Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmed ( ur, ; born 1935), , also known as Imtiaz Billa, is a retired

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in the

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, and former spy, who served as the Director-General of the

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from 1990 to 1993. After a brief time in

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in the

Pakistan Army The Pakistan Army (, ) is the Army, land service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The roots of its modern existence trace back to the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India, Partition of British India, wh ...

, his career was mostly spent at the

Inter-Services Intelligence The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; ur, , bayn khadamatiy mukhabarati) is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant ...

(ISI) agency, where he was responsible for running

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before serving in the civilian Intelligence Bureau. In 1989, his military commission was discharged when he was implicated in the

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political scandal in trying to sabotage then-Pakistani Prime Minister

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...

's administration. In 2001, Ahmed was convicted by the anti-corruption court when NAB prosecuted him on monetary

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. Ahmed is a controversial figure in Pakistan, having been accused of involvement in the custodial death of

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leader

Nazeer Abbasi Nazeer Abbasi () (b. April 10, 1953 — d. August 9, 1980) was the youngest member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Pakistan. He was tortured to death on August 9, 1980 in government of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq while in the custody o ...

in 1980. He was later accused of having foreknowledge of the plane crash that resulted in the death of President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, CJCSC Gen. Akhtar Abdur Rahman and other dignitaries in 1988.

Biography

Imtiaz Ahmed was born into a

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family in

Gujranwala Gujranwala ( ur, , label=none; ) is a city and capital of Gujranwala Division located in Pakistan. It is also known as "City of Wrestlers" and is quite famous for its food. It is the 5th most populous city proper after Karachi, Lahore, Faisala ...

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on 4 June 1935, according to the Indian author, P.C. Joshi. After

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, he joined the

and entered the

Pakistan Military Academy Pakistan Military Academy ( ur, ), also referred to by its acronym PMA. PMA is an officers training school located near Kakul village in the city and district of Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa established in 1947. It is the sole service academy ...

Kakul Kakul (Kakol) is a village situated in the Tehsil and District Abbottabad, at an elevation of 1300 metres, 5 km northeast of center of Abbottabad city near the Thandiani Hills. Abbottabad is a District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Paki ...

. He decided to attend the Military College of Engineering in

Risalpur Risalpur (Pashto/ ur, رسالپور) is a city in Nowshera District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on the Nowshera-Mardan Road. It is nearly 45 km from Peshawar and 18 km from Mardan and is located at 34°4'52N 71°58'21E. In a basin so ...

. He graduated with a

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(B.S.) in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

, and earned a commission as a

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(2nd-Lt.) in the

Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers "The Moving Spirit" , colors = , colors_label = Colours , march = , mascot = , equipment = , equipment_label = , ...

in 1960. His career was largely spent in the Army Corps of Engineers, and he served on the combat engineering formations during the

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 or the Second Kashmir War was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was d ...

, Pakistan's second war with India, and

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 Decem ...

their third war with India. After 1971, Ahmed was directed to attend the staff course at the Command and Staff College in

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. Due to his cunning and greenish 'feline' eye color, Ahmed was well known by his codename in the ISI as " ''billa''" (the male cat). In the late 1970s, he joined the

(ISI) as a security analyst and remained associated with Pakistan's intelligence community for many years. In 1979, as a Major, Ahmed was posted on a security assignment to the

Karachi Nuclear Power Plant The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (or KANUPP) is a large commercial nuclear power plant located at the Paradise Point in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Officially known as Karachi Nuclear Power Complex, the power generation site is composed of three ...

(KANUPP), involved in running

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s and providing covert security to the technicians working on the power plant. In 1979, he became aware of a

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(CIA) '

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' working as an engineer, who was trying to seek security details on the commercial nuclear power plant for

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purposes. After thoroughly running background checks, Ahmad identified the suspected mole, and that eventually led to ' Operation Rising Sun', a sting operation that resulted in the successful arrest and conviction of a local Pakistani CIA agent, declaration of a few undercover CIA agents and diplomats at the U.S. Consulate General in Karachi as ''

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'', and their return to the United States. The details and veracity of this assignment has been criticized in an editorial written in ''Dawn'', whose investigations identified the engineer who was working for the

Karachi Electric Electric (KE) ( ur, ) (formerly known as Karachi Electric Supply Company / Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Limited) is a Pakistani investor-owned utility company based in Karachi. K-Electric is a privately owned and vertically-integrated e ...

