Chairman NAB, pack your bag

NAB sources told that it’s rare that a press release is issued in regard to an in-house order for the verification of a complaint. “This has been done a day before the executive committee of the NAB meets in Islamabad to discuss such matters,” a source said.

The source added that some most relevant officers in the Bureau did not know about this development as the direction to make the matter public before even its verification, came from the chairman’s office.

Indian Rouge Army

Indian Military has been involved in sensitive covert operations in Pakistan as well as their homeland India.

A special unit called Technical Services Division was setup by Indian Army Chief General Vijay Kumar Singh for sensitive covert operations in Pakistan for assisinating alledged Mumbai Attack Mastermind, Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed.

"Our main task was to combat the rising trend of state-sponsored terrorism by the ISI and we had developed contacts across the Line of Control in a bid to infiltrate Hafiz Saeed’s inner circle," an Official who served with the controversial Technical Services Division said.

Army documents, reveal the Senior-Most Officers signed off on the formation of this Unit. File No A/106/TSD and 71018/ MI give details of approvals by the Director General Military Intelligence, Vice-Chief and Chief of Army Staff.

However, soon the unit started spiying on Indian Defence Ministry Officials through off-the-air interceptors - was raised as a strategic force multiplier for preparing, planning and executing special operations "Inside depth areas of countries of interest and countering enemy efforts within the country by effective covert means."

The TSD - which reported directly to General VK Singh - also used Secret Service Funds to initiate a PIL against Current Chief General Bikram Singh.

Reported during October 2012, secret funds were paid to an NGO to file the PIL, in a bid to stall Bikram Singh’s appointment as Chief of Staff.

Though covert operations were formally shut down by Indar Kumar Gujral when he was Prime Minister in 1997, sources reveal the TSD carried out several such operations within and outside the country — such as Operation Rehbar 1, 2 and 3 in Kashmir, Operation Seven Sisters in North-Eastern India and Operation Deep Strike in Pakistan.

Furthermore, the TSD also tapped the phones of J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and of his colleagues in the Cabinet during the protracted faceoff in 2011 between the government and the Army over the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

Snooping activities by TSD were first picked up by the J&K Police in Jammu, and the Chief Minister was subsequently informed. It was a DIG-Level Officer of the J&K Police who apprised his Senior Officers about alleged surveillance activity being carried out from the Sunjwan camp in Jammu and a private house rented by the TSD in a housing colony at Channi Himmat in Jammu.

A Police Team was deployed to cross-check, and it came back with the confirmation. Moreover, the snooping was also confirmed to the Chief Minister later by a Senior Army Officer.

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Shaukat Khanum Funds - Investor guaranteed to bear the loss : Imran Khan

Founder of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman, Imran Khan has clarified the accusations against the Hospital and said the "Bluechip Company has  guaranteed us that they will bear the loss and we will get the profit. Our party’s (PTI's) Senior Leader will read out the Email to you".

However, Imran did not provide detail about this rather late and unusual guarantee. And what party's Senior Leader has to do with the Email?

Earlier, Khawaja Asif of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leveled allegation against Imran Khan and said that a total of $4.5 Million were invested abroad, which was "In fact the money gained from Sadqaat, Fitrana and Zakat… This was the money of the Pakistani Nation which went abroad".

"In British Virgin Islands, a Shell Company was first registered. That company transferred money into a company, HBG in Dubai, then HBG bought shares of Sugarland Company worth $3 Million. During 2009-2010, Sugarland declared losses and in the coming two years, it faced 64% losses. Here, the money of Shaukat Khanum invested by Imran Khan also faced a loss but it was not shown", Asif said while referring to the documents he had distributed.

Khawaja Asif questioned Khan that if the investment was so safe and profitable, then why did he not put in his own money rather than that of Shaukat Khanum. "This is not a Scandal of the PTI, this was a play of Shaukat Khanum’s money… Shaukat Khanum has not published its Balance Sheets, the last one available is from 2010, which we have provided to you".

Interestingly, a year ago, Imran Khan had contrasting views, as he said "The Shaukat Khanum funds are not spent on buying properties and building businesses in London, France and elsewhere in the world. They are, instead, meant for free treatment of people, thousands of whom have been cured of cancer," while he was in London to launch his book "Pakistan: A Personal History".

Questioning the matter Senior Analyst Dr Farrukh Saleem asked "If Shaukat Khanum or Imran Khan sent Pakistani money abroad without authorization from State Bank or ECC, it would be unlawful!".

Imagine Zardari opening Benazir Welfare Hospital, and the board of directors of the hospital investing the donation money through an unknown offshore company owned by one of it’s own members which results in huge losses. And imagine all this happening without any due process (Bank Guarantee). What would have happened with Zardari by now on media and internet?

When even valid questions are left unanswered and people blindly start chasing the person who puts them, it’s a sign that Tsunami is knocking at the door steps. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital may be the best thing that ever happened in the world, it doesn't mean people running it cannot be questioned?

But off course, in this Time of Revolution, there hasn’t been a better time to hold the silence.

The information presented above is offered in Good Faith and is correct to the best of our knowledge. If any factual errors have appeared here inadvertently, then we would be pleased to hear from anyone wishing to offer corrections.

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Nawab Bugti was killed by Balach Marri : Baluch Youth Council

Chairman Baluch Youth Council, Mir Hazar Khan Baluch has said "So Called" Baluch Separatist Leaders Balach Marri and his brother Herbyar Marri are involved in the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and Justice Muhammad Nawaz Marri, two most prominent Baluch personalities killed in recent years.

Is a statement Mir Hazar Khan Baluch announced that the Council would move a Petition in International Court of Justice against the Herbyar Marri for murder of Justice Muhammad Nawaz Marri and bloodshed of innocent Baluchis and Punjabis.

