Javed Nasir
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Javed Nasir was Director General Inter Services Intelligence from March 14, 1992---May 13, 1993. When he became a Major Gen. in 1983, he was the first General with full grown beard (an Islamic Tradition) against army regulations and thus broke the Taboo and tradition of clean shaved generals only in the Pakistan Army.
In 1998, he was appointed as Incharge to clean up the Ojhri Camp. Against the estimated period of six months given by US and French Experts by setting a personal example of handling the highly sensitive blinds with his own hands, he motivated his team to clean up the entire dump containing millions of blinds in record period of just 15 days without suffering a single casualty. Lt. Gen. on 24th Sep, 1991. He was appointed DG, ISI on 14th March, 1992 .His first major role would be bringing all the warring factions of the Afghan Mujahideen to agree to the Peshawar Accord and successfully installed the Mujahideen’s first Government under Mujadadi in Kabul.
It is also alleged that he helped supply of arms to the besieged Bosnians, he successfully airlifted sophisticated anti tank guided missiles which turned the tide in favour of Bosnian Muslims and forced the Serbs to lift the siege.
He thus became the target of US, Indian & secular lobbies both inside and outside Pakistan. Later over 300 articles on the internet in the western media including the official Foreign Affairs Journal of US containing references dubbing him as the only radical Islamist DG, ISI who was an active member of the Tablighi Jamaat and has had the greatest influence on the rank and file of the army. In April 1993 US Government finally warned Pakistan Government in writing to remove the General as ISI’s head failing which Pakistan was threatened to be declared a terrorist state. It was therefore at the behest of the US Government’s official demand that he was prematurely compulsorily retired from service by the Care Taker Government of Mir Balakh Sher Mazari on 13th May, 1993.
In July of 1997, he became Chairman of the Evacuee Trust Property Board. An organization which since its inception in 1960 had generated a total revenue of only Rs. 1.17 billion in 37 years of its existence whereas the complainant raised a revenue of 1.225 billion in the four years stint he had up to July 2001, thus exceeding the total revenue that this department had earned in 37 years. But during his tenure there he learnt the free hand RAW (Indian Intelligence) had been having since 1948 in the manipulation and control of the Sikh Pilgrims during the four religious functions which Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) used to arrange. Within first year as Chairman ETPB he took control from the infiltrators. He had the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PGPC) constituted in April 1999 which was given the responsibility of the maintenance and upkeep of the Sikh Gurdawaras and holding of Sikh holy functions. The Gurdwaras in Pakistan had deliberately been left to deteriorate by Sharomani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) so that subsequently this could be exploited to whip up propaganda by throwing the blame on Pakistan in order to create hatred and mistrust between the Sikhs and Muslims of Pakistan. Currently the SGPC only controls the clearance, nomination and conduct of the Sikh Pilgrims for the annual visits to Pakistan, whereas the Gurdwara’s renovation, repair, renovated and face lift is under Pakistani Domain. New living blocks with modern toilet facilities were added – visa and travel restrictions were eased.
He has written over 100 articles. His pro Islam, anti US and anti India stance has created a very large readership in Pakistan and abroad. He symbolizes the institutions of practicing Muslims through his association with Tablighi Jamaat, a threat which US has officially declared in 1990 to its national security. By 11 AM on 25th August the tabloids carrying the head line of the he fled the country with Rs3.00 billion had appeared all over the country. Through internet it had reached every part of the globe. But it was not true as he was in Pakistan and no such case was set against him. None the less he sued the press including the government.The ‘News’ report which was run as the front page 7 column headline dated 24th August 2002, stating therein that the General had embezzled Rs. 3.00 billion and fled, he learnt about it through a telephone call which was followed by thousands of telephone calls from all over Pakistan and world including England & USA. This news item had placed the entire Tablighi Jamaat under siege the membership of which runs into millions. To avoid further disarray he gave an interview on the TV the same night in which he said,
- the news allegations were totally false, blatant white lies, malicious and mendacious, concocted fabrication to defame, discredit not only to humiliate me but also the entire Islamic population and the Tableeghi Jamaat whose feelings were grossly hurt. They did not bother to check that even by their own grossly exaggerated figures the total does not reach Rs.2.00 billion yet they made me flee with Rs. 3.00 billion. The entire report manifests a highly arrogant attitude of a few terrorists garbed as Journalists indulging in yellow journalism, intoxicated with the self professed belief that they enjoy total immunity and can blackmail, defame and terrorize any one without any fear of any punishment. In three of the eight cases cited, the areas and the places given are wrong. How negligent was the attitude of the accused can be gauged from the fact that a similar defamatory report was run on the front page of ‘News’ dated 15th April 2002 while I was on Tableeghi Mission for seven months in Malaysia from Dec 2001 to June 2002. The department (Ministry of Minority & Youth Affairs) on its own had issued a rebuttal which was published on page 3 of the ‘News’ dated 16th April 2002 correcting the wrong impression given in that news item and stating that I had not run away from the country but gone on Tablighi Mission and also giving details of the checks in the procedure of sales in the disposal of trust properties. It appears that accused did not bother to even read it and verify the allegations which were subsequently published in 'News' of 24th August 2002. Down with bad stomach on 22nd and 23rd August, I remained bed ridden with telephone next to me. The accused did not bother to check even on the telephone if I was inside the country or abroad.
After this the government abandoned its investigations against the General and the matter came to a close.
