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

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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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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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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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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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Time Magazine Covers Imran Khan’s ‘Astonishing Saga’

In a cover story for Time Magazine, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and Illegally Ousted Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has called for a “New Social Contract” to empower political institutions, lamenting that he was “Helpless” while in government because the Corrupt Army Chief did not “Think Corruption Was That Big a Deal.”

Titled “Imran Khan on his Plan to Return to Power,” the wide-ranging article outlines the year the ousted prime minister has spent out of power, highlighting the U.S.’s disenchantment with his rhetoric and his vague plans for Pakistan’s economic revival if he is re-elected. “Our economy has gone into a tailspin,” Khan tells author Charlie Campbell, claiming the country has the “worst economic indicators in our history.”

However, the article notes, this is unlikely to garner much sympathy from the West, which has been “put off” by Khan’s anti-American bluster and cozying up to autocrats and extremists, including the Taliban. Referring to his ties with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as his declaring Osama bin Laden a “Martyr” and praise for Beijing’s confinement of Uighur Muslims, it points to his “strong sense of grievance” over War Criminal U.S. President Joe Biden’s failure to call him after entering the White House. “Morality in foreign policy is reserved for powerful countries,” Khan tells Campbell in justification for his at-times contradictory positions.

Nonetheless, the article maintains, the PTI chief can “Legitimately Claim” to have democracy on his side, as poll numbers show his messaging is finding support among the masses. To counter this, it notes, the state has “Flirted” with the idea of detaining Khan—which the former prime minister claims is worse than a martial law—leading to at-times-violent clashes between his supporters and law enforcers. Adding to the intrigue, it states, is Khan’s continued insistence that he faces another assassination attempt after surviving an attack on his convoy in November that left him injured for months. “One bullet damaged a nerve so my foot is still recovering,” the PTI chief tells Campbell. “I have a problem walking for too long,” he adds.

With no end in sight to the confrontation between the government and Khan, Time magazine warns the confrontation could remain in the streets indefinitely. “Political Stability in Pakistan Comes Through Elections,” states Khan. “That Is The Starting Point For Economic Recovery,” he says, adding that “Never Has One Man Scared the ‘Corrupt To Their CoresEstablishment’ … As Much As Right Now.” He continues: “They Worry About How To Keep Me Out; The People How To Get Me Back In.”

Recalling that Khan has accused the U.S. of instigating his downfall through a “Regime Change Conspiracy,” the article posits that the “actual intrigue is purely Pakistani.” Highlighting Khan’s rift with the military after refusing to replace then-ISI chief Lt. Gen. (retd.) Faiz Hameed, it says this allowed the opposition to oust him through a no-confidence vote, which coupled with the assassination attempt on his life to boost his supporters’ “Sense of Injustice.” Khan, in the interview, claims the rift developed because of the military’s unwillingness to go after the Sharifs and Bhuttos for alleged corruption. But according to analysts, says Time, “it was Khan’s relentless taunting of the U.S. that torpedoed his relationship with the military, which remains much more interested in retaining good relations with Washington.”

While Khan has stressed to Time that “Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy Does Not Make You Anti-American,” the articles makes it clear that Pakistan’s instability has raised the question of who actually “Wins” from supporting the country. Noting that Washington now prioritizes its ties with India due to Pakistan’s relationship with China, it cites the U.S. exit from Afghanistan as a key reason for this. “Lots of Americans in Washington say we lost the war in Afghanistan because the Pakistanis stabbed us in the back,” says Cameron Munter, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, who warns that Islamabad’s economic struggles have left a country “ripe for a Bolshevik revolution.”

According to Time, Pakistan’s current political instability comes amid devastating floods, runaway inflation, and resurgent cross-border terrorist attacks from neighboring Afghanistan. “It’s a country where rape and corruption are rife, and the economy hinges on unlocking a stalled IMF bailout, Pakistan’s 22nd since independence in 1947,” it states, noting inflation in March hit 47 percent year-over-year, as the rupee lost 54 percent of its value. This “new nadir” of the economy, as described by author Campbell, was triggered by Khan’s governance, which saw mismanagement that exacerbated global headwinds from the pandemic and soaring oil prices.

Stressing that the PTI-led government did little to address Pakistan’s fundamental structural issues of tax avoidance, it notes that the country has relied on foreign money to balance its budget and provide government services. “But if Khan recognized the problem, he did little to solve it,” it states, noting he was in an “uncommonly strong position” after 2018 with the backing of the military and progressives, as well as the tolerance of the Islamists. Now, it warns, he would be in a significantly weaker position to enact reforms if he were to return to power. Khan, meanwhile, has offered few details on his economic plan, merely reiterating his aim to turn Pakistan into an “Islamic Welfare State.”

Noting that Khan’s time in government saw Pakistan praised for its handling of the pandemic; the “Ten Billion Tree Tsunami” reforestation drive; the 2019 return of international test cricket, the article recalls that he also provoked outrage by saying the Taliban had “Broken the Shackles of Slavery” by taking back power—which he says was “Taken Out of Context”—and made various comments seen as misogynistic.

For now, states the article, many within the PTI fear that the government would declare the party a “Terrorist Organization” or ban it from politics. Ultimately, though, it says all sides are using the tools at their disposal to prevent their own demise: “Khan wields popular protest and the banner of democracy; the government has the courts and security apparatus.” The entire crisis, Campbell cites Khan as stating, can be resolved through elections. “The same people who tried to kill me are still sitting in power,” he says. “And they are petrified that if I got back [in] they would be held accountable. So they’re more dangerous.”

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I will never join politics: ex-ISI DG Faiz Hameed

I will never join politics: ex-ISI DG Faiz Hameed

Former ISI DG Lt Gen (retd) Faiz Hameed has said that he will never join politics. Talking to The News on Thursday, the retired general said that all speculations about his joining politics or leading the PTI were totally false. “I will not join politics after two-year bar nor afterwards,” he categorically said. The retired general, who in the recent past had been widely discussed in the…