Imtiaz Ahmed (brigadier)

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Brigadier

Imtiaz Ahmed
Birth nameImtiaz Ahmed
Nickname(s)
Chairman of the Network Television Marketing

Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmed (

engineering officer in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, and former spy, who served as the Director-General of the Intelligence Bureau
from 1990 to 1993.

After a brief time in

military commission was discharged when he was implicated in the Operation Midnight Jackal political scandal in trying to sabotage then-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's administration.[6]

In 2001, Ahmed was convicted by the anti-corruption court when

death of President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, CJCSC Gen. Akhtar Abdur Rahman and other dignitaries in 1988.[8][9][10]

Biography

Imtiaz Ahmed was born into a

Kakul. He decided to attend the Military College of Engineering in Risalpur.: 131 [12] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in civil engineering, and earned a commission as a Second lieutenant (2nd-Lt.) in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers in 1960.: 33 [4]: 131 [12]

His career was largely spent in the Army Corps of Engineers, and he served on the

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 their third war with India.: 35–36 [4] After 1971, Ahmed was directed to attend the staff course at the Command and Staff College in Quetta.: 131 [12]

Due to his cunning and greenish 'feline' eye color, Ahmed was well known by his codename in the ISI as "billa" (the male cat).: 30 [13]

In the late 1970s, he joined the

Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP), involved in running background checks and providing covert security to the technicians working on the power plant.[15] In 1979, he became aware of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 'mole' working as an engineer, who was trying to seek security details on the commercial nuclear power plant for sabotage purposes.[15]

After thoroughly running background checks, Ahmad identified the suspected mole, and that eventually led to '

persona non-grata, and their return to the United States.[15][16]

The details and veracity of this assignment has been criticized in an editorial written in

Pakistan Peoples Party, not working for the KANUPP nuclear power plant as claimed by Ahmed.[17]

Secrecy: policy and secrets

Main articles: Jam Saqi case and Operation Midnight Jackal

In 1980,

Joint Counterintelligence Bureau (JCIB), mainly working in counterintelligence management and overseeing anti-communist operations in Sindh.: 119–122 [18]

In 1981, he began investigating the militant

MRD led by Benazir Bhutto in 1982–85.[17]

From 1983 to 1988, he also monitored the

anti-communist judicial probe that implicated the journalists Jam Saqi and Sohail Sangi, and harboured doubts of foreign funding of the MRD alliance led by Benazir Bhutto.[19] Over this judicial probe, the Communist Party of Pakistan politicians leveled accusations of Ahmed's CI Bureau in Sindh of wrongfully[17] investigating communist Nazeer Abbasi's political ambitions, and whose custody resulted in his death at the hands of the Sindh Police.[17]

In 1986–87,

Akhtar Abdur Rahman became DG ISI: contents [20]

In 1988,

Corps of Engineers on a construction engineering assignment in Risalpur, but his skills of intelligence management and extraction was valuable, so he eventually found a way to secretly serve in the Intelligence Bureau.: contents [22]

In 1989, Brig. Imtiaz, in a secret conversation with

Military Intelligence (MI) to conduct the inquiry in such manner.: 146 [24]

Both Brig. Ahmed and

Shamsur Rahman Kallu.: 146 [24]: conts [14][25]

After his discharge in 1989, Ahmed was reportedly employed by then-Chief Minister of Punjab, Nawaz Sharif, as his Additional Chief Secretary in the Government of Punjab, which he served as until 1990.: 30–31 [26]: 151 [4]

Director of IB (1990–93) and Later work

Main articles: Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan), Network Television Marketing, and Shalimar Television Network

After the

first ministry, Imtiaz Ahmed was re-appointed as the DG Intelligence Bureau .: 124 [27] In 1992, he aided in launching of the Operation Clean-up armed operation to cleanse Karachi of "anti-social" elements, and ultimately targeting the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) once the Jinnahpur conspiracy to partition Karachi from Sindh was unearthed.: 75 [28][29]

After the resignations of Prime Minister Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Ahmed resigned from the directorship of the Intelligence Bureau. He termed his resignation as "on principle" on 19 April 1992.: 29 [30]

In 1997, Ahmed was appointed by Prime Minister Sharif as Director-General of the Federal Investigation Agency but the appointment did not come through.: 38–39 [4] In October 1997, Ahmed took over the chairmanship of Network Television Marketing, appointed by its board of directors amid controversy when NTM's chairman Faisal Sher Jan was fired from the channel.[31]: 38 [4] He chaired the channel until 1999.: 40 [4]

