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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Pakistani authorities have enough evidence that
implicates US diplomats and trainers in spying on Kahuta, one of the prime
nuclear facilities in the country.
What is stunning for most Pakistanis is that elements in the elected
government, and especially the Interior Ministry, appear to be facilitating
the Americans despite protests from police and intelligence officials.
The issue brings into question, once again, the role of Federal Interior
Minister Rehman Malik. A trail of
<http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/article_detail.php?id=816> internal ministry
documents sharply bring Mr. Malik's role into focus, especially in a case
where his ministry appears to have permitted US defense contractors to
conduct suspicious activities on Pakistani soil without informing Pakistani
intelligence agencies. Those activities have included allowing at least one
US defense contractor to conduct a large scale recruitment of retired
Pakistani military officers.
In 2003, the government of former president Pervez Musharraf allowed the
Americans to establish a police training facility within the police college
at Sihala, a few kilometers away from the Khan Research Laboratories, one of
Pakistan's premier nuclear research centers.
In a report titled,
<http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online...
ics/23-Oct-2009/US-spying-on-Kahuta-since-2003> US Spying On Kahuta Since
2003, Pakistan's The Nation newspaper revealed the following on Oct. 23:
Despite the fact that Americans have been permanently housed near Pakistani
nuclear installations at Kahuta since 2003 in the guise of imparting
training at the Police College Sihala, neither the military nor the PPP
regime has dared to dislodge them. According to reliable sources, the PPP
government paid no attention at all to the hue and cry raised by senior
police officials against the dubious movements and installation of the
American trainers. It has been learnt that some senior police officials
have been continuously raising questions about the quality of training
courses being offered by the Americans to the senior police recruits. These
officials say that Pakistani police trainers could impart much better
training than that the Americans. But the government turned a deaf ear to
all these concerns of senior police officials and made no efforts to close
the American training base allegedly involved in monitoring Pakistani
nuclear activities.
Several senior police officials are asking, on condition of anonymity, that
even if this training by the Americans was necessary, why had this very
sensitive area been chosen and why this training has continued, risking the
secrecy and sensitivity of nuclear installations of Pakistan. They were of
the view that the Americans had no interest in the area except the intention
to monitor the activities at the Khan Research Lab in Kahuta.
The Commandant Police Training College Sihala, Mr. Nasir Khan Durrani, wrote
a letter on Aug. 15 to senior Pakistani police officers drawing their
attention to the suspicious activities of American 'trainers' at Sihala.
Mr. Durrani is widely respected within the officer corps of Pakistan's
police service. Some of his ideas, like Rescue 15, were implemented
nationwide.
Durrani's letter was not without basis. In his report, titled,
<http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=204437> Agency wants survey
of site to assess equipment, Mr. Ansar Abbasi, editor investigations at The
News International, revealed that there was some evidence that radiation
measurement equipment has been installed by the Americans at the training
facility. He reported that US diplomats have been caught making frequent
visits to the facility, attempting at one point to get into the high
security perimeter around Kahuta. Amazingly, someone from FIA, the interior
minister's former employer and a lead civilian spy agency, helped release
the arrested American diplomats.
An excerpt from Mr. Abbasi's report:
Pakistani authorities suspect that Americans involved in training of the
Punjab Police at the Sihala Police College may have been involved in
espionage near the Kahuta nuclear site located close by. However, US
diplomats strongly deny this.
A credible government source said at least one Pakistani security agency has
clearly indicated in its report submitted to the government that the
Americans might have installed radiation detection devices at their
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programme (ATAP) camp situated in the college to
monitor activities in the Kahuta nuclear site.
"Concerned authorities may be asked for a joint survey of the ATAP Camp by
incorporating technical experts to assess if any interception equipment to
detect radioactive rays has been installed or not," the report said.
The report also revealed that following US pressure, the Ministry of
Interior vide its letter number 1/41/2003-Police dated June 29 also granted
a no objection certificate (NoC) for import of explosive material by the
office of the ATAP.
Like the case of Inter-Risk, now banned, the Interior Ministry issued the
NoC for the import of explosives without getting any security clearance from
the intelligence agencies.
Interestingly, initially the Interior Ministry decided to issue the NoC but
it was subject to clearance by two intelligence agencies - the ISI and the
IB - which sought clarification about the quantity and type of explosive and
detail of courses.
Consequently, the Sihala College administration was approached, which sought
details from the ATAP camp. But instead of providing the details, Robert A
Clark and Bob of the ATAP Camp contacted the US embassy, which used its
influence and managed to get the NoC bypassing the rules.
The ATAP base camp is located just nine kilometres away from the Khan
Research Laboratories (KRL) and housed within the premises of the Sihala
college but even the commandant of the college is not allowed to go there.
Of late, the US embassy wanted additional space apparently for training
purposes but the Punjab government refused to oblige the Americans.
Top authorities in the Punjab government also confirmed to The News that US
Ambassador Anne Patterson not only personally met Chief Minister Punjab
Shahbaz Sharif but also wrote to him requesting for additional space at the
Sihala college.
They offered additional training to the Punjab Police in the field of
firearms and raids. "But we politely refused to offer any additional space,"
the source confided to The News, admitting that serious questions are being
raised about the presence and conduct of US trainers already present at the
Sihala college. A senior spokesman for the Punjab, when approached,
confirmed this.
Interestingly, in the last several months no training course for the police
officials has been conducted by the ATAP at the college, but American's
presence is well pronounced. Commander of the police academy Nasir Khan
Durrani also formally wrote to the top authorities in the Punjab to express
his concerns over the activities of the ATAP officials.
