Ramtanu Maitras final note on Osama Bin Laden

Ramtanu Maitras final note on Osama Bin Laden

One final note on Osama bin Laden: 

RMA

Following the state-sponsored assassination of Osama bin Laden, the American media and the American "experts" – none of whom can be accused of  telling even an iota of truth, have targeted Pakistan DG ISI, Ahmed Shuja Pasha for concealing Osama bin Laden's concealed presence in Pakistan. The discussion here begins on that and 

ends there as well.

Now here is a timeline which gives me a different picture altogether:

Reports indicate Osama bin Laden moved into Abbottabad, about 1,000 yards away from the Pakistan Military Academy compex in 2005. 

During the period (2005-2011), Pakistan  had three DG ISI. They are Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ( 2004 -2007), Lt. Gen Nadeem Taj (Oct 2007 – July 2008) and the present DG ISI, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha. 

According to an Indian intell officer: "Kayani, who had done some training courses in the US, is believed to have a wide network of contacts in the US Armed Forces, but he really attracted the attention  of the US' political and military leadership at the time of the Indo-Pakistan military confrontation in 2002 after the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001. 

He was  the  Director-General, Military Operations (DGMO), at that time and the US was reportedly impressed by the cool manner in which he handled the crisis."

Even though Kayani was projected as a highly successful DG of the ISI, facts spoke  otherwise. 

It was during his tenure as the DG of the ISI that the neo Taliban staged a come-back with a bang, the Pakistan Army practically lost control over the Pashtun belt and al-Qaeda  spread its sanctuaries in Pakistani territory.

Kayani was succeeded as the DG of the ISI by Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj, who  a distant relative of  and very close to Musharraf and at the same time known to be a virulently anti-India and anti-US chief of the ISI. 

It was during his tenure as the head of the ISI that the agency started using David Coleman Headley and Munawuur Hussain Rana, of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), for carrying out  terrorist strikes in India.

There is more to Taj and Musharraf. Musharraf, who is now living in London  in a self-enforced exile ( although Pakistani courts have accused him for complicity in the Benazir assassination and may issue an warrant to arrest him) is married to a daughter of a powerful Ahmadiyya sect member. Lt. Gen. Taj is also a member of the same sect. 

One may recall that the British Raj created the Ahmadiyya sect in the 1920s. It is headquartered in Britain and the Brits set up a base in Palestine (Israel) in the 1920s. Reports show that a number of Ahmadiyyas serve, and continue to serve, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) even today. It is evident that the British Raj set up the Ahmadiyyas to a) have their own foot soldiers among the Muslims in the subcontinent and b) to create a rift among the Muslims of the same region. Many other such sects were created by the Raj to keep the colonialism going.

Taj  took over as the DG, ISI, on October 8, 2007, after his promotion to the rank of Lt. Gen. Till then, he served as the Commandant, Pakistan Military Academy,  in Abbottabad ( actually, both Osama and PMS were based in Kakul, which is part of Abbottabad) .

Citing the Indian intell source, Taj was removed from the ISI by Kayani  allegedly under dual pressure from the US as well as China. The removal came in the wake of reports about US concerns and unhappiness over the alleged role of the ISI in the attempt to blow up the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008, and over leakage of information shared by the US intelligence with the ISI to the Afghan  Taliban. 

Then President Bush was reported to have taken up this matter with Prime Minister Yousef Raza  Gilani, when he visited Washington DC in the last week of July ,2008, as well as with Zardari whom he met in the margins of the  UN General Assembly session. 

While removing Taj from the post of DG, ISI, Kayani took care not to create a feeling of humiliation in him by posting him as the  Commander of an important Corps, but as the Corps Commander at Gujranwala he did  not have much to do with Afghanistan or the ongoing military operations in the tribal belt. 

Kayani  removed him from any role in the operations against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.