Asia as part of its marketing strategy in the region smuggled electronic items into Pakistan came from Dubai UAE, and the Iranian port of Baidar Abbas.
2002 – Al Qaeda depends on the hawala banking system, whereby funds are transferred without financial or government scrutiny or accountability. Pakistani bankers estimate that the hawala system accounts for $3 billion entering the country each year compared to only $1 billion via the formal banking system. In Pakistan alone there are more than 1,000 hawaladars of which some deals are $10 million.
2002 Daniel Pearl kisnapped while trying to arrange an interview with Gilani. His contact was Imtiaz Siddique. Daniel Pearl went to a restaurant.
2002 Daniel Pearl killed by Jaish I Mohammed (Army of Mohammed) while investigating the ATTA trade in Pakistan. Smuggling was a large part of terrorists funds, merchants set the volume of smuggled goods via the ATTA to Pakistan at 80% of total Pakistani imports. The Karkhano bazaar in Peshawar where 600 merchants mainly from Afghanistan supply goods.
23 January 2002 kidnapping of Daniel Pearl. Armed militants in Karachi. Pakistani authorities received a videotape on 20 February depicting Pearl’s murder. His grave wa found near Karachi on 16 May. Pakistani authorities arrested 4 suspects. Ringleader Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh claimed to have orgaised Pearl’s kidnapping to protest Pakistani subservience to the US and had belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad an Islamist seperatist group in Kashmir. All 4 suspects were convicted on 15 July. Saaed Sheikh was sentenced to death, the others to life imprisonment.
25 January 2002 article by Rana Mubashir in the news Islamabad. 16 Jihadis freed for lack of evidence.
31 January 2002 a group calling itself the National movement for the restoration of Pakistani sovereignty claimed to have kidnapped Daniel Pearl, a reporter for the Wall street journal. The group demands the release of all Pakistani prisoners at Guantanamo bay in exchange for Pearl’s return.
22 February 2002 Pakistani authorities say that Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in January was killed by his captors.
17 March 2002 grenade attack on a church militants threw grenades into the protestant international church in Islamabad during a service attended by diplomatic and local personnel. Five people, two of them US citizens were killed and 46 wounded. The dead Americans were State department employee Barbara Green and her daughter Kristen Wormsley.13 US citizens were among the wounded. The Lashkar-e-Tayyiba was suspected.
30 March 2002 Pakistani authorities aided by CIA and FBI agents capture 35 terror suspects during a raid in Faisalabad and Lahore. Abu Zubaida a key al Qaeda leader is among those captured.
28 April 2002 the Pentagon confirms reports that US troops are helping Pakistani troops track down Taliban and al Qaeda suspects that have crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
8 May 2002 a car bomb exploded near a Pakistani navy shuttle bus in Karachi killing 12 people and wounding 19. 11 of the dead and 11 of the wounded were French nationals. Al qaeda was suspected.
9 May 2002 twelve people were killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb explodes in Karachi. Pakistani and French nationals were killed in the attack.
June 2002 a suicide bomber blew up a truck in front of the US consulate, killing 14 Pakistanis.
13 June 2002 a car bomb explodes outside the US consulate in Karachi killing 12 people and inuring 51 others. Al Qanoon a formerly unknown group claims responsibility for the attack.
14 June 2002 car bombing in Pakistan near the US consulate and the Marriott hotel in Karachi. Eleven people were killed and 51 wounded including one US and one Japanese citizen. Al Qaeda and al-Qanin were suspected.
5 August 2002 gunmen attacked a Christian school attended by children of missionaries from around the world. Six people were killed and a Philippine citizen wounded. A group called al-Intigami al-Pakistani claimed responsibility.
11 September 2002 Ramzi bin al-Shibh was captured by Pakistani police in a shootout in Karachi, later in US custody.
2003 – The strategy of the Silk route, two oil companies, Chase energy and Caspian energy consulting got the go ahead from the governments of Turkmenistan and Pakistan to resume pipeline negotiations. These companies act on behalf of bigger oil corporations whose identity is secret.
Qari Mohammed Iqbal a mosque administrator at Pakistan’s Binori mosque 15 September 2003.
25 December 2003 attempted assassination in Rawalpindi. Two suicide truck bombers killed 14 people as President Musharraf’s motorcade passed through Rawalpindi. An earlier attempt on 14 December caused no casualties. Afghan and Kashmiri militants were suspected. On 6 January 2004 Pakistani authorities announmced the arrest of 6 suspects who were said to be members of Jaish-e-Muhammad.
2 August 2004 – bin Laden who suffers from renal deficiency has been periodically undergoing dialysis in a Peshawar military hospital with the knowledge and approval of Pakistan’s ISI.
October 2005 Bojinka-2 suspects who went to Pakistan did so as volunteers to assist victims of the October 2005 earthquake. They worked for Jamaat al-Dawa the parent organization of Lashkar-e-Tayyba. They worked in Balakot, in the NW frontier province, an area with a strong LeT presence. After they had completed their volunteer worth they visited Ahmed Omar Sheikh, the man who killed Wall street journal reporter Danieal Pearl. The men went to camps in Waziristan run by Jundullah, an al Qaeda linked Jihadi group.
7 October 2005 in Pakistan’s Punjab province three armed men attacked a mosque and killed 8 people.
March 2006 Jundullah who runs camps in Waziristan an al Qaeda linked Jihadi group is suspected of launching a suicide bombing near the Karachi US consulate in March.
March 2006 Pakistan has arrested 8 suspects for their involvement in the March 2006 attack on the US consulate in Karachi that killed US diplomat David Foy and three others. Authorities announced on 18 August 2006 the arrest of 6 people responsible for the attack who they say belonged to the militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad. The 6 suspects were arrested by Pakistani intelligence agents and handed over to police. On 21 August 2006 Pakistani police announced the arrest of two more suspects saying they were members of al qaeda. Anwar-ul-Haq and Usman Ghani. Car used in the March suicide attack 400 pounds of C4. Mastermind Qari Zafar is still wanted and at large.
29 March 2006 a police constable was killed and 18 injured in a motorcycle bomb blast. A 6kg time detonated bomb was attached to a motorcycle in the Khyber bazaar in central Peshawar.
14 July 2006 Allama Hassan Turabi was assassinated by a suicide bomber in front of his home in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal section of Karachi. Turabi was a Shiite Muslim cleric who headed the banned Tehrik-e-Jafaria, TJP.
4 August 2006 – In Pakistan Rashid Rauf was seeking to contact Matiur Rehman who is wanted for the assassination attempt on president Musharraf and has a 10 million rupee bounty on his head. Tayib Rauf aged 21 from St Margarets road Birmingham, brother of Rashid Rauf, a Briton who was arrested in the Punjab the day before the British raids, younger brother Maroof Rauf.
4 August 2006 – Rashid Rauf suspected ringleader of the plot to blow up flights out of London’s Heathrow airport. Plot linked to Afghanistan and bin Laden. Rauf a British citizen was held last week in Pakistan moves are underway to extradite him to the UK. The plot was believed to have originated with al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Rauf spent time in Lahore with members of al-Muhajiroun. Members of the group were in Pakistan doing welfare work with earthquake victims.
Rauf was arrested in the eastern city of Bahaualpur Pakistan 4 August 2006.
13 August 2006 at least one of the suspects arrested in the district of Walthamstow east London regularly attended Islamic camps run by Tablighi Jamaat, an organization used as a recruiting ground for al Qaeda. Linked to the plot to blow up airlines out of Heathrow.
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