#Faiz Hameed

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Pakistan’s ruling coalition hails arrest of former ISI chief Faiz Hameed in connection with a housing scheme scandal

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s ruling coalition has hailed the arrest of former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd.) Faiz Hameed in connection with a housing scheme scandal but jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party decided to stay neutral and termed it the army’s “internal matter”. Hameed served as the director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 2019 to 2021, when Khan was prime minister and was…

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पाकिस्तान में आईएसआई का पूर्व प्रमुख फैज हमीद गिरफ्तार, हाउसिंग स्कीम घोटाले में कोर्ट मार्शल की तैयारी

Pakistan News: पाकिस्तान की खुफिया एजेंसी इंटर सर्विसेज इंटेलिजेंस (आईएसआई) के पूर्व प्रमुख फैज हमीद को हिरासत में लिया गया है। सेना ने यह कार्रवाई हाउसिंग स्कीम घोटाले के सिलसिले में की है। पाकिस्तानी सेना की जनसंपर्क शाखा ने कहा, ‘यह कदम पाकिस्तान के सुप्रीम कोर्ट के आदेशों के अनुपालन में उठाया गया है। लेफ्टिनेंट के खिलाफ दर्ज शिकायतों की सत्यता का पता लगाया जाएगा। फिलहाल लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल फैज…

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American philosopher Ralph Emerson once asked a heart-wrenching question:

"How much of human life is lost in waiting?"

And the stalwarts of Urdu poetry Jaun Elia, Parveen Shakir and Faiz Ahmed Faiz expressed the agonizing feeling of waiting for someone who is never coming back through their poetry:

Jaun Elia wrote:

Woh jo na aane waala hai na us se mujh ko matlab tha aane waalo se kya matlab aate hai aate honge.

Parveen Shakir Wrote:

Woh na aayega hame malum tha is sham bhi Intezaar uska magar kuch soch kar karte rahe.

And Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote:

Na jaane kis liye ummeedwaar baitha hu Ek aisi raah per jo teri rahguzar bhi nahi.

And I felt like being stuck in time where every moment feels long filled with some hope and the worry that the person I'm waiting for may never return.

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Andrew Korybko

Sep 10, 2024

The Establishment fears the power of the Pakistani people.

Tens of thousands of PTI supporters peacefully rallied alongside their MPs outside of Islamabad on Sunday for former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s release from jail, where he’s been held for over a year already on dubious and in some cases outright ridiculous charges. The security services then arrested at least a dozen party leaders the next day, including some MPs from the premises of Parliament itself, in what PTI described as “a slap to the face of an already decimated democracy”. Here’s what it all means:

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1. PTI Lives On Despite Nearly 30 Months Of Repressions

The abductions, torture, state persecution, and even in some cases assassination of opposition members like journalist Arshad Sharif since April 2022’s US-backed post-modern coup haven’t destroyed PTI, which remains intact and is still genuinely popular as proven by Sunday’s peaceful rally. This speaks to the continued appeal of their anti-corruption and pro-sovereignty message. It also shows that people are increasingly fed up with the ruling PMLN-PPP duopoly and their powerful military-intelligence backers.  

2. Hearts & Minds Were Always The Establishment’s To Lose

The Establishment, which in the Pakistani context refers to its powerful military and intelligence services that run the country behind the scenes, is responsible for society’s polarization. None of the abovementioned repressions would have happened without their approval. They’re hellbent on keeping PTI out of power due to an understanding that they reached with their American counterparts. The resultant policy of “state terror” irreparably lost countless hearts and minds to their cause.

3. The US Predictably Turned A Blind Eye To This Crackdown

The most that the US will do in response to the latest crackdown is repeat platitudes about democracy and the rule of law due to the aforesaid understanding that they reached with the Pakistani Establishment, which became obvious after the de facto imposition of martial law in May 2023. The Intercept also proved last year that Pakistan sold arms to Ukraine as a quid pro quo for IMF aid. PTI activists therefore shouldn’t get their hopes up about the US dumping its Pakistani toadies.

