I bought politicians in Rs 70m: Asad Durrani

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Former chief of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani has submitted documents to the Supreme Court including a list of officers alleged to have illegally distributed money to politicians in the 1990 elections.
A three-member bench of the SC, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, has taken up a 1996 petition of Tehrik-i-Istiqlal chief Air Martial (retd) Asghar Khan who accused the ISI of financing politicians in the 1990 elections by dishing out Rs140 million to create the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) and prevent Benazir Bhutto’s PPP from winning the polls.
Durrani was asked by the court to submit the list he had promised containing the names of ISI officials involved in the operation to substantiate the doling out of funds among different politicians.
Submitting his written reply in the Supreme Court pertaining to distribution of money among the politicians to influence general elections against PPP, Asad Durrani stated that he had received money from the then Army Chief Mirza Aslam Baig.
The former chief spy claims that the names of politicians were obtained from the Presidency through Ijlal Haider Zaidi, a member of then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s election team, while the “donations” were doled out to the politicians at the directions of then Army Chief Mirza Aslam Beg.
The money was distributed on the behest of former president Ghulam Ishaq Kahn as he had appointed Jalal Haider Zaidi for this purpose.
Durrani claimed that some Rs 70m out of the Rs 140m were distributed through him while the remaining amount was submitted to the ISI’s secret funds. Durrani further said that all the officers who had distributed the funds belonged to the Military Intelligence (MI).
The apex court is to take up the case again in its next hearing on July 30.

10 COMMENTS

  1. Where was he years ago,why now,why 22 years later when the elections are right around the corner.Somebody from PPP had to have had a talk with this guy.Now he wants to throw all those people under the bus.

  2. he came late but on correct time. Respect him and others who clarify them self. and portray the real faces of bloody politicians who said we didnt receive any amount from secret funds. but history proves that they are selfish, dont have any agenda and country interest they have only one interest how to make money from this system

    • You are right about the politicians but have (perhaps conveniently?) ignored the corrupters – Mirza Aslam Baig and his coterie of generals determined to predetermine the elections by using criminally extorted money from a bank and distributing via the secret agencies – both MI and ISI.

  3. point is not who kept what amount. the crux is the "democratic" politicians are not only corrupt once they are in power but they are also morally corrupt and can be bought for few rupees! Thats their reality. Its good time all should be named and shamed and if the parties still hold them as leaders then we know what they stand for! Before next election these faces should be named and punished!

    Pakistan Zindabad

  4. I appreciate General Durrani for speaking the truth. I am sure he would have done so if called to do so earlier.
    What was the all powerful Roedad Khan, a close associate of GIK doing at that point in time? Would he also be bold enough to cough up reality?

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