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Militants release video of former ISI officers

let them enjoy the party

Sorry Imran Bhai this comment is very stupid. Those guys served the country and put their lives at risk to serve it with their blood.

You may disagree with their actions and views. thats fine. But They went to Afghanistan and trained the Afghans on the orders of the Pakistani govn't. In military there's listen and obey rule. So We must respect them b/c they have represented Pakistan. so criticize the rulers who sent them, not the poor jawans.
 
To be honest with you, I do not believe this. No way in hell would such guys get caught in such a manner by their students. But anything is possible.

Maybe Hamid Gul should dress up as Rambo and go find them and retrieve them. Now that would be funny.
 
It is entirely possible that these two are just staying over as guests and playing an act to get their chums released from the custody of the Government of Pakistan. They are Taliban sympathizers, might as well try and get their friends released.

Nonetheless no negotiation necessary.
 
Militants set deadline for release of comrades

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Release video statements of detained officers

By Mushtaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR: A previously unknown militant group, Asian Tigers which had claimed the kidnapping of two former intelligence officers and a journalist, on Monday released a video-tape and threatened to kill the two retired military officials if the government did not release three Afghan Taliban commanders within 10 days.

The purported militant group released video statements of the two former intelligence officers, Ameer Sultan alias Col (retd) Imam and Squadron Leader (retd) Khalid Khwaja and journalist, Asad Qureshi.

In the video, which was also delivered to The News on Monday morning, Col Imam first introduced himself and then claimed that he had come to Waziristan on the advice of former army chief, Gen (retd) Mirza Aslam Baig. He said he had served the Army for 18 years and worked in intelligence branch for 11 years.

Khalid Khwaja, who is now a lawyer and chairman of the Defence for Human Rights, said he served Pakistan Air Force for 18 years and the intelligence unit for two years. He said he had come to Waziristan on the advice of former intelligence chief Lt-Gen Hameed Gul, Gen (retd) Aslam Beg and Col Sajjad of the intelligence unit. It seemed he was reading a written statement handed to him by his kidnappers as at some point he appeared looking down to a piece of paper to read the name of Col Sajjad.

His family members said there was no truth in what the aged Khalid Khwaja stated in the video. “They have taken this statement from my father at gunpoint,” explained Osama, son of Khalid Khwaja, who called this scribe from Rawalpindi.

He said before leaving for Waziristan to work on the documentary, his father had held a meeting with Gen (retd) Aslam Beg and Lt-Gen (retd) Hameed Gul, but he had not informed them about his departure. The third person in the video was journalist Assad Qureshi.

He said: “My name is Asad Qureshi. I am a British citizen. Please help and set me free. I am being detained by Asian Tigers.” In an email to this scribe, the spokesman for this previously unheard militant organisation admitted that Khalid Khwaja and Col Imam were in Taliban custody.

“We demand the release of all Taliban leaders and others Mujahideen, including Mulla Biradar, Mansoor Dadullah and Maulvi Kabir. We will send a list of other Mujahideen we want to free within few days,” the spokesman added. He said they had set 10-day deadline for the government to release ‘Mujahideen’ or else they would kill the officers or take any other decision.

Another militant commander of the Punjabi Taliban called this scribe from an undisclosed location and felt a group holding the three high-profile men might not mention its real name apparently due to pressure from other major militant groups in the region. He said former Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam MNA from Karak, Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz had already reached North Waziristan to locate people associated with the Asian Tigers group and negotiate release of the three people. He said militant organisations sometime kidnapped important people but sell them to another group due to pressure from mainstream Taliban groups in the area.

Though neither the militants nor the abducted persons stated in detail about the place in Waziristan where the three men were held, Taliban sources said they were kidnapped from North Waziristan and shifted to a secret location probably in the adjoining South Waziristan tribal region.

The three men went missing in North Waziristan on March 26. They were reportedly working on a documentary on the Taliban in the region.
 
Well we Give them Bodies of the ones they demand they give us the bodies of hostages fair Trade.
 
“We demand the release of all Taliban leaders and others Mujahideen, including Mulla Biradar, Mansoor Dadullah and Maulvi Kabir.