(KE)

electric power transmission Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation. The interconnected lines that facilitate this movement form a ''transmission network''. This is ...

, and who had been a prominent member of the

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

, not working for the KANUPP nuclear power plant as claimed by Ahmed.

Secrecy: policy and secrets

In 1980,

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(Lt-Col.) Ahmed joined the Joint Counterintelligence Bureau (JCIB), mainly working in

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management and overseeing anti-communist operations in

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. In 1981, he began investigating the militant

Al-Zulfiqar Al-Zulfiqar was a Pakistani left-wing Insurgency organization. It was formed in 1979 by Murtaza Bhutto and Shahnawaz Bhutto after their father, then-Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was deposed in a military coup and execute ...

group, after the

1981 Pakistan International Airlines hijacking Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326 was hijacked by the militant insurgency group Al-Zulfiqar, led by Murtaza Bhutto, in March 1981. The hijacking went on for thirteen days, starting on the 2nd of March, and ending on the 15th. It was a ...

, eventually expanding their spying on the leaders of the

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led by

in 1982–85. From 1983 to 1988, he also monitored the

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judicial probe that implicated the journalists

Jam Saqi Jam Saqi (Sindhi: ڄام ساقي) (October 31, 1944 – March 5, 2018) popularly known as Comrade Jam Saqi, was a left-wing politician from Sindh, Pakistan. He was previously the general secretary of the Communist Party of Pakistan. Saqi was impr ...

and

Sohail Sangi Sohail Sangi ( sd, سهيل سانگي) is a senior journalist and activist of the leftist movement in Pakistan, presently working with the daily newspaper ''Dawn''. He is one of the visiting faculty of the Mass Communication Department at the U ...

, and harboured doubts of foreign funding of the MRD alliance led by Benazir Bhutto. Over this judicial probe, the

politicians leveled accusations of Ahmed's CI Bureau in Sindh of ''wrongfully'' investigating communist

's political ambitions, and whose custody resulted in his death at the hands of the

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. In 1986–87,

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Ahmed was appointed as the Director-General of the

before being posted to take over the directorship of the JCIB in

Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital T ...

when

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(Lt-Gen.)

Akhtar Abdur Rahman Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan NI(M), HI(M), TI(M), SBt (Urdu: اختر عبد الرحمن‎; 11 June 1924 – 17 August 1988), was a Pakistani senior army general who served as the 5th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Pakistan ...

became DG ISI In 1988,

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Ahmed was appointed as director of the Political Wing of the ISI in Islamabad, managing the country's

and tried uniting the

Pakistan National Alliance The Pakistan National Alliance (Urdu: پاکستان قومی اتحاد, Acronym: PNA), was a populist and consolidated right-wing political alliance, consisting of nine political parties of the country. Formed in 1977, the country's leading ...

conservative mass against the left-oriented

(PPP). Due to the complaints of

Naseerullah Babar Major-General Naseerullah Khan Babar (Urdu: نصیر اللہ خان بابر; born 1928 – 10 January 2011) was a Pakistani army officer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 28th Interior Minister of Pakistan from 1993 to 1996. A membe ...

, Security Adviser at the

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, Brig. Ahmad was rotated back to the Corps of Engineers on a construction engineering assignment in

, but his skills of intelligence

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and

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was valuable, so he eventually found a way to secretly serve in the Intelligence Bureau. In 1989, Brig. Imtiaz, in a secret conversation with

Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...

Amir Khan, talked on sponsoring the Members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to the PPP to bring about a

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movement to remove Prime Minister

in order to bring the

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...

(PML(N)), led by its then-President

Fida Mohammad Khan Mufti Fida Mohammad Khan ( ur, مفتی فدا محمد خان 24 November 1919 – 20 December 2007) was a Pakistani conservative economist and lawyer who served as the Governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province under the military governme ...

and his chief secretary

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...

, into the administration. The plan backfired when the conversation was apparently videotaped by the IB and ISI, and was released to the public, which eventually led to General

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, then- Army Chief, to allow

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(MI) to conduct the inquiry in such manner. Both Brig. Ahmed and Major Amir Khan were discharged from their military commissions in 1989. The inquiry remains classified since it is still unclear who the real culprit behind the plot was, or was it under the instructions of the DG ISI

Shamsur Rahman Kallu Shamsur Rahman Kallue ( ur, ; 28 February 1932 - 19 December 1995) was the ninth Director General of the ISI and was in office from May 1989 – August 1990. He also served as a Lieutenant General in the Pakistan Army. Early life and career S ...