Sources also said that US embassy officials were also found visiting the
camp quite regularly. They revealed that two Americans working at the Sihala
ATAP Camp along with four other Americans of the US embassy were intercepted
near Kahuta in July 2009 by security officials of the KRL.
They were detained for 2-3 hours as they could not satisfy the KRL security
personnel regarding their visit to the sensitive region.
However, a retired assistant director of the FIA, working with Americans at
the ATAP Camp, was sent to take them back who, introducing himself as an FIA
officer, freed the Americans and took them back to the camp. The sources
disclosed that those Americans along with Pakistani staff riding on 4x4
vehicle, tried to trespass into the restricted area of Kahuta.
The Interior Ministry spokesman was not available to offer any comment on
suspected spying of the country's nuclear programme by Americans or to
explain why the Interior Ministry issued an NoC to the Americans for the
import of explosive material without getting clearance from security
agencies.
The Interior Ministry spokesman, Rashid Mazari, never returns any call from
The News. He was contacted by different staffers of The News Investigative
Wing during recent weeks but he never responded.
The suspicions of Mr. Durrani, Commandant Police Training College Sihala,
turn out to be legitimate. Mr. Durrani might have expected to be rewarded
for keeping a vigil on the country's vital interests. To his surprise,
instead of a citation, Mr. Durrani was reprimanded by the Federal Interior
Ministry.
On Oct. 22, The Nation published a report whose title, Rehman Malik
<http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online...
ics/22-Oct-2009/Defends-US-interests-warns-Durrani> Defends US interests,
warns Durrani, said it all.
Excerpt:
The Interior Ministry is browbeating the Commandant Police Training College
Sihala as to why he has written a letter to the Punjab, Inspector General of
Police (IGP), expressing his concerns over the presence of US security
officials in the premises of the institute, the sources told TheNation.
Sources privy to the developments said that the Ministry was annoyed with
Nasir Khan Durrani, Commandant Police Training College Sihala as to why he
had written a letter to IGP seeking clarification from the Interior Ministry
and Foreign Office about the terms and conditions of US security officials'
presence as well as the duration of their stay in the college premises.
The sources said that the Ministry had expressed its displeasure over the
action of Commandant and in its reply to the IGP it was stated that the
matter could have been discussed verbally and there was no need to write
about it.
According to Ministry sources, the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik in his
harsh reply to the IGP made it clear that US security officials would not be
relocated from the centre and directed him to hush up the matter and stop
propagating against it, otherwise Durrani would have to face the music.
The Ministry was also critical of leakage of such sensitive and confidential
information to media and directed the IGP to keep secrecy of such sensitive
matters in the larger interest of the state, the sources further disclosed.
Nasir Khan Durrani had written a letter to IGP on 15th of August that on the
concurrence of Interior Ministry, US security officials were using the site
which was part of the college and now it had become a "no go" area for the
college administration.
In the letter, it was also said that high explosive material was stored
within the premises of the site under the possession of US personnel, which
was a security risk for the trainees of the college.
It is pertinent to mention here that Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) are
only a few kilometres away from the Sihala College and it is suspected that
Americans had installed sensitive monitoring equipments to monitor the
activities of KRL.
The spokesman and Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ministry were
contacted for comments; the spokesman was not available for comments while
PRO replied that he was admitted in the hospital and thus unable to comment
on the issue.
The US Embassy in Islamabad, under a new policy of aggressively countering
what it alleges to be 'anti-Americanism',
<http://islamabad.usembassy.gov/pr-09102003.html> responded to these
accusations but conveniently kept silent on the alarming incident of the
arrest of US diplomats in July as they tried to survey the area around
Kahuta.
Evidence is piling up that the present 'elected' government in Islamabad is
racing against time to plant enough Americans inside Pakistan to counter the
Pakistani military and the country's strong intelligence setup. [See the
video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHl-xY9-BI> US Terror In Pakistan]
On Oct. 20, The Nation ran a story titled,
<http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online...
ics/20-Oct-2009/Blackwater-arms-warehouse-in-Capital> Blackwater arms
warehouse in Capital? . The report began as follows:
Kestral Logistics, a warehouse located in the industrial area of Sector
I-9/3, and involved in arms trading, is working as the subcontractor of US
security company, Xe Worldwide (Blackwater), TheNation has learnt. The
sources claimed that the company had arms deals with Blackwater and was
importing heavy arms as well as ammunition for the US company for its
ongoing illicit operations in Pakistan. The sources said that Kestral
Logistics was also involved in importing sensitive monitoring instruments
for Blackwater, which had been installed at Sihala by the said security
company to monitor activities of Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), Kahuta,
as well as to keep an eye on the nuclear assets of Pakistan.
Kestral is run by a former Pakistani military officer. Another
<http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/article_detail.php?id=810> officer was
arrested last month and his license cancelled after his security firm
imported illegal weapons into the country with the help of the US Embassy in
Islamabad.
The US public opinion is told that anti-Americanism is on the rise in
Pakistan but US government officials and the US media keeps mum on these
suspicious activities inside Pakistan that are feeding the sudden rise in
opposition to American presence.
No one is demanding severing ties with Washington. We need them and they
need us. The question is: Why can't Pakistan conduct its business with the
United States on the basis of respect, non-interference, and mutual benefit.
That is much better than the client-state model that former president
Musharraf and the current pro-American Pakistani democrats are pursuing.
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