Pakistan has in the past funneled to the terrorists themselves the money it received from the U.S. to fight terror. This is better than directly giving the money to al Qaeda and the Taliban, but it shows how seriously the Pakistani authorities take their role in the “war on terror”: not seriously at all.
“Pakistan anti-terror fund spent on gifts,” from Sky News, January 23 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Pakistani officials have reportedly used a secret counter-terrorism fund to buy wedding gifts, luxury carpets and gold jewellery for relatives of ministers and visiting dignitaries.
Documents seen by the AFP news agency cast a spotlight on high-level corruption in Pakistan as the impoverished but nuclear-armed country battles a surge in Taliban violence.
They concern the National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of Pakistan’s interior ministry, formed in 2000 to co-ordinate between the country’s intelligence agencies and federal and provincial governments on national security matters.
The US and other Western countries have poured billions of dollars into Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks of 2001 to help in its fight against Taliban and al-Qaeda linked militants.
The NCMC received some 425 million rupees ($A4.87 million) from Pakistani government coffers from 2009-2013, according to files obtained by Umar Cheema, an investigative journalist for Pakistani daily The News, and seen by AFP.
During that time, the interior ministry was headed by Rehman Malik, a flamboyant loyalist of former president Asif Ali Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Many of the documents deal with payments to intelligence sources, routine maintenance of vehicles and overtime for employees.
But the files also include receipts for gifts for US and British embassy officials, as well as flowers and sweets for journalists.
One receipt for 70,000 rupees ($A793) is itemised as a ‘Pair of wrist watches for marriage of nephew of minister for interior’.
The documents show that on a trip to Rome for an Interpol conference in November 2012, Malik took a necklace, wooden tables and a TouchMate tablet computer as gifts.
The counter-terror fund was also used to buy three rugs as wedding gifts for the son of former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf early last year.
A set of 21-carat gold jewellery worth $A3,400 was bought for one unnamed individual, while another was the recipient of a $A1,700 set.
A handicrafts store in Islamabad was paid some $A26,055 in December 2012 for carpets and crafts given to local officials and delegations from the EU, Iran and India.
Among the more bizarre items paid for from the fund was the $A906 cost of four sacrificial goats, plus butchery costs – listed as ‘stabbing charges‘ – for the festival of Eid-ul-Adha.
Alms to the poor and donations of sweets, flowers, and cash to a local Sufi saint were also made from the fund in 2012, the documents show….

PJG says
I’m just so shocked.
Fortunately, our Pakistani immigrants in Western countries don’t behave like this….we make sure to choose only the best people who want to emigrate from Pakistan…er…
mortimer says
The Pak army trained the Taliban to fight the Soviets, then helped Al Qaeda letting them cross the border any time into Afghanistan, then they built a secret house for Bin Laden next to Pakistan’s West Point, then they pretended they didn’t know about it, then they helped Al Qaeda go into Syria and Iraq, then…
They are so SERIOUS about fighting terrorism!
Salah says
“They are so SERIOUS about fighting terrorism!”
As “serious” as our stupid Elites!
Actually, the only country, as far as I know, that is SERIOUSLY fighting terrorism is…a Muslim country: Egypt!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
JIMJFOX says
Off topic, but-
The Biggest Demonstration in History (33 million)
Egypt, June 30, ARSH 2013
The end of the Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, its birthplace, and soon worldwide.
How come I missed this??
Sovereign Man says
@PJG Yup. I will never forget seeing live on the news Pakistani cab drivers cheering the 9/11 attacks in the taxi line at the Edmonton airport. Needless to say it was never rebroadcast.
In regards to article. Big surprise, Osama and the original Al-Qaeda organization are/were agents of the Pakistani ISI. Osama was being sheltered by the Pak army in Abbottabad. The ISI/Pak Army has carried out many attacks, including the Mumbai mass murder, and supplies and coordinates cross-border Taliban operations against our troops and the Afghani people. They are a nuclear armed terrorist state.
JamesonRocks says
No surprise here… I know I should be shocked, but I’m not. Pissed? Certainly! Just one question – What happened to the goats?
Anushirvan says
It never stops, and consecutive US governments will never see the light for some reason only known to the highest cenacles of power. This shit hole country’s duplicity has been going on for at least since Afghan Communist ex-president Najibullah’s 1992 flight to Kabul’s UN compound and the further disintegration of Afghanistan from then on.
About two years ago, I had read ‘The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers’ by Peter Tomsen, who documents this concisely and absolutely NOTHING has changed since, it seems !
All the issues involved today were already in place since the 90’s : ISI’s cooperation with the Saudi intelligence agencies, its logistic and financial backing of terrorist groups (Lashkar e Taiba, Lashkar e Jhangvi, Haqqani Network, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Al Qaeda, Taliban) and affiliated political parties (Jamaat e Ulema e Islam, Jamaat e Islami), Saudi backing of specific warlords via ISI (Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf), the organization of Deobandi and Naqshbandi – affiliated mosques and madrassas, Pervez Musharraf’s involvement in Kashmir insurgencies, and the like…
Mind-boggling elements that defy any explanation as to why the US seems to be so desperate to keep elevating these duplicitous assholes to the status of privileged allies in the region.
You have to wonder what’s going on. At least three consecutive US administrations have been willfully blind of what’s going on right in front of their noses.
gravenimage says
Pakistani officials used secret counter-terrorism fund to buy wedding gifts, luxury carpets and gold jewellery
……………………………..
What—they didn’t use it to *fund terrorism*?
Must be “moderates”…
Champ says
:-/
Champ says
;-D
Champ says
🙂
Champ says
:->