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Gen Zia’s spy chief among those named in Credit Suisse leak
Monitoring DeskPublished February 21, 2022 - Updated February 21, 2022 08:31am
ONE of Gen Ziaul Haq’s closest aides and the man largely credited with establishing the mujahideen network to counter Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan, is one of thousands of figures from around the world who have been exposed in a massive leak of secret banking data from a leading Swiss bank.
Dubbed the ‘Suisse secrets’, this massive trove was provided to Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper, by a whistle-blower and claims to have exposed the secret wealth of clients notorious for drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption.
According to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — a network of journalists from around the world that sifted through the data — accounts identified as potentially problematic held over $8 billion in assets.
The revelations indicate failures of due diligence by the bank in violation of commitments made to authorities to disown shady clients.
The data covers accounts that were open from the 1940s until well into the 2010s but not the bank’s current operations.
“As the head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan helped funnel billions of dollars in cash and other aid from the US and other countries to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to support their fight against the Soviet Union,” the NYT report says.
According to the newspaper, an account was opened in the name of three of General Akhtar’s sons in 1985, even though the general never faced charges of stealing aid money. Years later, the paper said, “the account would grow to hold $3.7 million, the leaked records show.”
An OCCRP report was more specific: it claimed that the Saudi Arabian and US funding for mujahideen fighters battling Russia’s presence in Afghanistan would go to the CIA’s Swiss bank account. “The end recipient in the process was Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence group (ISI), [at the time] led by Akhtar,” the report said.
The report states that “by the mid-1980s, Akhtar was adept at getting CIA cash into the hands of Afghan jihadists. It was around this time that Credit Suisse accounts were opened in the names of his three sons.”
OCCRP’s report stated that one of the two Akhtar family accounts at Credit Suisse — held jointly by three of Akhtar’s sons — was opened on July 1, 1985. That same year, US President Ronald Reagan would raise concerns about where the money intended for the mujahideen was going. By 2003, this account was worth at least five million Swiss francs ($3.7 million at the time). A second account, opened in January 1986 in Akbar’s name alone, was worth more than 9 million Swiss francs by November 2010 ($9.2 million at the time).”
However, one of Gen Khan’s sons told the project’s representative this information was “not correct” and “conjectural”.
The leak follows the so-called Panama Papers in 2016, the Paradise Papers in 2017 and the Pandora Papers last year.
The list of those named in the leaks includes King Abdullah II of Jordan and the two sons of the former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak and Venezuelan officials ensnared in a long-running corruption scandal.
The data also features a Hong Kong stock trader once sent to jail on bribery charges, a tycoon who ordered the murder of his Lebanese lover, a Filipino human trafficker and dishonest politicians from Egypt to Ukraine.
One Vatican-owned account was used to spend 350 million dollars in an allegedly fraudulent scheme in London which is the focus of a criminal trial of several defendants, including a cardinal.
According to the OCCRP, the data also reveals that 15 intelligence figures from around the world, or their close family members, have held accounts at Credit Suisse.
Credit Suisse said Switzerland’s stringent secrecy laws do not allow it to comment on accusations about individual clients, but in a statement it strongly rejected “allegations and inferences about the bank’s purported business practices”, arguing that the matters uncovered by reporters are based on “selective information taken out of context, resulting in tendentious interpretations of the bank’s business conduct.”
Further revelations are expected in the days to come as more and more of the data become public.
Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2022
Gen Zia’s spy chief among those named in Credit Suisse leak
Monitoring DeskPublished February 21, 2022 - Updated February 21, 2022 08:31am
ONE of Gen Ziaul Haq’s closest aides and the man largely credited with establishing the mujahideen network to counter Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan, is one of thousands of figures from around the world who have been exposed in a massive leak of secret banking data from a leading Swiss bank.
Dubbed the ‘Suisse secrets’, this massive trove was provided to Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper, by a whistle-blower and claims to have exposed the secret wealth of clients notorious for drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption.
According to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — a network of journalists from around the world that sifted through the data — accounts identified as potentially problematic held over $8 billion in assets.
The revelations indicate failures of due diligence by the bank in violation of commitments made to authorities to disown shady clients.
The data covers accounts that were open from the 1940s until well into the 2010s but not the bank’s current operations.
According to the New York Times, senior intelligence officials and their offspring from several countries that cooperated with the US also had money stashed at Credit Suisse.
“As the head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan helped funnel billions of dollars in cash and other aid from the US and other countries to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to support their fight against the Soviet Union,” the NYT report says.
According to the newspaper, an account was opened in the name of three of General Akhtar’s sons in 1985, even though the general never faced charges of stealing aid money. Years later, the paper said, “the account would grow to hold $3.7 million, the leaked records show.”
An OCCRP report was more specific: it claimed that the Saudi Arabian and US funding for mujahideen fighters battling Russia’s presence in Afghanistan would go to the CIA’s Swiss bank account. “The end recipient in the process was Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence group (ISI), [at the time] led by Akhtar,” the report said.