Addressing a meeting of the Central Council of Baluch Youth, Chairman Mir Hazar Khan Baluch further uncovered that "A Senior Indian Diplomat had recently facilitated a meeting between Herbyar Marri and Barahamdagh Bugti to remove their misunderstanding over the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti and counter killing of Balach Marri".

Baluch said during the meeting, Barahmdagh Bugti alleged that the person behind taking his Grand Father late Nawab Akbar Bugti to the cave was Balach Marri, brother of Herbyar Marri. He said the cave came down due to a Blast by Remote Control and Balach Marri was standing just outside the cave art the time.

Baluch said an Officer of Indian Intelligence Agency RAW was also present in the meeting between the two Rebel Leaders.

He said the Indian Diplomat and Intelligence Officers persuaded both Baluch Leaders to reach an understanding for a bigger cause and according to their information, Herbyar wanted "Full Independence to form a Government in Exile" to which Baramdagh did not agree, because he claimed that he was an International Leader.

Baluch added that the two Self-Styled Baluch Leaders, were RAW Agents and were Fighting the War for their survival at the cost of the Baluch Nation.

The Baluch Youth Council Chairman also lashed out at Sardar Akhtar Mengal and said his Militant Group Laskhar-e-Baluchistan was involved in the massacre of innocent people in Khuzdar District and looting of buses on National Highway.

He noted that Baluch People will never forget killing of twenty thousands (20,000) Innocent People during a personal clash of Attaullah Mengal and a Bugti Sardar.

He said that Baluch Sardars were fond of telling lies but they could not continue with it, adding that the Sardars were rubbing salt into the wounds of Baluch People.

"How come they bring change as they all are Usurpers," he remarked and said that the Baluch Nation was aware of Sardars' Character.

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Pakistani Secret Agency starve Citizen to death

A Pakistani Secret Agency under the control of Pakistan Army has Starved a Pakistani Citizen to death, after kidnapping him along with eleven (11) other Prisoners from Adiala Jail Rawalpindi couple of years ago. Before their abduction, all the abducted persons were released from their cases by Court.

Abdul Sabour, one of eleven (11) Prisoners abducted by Intelligence Agencies from Adiala Jail in November 2010 was found dead near Haji Camp Peshawar. His Funeral was held in Kohat. However, he looked like a mere collection of bones.

Three other Prisoners abducted by Intelligence Agencies in the same batch met the same fate and their bodies were too found in Peshawar last month.

Update 25th January: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Chiefs of Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence agencies to explain the circumstances leading to the deaths of four men at the hands of these agencies.

Asfandyar smells "Qandhari Naswar" from Rabbani's Assassin

Awami National Party Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan smelled "Qandhari Naswar" from the Assassin of Afghan Peace Envoy Burhanduddin Rabbani, as he claimed that the Assassin belonged to an Afghan Refugee Camp in Baluchistan.

"I can confirm that the Assassin of Burhanuddin Rabbani came from an Afghan Muhajireen (Refugees) Camp in Baluchistan” said Asfandyar.

Burhanuddin, also the Former Afghan President, was Assassinated by a Turban Bomber at his Kabul residence, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed the Pakistan for the Murder.

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US comes to Haqqani's rescue; to keep Operation Geronimo credible

United States has come to rescue Former Pakistan Ambassador to United States Hussain Haqqani in the Memogate Scandal. And they are not doing it for the Love of Haqqani or Zardari, but for the sake of Operation Geronimo's credibility. As Former US National Security Adviser, General James Jones said that Mansoor Ejaz never used the name of Husain Haqqani during their conversation.

General James Jones admitted that he had known Mansoor Ejaz since 2006 and was contacted by him in May.

It is pertinent to mention here that Mansoor Ejaz claims he first met Husain Haqqani on 9th May about the Memo issue. 

Jones said he was informed by Mansoor Ejaz that he had a message from the Top Leadership of Pakistan and that he wanted to send it to Admiral Mike Mullen.

Jones claims that in his opinion Haqqani had no knowledge about the Memo. 

On 9th May, Jones said that he received an email from Ejaz and added that he thought the Memo was written by Ejaz himself. 

According to Jones, the type of language used in the Memo was similar to how Ejaz would speak.

Clearly it is obvious that the United States is trying to discredit Mansoor Ejaz, so that his statement related to prior information of Operation Geronimo to Pakistani Leadership also becomes doubtful.

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Zardari is going to resign : The Cable

According to The Cable, when US President Barack Hussain Obama spoke with Zardari recently regarding NATO’s attack on Pakistani Outpost, Zardari was "Incoherent", as he is "feeling increased pressure over the Memogate Scandal". Looks like "the noose was getting tighter — it was only a matter of time," and there is growing expectation inside the US Government that Zardari may be stepping down.

Parts of the US Government were told that Zardari had a "Minor Heart Attack" and flew to Dubai via Air Ambulance. Now, he has Angioplasty and may also resign on account of "Ill Health".

President Zardari left for Dubai to undergo some Medical Tests. He was accompanied by his physicians and personal staff.

According to the Dr Asim Hussian, Former Personal Physician of President Zardari, he has been kept in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), so he may rest.

It is reported that before Zardari left Pakistan, the Army insisted that Zardari be examined by their Military Physicians, and that the Army Doctors determined that Zardari was fine and did not need to leave the country for medical reasons.

But Zardari has left Pakistan for an indefinite period.

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Sharif's Corruption exposed by PTI

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's corruption has been exposed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Media Coordinator Rauf Hassan. He said that lack of ability is actually corruption and Shahabaz Sharif has started projects like Sasti Roti, Danish School and Aashiana Housing Scheme, which are economically not viable and thus corruption.

PTI's Media Coordinator Rauf Hassan has alleged that Shahbaz Sharif is involved in corruption. The province is on the verge of destruction, just because of Shahbaz Sharif lack of ability, which can be termed as corruption.

When the host of the show, Javed Chaudhry asked if Punjab Government was involved in some real Zardari Style Corruption. Rauf Hassan said, Dr Kirmani who is Nawaz Sharif's Media Consultant is on Punjab Government's Payroll.