4. The Establishment Fears The Power Of The Pakistani People

PTI is the only force capable of mobilizing a broad swath of the Pakistani people, whose combined efforts in the form of peaceful rallies and other manifestations are feared by The Establishment. They’re also paranoid that PTI has sympathizers within the military and intelligence services who might disobey speculative shoot-to-kill orders if they’re ever issued, thus explaining the persecution of Imran Khan’s former ISI chief Faiz Hameed in order to stifle internal dissent. All these moves are self-defeating.

5. Is A False Flag Provocation Or Conspiracy Theory Imminent?

These four observations lead to concern that The Establishment might stage a false flag provocation or concoct an associated conspiracy theory to connect PTI with the latest upsurge of terrorism. The “Taliban Khan” smear that their PMLN-PPP puppets used to popularize to defame the former premier could therefore be revived through similarly artificial means as the US Establishment’s Democrat puppets’ latest Russiagate conspiracy for the same politically self-serving reasons against the opposition.

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Explosive Details of Arrest & Court Martial of Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed || V...

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Faiz Hameed, former head of Pakistan’s ISI | Photograph credit score: X/@ANI An in depth aide of Pakistan's former ISI chief, Lt Gen (retd) Faiz Hameed, who has been in Pakistan Military custody for corruption and different misdeeds, has fled the nation to evade arrest, in response to a media report.Mohsin Habib Warriach, who is claimed to have secured necessary enterprise offers for Normal Hameed in Pakistan and overseas, is claimed to have fled to the UK. Samaa Tv reported.Learn additionally: An previous starting: Pakistan's politicsA number of army officers and a few civilians have been arrested in reference to alleged hyperlinks to Hameed.Federal House Minister Mohsin Naqvi neither confirmed nor denied experiences of Mohsin Warriach leaving the nation.Normal Hameed is going through prosecution for abusing his workplace to extort cash from a non-public housing society, and his function within the Could 9 assaults on army installations and his shut ties to jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan are additionally underneath investigation.Imran Khan feared that Normal Hameed might be used in opposition to him as an endorser for trial in a army court docket.Learn additionally: Pakistan's Prime Minister's Troubled AdministrationMr Warraich, the son of retired former Federal Minister Main Habibullah Warraich, reportedly left the nation for the UK earlier than Hameed's arrest.In line with the report, Mr Warriach, a central determine within the multi-million-dollar rip-off on the Nationwide Insurance coverage Firm Restricted, has been brokering main enterprise offers for Hameed since 2014. He was Hameed's entrance man in securing enterprise offers for the previous spy chief.Normal Hameed headed the ISI (Inter-Companies Intelligence) in the course of the Khan administration from 2019 to 2021 earlier than taking early retirement in December 2022.Hameed was arrested after performing in response to a criticism filed by a non-public property developer for alleged abuse of official authority.In line with the report, Warriach traveled the world on Hameed's behalf, performing as his de facto consultant, negotiating and executing offers, and sometimes posing as an arms supplier working for the Pakistani army."Warriach visited Russia on at the very least one event on behalf of Hameed to safe a serious arms deal. The truth is, Hameed did rather more than merely affirm Warriach's function as an official consultant of the Pakistani army," he stated.

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Pak Army in Action - Faiz Hameed Arrested - PTI In Big Trouble? - Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath

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Pakistan’s Ex-Spy Chief, an Imran Khan Ally, Is Arrested

The arrest of Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed is the first time a current or former head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency faces court-martial proceedings. source https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/world/asia/faiz-hameed-spy-chief-arrested-pakistan-imran-khan.html

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Pak Ex ISI Chief Faiz Hameed Taken Into Army Custody Ahead Of Court Martial

Faiz Hameed was considered extremely powerful when he headed the spy agency from 2019 to 2021. Islamabad: In an unprecedented move, the Pakistan Army on Monday announced that it has arrested former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd.) Faiz Hameed and initiated court martial proceedings against him in connection with a housing scheme scandal. “Complying with the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, a…

