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Global Terror Infrastructure and Implications for India continues...
Beg along with his partners, Sohail Butt (brother-in-law of Nawaz Sharif) and Shaukat Ali Bhatti, were elected members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly on the ticket of Islamic Jahmuri Ittehad (IJI), a political party formed by an ISI Chief General Hamid Gul. Nawaz Sharif maintained close association with Beg and helped him acquire denationalized industrial units including the Muslim Commercial Bank where he (Sharif) is a benami partner.
Beg continued to nurture his ties with the Pakistani premier and simultaneously funded election of Mehraj Khalid of PPP who later became Chief Minister of Punjab. Beg thus remained loyal to both Sharif and Benazir. After the fall of Benazir’s Government, he was charge-sheeted for narcotic drugs smuggling. However, his close association with Sharif got him released on bail. That was the last one heard of him.
These are some of the many instances of the drug syndicate’s control over Pakistan politics. There are hundreds of political leaders into drug business in Pakistan. The very fact that South West Asia (Pak-Afghan) is the biggest supplier of heroin the international market and that Pakistan earns billion of dollars from export of refined heroin, substantiates that the narcotic drugs trade goes on under the nose of government law enforcement agencies. Since Pakistani political leaders are beneficiaries of the international drug trade, it is not possible to keep intelligence and army away from the political scene, especially in the light of the fact that these two play a significant role in Pakistan politics.
A noted American scholar, Selig Harrison, has aptly said that Pakistan has ten ‘Noriegas’ (Noriega was Panama’s Drug Lord Head of State, now deposed and in US jail) who are very high up in the military.
Hawala Operations in India
The need to track the sources for funding terrorism was realized way back in 1986 when the UN General Assembly for the first time drafted a Convention against Recruitment, Use, Finance, and Training of Mercenaries in 1986. This convention was adopted without a vote on 4 December 1989.
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