London: The British government has affirmed that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Mqm) guide Altaf Hussain kept in touch with the then Prime Minister Tony Blair in September 2001, calling for the annulment of the Inter-Services Intelligence (Isi), Pakistan's chief spy office.
Consistent with data discharged under the Freedom of Information Act, the letter was dated 23 September 2001, marked by Altaf Hussain and conveyed to 10 Downing Street by Nirj Deva, who is presently a Member of the European Parliament (Mep) for the Southeast of England.
The British government was guaranteed of Mqm's uphold in countering terrorism in Pakistan in exchange for assistance in attaining "fair support in administering the territory of Sindh and in disbanding the Isi". The letter bid that the "Isi mystery office must be disbanded generally the Isi will press on to generate numerous Osama-container Ladens and Talibans in future".
The Mqm letter offered to give "numerous showings in Karachi in favour of the worldwide neighborhood battling terrorism inside five days perceive after this assention is marked, putting countless individuals in the city of Karachi" and "unrestricted assets all around the towns and villages in the region of Sindh and the territory of Punjab to some degree, to screen the exercises of fundamentalists and Taliban-headed organisations, and additionally to screen the exercises of Madrasas (religious schools)".it likewise guaranteed the Uk "to guarantee select gatherings to enter Afghanistan as support laborers in order to upgrade the Western orgs insights data capacities".
As an exchange for these administrations, the asserted letter made a request for "fair cooperation in the administration of the territory of Sindh and the Federation as accomplices; bona fide, evenhanded interest in all circles of life incorporating training, job, armed force and organization; neighborhood policing comprising of Muhajirs and Sindhis".
Britain's Foreign Office has affirmed "the Prime Minister's Office appropriated a letter from Mr Altaf Hussain which was gone to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Fco) for a reaction," said the Cabinet Office, including: "No data is held demonstrating that a reaction was sent to Mr Hussain".
The Fco has affirmed further: "On 27 September 2001, the Fco appropriated correspondence, through No.10, from Mr Nirj Deva Mep encasing a duplicate of the letter from Mr Hussain. Mr Ben Bradshaw Mp, the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Fco, answered to Mr Deva's letter."
The News has acquired a duplicate of this answer to Mr Nirj Deva Mep, which states, "Thank you for your letter of 23 September to the Prime Minister, encasing correspondence from Mr Altaf Hussain, guide of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Mqm)". Ben Bradshaw Mp, Uk's then Foriegn Office Minister, expressed that he was answering as he was the pastor answerable for "our relations with Pakistan".
Couched in tact, the letter goes ahead to "welcome Mr Hussain's judgment of all manifestations of terrorism, his craving to support the worldwide group and underpin for popular government. Terrorists work without respect for fringes, so the battle against terrorism needs to be a worldwide and purposeful one".
It is clear that the Uk did not consume the offer of assistance from the Mqm guide and liked to manage the-then leader of the state. Included the priest: "I acclaim President Musharraf's valiant choice to underpin the worldwide coalition and welcome his recommendations to restore law based government in Pakistan. I trust that he and the individuals of Pakistan can rely on the Mqm and other political gatherings to assume a useful part in securing Pakistan's future."
Nirj Deva Mep (whose genuine name is Niranjan Joseph De Silva Deva-Aditya and was conceived in Sri Lanka) concurred that he passed on the letter from the Mqm to 10 Downing Street however said he was not mindful of the substance of the letter and did not concur with the requests made inside it. "I was asked by the Mqm to pass on this letter to Tony Blair. I don't take sides however if my constituents request that I pass their letters to government sections then I won't say no. It is a standard practice for me and I need to listen to my constituents."
Nirj Deva told The News that he knew Muhammad Anwar since 1992, and Dr Imran Farooq from 2000 onwards. "I was acquainted with Dr Farooq by Muhammad Anwar. On the substance of it the letter, however unsubtle, is putting forth assistance to the Coalition. Other than the nitwit condition about the Isi, the different "conditions" seem, by all accounts, to be expert West and ace vote based system during a period when I assume Pakistan was under military principle. If Hussain could have conveyed can't be measured other than by the masters in the Fco. Probably they supposed this was a considerable measure of hot air, thus their insipid answer to me."
In September 2011, a war of expressions broke out between the previous Sindh home priest Zulfikar Mirza and the Mqm. Mirza asserted that the letter was composed by the Mqm yet the Mqm firmly denied having anything to do with it.
On September 4, 2011, Ansar Abbasi cited "one of the nation's heading spymasters" as affirming that the charged letter was composed by the Mqm pioneer. This statement was heartily denied on September 6, 2011 by Mustafa Kamal, Mqm's heading figure, who held a press c
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