Enough said and already speculated...Now who is the captor?...:wave:..foreign hand ???
 
well I am confused

Asian Tigers? Tamil Tigers

I smell ***
has any body wondered
whats point of release of Talib commanders when we all know Its Talib tradition that the released prisoners are never given same place in Talib Ranks

now do some research and see who and who want them(col Imam and Khalid Khawaja) dead or suffer and u will know who kidnapped them
 
Yesterday in the show crises cell Gen. Ret Hamid Gul denied talking to the 2 gentlemen before their departure to the areas. And came to know about the kidnapings appx 5-9 days after it had happen (the reason I wrote 5-9 is that i dont remember the exact number of days he mentioned).
 
DAWN

PESHAWAR: A little known militant group acknowledged on Monday that it was holding two former ISI officers, Colonel (retd) Imam (Sultan Amir) and Squadron Leader (retd) Khalid Khwaja and threatened to execute them if its demands were not met within 10 days.

An email sent along with the video footage demanded the release of senior Taliban leader Mullah Baradar, Mullah Mansoor Dadullah and Maulavi Kabir.

The group calling itself Asian Tigers, an unusual name for a militant group in Pakistan, is also reported to have demanded a $10 million ransom for journalist Asad Qureshi who also has been missing along with the two retired ISI officers.

In the video clip, Col (retd) Imam is heard saying that his real name is Sultan Amir (Tarar) and he served in the Pakistan Army for 18 years, 11 of them in the Inter Services Intelligence.

“I had consulted with Gen Aslam Beg (former army chief) about coming here,” Col Imam said.

Squadron Leader (retd) Khalid Khwaja said he had served in Pakistan Air Force for 18 years and in the ISI for two years.

“I came here on the prodding of Gen Hameed Gul, Gen Aslam Beg and ISI’s Col Sajjad,” Khalid Khwaja was heard as saying in the video.

Both held a copy of a Peshawar-based Urdu newspaper while recording their statement before the camera.

In the video, the group called itself “Asian Tigers” and said the hostages would be killed if its demands were not met within 10 days.

The group said (exact words taken from email in English): “Khalid Khwaja and Col Imam in Taliban custody. Both ISI persons are enemy of Islam and Muslims. We demand released all Taliban leaders, Mullah Brother (Baradar), Mullah Mansoor Dadullah and Mullah Kabir. We will send list of other mujahideen within a few days. Ten days time, if government not released mujahideen, then we will kill ISI officers or other decision.”

The email did not say anything about the British-born journalist.

Gen Hameed Gul and Gen Aslam Beg could not be contacted for comments.

Col Imam was Pakistan’s Consul General in Kandahar during the Taliban rule and had developed close ties with the militia.

His real name is Amir Sultan Tarar and it is believed that Imam was his cover name while on an assignment in Afghanistan. He continued to maintain close relations with the Taliban and became one of their outspoken supporters, advocating their cause in the media. Khalid Khwaja came to prominence when he took up the cause of missing persons in the Supreme Court. He formed the Defence of Human Rights, a platform he used to highlight the issue of missing persons.

It is reported that the former ISI officers had used their contacts with some Taliban to prepare a documentary with journalist Asad Qureshi.

According to published accounts of their journey they spent a night at the residence of former JUI-F parliamentarian Shah Abdul Aziz, an ardent supporter of Taliban.

They spent a night with another former parliamentarian, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, who has been pleading the case of former militants in government custody. The three had tea at his place before leaving for Bannu on way to North Waziristan.

Shah Abdul Aziz told reporters he had warned the group against travelling to the tribal region, but they said there was nothing to worry about because the trip had been properly organised.

It was reported that the group had boarded a passenger coach and persuaded its driver to take an unfrequented route to avoid security check posts. Nothing has been reported beyond that point.
 
Is Christmas coming early this year?? :)

Col Imam and Khalid Khawaja have been known sympathizers of the TTP. While the former was a mentor to Mullah Omar and his gang of thugs, KK has been openly supporting Al Qaeda and TTP. He publicly spoke on behalf of the Salafi TTP thugs in Swat in 2009, after having rooted for the Lal Masjid terrorists in 2007.

