Durrani says Beg was in on everything

Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Asad Durrani has said that ex-Army chief Mirza Aslam Beg had been onboard since the beginning of the distribution of money among selected politicians through erstwhile Mehran Bank.
In the rejoinder to the affidavit filed by Beg in Asghar Khan case, Durrani accused his former boss of involvement in the operation since its beginning. Durrani said that Beg used to issue instructions in this regard, and proper feedback was provided to him about the progress made.
He said that the order to fund anti-PPP parties was legal, as it came through proper channel and his role as ISI head could only be revealed in-camera. “The ISI is accountable to the president, the prime minister, services chiefs among others, but the army chief holds more influence than others on it. The fake bank accounts were opened in the name of personnel of military intelligence,” the former ISI chief said.
On the other hand, Beg had denied his involvement in the distribution of funds among politicians in his reply submitted to the Supreme Court
on May 9.
Beg said he was not involved in the disbursement of donations ordered by late president of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan, and that he merely possessed knowledge of the accounts or of the disbursement of money.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is hearing a petition filed by Air Marshal (r) Asghar Khan some 16 years ago against the distribution of millions of rupees by the ISI among Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) rivals to manipulate the 1990 elections. The amount was allegedly disbursed by then army chief General (r) Mirza Aslam Beg, former director general of the ISI Lt General (r) Asad Durrani, and defunct Mehran Bank chief Younis Habib.