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Fomrer genelkurmay başkanı General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa (solda) ve eski casus şefi Faiz Hameed. — ISPR/X/DosyaİSLAMABAD: Eski genelkurmay başkanı General (emekli) Qamar Javed Bajwa ve eski casus şefi Korgeneral (emekli) Faiz Hameed, tartışmalı röportajları sebebiyle kendilerine karşı dava açılması amacıyla İslamabad Yüksek Mahkemesi'ne (IHC) sunulan bir dilekçenin peşinden Pazartesi günü tebligat aldılar.IHC Baş Yargıcı Aamer Farooq, eski askeri yetkililerin yanı sıra gazeteciler Javed Chaudhary, Shahid Maitla ve Pakistan Elektronik Medya Düzenleme Kurumu'na (Pemra) da yurttaş Atıf Ali'nin dilekçeleri hakkında bildirimler yayınladı. Dilekçede, gazetecilerin emekli generallerle meydana getirilen röportajları temel alarak toplumu "negatif tesir" yaratan iki yazı yazdıkları ve eski generalleri basın gösterim organlarında çeşitli vakalara ilişkin gerçekleri çarpıtarak emekli askerlere ilişkin yasaları ihlal etmekle suçladıkları iddia edildi. röportajlar.Başvurucu ek olarak, ifade özgürlüğü adı altında “kabahat eylemi” işlendiğini ve davanın tescili için talepte bulunulduğunu sadece hemen hemen herhangi bir işlem yapılmadığını ileri sürdü.İddiada, IHC'nin yetkililere bir davanın kaydedilmesi yönünde yönerge verilmesi istendi.Dilekçe sahibi, eski generaller Bajwa ve Faiz'in ulusal vakaları yanlış ve uydurma bir halde tasvir ederek lekelediğini iddia etti.Haberler ilgi çekebilmek için gazetecilik kisvesi altında devlet kurumlarının negatif imajını sunuyordu.Ek olarak bu vakalar bağlamında sürdürülen kampanyanın halkla devlet kurumları içinde güvensizlik yaratmaya yönelik bir girişim olduğu açıklandı.Bu senenin başlarında eski genelkurmay başkanının gazetecilerle yapmış olduğu röportajlarda PTI şefi Imran Khan'ın iktidardan devrilmesi, sivil-asker ilişkileri ve öteki mevzular da dahil olmak suretiyle çeşitli mevzuları tartıştığı bildirildi.

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Former DG ISI Faiz Hameed taken into military custody, court martial initiated: ISPR

ISLAMABAD — Former intelligence chief Faiz Hameed has been taken into military custody and the process for his court martial has been initiated in connection with the Top City housing scheme scandal, the army’s media wing said on Monday. The development is a first in the country’s history where a court martial has been initiated against a former spymaster. “Complying with the orders of Supreme…

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**General Bajwa And Faiz Hameed In Trouble?** Pakistani Delegation Meets...

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How A Covert Relationship With The Taliban Backfired For US Ally Pakistan

Almost two years later, relations between the Taliban and Pakistan have soured, terrorist attacks by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have jumped and some Taliban leaders are even seeking to establish ties with Pakistan's archrival, India.

About two weeks after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, the then head of Pakistan's spy agency arrived at one of Kabul's plushest hotels, smiling, sipping tea and appearing at ease with the militants' return to power.

Lieutenant-General Faiz Hameed of Inter-Services Intelligence had reason to believe Pakistan was about to reap the rewards of clandestinely supporting the Taliban in their fight against US-led forces. In return, Pakistan expected the group to help rein in an offshoot at home.

Almost two years later, relations between the Taliban and Pakistan have soured, terrorist attacks by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have jumped and some Taliban leaders are even seeking to establish ties with Pakistan's archrival, India.

The increased instability is adding to the turmoil in a Pakistan buffeted by simultaneous economic and political crises, as the country edges closer to a default, inflation rages and the military instigates a sweeping crackdown against former premier Imran Khan's political party.

Pakistan saw the Taliban as deeply connected to the TTP and able to persuade it to stop its attacks, people familiar with the matter said. The TTP has long said it wants to overthrow the government in Islamabad.