Javed Chaudhry rang Dr Kirmani for his views on the alleged corruption. However, Dr Kirmani categorically denied the allegation and asked Rauf Hassan not to follow his leader Imran Khan and stop his baseless propaganda.

Dr Kirmani asked Rauf Hassan, how much pay was he getting from Punjab Government as a Media Consultant. Rauf Hassan initially hesitated but later shocked everyone by saying that he was drawing more than one third of a million per month.

Indeed, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif's corruption has been exposed.

Dr Kirmani further said that Rauf Hassan was removed from the position of Chief Minister's Media Consultant because he demanded about two-third of a million as per month salary.

Rauf Hassan now lives in a house and gives eighty-thousand (80,000) as house rent, however, he hasn't declared his Income Statement for the previous tax year.

Javed Chaudhry asked Rauf Hassan that, you are raising finger on pro-poor programs like Sasti Roti, Danish School and Aashiana Housing Scheme but you can't see your Fat Salary? 

Finally, Chaudhry advised PTI Chairman and said, Imran Khan, if you want a Real Revolution then please ask your party member to deposit his Fat Salary back in the National Exchequer, otherwise there is no benefit of having a Change for the Sake of Change.

Imran Khan chalked out current political strategy with Kayani & Pasha

According to Asia Time Online, Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan chalked out his current political strategy in a series of meetings with Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani and DG ISI Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha.

Few months ago, two rival Political Leaders of the Pakistani people such as Altaf Hussain and Imran Khan have decided to bury the hatchet (along with the Inquiry of twelfth (12) May Killings and the Scotland Yard Investigations) and have vowed to work together from now on.

There had been reports of Imran Khan meeting with the American Ambassador Cameron Munter, Lieutenant General Pasha and General Ashfaq Kayani for weeks, for chalking out future political possibilities. PTI has been denying these reports suspiciously noisily with understandably counterproductive results.

As new details are coming to light, few will believe the depths being plumbed by some in our media and politics. Asia Times Online wrote:

"In the second week of March, Imran Khan held a long meeting with the US Ambassador in Islamabad, Cameron Munter. A few days later a major shift in his politics surprised many. Imran Khan produced a statement supportive of MQM policies despite formerly filing a money laundering case against MQM Leader Altaf Hussain in a British court.

A prominent Urdu Media Commentator of right-wing leanings (Haroon-ur-Rasheed), who is close to both Imran Khan and Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani, arranged a series of meetings between the two which eventually led to a consensus around Imran Khan becoming the next leader of the country."

Moreover, The Sunday Times went one step further and reported that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan was introduced to Cameron Munter, American Ambassador to Pakistan, in the presence of DG ISI Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha.

According to the information in the articles, the conspiracy has Imran Khan in the starring role and involves:

• ISI is working towards Mid-Term Elections before the scheduled date of February 2013
• ISI will help Imran in setting up Establishment Backed Political Alliance of current decade (Since the 1960s, Army has set up or backed political alliances at the start of all decades, prime examples are PML-C, PPP, PML-J, IJI, PML-Q and PTI respectively).
• A new political alliance of PTI, MQM, APML, and JUI etc. is being planned resulting in a simple majority under Prime Minister Imran Khan.
• Haroon-ur-Rasheed arranged a series of meetings between Imran Khan and General Ashfaq Kayani
• If plans for a political alliance fail, Imran Khan will become the Interim Prime Minister.

Indeed, the characteristics of Pakistani Politics is similar to Lucky Irani Circus...

Look at the video below in which Imran Khan admits to have met with DG ISI Lieutenant General Pasha over political affairs.

In the following video, Sana Bucha, the host of Crossfire TV Program, asks Umer Cheema of PTI, about the mystery of Imran Khan's source of information on 30th October that, "it was actually Pakistan's Ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani involved in the Memogate Scandal", where as apart from Imran Khan, only three persons i.e. Mansoor Ejaz, Hussain Haqqani and DG ISI Lieutenant General Pasha were aware of it. The name of Hussain Haqqani was not publicized by Mansoor Ejaz until 13th November, but somehow, this information was leaked to Imran Khan by a "Secret Person".

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Update 20th November: The Sunday Times reported that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan was introduced to Cameron Munter, American Ambassador to Pakistan, in the presence of DG ISI Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha.

Update 21st November: An ISPR Spokesman has categorically and strongly denied a report which appeared in Sunday Times, claiming that PTI Chairman Imran Khan was introduced to US Ambassador Cameron Munter in Pakistan in the presence of DG ISI Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha.

However, the denial does not deny the existence of the meeting between Munter and Khan, as it only denies the role of ISI in facilitating that meeting.

Update 10th December: The Sunday Times has published a correction and reported that Mr Khan met Mr Munter, but not in the presence of General Pasha.

Qureshi to join PPP-Bhutto lead by Fatima Bhutto

Despite the unambiguous announcement made by none other than Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan that the Former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi resigned to join his party, most of Qureshi's close associates kept insisting that, he was in no haste to join PTI and is more interested in joining PPP (Shaeed Bhutto) under the leadership of Fatima Bhutto or Zulfikar Bhutto Junior.

Earlier, after Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s resignation, Imran Khan had clearly said on a popular talk show that the Former Foreign Minister resigned to join his party. He rather asserted that the public meeting that Shah Mahmood Qureshi intended to address in Ghotki will also be a PTI show.

However, despite the unambiguous announcement made by none other than Imran Khan regarding Qureshi’s next step, most of Qureshi's close associates kept insisting that he was in no haste to join Imran Khan.

One experienced PPP MNA from the Saraiki Belt sell the story that Shah Mahmood Qureshi did not like Imran Khan’s "telling it all too soon" attitude. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, he claimed, had a clearly chalked out plan. The first step is to hold a public rally on the border of Punjab and Sindh to prove his support in the Seraiki belt and Sindh. Only after showing his popularity, does Qureshi want to negotiate the terms for joining either PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) or PML (Nawaz) or PTI.

