‘Hamid Karzai worked for ISI’
By Amir Mir
10/11/06 "DNA"
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LAHORE: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a former agent of the
Inter-Services Intelligence, when it had its horns locked with
Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan.
“Karzai had been with us during the entire jihad. He was
commissioned with me. Not only him — his brother, his father —
all of them were working with us — I know the whole family,”
claimed a former ISI officer Col (retd) Shuja Khanzada in an
interview.
“They (Karzais) had bases in Peshawar and used to call on me
every week for instructions. Today, the same Karzai is talking
rubbish,” said Khanzada, a member of the Punjab Chief Minister’s
Inspection Team, in an interview with The Post.
Asked about General Musharraf’s recent disclosure that some
former ISI officers were assisting the Taliban, Khanzada said no
serving ISI officer was aiding the Taliban in their insurgency.
“Certain retired officers may have emotional ties with the
Taliban along with whom they fought for 10 years, but they
cannot offer them any tangible help because retired personnel
are not capable of supporting a movement.”
“This appears to be the sequel to the campaign launched by
American media in 1992 when they wanted to clip the wings of the
ISI, which is one of the best intelligence agencies in the
world. The Afghan jihad could never have succeeded without the
ISI”, he added.
The bear trap could never have been laid and the Soviet
superpower could never have been brought to its knees had the
ISI not planned, coordinated and conducted the Afghan resistance
for 10 long years,” said Khanzada.
The ISI defended the world from Soviet expansion. The agency has
shielded Pakistan from threats to our nuclear capability and to
our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Khanzada said.
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