But some Taliban factions strongly oppose helping Pakistan's efforts to fight the TTP, and many are upset the government in Islamabad didn't recognize their regime, according to people familiar with the situation. Hundreds of Taliban fighters also joined the TTP to pursue another holy war, they said.

Pakistan made a "remarkable" miscalculation, said Farid Mamundzay, Afghanistan's ambassador to India, a holdover from the country's previous regime who doesn't represent the Taliban.

The TTP carried out the most militant attacks on Pakistani soil last year since 2018. This January, the group killed at least 100 people in a suicide bombing in the northwestern city of Peshawar — one of the deadliest attacks in its history. Four people were killed in a suicide car bomb on May 24, which hasn't been claimed by the TTP or other militants.

Some key Taliban members want the group to distance itself from Pakistan and show its independence, people familiar with the matter said. They include Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Afghanistan's deputy prime minister for economic affairs who spent years in a Pakistani jail after he was captured in 2010 during the war with the US, and Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the defense minister and son of Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, the people said.

Yaqoob has publicly been leading efforts to build relations with India, including urging the Indian government to train Taliban forces.

Others within the Taliban take different positions. Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada has said Pakistan's establishment is "un-Islamic" and founded on the legacy of its British colonial rulers, according to a January report by the United States Institute of Peace.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the interior minister and leader of a powerful faction, brokered a cease-fire last year between Pakistan and the TTP in a bid to secure a lasting peace, people familiar with the matter said. It lasted about six months.

Some of the Taliban fighters helping the TTP have brought over weapons that the US left behind, including M-16s and sniper rifles with night-vision thermal goggles, the people said. Hundreds of TTP fighters released from a Kabul prison by the Taliban after the group retook power also returned to fight in Pakistan, they added.

Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, a spokeswoman for Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, declined to comment. Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's media wing, didn't answer calls or respond to texts seeking comment.

Taliban spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahed and Bilal Karimi didn't answer calls or respond to WhatsApp messages seeking comment. In a statement in February, the TTP said it waged a "sacred war" against Pakistan's army and called on politicians and others not to become an obstacle in this war.

At meetings in Islamabad in May involving Pakistan, China and the Taliban, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the TTP and Pakistan should hold talks, but he didn't suggest a role for the Taliban. Meanwhile, the Taliban agreed with China and Pakistan to extend the Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan.

The US withdrawal "gave impetus to TTP activities," Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, a spokesman for Pakistan's army, said in a press conference on April 25. Some 239 people, including 137 army officers and soldiers, have been killed in hundreds of insurgent attacks this year, he said.

On their side, the Taliban are upset that Pakistan hasn't recognized their regime, people familiar with the matter said. But doing so would be difficult for Pakistan given the sanctions on the Taliban and Islamabad's need for the International Monetary Fund to approve a stalled bailout package.

Pakistan is designated a major non-NATO ally by the US. While that confers some military and financial advantages, it includes no mutual defense treaty that would obligate American forces to respond in the event of a military attack. Some US lawmakers over the years have sought to remove the status due in part to Pakistani support for the Taliban.

During the war on terror, Pakistan covertly helped the militant group in their attempts to overthrow a US-backed Afghan government that was friendlier with India, and provided refuge and medical assistance to Taliban leaders and fighters, said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Washington-based Wilson Center, a think tank.

The TTP is the largest and deadliest of about a dozen insurgent groups in Pakistan, with thousands of fighters hailing from the tribal belt.

The group announced its existence in 2007 after Pakistani security forces launched an operation against a prominent mosque in Islamabad that was suspected of sheltering and training Islamic radicals. More than 100 people died in the violence.

The TTP's attacks are increasing just as Pakistan faces several other major issues. Political tensions are at breaking point. More than 10,000 people linked to Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party were arrested in police raids following protests after Khan was arrested in May. Khan and his wife have been placed on a no-fly list. Inflation is accelerating at the fastest pace in Asia, making it difficult for many of the country's more than 220 million people to pay for fuel and food. And negotiations with the IMF are at a critical stage as the international lender has yet to release the funds.