Before the intended negotiations, however, he wants to revive "The PPP of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto,” the MNA said. He added that Qureshi is discreetly talking to Mumtaz Bhutto. With the help of the patriarch Bhutto, Shah Mahmood Qureshi desires to persuade Ghinwa Bhutto, the widow of slain Mir Murtaza Bhutto, that she should either send Fatima Bhutto or Zulfikar Bhutto Junior to the rally he plans to hold at Ghotki.  "Imran Khan has subverted his whole game," claimed the MNA, "and being a Makhdoom of elitist pedigree, Shah Mahmood Qureshi might find it hard to swallow."

Update 27th November: Former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi made the announcement during his address to a large public meeting in the presence of PTI Chief Imran Khan at Ghotki, Sindh.

Zardari's Air Indus to replace PIA

President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari is going to launch Air Indus alias Indus Airlines, his private airline to replace the ailing PIA, the national flag carrier, being pushed to dead-end deliberately just to pave the way for his new private airline.

Air Indus alias Indus Airlines, is reportedly owned by Faryal Talpur MNA, sister of President Asif Ali Zardari and is registered in Bahamas Islands. It is further reported that the news of PIA planes’ crash landings, technical faults and flights delays were being propagated purposefully on daily basis and despite repeated call no step had been taken for complete overhaul of the airline so that the PIA could be declared bankrupt and unfeasible entity.

The sources said that the airline will be run by former Managing Director PIA Ijaz Haroon, who was removed as MD PIA after prolong strike and protest by PIA employees and pilots.

The website of the Air Indus, cached at Google, said that the airline will be launched soon. According to the site, which displays the routes of the airline through map, the airline will run its flights to almost all domestic stations in Pakistan to which the PIA currently operates flights. The airline will operative flight on almost all domestic routes, besides major international routes.

Interesting, the domestic routes of the airline include those on which no private airline currently runs flight and as per PIA management, these routes are financially unviable such as flight from Peshawar to Chitral and Rawalpindi to Gilgit and Skardu.

Update 2nd January: Air Indus alias Indus Airlines has been granted approval by the Civil Aviation Authority. Pakistan Air Lines has demanded that Indus Airlines' Licence be cancelled.

Moreover, Indus has already acquired an office at the Jinnah International Airport, which is not operational yet. The company has hinted that it plans to start its operations by Mid-March. The company has hired Executive Officers from PIA as well as other Airlines, but has not yet decided about the types of Aircraft it will induct in its fleet.

A spokesperson for Indus said the Airline is a consortium of various companies, has acquired offices and is hiring staff in different departments.

The airline will host an inauguration ceremony soon where further details will be provided to the media, the spokesperson added.

Zardari's secret messages to Mike Mullen for removal of Military Leadership

President Zardari's Secret Messenger Mansoor Ejaz said "I have the facts — ALL THE FACTS". And so he provided all the evidence related to Zardari's request through Mike Mullen for removal of Military Leadership including clipping ISI after which Mike Mullen launched his astonishing attacks on ISI and Pakistan.

Mansoor Ejaz further said, without compromising names or the highly sensitive content of the memorandum, I am providing a sampling of the truth in my possession to set the record straight. My purpose is to give sufficient evidence to insure:

That there can be no doubt a request was made of me by a senior Pakistan government official, not that I asked to be involved in this matter. Neither did I offer to do anything until I asked senior current and former US officials whether there was receptivity to what the Pakistani official had authorized me to discuss with them.

That there can be no doubt a memorandum was drafted and transmitted to Admiral Mullen with the approval of the highest political level in Pakistan, and that the admiral received it with certainty from a source whom he trusted and who also trusted me. It was a source the admiral would not, and according to e-mail traffic in my possession, did not ignore.

That there can be no doubt proof exists of the admiral acknowledging receipt of the memorandum. Whether he chose to do anything with the memorandum or not, I cannot know and do not care — my responsibility was to see that the memo got into his hands safely. The visible actions of both governments in the aftermath of that memorandum being delivered demonstrate that if it was not a source of content for those actions, the actions taken by both the US and Pakistan even as recently as the past few weeks track closely with the offers made by Pakistan on May 10th.

That the public should know a persistent effort has been made by an array of Pakistanis, particularly by the diplomat who fears his name will be divulged, in the weeks following publication of my opinion piece to persuade, pressure, intimidate and even threaten me to not make further disclosures about the events of May 9th and 10th. The solicitation of a denial from Admiral Mullen was their last gasp hope in trying to shut me up. Obviously it did not work.

The data set forth below is divided into three categories. The first deals with dates on which the intervention was requested from me and some of the key communications at points during those three days to give an overview of how the intervention took shape. The second deals with communications I had with the Pakistani official in an effort to stop further disclosures that would compromise the Zardari government. And the third deals with Admiral Mullen’s press statement of November 10 disavowing any knowledge of the memorandum or the circumstances in which he got it.

I have withheld, pending an official investigation by certain organs of Pakistan’s government, names, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of those involved — this data will only be provided to the official bodies who request them from me and who demonstrate their independence and concern for learning the truth from these facts. The memorandum will remain out of public view unless the official bodies of Pakistan’s government deem it appropriate to release it.

THE MEMORANDUM 

From about midday on May 9th until the afternoon of May 12th, I set forth below a sampling of BBM messages and times and dates as well as durations of calls with content to give an overview of the timeline in skeleton form. Much more data exists than has been shown here. The data set is complete. It can withstand any forensic examination required and can be verified if and when the need arises to give official bodies an accounting of what happened on those days. At the outset, the first BBM message sent as set forth below was unsolicited and sent by the Pakistani official to me on Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:31pm. The timeline develops from this first instance of contact with the Pakistani official — prior to this unsolicited message, we had not had any material communications for several months. All times noted are Central European Time (with US time calculated to be six hours behind). 