Not suprisingly, the two are best buddies with Hamid Gul(another TTP supporter) and Aslam Beg(also known for his pro-jihadi leanings) and have been known to take direction from the latter.

Interestingly, all these scumbags including Aslam Beg have one thing in common. They were all put on a US-sponsored terrorist designate list that was forwarded to the UN and the Pakistani Government in 2008.

Moreover, as the report indicates, the two ex-officers stayed with Shah Abdul Aziz who was implicated in the beheading of the Polish engineer, and was arrested while driving out of the residence of Abdul Aziz(the Lal Masjid thug cleric) with another known TTP terrorist in 2009 - he was later released on bail.


Clearly, the swine running the TTP would not hold their mentors and sympathisers hostage. And if it was simply a ruse, the group would not use a unknown pseudoynm.

Which leads me to believe that this 'militant group' may actually be one of the good guys! The group might actually be gunning for the TTP and their ex-military cronies like Khalid Khawaja and Col. Imam - and about time too.

Traitors like Khalid Khawaja and Col. Imam need to face the music for collaborating with enemies of the state. Its too bad Hamid Gul did'nt tag along for the trip - wishful thinking?
 
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Shah Abdul Aziz - The Terrorist MNA

News Jang Group - 2009

It was quite astonishing and shocking for the security forces when couple of months ago they stopped Shah Abdul Aziz, a letter from Baitullah Mehsud was present in his car and he was travelling with a known terrorist. Now as arrests have been made by the security forces, many shocking revelations have come to the surface.

According to the media reports, a member of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Atta Ullah Khan, who was arrested from Sabzi Mandi, Islamabad, confessed he, along with his accomplices, killed more than 50 people, including security forces personnel, government employees and a Polish engineer on the directives of former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz. Atta Ullah said that he had assisted in over 15 suicide attacks and was involved in several incidents of target killings. The Basal police station arrested the accused and presented him before the Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi Judge Baqir Ali Rana, who sent Abdul Aziz on three-day judicial remand.

Shah Abdul Aziz must not be spared and he is the key to break the network of terrorists which connects the terrorists from the North Waziristan to the settled areas of Pakistan. His political links must also be probed and especially those who gave him ticket for the elections.
 

Anthony Loyd, Rawalpindi
Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s jacket and a turban.

As a top agent for the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, Colonel Imam recruited, trained and armed almost every one of Afghanistan’s prominent insurgents and warlords during the 1980s. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Ahmed Shah Massoud and Jalaluddin Haqqani were all his charges or colleagues at one time.

“I have the Green Beret,” Colonel Imam smiled, recalling the US special forces qualification gained in Fort Bragg in 1973. “But I think this Taleban beret is better.”

He escorted Charlie Wilson, the Texan congressman who funnelled millions of dollars to the Mujahidin, into Afghanistan three times and once took the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, then the CIA’s Deputy Director, to a Mujahidin camp near the border. But his closest relationship was with Mullah Omar, the Taleban’s fugitive leader, whom he taught to fight and survive, and to bring down one superpower and tie down another, over 30 years of war.

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“He’s a very wise man,” the Colonel remarked of his former student. “The peace of his nation is a supreme requirement but . . . it can only come with the liberation of the area. He should stick to that. He has no means to throw the Americans out but he can tire the Americans.

“[The Taleban] will not be tired. They are used to it. They are fighting addicts who will be happy to keep fighting. America will be tired ultimately. They are already tired. They may get tired like the Soviet Union.”

Colonel Imam, now 65, is scathing about both the US military surge and Britain’s initiative to buy off biddable Taleban elements. “Every senior officer knows it is a mistake to reinforce the error, to put more fuel on the fire of failure. And the bribe strategy is a shameless job for the British.

“Gordon Brown devised it. It’s wrong and dirty. It might have been effective in 2002, 2003, when [the Taleban] weren’t clear as to their future and were disillusioned. Not today.”

