Regarding Mushareff's reluctance to quickly co-operate with the US in its Afghan operation. I came across this tid bit. Given the source I wouldn't count it as utterly reliable but it was published 11-3-00.
saag.org
* The General had decided to seize power even before
he left for Colombo after coming to know that Mr.
Sharif had asked Lt.Gen.Kwaja Ziauddin, the then ISI
Director-General, who is now in prison, to prepare a
report on the General's past links with Osama bin
Laden and that Lt.Gen.Ziauddin, in his report given to
Mr.Sharif by hand, had alleged that the migration of
the members of Gen.Musharraf's family to the US had
been financed by a foreign-based Islamic
non-governmental organisation with which bin Laden
was connected and whose name had figured in a
charge-sheet put up by the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) in a US court in connection with bin
Laden's involvement in the August, 1998, explosions
outside the US Embassies in Nairobi and
Dar-es-Salaam. After the coup, the military regime had
repeatedly searched the houses of Mr.Sharif, his father
and other relatives in order to get hold of the report of
Lt.Gen.Ziauddin on Gen.Musharraf's alleged links with
bin Laden, but could not get it. Lt.Gen.Ziauddin, who is
under military custody since October 12, had been
tortured repeatedly to make him confess that Mr.Sharif
had asked him to fabricate the report against the
General and ordered the refusal of permission to the
plane to land in Karachi, but the former ISI chief has
till now refused to turn an approver against Mr.Sharif. |