BBM refers to BlackBerry messages.
E-M refers to E-mails.

• BBM 05/09/2011 12:31 [PAK OFFICIAL-NAME REDACTED]: Are you in London? I am here just for 36 hours. Can we meet for after dinner coffee or s’thing?
• BBM 05/09/2011 12:32 Mansoor IJAZ: I’m in Monaco but it’s no problem for me to fly up. Takes 90 minutes. What time did you have in mind? Where do you want to meet?
• BBM 05/09/2011 12:35 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Pls call me. I’m at [NAME OF HOTEL, TEL NO. AND ROOM NUMBER REDACTED]
• BBM 05/09/2011 12:35 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Waiting for ur call now 
• TEL 05/09/2011 12:35:49 [TEL# REDACTED] call to Pakistan official at his request during which notes were taken to frame outline of memo. duration of call 16:03 
• TEL 05/09/2011 12:58:06 [TEL# REDACTED] call to US contact, duration of call 02:25 
• TEL 05/09/2011 13:54:31 [TEL# REDACTED] call to US contact, duration of call 19:26 Memorandum was formulated, edited and sent for Pakistani approval during the balance of the day of May 9th. 
• E-M 05/09/2011 18:32 E-MAIL FROM IJAZ to PAK OFFICIAL: first draft of the Memorandum to review, edit and get approved 
• BBM 05/09/2011 18:38 Mansoor IJAZ: The message I sent is what MM will see. It will be given directly to him and no one else 
• BBM 05/09/2011 18:59 Mansoor IJAZ: My friend in DC simply said too many people have been burned in the past two years on the US side and he wanted to insure that on such a sensitive subject, the data and proposal are clear. This is you to me, me to him. He trusts me enough to know I won’t bring it forward unless it has top level approval. [SENTENCE RELATING TO NAMES REDACTED]. So get whatever message you want delivered back to me and I’ll insure it gets in MM’s hands. Best. M 
• BBM 05/10/2011 00:29 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Msg recvd. Tweaking. Middile of road option sounds good. Will call morning. 
• E-M 05/10/2011 02:04 E-MAIL FROM IJAZ TO US CONTACT with final agreed draft of Memorandum, pending one final approval from Pakistani official to confirm agreement on content and agreement to go ahead with delivery to Admiral Mullen 
• BBM 05/10/2011 08:47 Mansoor IJAZ: You have mail from two of my mailboxes. Please read, respond and then we have one last short discussion before I put everything in motion. Thanks. M 
• TEL 05/10/2011 09:06:16 [TEL# REDACTED] call to Pakistan official, duration of call 11:16 — during this call, the official gave me his consent and told me he had “approval from the boss” to proceed 
• E-M 05/10/2011 14:04 RETURN RECEIPT of E-mail from US contact sent at 02:04am (at his local time 08:04am) which contained the Memorandum
• TEL 05/10/2011 14:51:33 [TEL# REDACTED] call to US contact (at his local time 08:51), duration of call 02:55 — informed the contact that we had a GO from Zardari and that the memo I had sent him at 02:04am was final and could be delivered to Admiral Mullen 
• BBM 05/10/2011 14:57 Mansoor IJAZ: Message delivered with caveat that he has to decide how hard to push — we only set the table. He must decide if he wants one course meal or seven course meal. Ball is in play now — make sure you have protected your flanks
• E-M 05/11/2011 20:06 E-MAIL FROM US CONTACT TO IJAZ stating “Mansoor, message delivered, Best [NAME REDACTED]” A meeting took place during the afternoon of May 11 in which senior Pakistani officials and senior US officials were present. The purpose of the back-channel memorandum as conceived by the Pakistani official was to give the US side sufficient incentive in the form of the memo’s high-quality deliverables that it wouldappear innocuous to Pakistani intelligence and military officials accompanying certain political officers of the government to the meeting if and when AdmiralMullen delivered a strong rebuke against any military intervention that might displace the civilian government in the days following the raid. The Pakistani official called me after the meeting had taken place and was almost gleeful that Admiral Mullen had agreed to take certain actions in line withwhat was asked of him and that it would all remain within the normal course of inter-agency dealings in his role as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. We can no longer exclude the possibility that the civilian apparatus needed to create the specter of a coup — when none actually existed — to divert attentionaway from….. well, let’s leave that for another day. We continue with the data and stick to the facts.
• BBM 05/12/2011 00:36 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Call me on my cell
• BBM 05/12/2011 00:37 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Also, M in ur msgs above referred to the Admiral, right?
• BBM 05/12/2011 00:37 Mansoor IJAZ: Yes 
• BBM 05/12/2011 00:54 Mansoor IJAZ: Clarification. M at the end of a message is Mansoor. M or MM in the text of a message is the admiral. Apologies for any confusion.
• E-M 05/12/2011 01:44 E-MAIL FROM US CONTACT TO IJAZ confirming time of delivery when Admiral Mullen received the Memorandum and that Admiral Mullen had called the US contact (the remaining content of this e-mail is not for public disclosure)
• BBM 05/12/2011 02:47 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Thanx. On way to [LOCATION REDACTED]. Will touch base on return
• BBM 05/12/2011 02:54 Mansoor IJAZ: Good luck. Let me know at any time if you need any help

ORCHESTRATING THE ADMIRAL’S DENIAL

I wrote the FT opinion piece, ultimately published on October 10th, back in September, a few days after Admiral Mullen testified in Congress at his final hearing about the complicity of Pakistan’s military and intelligence services in certain attacks on United States and NATO interests. I wrote the piece because I felt Admiral Mullen, whom I do not know personally but have admired greatly for his steady hand in dealing with a tough bunch, had been harshly mistreated by Pakistan’s press corps for stating an essential and existential truth.

I felt it was important for the public at large to understand that he had genuinely tried to do something about the problem as he navigated the complex relationship between Washington and Islamabad, and that the failures cropping up in the bilateral relationship were not for a lack of trying to fix things. I opened the piece with the brief anecdote of what had been done in May to highlight the tangible actions that had been taken to deal with the growing interference and threat posed by extremist segments of the military and intelligence communities in Pakistan.