The report states that “by the mid-1980s, Akhtar was adept at getting CIA cash into the hands of Afghan jihadists. It was around this time that Credit Suisse accounts were opened in the names of his three sons.”
OCCRP’s report stated that one of the two Akhtar family accounts at Credit Suisse — held jointly by three of Akhtar’s sons — was opened on July 1, 1985. That same year, US President Ronald Reagan would raise concerns about where the money intended for the mujahideen was going. By 2003, this account was worth at least five million Swiss francs ($3.7 million at the time). A second account, opened in January 1986 in Akbar’s name alone, was worth more than 9 million Swiss francs by November 2010 ($9.2 million at the time).”
However, one of Gen Khan’s sons told the project’s representative this information was “not correct” and “conjectural”.
The leak follows the so-called Panama Papers in 2016, the Paradise Papers in 2017 and the Pandora Papers last year.
The list of those named in the leaks includes King Abdullah II of Jordan and the two sons of the former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak and Venezuelan officials ensnared in a long-running corruption scandal.
The data also features a Hong Kong stock trader once sent to jail on bribery charges, a tycoon who ordered the murder of his Lebanese lover, a Filipino human trafficker and dishonest politicians from Egypt to Ukraine.
One Vatican-owned account was used to spend 350 million dollars in an allegedly fraudulent scheme in London which is the focus of a criminal trial of several defendants, including a cardinal.
According to the OCCRP, the data also reveals that 15 intelligence figures from around the world, or their close family members, have held accounts at Credit Suisse.
Credit Suisse said Switzerland’s stringent secrecy laws do not allow it to comment on accusations about individual clients, but in a statement it strongly rejected “allegations and inferences about the bank’s purported business practices”, arguing that the matters uncovered by reporters are based on “selective information taken out of context, resulting in tendentious interpretations of the bank’s business conduct.”
Further revelations are expected in the days to come as more and more of the data become public.
Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2022
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Is Web 3.0 a $100 billion opportunity for Pakistan?
The emerging ecosystem is expected to grow from around $1.5 trillion to almost $50 trillion by 2030
M Bilal Lakhani February 20, 2022
The most transformative invention in the last century has to be the internet, which is bending the arch of human history towards democratisation of power, disinformation and making daily life a little easier. Today, in a poetic twist, the internet which disrupted so many industries is on the cusp of being disrupted itself. Web 3.0 is the most significant disruption to the internet since the internet was invented. But what in the world is Web 3.0, beyond the Bitcoin bubble?
Well, it’s a bit of a people’s revolution actually. A few companies ala Facebook, Google, Amazon and Twitter control too much of the internet as we know and experience it today i.e. Web 2.0. Now there’s a movement to snatch some of that power back and the umbrella term Web 3.0 broadly defines the different vectors in which this movement is progressing. This includes cyrptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, blockchain technology, NFTs, decentralised finance and virtual reality worlds. It sounds really complex and futuristic but the basic premise is that Web 3.0 empowers the individual over the company so that the internet can be accessed by everyone with security and privacy, without having to go through corporate gate keepers.
This emerging ecosystem is expected to grow by more than 40 percent per year, leading to a growth in blockchain technology market capitalisation, of which crypto assets are a core component, from around $1.5 trillion today to almost $50 trillion by 2030 (buy that Bitcoin on the next dip!). More importantly, Pakistan’s talent base has the capabilities to realise the benefits of this opportunity for the global Web 3.0 ecosystem. If empowered to do so, this talent can bring in significant foreign exchange earnings, develop globally competitive internet businesses within the country, and create an opening for the country to leapfrog ahead.
The premise of Pakistan’s potential to become a player in Web 3.0 is anchored in three pillars according to the paper. First, Pakistan is one of the youngest countries on Earth with a youth bulge of digitally connected citizens. This talent has made Pakistan one of the largest freelancing markets in the world, boosted the country’s IT exports, and attracted global investors to the country’s start-up ecosystem
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Second, young graduates in Pakistan have historically aspired to work at leading multinational companies. This trend, however, has shifted in recent years. Pakistan’s emerging start-up ecosystem, supported by public policy interventions in recent years, has meant that young Pakistanis now aspire to be entrepreneurs, particularly in the technology space. (There are more startups in Patna city than there in entire Pakistan just fyi).
Third, Pakistan was one of the first countries in the global south to develop a digital identity management system through National Database and Registration Authority, which has over the years supported countries around the world to develop their own identity systems. In recent months the SBP has developed an interoperable payments system called Raast, which leverages digital identity to provide seamless, low-cost payment services to citizens. In combination, these technologies allow policymakers to link identity with payments, thereby allowing the creation of an effective authentication, traceability, and transparency system that can be connected to Web 3.0 architecture, including cryptoasset trading and investment.
Pakistan now needs to realise the importance of policymaking and regulation that encourages innovation and investment in this space. This is a once in a lifetime window of opportunity that won’t come again and enables Pakistan to break the shackles of its rent seeking elite as this isn’t an existing industry. We must seize this opportunity for its transformational impact on our economy, society and demographic youth dividend. (As if rest of the world, especially India will remain idle? Seriously, how deluded are these Porky-stanis?
