Javed Nasir

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Lieutenant General Javed Nasir
Lieutenant General Javed Nasir

Lieutenant General (retd) Javed Nasir was the former head of Inter-Services Intelligence from March 1992 till May 1993. He was instrumental in uniting the warring Afghan factions after the Soviet retreat, and installing the first Mujahideen government in Afghanistan. He was noted for being the first Pakistani general to have a full-grown beard against tradition of having only clean-shaved generals in the Pakistan Army after joining the Tablighi Jamaat. Before that he was considered somewhat of a playboy during his earlier years.

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[edit] Army career

[edit] Ojhri Camp Cleanup

In 1988, he was in charge to clean up the Ojhri Camp disaster. Against the estimated period of six months given by US and French experts, he led his team to clean up the entire dump containing millions of blinds by setting a personal example of handling the highly sensitive blinds with his own hands, in a record period of just 15 days without suffering a single casualty.

[edit] Enforcement of Peshawar Accord

After being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in 1991, he was appointed director general ISI on 14th March, 1992. His first major role was to bring all the warring factions of the Afghan Mujahideen to agree to the Peshawar Accord and successfully install the Mujahideen’s first government under Sibghatullah Mojaddedi in Kabul.

[edit] Arms supply to Bosnian Muslims

During the Bosnian War of 1995, it is alleged that he helped supply of arms to the besieged Bosnians, when he successfully airlifted sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles which turned the tide in favor of Bosnian Muslims and forced the Serbs to lift the siege.

[edit] Foreign pressure for resignation

Due to these activities, General Javed Nasir became a target of American and Indian lobbies, both inside and outside Pakistan. Over 300 articles appeared on the internet including the Foreign Affairs journal article, which dubbed the general as a "radical Islamist", who is heading the ISI. He was also alleged to be an active member of the Tablighi Jamaat, and he wielded considerable influence on the rank and file of the Army. In April 1993, US Government officially warned Pakistani government to remove the general as ISI’s head, and failure to do so would render Pakistan a terrorist state. Therefore due to official US demand, General Javed Nasir was prematurely retired from the active service by the caretaker government of Mir Balakh Sher Mazari in May 1993.

[edit] Post-Army activities

In July 1997, the retired general became the chairman of Evacuee Trust Property Board, an organization which since its inception in 1960 had generated a total revenue of Rs. 1.17 billion. General Nasir, after taking over raised a total revenue of Rs. 1.225 billion in four years, exceeding the total revenue the department earned in the last 37 years.

During his tenure, the general learned the free hand RAW (Indian Intelligence) had been having since 1948 in the manipulation and control of the Sikh Pilgrims during the four religious functions, which Evacuee Trust Property Board used to arrange. In order to protect from the infiltrators, the general constituted a Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PGPC) in April 1999, which was given the responsibility of maintaining the Sikh Gurdawaras and holding the Sikh holy functions. The success of this organization is uncertain.

[edit] Allegations for fraud

On August 25, 2002, Pakistani newspapers published the headlines that Lieutenant General Javed Nasir fled the country with Rs. 3 billion. Nonetheless, the general not only claimed innocence, but also sued the press and the government. The News published the story on August 24, 2002, and reported that the general embezzled Rs. 3 billion and fled the country. The general clarified in a television interview on the same night that he did not commit any crime and did not flee the country, but was actually visiting Malaysia on a Tablighi mission. After this the government abandoned its investigations against the general.

[edit] Views

He has written over 100 articles. His pro-Islam, anti-US and anti-India stance has created a very large readership in Pakistan and abroad. He symbolizes the institutions of practicing Muslims through his association with Tablighi Jamaat, a threat which US has officially declared in 1990 to its national security.

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