I did not imagine at the time I wrote the piece that Pakistan’s press corps would only latch on to the issue of a secret memorandum being issued without public (or at least wider government agency) knowledge or that the Pakistani official who asked me to make sure it got into Admiral Mullen’s hands could view anything we had done as wrong for the survival of the civilian government. Unfortunately, as I have learned over and over in dealing with Pakistan’s leaders through four government changes since 1994, they just cannot avoid dissimulation — being something other than what they pretend to be.

On October 28th, after a week of press releases, op-ed pieces and editorials in the Pakistani press regarding the Memorandum, my role in delivering it, the expected denials of the Foreign Office and the tongue-lashing of my good name, I and the Pakistani official who started this all shared an interesting exchange of messages via BlackBerry — perhaps the last communications we will ever have. The full details of that exchange will remain private, except for a few interesting remarks that foretold what was being planned in eliciting the Mullen denial — which I’ll deal with in the next segment.

These exchanges demonstrated the increasing tension, hostility, anxiety and frustration of the Pakistani official in not being able to control a monster of his own making. It also showed the desperation of himself and his bosses to head off a coming storm in accounting for their actions. A review of the partial BBM messenger transcript between myself and the Pakistani official which began on the day after Pakistan’s Foreign Office issued its version of the Mullen denial sets the record straight with crystal clarity:

• 10/28/2011 21:37 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Basically you don’t get it
• 10/28/2011 21:37 [PAK OFFICIAL]: You have given hardliners in Pak Mil reason to argue there was an effort to get US to conspire against Pak Mil
• 10/28/2011 21:38 [PAK OFFICIAL]: I will make sure FO shuts up
• 10/28/2011 21:38 Mansoor IJAZ: Okay, well I know my IQ is pretty low so you are probably correct in saying I just don’t get it.
• 10/28/2011 21:39 [PAK OFFICIAL]: The Pak press be damned
• 10/28/2011 21:39 [PAK OFFICIAL]: I stand by you as a man of integrity werving his country
• 10/28/2011 21:40 Mansoor IJAZ: But from my point of view, if there was a real threat, as you stated at the time, it is clear you were trying to save a democratic structure from those hawks
• 10/28/2011 21:41 [PAK OFFICIAL]: You get to write the book on how you changed US-Pak dynamic and won the war in A’tan (w/ some help from a Paki nerd)
• 10/28/2011 21:42 Mansoor IJAZ: I was happy to get the message in the back door because it served American interests to preserve the democratic civilian setup and the offers made, if achieved, were very much congruent with American objectives in the region
• 10/28/2011 21:42 [PAK OFFICIAL]: True that, friend. But you know premature revelation ain’t good
• 10/28/2011 21:43 Mansoor IJAZ: As far as I can see, we did right. Unless there is something I don’t see here. But then I’m sorta dumb from down on the farm where them hillbillies live
• 10/28/2011 21:43 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Hey! Don’t run down hillbillies
• 10/28/2011 21:44 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Even the smartest can miss a piece of the puzzle
• 10/28/2011 21:46 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Let this one go. There is much to do. MUCH. [REDACTED]
• 10/28/2011 21:47 [PAK OFFICIAL]: We’ll make things happen and if we can’t, we’ll write a book about it
• 10/28/2011 21:48 [PAK OFFICIAL]: The debate abt your oped has caused my detractors to put pressure on my boss

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• 10/28/2011 21:54 [PAK OFFICIAL]: It is folks at State who got pissed off by your mission
• 10/28/2011 21:54 Mansoor IJAZ: Which mission? Sudan, Kashmir, there were so many they got pissed off about. [REDACTED]
• 10/28/2011 21:54 [PAK OFFICIAL]: The latest one
• 10/28/2011 21:55 Mansoor IJAZ: Yeah, I got it. You’re right!
• 10/28/2011 21:58 Mansoor IJAZ: Anyway, State will always hate me because I don’t accept their muddling way of doing things
• 10/28/2011 22:03 [PAK OFFICIAL]: I don’t know for a fact but I won’t be surprised if the FO statement was prompted by someone here
• 10/28/2011 22:11 [PAK OFFICIAL]: And now they hate me more when folks [REDACTED] who hate me tell them you and I might have been together on s’thing (whether we were or not is irrelevant to them)
• 10/28/2011 22:12 [PAK OFFICIAL]: That’s why I have been requesting you to let this one go
• 10/28/2011 22:12 [PAK OFFICIAL]: That takes attention off me
• 10/28/2011 22:13 Mansoor IJAZ: Hmmmmmmmmm……. Not sure anything could take attention off you
• 10/28/2011 22:16 Mansoor IJAZ: Did we really solve a true problem or was this all smoke and mirrors?
• 10/28/2011 22:16 Mansoor IJAZ: I mean on those days of stress…
• 10/28/2011 22:23 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Too early to say re solution
• 10/28/2011 22:28 [PAK OFFICIAL]: I think we save the situation from an extremely violent outcome