All things considered, the now-retired ISI chief's confidence in Kabul's Serena Hotel is looking ill-advised.

"Pakistan had long banked on the Taliban being its best strategic bet in Afghanistan - a group willing to help Pakistan pursue its interests, including counterterrorism," Kugelman said. "What Pakistan apparently didn't realize was that the Taliban, once it no longer needed a wartime sanctuary in Pakistan, would assert its independence from its former patron and refuse to do its bidding."

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Taliban: How a covert relationship with the Taliban backfired for Pakistan

About two weeks after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, the then head of Pakistan’s spy agency arrived at one of Kabul’s plushest hotels, smiling, sipping tea and appearing at ease with the militants’ return to power.Lieutenant-General Faiz Hameed of Inter-Services Intelligence had reason to believe Pakistan was about to reap the rewards of clandestinely supporting the Taliban in their…

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Lt. Gen Faiz Hameed on Target | Zardari Kyu Khamoosh? | ISI kidnaps Ayaz...

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No former spy chief has ever been court-martialed in a rustic dominated straight by the highly effective army for practically three a long time.Islamabad, Pakistan – A former chief of Pakistan’s prime intelligence company is going through a army courtroom following his arrest for alleged misconduct in a case associated to a non-public housing scheme. In a short assertion on Monday, the Pakistani army mentioned it had arrested retired Lieutenant Normal Faiz Hameed, former head of the highly effective Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI) company, to "examine the correctness" of complaints in a property case and initiated "applicable disciplinary motion" towards him. The assertion mentioned there have been “a number of situations of violation” of the Military Act by Hameed after his retirement in December 2022. “The method of Discipline Normal Courtroom Martial has been initiated and Lt Gen Faiz Hameed (retd) has been remanded in army custody,” it added. The military mentioned it acted towards the senior officer in accordance with orders of the Supreme Courtroom, which final 12 months known as for a probe towards Hameed after a land improvement firm known as High Metropolis filed a petition, alleging that Hameed had acquired possession of some properties alongside along with his brother and had even blackmailed the corporate proprietor. In its petition, High Metropolis, which was growing land close to the capital Islamabad for a non-public housing mission, alleged that Hameed was concerned in land grabbing and corruption linked to the housing mission, media reported. The corporate additionally accused the previous ISI chief of abusing his authority and organising raids on its proprietor's house and places of work. The army is taken into account to be Pakistan's most influential establishment and has straight dominated the nation for practically 30 years of its practically eight-decade historical past. Regardless of his outsize presence and accusations of political interference, which violate his oath of workplace, no former spy chief has been court-martialed earlier than Hameed. Ayesha Siddiqa, a senior analysis fellow at King's Faculty London and writer of a ebook on the Pakistan army's "company empire", instructed Al Jazeera that Hameed's arrest was akin to "a political nuclear detonation". “This transfer seems to be geared toward restoring self-discipline within the military and the ISI. In earlier circumstances, high-ranking officers have been tried for espionage. That is totally different as we're seeing, for the primary time, a former ISI chief being accused of harming the nation,” he mentioned. Hameed is taken into account to be near jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who had appointed him to move the ISI in 2019. Khan changed him with Lieutenant Normal Nadeem Anjum in October 2021, months earlier than the cricketer-turned-politician misplaced energy in April 2022. Hameed, as soon as seen as the longer term military chief, took early retirement in December 2022, days after the present chief, Normal Asim Munir, took over. Pakistan's Military Act bars retired army officers from partaking in political actions for 2 years after their retirement. Kamran Bokhari, senior director on the Washington DC-based New Strains Institute for Technique and Coverage, instructed Al Jazeera that the choice to arrest Hameed was vital as a result of, till not too long ago, he was a “very highly effective intelligence tsar”. “The actions of the previous ISI chief should have been a risk to the present military chief Munir in addition to the establishment for the highest brass to take such a drastic step,” Bokhari mentioned. “Whereas designed to handle the unprecedented disaster in civil-military relations, this measure dangers exacerbating political, financial and safety circumstances throughout the nation,” he added.