He insisted that only direct dialogue between the Afghan authorities and Mullah Omar himself, without the interference of the Americans, could end the conflict — along with the withdrawal of Nato forces. “Dialogue is the deadliest weapon against them ... [The Afghans] should compromise on their stances and the occupation forces should say goodbye. But they should rehabilitate as they go, so that people don’t remember them as enemies.”

Key to the strategy outlined by Colonel Imam was the fate of al-Qaeda. “If he’s given a free hand Mullah Omar will be able to harness the al-Qaeda people,” he suggested. “He wouldn’t want to pollute the situation. He will segregate them and he’ll see what should be their disposal. No other leader can do it.”

Colonel Imam, whose real name is Amir Sultan Tarar, was chosen for the job of running Mujahidin training and operations by the ISI because of his skills and US military experience. At one time he had 200 specialist staff who put as many as 95,000 Mujahidin through US-funded camps during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

It was in one of these camps in 1985 that he met Mullah Omar. He and his comrades were being taught the skills of insurgency and being trained in bomb-making, ambush techniques and intelligence gathering.

Colonel Imam frequently accompanied and directed Mujahidin teams inside Afghanistan against the Russians and it was he who later sent Mullah Omar back to Karachi for treatment when he was wounded and lost an eye.

They saw each other again in Kandahar in 1994. The Soviets were long gone and Afghanistan was in the grip of civil war. Mullah Omar had been appointed “Emir” of the Taleban.

Colonel Imam, still a serving officer, was by then Consul-General in Herat. Colonel Imam’s critics allege that he was the senior Pakistani ISI officer who backed and directed the Taleban’s subsequent ascent to power.

“That claim is exaggerated,” he responded. “I didn’t have to advise Mullah Omar. He had a lot of experience. But I’d drop by and have a cup of tea with him. Naturally . . . then we’d talk about the situation also.”

Some Afghan intelligence figures have suggested that Colonel Imam still maintains his relationship with the Taleban, as a key figure among a renegade group of ISI officers.

“Why should I go to Afghanistan now?” he mused. “The whole world would know I was there. I wouldn’t want to create a problem for them.

“Besides, the Taleban are doing a better job than me. They’re teaching the ISI and CIA a few things too.”

Indeed, Colonel Imam insists that he has not seen the Taleban’s supreme leader since the autumn of 2001, as American bombs dropped on Kandahar. “The bombing started and I was recalled back [to Pakistan]. I said goodye to him and said, ‘If you want I can remain with you’. He said, ‘No, go back and pray for us’. I’m praying for them.”

Back in Pakistan, Colonel Imam immediately got into a furious row with Pervez Musharraf, the President at the time, over Pakistan’s sudden cessation of support for the Taleban after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

“I told him, ‘I spent 18 years with them and they cannot be defeated’,” Colonel Imam recalled. “He told me I didn’t know what a superpower was. But I’d just seen one crumble in front of me across the border and cease to exist. It hadn’t been the support of the Americans that had done that, but conviction in their cause.”

The subsequent war has served as an epitaph for the final vestiges of the Colonel’s relationship with America.

When Charlie Wilson died this month the Pakistani officer avoided his funeral. “The man was not a friend,” he said. “Otherwise I would have sold my jacket and at least gone over there, seen his grave and come back. But he used us. All Americans used us. They hijacked our problems and left us to the dogs.”

Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Taleban beret is better’ - Times Online
 
Asian Tigers, lol. What is this, a Van Damme movie.

this is is all farse
these two criminals are responsible for the religious monsters they created in Pakistan & they fully support the most violent & anti human version of faith of taliban

they must have gone in hiding to prement any move from the goverment. who knows. they have opnely glorified the mass killers and now those fanatics have abducted them?
doesnt make sense
maybe is the gorverment agencies who have planned all this to eliminate them but then again why all this drama?

but yes I wont shed a shingle tear if these taliban sympathisers are killed and their beheaded bodies are dispatched.


they went beyond what their job demanded of them this had nothing to do with Pakistan Army. their actions were against the national security of Pakistan so they are criminals and should be dealt like that.

it is known fact that violent taliban sypathisers had inflitrated ISI & other goverment institutions & ran their own showon the field.
that is why there was a mass cull of all these fanatic sympathisers during the Musharaf rule.
 

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