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• 11/01/2011 22:06 Mansoor IJAZ: Hi buddy, I understand you/ your foreign office hacks are commissioning hatchet pieces against me. Unfortunate…. very unfortunate
• 11/01/2011 22:31 [PAK OFFICIAL]: I will enquire and stop them. There’s no need for any of this.
• 11/01/2011 22:31 [PAK OFFICIAL]: You haven’t helped by engaging so much w/ Pak media.
• 11/01/2011 22:32 [PAK OFFICIAL]: What happened to the ‘silent soldier’?
• 11/01/2011 22:34 Mansoor IJAZ: Roger that
• 11/01/2011 22:38 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Are you sure your side won’t deny?
• 11/01/2011 22:38 Mansoor IJAZ: No, maybe they will. But that would also be a mistake. Too much proof on that side as well.
• 11/01/2011 22:39 [PAK OFFICIAL]: But does “proving” help anything?
• 11/01/2011 22:39 [PAK OFFICIAL]: Is it not the nature of a private mission that officials deny it?
• 11/01/2011 22:41 Mansoor IJAZ: Don’t know. Don’t care. My point is simple — I’ve said what I was going to. Attacks on my person will not be tolerated. And my statement stands. Stop telling lies about me and I might just stip telling the truth about you
• 11/01/2011 22:42 [PAK OFFICIAL]: If you were to listen to my advice, you would let this blow over and prove yourself afterwards. You are the one who will outlast the flying s***
• 11/01/2011 22:43 [PAK OFFICIAL]: That is usually my strategy: be there when the others have self-destructed or blown over

The most alarming exchange was on November 1st when the diplomat asked me, presciently as it turned out when Foreign Policy published its article 9 days later, whether my side (meaning the US officials with whom we had communicated) would not deny the existence of the memorandum, etc. It was a threat in plain sight — a polite reminder that this Pakistani expert in media management would insure a denial by Pakistan would be matched by a denial in the US with the messenger damned in between. Meanwhile, his name would remain hidden. And his role in all this would be left for further expounding on in his new book.

One final note on this entire episode. Once the Pakistani official figured out I was not one he could cow down, intimidate, persuade or threaten, he deleted me from his BlackBerry contact list in the hopes that any conversation between us would automatically get deleted as well. He did this on or about November 6, three days before the Foreign Policy piece was published. An interesting coincidence…. trying to erase history as if it never happened….

I leave it to the readers to decide who did what to whom, when and for what purpose — the facts are now sufficiently enunciated to give anyone who views this story with an unjaundiced eye a clear view of the events that took place in May, and the Herculean effort to cover it all up during the past one month since I wrote my views in the FT.

Update 17th November: Former Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Mike Mullen has acknowledged that he received Mansoor Ejaz's Memo, Mullen's Spokesman John Kirby said.

Update 20th November: Mansoor Ejaz met DG ISI Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha on the eve of 22nd October, in a Park Lane Intercontinental Hotel room in London. The meeting started around 6:30 PM and lasted for over four hours. During the meeting, Mansoor Ejaz was exhaustively grilled over his claims and that Mansoor handed a fairly large quantity of records, both copies and originals.

Earlier, Mansoor Ejaz had said in several statements that the full data and evidence of the Memo was given to the official including records of phone calls, SMS messages, BBM chat exchanges, emails etc.

Update 22nd November: Heads have started to roll, as the Memogate Scandal has cost the Pakistan Ambassador to United States Hussain Haqqani his job. Haqqani has tendered his resignation and expressed readiness to face an inquiry before the Top Military and Political Leadership here at the President House. 
 

Dr Aafia the 'Grey Ghost Lady of Bagram' : US Cable

Dr Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani Neuroscientist who disappeared with her three young children in Karachi on 30th March, 2003, and did not reappear until 17th July, 2008, in Afghanistan. She was then rendered to the United States, where she was put on trial for attempted murder, and was convicted and given an Eighty Six (86) year prison sentence a year ago. 

However, there are many reason to doubt the official narrative about her capture in 2008, and her whereabouts for the previous five years.

A US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks has confirmed that Dr Aafia was indeed the 'Grey Ghost Lady of Baghram' or 'Prisoner 650', and was in US custody in Bagram. According to the cable, US diplomats in Pakistan stated that "Bagram officials have assured us that they have not been holding Siddiqui for the last four years, as has been alleged, in fact they only got hold of her a couple of years ago".

MQM confessed involvement in 12th May Killings: US Cable

Senior Leader of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Dr Farooq Sattar has confessed that MQM workers were involved in the 12th May, 2007 Killings in Karachi, reveals WikiLeaks.

A US Diplomatic Cable sent from Karachi to Washington on 17th May 2007 contained details of a fourty minute phone conversation between Farooq Sattar and Charge d'affaires US Consulate Peter Boday. During the conversation Sattar admitted that certain members of his party were involved in the 12th May incident and the party should consider unarming its militant wing.

The details of another US Diplomatic Cable sent from Islamabad on 16th May 2007 says that the British High Commission has informed US that, on 9th May, British Diplomats attempted to convince MQM Parliamentary Leader Farooq Sattar to postpone the MQM’s 12th May Pro-Musharraf Demonstration so that it would not compete with the Chief Justice’s Rally in Karachi. Sattar refused, but assured the Diplomats that the MQM Demonstrations would not be violent. Sattar stressed at the time that violence was not in the Party’s interest. An Embassy Contact reported on 15th May that Sattar had had no foreknowledge of plans for violence. Sattar reportedly told Government Officials that the decision to go ahead with the Demonstration was "Not his Recommendation". He hinted that he was overruled by MQM’s Leader-in-Exile, Altaf Hussain.

It is worth noted that on 14th & 15th May, Sattar apologized to Journalists for Armed Attacks on Aaj Television’s Karachi Office on 12th May. Sattar has not acknowledged any responsibility for the broader breakdown in Law and Order.

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Altaf Hussain's letter to British PM is authentic : DG ISI

The Director General of ISI Ahmad Shuja Pasha has confirmed the authenticity of the alleged letter of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain addressed to then British Prime Minister Tony Blair and termed it "authentic".

DG ISI said the copy of the letter, which was referred to by Former Senior Sindh Minister Dr. Zulfikar Mirza in his recent press conference and is also available on the Internet, is "genuine". 

The Leader of MQM and Former Karachi Mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal has however already termed the letter presented by Zulfiqar Mirza before the media as "fake and false". He had claimed that the address of MQM’s London Headquarter written in the letter was fake and the letter seems "self content".