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Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2022.
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The emerging ecosystem is expected to grow from around $1.5 trillion to almost $50 trillion by 2030
M Bilal Lakhani February 20, 2022
The most transformative invention in the last century has to be the internet, which is bending the arch of human history towards democratisation of power, disinformation and making daily life a little easier. Today, in a poetic twist, the internet which disrupted so many industries is on the cusp of being disrupted itself. Web 3.0 is the most significant disruption to the internet since the internet was invented. But what in the world is Web 3.0, beyond the Bitcoin bubble?
Well, it’s a bit of a people’s revolution actually. A few companies ala Facebook, Google, Amazon and Twitter control too much of the internet as we know and experience it today i.e. Web 2.0. Now there’s a movement to snatch some of that power back and the umbrella term Web 3.0 broadly defines the different vectors in which this movement is progressing. This includes cyrptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, blockchain technology, NFTs, decentralised finance and virtual reality worlds. It sounds really complex and futuristic but the basic premise is that Web 3.0 empowers the individual over the company so that the internet can be accessed by everyone with security and privacy, without having to go through corporate gate keepers.
This emerging ecosystem is expected to grow by more than 40 percent per year, leading to a growth in blockchain technology market capitalisation, of which crypto assets are a core component, from around $1.5 trillion today to almost $50 trillion by 2030 (buy that Bitcoin on the next dip!). More importantly, Pakistan’s talent base has the capabilities to realise the benefits of this opportunity for the global Web 3.0 ecosystem. If empowered to do so, this talent can bring in significant foreign exchange earnings, develop globally competitive internet businesses within the country, and create an opening for the country to leapfrog ahead.
This emerging ecosystem can generate over $100 billion in total income for technology talent over the next twenty years in Pakistan. That’s according to a new working paper from PakLaunch.Com and the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center titled ‘Realizing the Promise & Potential of Web 3 for Pakistan’. Authored by the irrepressible Uzair Younus, who consulted some of the brightest Pakistani minds operating in this space, including Ali Farid Khwaja, Salahuddin Khawaja, Aly Fahd, Kalsoom Lakhani and many others, this paper should be mandatory reading by Pakistan’s policymakers (and one almost wishes that Tania Aidrus was still leading Digital Pakistan with the frenzy of energy she brought to the table).(Typical, “muh Paxtan haz too much potenshial, we just hav to utilaiz it”, as if other countries never thought this way
The premise of Pakistan’s potential to become a player in Web 3.0 is anchored in three pillars according to the paper. First, Pakistan is one of the youngest countries on Earth with a youth bulge of digitally connected citizens. This talent has made Pakistan one of the largest freelancing markets in the world, boosted the country’s IT exports, and attracted global investors to the country’s start-up ecosystem
.Second, young graduates in Pakistan have historically aspired to work at leading multinational companies. This trend, however, has shifted in recent years. Pakistan’s emerging start-up ecosystem, supported by public policy interventions in recent years, has meant that young Pakistanis now aspire to be entrepreneurs, particularly in the technology space. (There are more startups in Patna city than there in entire Pakistan just fyi).
Third, Pakistan was one of the first countries in the global south to develop a digital identity management system through National Database and Registration Authority, which has over the years supported countries around the world to develop their own identity systems. In recent months the SBP has developed an interoperable payments system called Raast, which leverages digital identity to provide seamless, low-cost payment services to citizens. In combination, these technologies allow policymakers to link identity with payments, thereby allowing the creation of an effective authentication, traceability, and transparency system that can be connected to Web 3.0 architecture, including cryptoasset trading and investment.
Pakistan now needs to realise the importance of policymaking and regulation that encourages innovation and investment in this space. This is a once in a lifetime window of opportunity that won’t come again and enables Pakistan to break the shackles of its rent seeking elite as this isn’t an existing industry. We must seize this opportunity for its transformational impact on our economy, society and demographic youth dividend. (As if rest of the world, especially India will remain idle? Seriously, how deluded are these Porky-stanis?
).Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2022.
Is Web 3.0 a $100 billion opportunity for Pakistan? | The Express Tribune
The emerging ecosystem is expected to grow from around $1.5 trillion to almost $50 trillion by 2030
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state of paxtan cricket "league" - no money to pay foreign players...
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Also isn't Faulkner a sexual offender??(and gay too)state of paxtan "poor" cricket league - no money to pay foreign players...
Just like pakis
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aussie rogues and broke paxis .. besht combo ...Also isn't Faulkner a sexual offender??(and gay too)
Just like pakis
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He's also the same guy who tried to sledge Kohli and Kohli was like "go fetch the ball I've hit you enough in my life"Also isn't Faulkner a sexual offender??(and gay too)
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Not Pakis, Punjabis are usually normalAlso isn't Faulkner a sexual offender??(and gay too)
Just like pakis
But Pathans are fanatic Boy lovers, on both sides of the Durand line, it's going on for centuries