. After his discharge in 1989, Ahmed was reportedly employed by then-Chief Minister of Punjab,

, as his Additional Chief Secretary in the Government of Punjab, which he served as until 1990.

Director of IB (1990–93) and Later work

After the

1990 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 24 October 1990 to elect the members of the National Assembly. The elections were primarily a contest between the People's Democratic Alliance (PDA, a four party alliance led by the ruling Pakistan Pe ...

was held, and

was forming his first ministry, Imtiaz Ahmed was re-appointed as the DG Intelligence Bureau . In 1992, he aided in launching of the

Operation Clean-up Operation Clean-up, also known as Operation Blue Fox, was an armed military intelligence program led by the Sindh Police and Pakistan Rangers, with an additional assistance from the Pakistan Army and its related intelligence agencies. Planned ...

armed operation to cleanse Karachi of "anti-social" elements, and ultimately targeting the

Muttahida Qaumi Movement Muttahida Qaumi Movement (abbreviated MQM) is a name currently claimed by two competing Pakistani political factions: * Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London, a political faction managed from the UK * Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan Muttah ...

(MQM) once the

Jinnahpur Jinnahpur refers to a plot in Pakistan to form a breakaway autonomous state to serve as a homeland for the Muhajir people. Overview Mohajirs were refugees who moved to modern-day Pakistan from modern-day India during Partition of India in 1947. ...

conspiracy to partition Karachi from Sindh was unearthed. After the resignations of Prime Minister Sharif and

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, Ahmed resigned from the directorship of the Intelligence Bureau. He termed his resignation as "on principle" on 19 April 1992. In 1997, Ahmed was appointed by Prime Minister Sharif as Director-General of the

Federal Investigation Agency The Federal Investigation Agency ( ur, ; reporting name: FIA) is a border control, criminal investigation, counter-intelligence and security agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, tasked with investigative jurisdictio ...

but the appointment did not come through. In October 1997, Ahmed took over the chairmanship of

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, appointed by its board of directors amid controversy when NTM's chairman Faisal Sher Jan was fired from the channel. He chaired the channel until 1999.

Controversies and allegations

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) secured the plurality after the

1993 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 6 October 1993 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections took place after both the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan resigned to resolve a power struggle. Prior ...

, and Prime Minister Bhutto opened the investigation and inquiry when authorizing the

arrest warrant An arrest warrant is a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual, or the search and seizure of an individual's property. Canada Arrest warrants are issued by a j ...

s of Imtiaz Ahmed on charges of indulging in illegal activities in 1994. The case against him was marked on the political motives, and he was later released due to lack of evidences. After the

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by General

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, the inquiries led by NAB indicted Ahmed on large-scale corruption and misappropriation of funds while serving as the Director of IB, eventually finding him guilty in 2001. He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for corruption, and was released in 2008–09. On 21 September 2010, Imtiaz Ahmed was again arrested along with Adnan Khawaja, the former chairman of the

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(OGDC), and was shifted to

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. In a Supreme Court bench headed by then-

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, who heard the NRO implementation case, Ahmed was arrested from the court by order of the Supreme Court during the hearing of a case relating to the implementation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). On 25 September 2010, the Supreme Court eventually released Ahmed as he already had served his time. His release was given on grounds of his age and medical condition, as he reportedly suffered from

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Foreknowledge of Bahawalpur incident

In 2009

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, the former

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and son of Gen.

, had leveled accusations when he reportedly marked: ''Brig. Imtiaz is the man who encouraged

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to board on the C-130 aircraft which later met an accident. I ask Brig. Imtiaz to explain what led him to play a role in my father's killing'', Humayun Akhtar maintained.

Jinnahpur plan controversy

After his release in 2009, Ahmed became an intelligence commentator and gave several television interviews on intelligence management. He revealed that the

conspiracy was fabricated while giving more information on the Operation Midnight Jackal secret funding of political parties against the PPP.Who is behind the 'get Nawaz' campaign?

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26 August 2009

Biography

Secrecy: policy and secrets

Director of IB (1990–93) and Later work

Controversies and allegations

Foreknowledge of Bahawalpur incident

Jinnahpur plan controversy

See also

References

Further reading