But contrary to MQM's stance, the Official Website of Muttahida Qaumi Movement has proved MQM's claim as wrong, i.e. a Press Release posted on MQM’s Official Website "WHAT NAZARIA-E-PAKISTAN IS? – ALTAF HUSSAIN" and dated 26th October 2000 carries the same address which MQM Leader Mustafa Kamal had termed as "fake".

Moreover, MQM’s Former Senior Leader and Victim Dr. Imran Farooq had reappeared from this office being used as Headquarter before moving to the new offices in Middle Sex, London. 

The copy of the alleged letter shows the MQM Chief Altaf Hussain seeking disbandment of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) in return to offering his party’s services to ground human intelligence within Pakistan and in Afghanistan for the British and other Western Intelligence Agencies. The alleged letter also sought foreign interference into country’s domestic affairs, political and administrative. 

The following is the operative part of the alleged letter written on 23rd September 2001 by Altaf Hussain to Tony Blair: 

“Hon. Tony Blair M P

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

10 Downing Street

London W1

Dear Prime Minister

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) categorically stands against all sorts of terrorism, religious fanaticism and violence, and favours genuine democracy.

We can provide the following:

1. Many demonstration in Karachi in favour of the International Community combating terrorism within five days notices after this agreement being signed, putting hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Karachi (provided the permission of the Government of Pakistan is secured). First demonstration is scheduled for 26th September 2001 in Karachi, the port city of Pakistan.

2. Provide unlimited resources for humint throughout the towns and villages in the province of Sindh and the province of Punjab to some extent, to monitor the activities of fundamentalists and Taliban led organizations, and also to monitor the activities of “Madrasas” (Religious Schools).

3. To ensure select groups to penetrate Afghanistan in the form of aid workers so as to enhance the Western Agencies intelligence information capabilities.

In return for this assistance, we would seek assurances to achieve the following minimum objectives, which would be held essential for ourselves and for the good of Pakistan as a whole. Our objectives are as follows:

a) Equitable participation in the governance of the province of Sindh and the Federation as partners, genuinely.

b) Equitable participation in all spheres of life, including education, employments, army and administration.

c) That we would need local policing consisting of Muhajirs and Sindhis.

d) That full autonomy be granted to the provinces with Federation keeping only three subjects; Defence, Foreign Affairs and Currency control; and in these sectors equal representation from all provinces be guaranteed.

e) ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence Agency) the secret agency must be disbanded otherwise the ISI will continue to produce may Osama-bin-Ladens and Talibans in future.

I hope that you would be kind enough to seriously consider my offer for the benefit of Pakistan, should any geo-strategic and commercial relevance of Pakistan left for the United Kingdom and the Intelligence Community.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

With best wishes and warmest regards.

Yours sincerely

Altaf Hussain

Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM).”

Zardari wanted to keep 17th Amendment for saving NRO : US Cable

President Asif Ali Zardari wanted to keep the infamous Seventeenth (17th) Amendment intact for saving NRO, that ensured the safety of his personal assets built by corruption, revealed WikiLeaks.

In a secret cable of 21st March, 2009, the US Ambassador Anne Patterson wrote to Washington the details of her meeting with President Zardari held on 18th March.

Anne Patterson told Washington that President Zardari told that he was not interested in repealing the Seventeenth Amendment despite pressure from PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s announcement of nullifying the Amendment on public demand.

The cable also revealed that the President also signaled that he would try to limit the powers of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, because it is the only way to safe guard his (Zardari's) personal assets.

President Zardari complained the US Ambassador that the US and UK governments did not support him properly in the crises time.

Anne Patterson further wrote that she was not hopeful that President Zardari would implement the announcements made by Prime Minister Gilani on public demand.

MQM seeked US help against Pashtuns & Punjabis : US Cable

The Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) asked the United States for help against the Pashtuns and the Punjabis, claimed an April 2009 US Embassy Wire, released by Wikileaks.

The wire, headlined "MQM Principles and Conspiracy", covers a meeting of US Embassy Charge d'Affairs Gerald Feierstein with Senior MQM Leaders Farooq Sattar and Haider Abbas Rizvi. 

According to the wire, Haider Abbas Rizvi claimed Taliban maintain safe houses and weapon stashes in Pashtun neighborhoods. Glossing over his own party's reputation for political retribution.

Moreover, Rizvi claimed Muhajirs were outgunned by the Pashtun.

As usual Farooq Sattar and Haider Abbas Rizvi asserted the conspiracy of Pakistan's establishment stoking ethnic rivalry, designed to keep Punjabis in power. The Charged d'Affairs met with Sattar and Rizvi to discuss their party's stance against the recently signed Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, their ideas for a GOP (Government of Pakistan) response and the potential for violence in the mega-city their party controls.

Sattar said he had predicted the failure of dialogue with the frontier militants and advocated a strong military response. He asserted that, though part of the ruling coalition, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) had not confided any counter-terrorism strategic plans and surprised MQM (and apparently PPP members too) with an April 13 Parliamentary Resolution, endorsing the regulations. He suggested that all major political parties approach the Army to request immediate action against the Taliban.

Rizvi complained that fellow coalition partner Awami National Party (ANP) was fanning Pashtun ethno-nationalism in Karachi, and still moving forward with plans for a controversial May 12 Commemoration of 2007 Intra-Party Violence.

Farooq Sattar requested Embassy intervention to get the ANP to call off the day's events. He was seized with the national-level extremist threat precipitated by Parliament's endorsement and President Zardari's signing of the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation on April 13.

Turning to the security threats within the mega city his party controls, Sattar complained about the ANP's planned demonstration on May 12, marking the Second Anniversary of Inter-Party Violence. The Pashtun-based ANP was fanning ethnic tensions for electoral gains, he argued and repeated Kamal's request for Embassy's intervention with the ANP to cancel the event.

Although the May 12 ANP demonstration was called off subsequently, the violent outburst on April 29 serves as an unneeded reminder of the potential for these ethnic tensions to boil over quickly. "Despite their claims of innocence, we expect the MQM, with its own violent history, is prepared for that possibility."

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