Controversies and allegations

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) secured the plurality after the 1993 Pakistani general election, and Prime Minister Bhutto opened the investigation and inquiry when authorizing the arrest warrants of Imtiaz Ahmed on charges of indulging in illegal activities in 1994.: 159–160 [32] The case against him was marked on the political motives, and he was later released due to lack of evidences.: 159–160 [32]: 9–10 [33]

After the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état by General Pervez Musharraf, the inquiries led by NAB indicted Ahmed on large-scale corruption and misappropriation of funds while serving as the Director of IB, eventually finding him guilty in 2001.[34] He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for corruption, and was released in 2008–09.[34]

On 21 September 2010, Imtiaz Ahmed was again arrested along with Adnan Khawaja, the former chairman of the

Adiala Jail.[35] In a Supreme Court bench headed by then-Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who heard the NRO implementation case, Ahmed was arrested from the court by order of the Supreme Court during the hearing of a case relating to the implementation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).[35]

On 25 September 2010, the Supreme Court eventually released Ahmed as he already had served his time.[36][37][38] His release was given on grounds of his age and medical condition, as he reportedly suffered from coronary artery disease.[35]

Foreknowledge of Bahawalpur incident

Main article:
Death and state funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

In 2009

Commerce Minister and son of Gen. Akhtar Abdur Rahman, had leveled accusations when he reportedly marked: Brig. Imtiaz is the man who encouraged my father to board on the C-130 aircraft which later met an accident. I ask Brig. Imtiaz to explain what led him to play a role in my father's killing, Humayun Akhtar maintained.[39]

Jinnahpur plan controversy

After his release in 2009, Ahmed became an intelligence commentator and gave several television interviews on intelligence management. He revealed that the Jinnahpur conspiracy was fabricated while giving more information on the Operation Midnight Jackal secret funding of political parties against the PPP.[40][41]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Only bean-spilling spooks can tell why". DAWN.COM. 1 September 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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  6. ^ Ahmed, Khaled (28 March 2002) How blameless is the ISI? The Friday Times
  7. ^ Former Pakistan intelligence chief sentenced. BBC, 31 July 2001
  8. ^ Daily The News International 29 August 2009
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  10. ^ Brig Imtiaz's arrest demanded for communist leader's murder, Daily Times, 31 August 2009
  11. ^ Hein Kiessling, Faith, Unity, Discipline: The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, Oxford University Press (2016), p. 104
  12. ^ a b c Ahmad, Imtiaz (2004). National Defence College Journal. National Defence University press.
  13. ^ The Herald. Pakistan Herald Publications. 1991. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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  16. ^ Klasra, Rauf. "How a jilted Karachi woman saved Pak N-programme". The News International. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010.
  17. ^ a b c d Abbasi, Zafar; Editorial, Dawn (1 September 2009). "Only bean-spilling spooks can tell why". DAWN.COM. Islamabad, Pakistan: Dawn Newspapers. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  18. ^ Ahmed, Khaled (2002). Pakistan: The State in Crisis. Vanguard.
  19. ^ Khan, Tahir Hassan (31 August 2009). "The politics of Brigadier 'Billa'" (webarchives). thenews.com.pk. Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan: Tahir Hassan Khan's report at The News International. The News International. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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  26. ^ Hussain, Mushahid; Hussain, Akmal; CPR, Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi (1993). Pakistan: problems of governance. New Delhi, India: Konark Publishers. p. 166. {{cite book}}: |first3= has generic name (help)
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  29. ^ Associated Press. "Details of Brig. (R) Imtiaz Ahmed".
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  34. ^ a b staff writer, staff (31 July 2001). "Former Pakistan intelligence chief sentenced". BBC Pakistan Bureau. BBC. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  35. ^ a b c "Brig (R) Imtiaz released on bail - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 24 September 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  36. ^ "Former Brigadier Imtiaz released from Adiala Jail". Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  37. ^ "Brig. (retd.) Imtiaz Ahmed released - Samaa TV". samaa.tv. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  38. ^ "Brigadier (R) Imtiaz released on LHC orders - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 25 September 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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  40. ^ 'Midnight Jackal' was launched to overthrow Benazir: Imtiaz, Daily Times, 28 August 2009
  41. The News (Pakistan)
    26 August 2009

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