Corrupt Assad Qasier of PTI Appoints Cabin Crew as Special Secretary Grade 19.

While Imran Khan is Riding Atop his 50, Million worth of Air-conditioned and Bullet Proof container in Islamabad and Given Sermons of Honesty and of Transparency , In reality PTI is a Party of People who are Most Corrupt and Dishonest then  any other party in Pakistan .

STORY OF MR SYED WAQAR SHAH CABIN CREW: 

Personal  Number 61132 of PIA.

Department Cabin Crew and Brief Work experience as Ad-hoc Flight Service Bases Manager Relationship : Son of Sister of Asad Qaiser 

This story is about Mr Syed Waqar Shah . He used to Live in a two room house in Slums near the Airport in Swati Phattak Area , and had a Honda 70 CC Motorcycle and now he owns a Premio car worth 3, Million and a 5 Crore 2000 yards home in Hayatabad Peshawar and has Job of Special Secretary to Pakhtunkwa Government of Pakhtunkwa in Grade -19 , with salary in Millions.

How he managed that while he is Junior Cabin Crew in group 5 ( Non Officer group) . Just Because he is Son of Sister of Mr. Asad Qasier of PTI of Imran Khan who is the Speaker of Pakhtunkwa Assembly and also Member of PTI as he Promised to raise Cabin Crew Union belonging to PTI in PIA.

 What Is revealed as Fact would shock you core and ask yourself does Imran Khan work for Devil or Devils Advocate that they are bending the Rules and Appointing a Person with Zero Management Experience and also a Drug Baron and with links to Drug Mafia? As Special Secretary of Pakhtunkwa Assembly on 18 December 2013.

 According to the News as reported here, 

FAKE MBA DEGREE WITHOUT ANY CLASS ROOM ATTENDANCE: 

Mr. Waqar Shah who is Son of Sister of Asad Qasier of PTI and worked as Cabin Crew in PIA before December 18 2013 , and has no Management Experience and He has Acquired an MBA degree while on Job in PIA as Cabin Crew and Delivering refreshments in the Air .

 It may be noted that MBA is a Full time degree and requires 2 years of class Room Study and he has no 2 years class Room Attendance to Prove that he did the Degree of MBA while being on Duty and Serving refreshments in PIA .

His Degree is Illegal and he has not done Any MBA study Period and has obtained this Degree from a University through a Bribe and is a Fake Degree.

FAKE EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT: 

Secondly while in PIA he was Appointed as Ad-hoc Briefing Manager for which he had no expertise and Neither the Grade or Group 7 Job as he was Serving in PIA in Group 5 , and has only 4-5 Years experience only just as steward of PIA serving Tea and Refreshments .

He had also Applied for Mover Over to Group 6 on basis of an MBA , which was denied as PIA has reversed this Policy for People who are not in Management and Administration of PIA as he was Crew not management .

Against which he went to Peshawar High court but was Court Moved Against him and giving a Decision that move over is not Legal and not according to PIA Policy, he applied for Appeal which was turned down as well.

BENDING RULES OF PIA VIA BRIBES AND POLITICAL INTERFERENCE:

Mr Syed Waqar Shah was Appointed as Ad-hoc Briefing Manager the real Briefing Manager Mrs. Jannat Jamshed wife of Khyber TV Director Mr. Jamshed Khan, who is Senior to him and is in Grade 7 with more the 15-18 Years of Experience is still manager in PIA Human resource Records, as Proper Briefing Manager was posted to Catering Department on Temporary Basis to Accommodate Mr. Waqar Shah who was her Assistant as Flying Crew as Ad-hoc Briefing manager .

This was done by bending the Rules and According to Rules Waqar Shah Cabin Experience cannot be counted as Management as he was cabin Crew in Designation and not Designated as Manager as Briefing Manager job is related to Management and require Scheduling Experience of at least 10 Years which he did not have at all.

He was a Cabin crew / Air Hostess and nothing more then that , his Duties Schedule is still Active in PIA even Today ,his pay slip is still that of cabin crew , as being a Cabin crew he cant be in Management as it is a Different Department and he never relinquished his duties in cabin Crew Department till he joined as Secretary of Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on 18^th December 2013.

Neither he was a manager neither he was having 10, Year experience, the PIA bended it rules because the District Manager Mr. Sahibzada Tariq Mehmood was from his Swabi Village and a Fellow Qadiani and he was Appointed on this Post and he also took bribe of Rs 500,000 from Mr Syed Waqar Shah and Mr. Syed Waqar Shah used to Send 2000, us Dollars as Bhatta as well to High Ups in head Quarters Karachi of PIA to maintain this Post to Allot flights to his Favorites by charging US 50 Dollars for each flight.  

This Shocking revelation is true and can be confirmed from Any body working in PIA , other wise why a Junior with 4 Years experience can be accommodated in a Post for which at Least  GP-7 is and Management Experience is required according to PIA own Laws and experience of at least 10 Year and it requires an inquiry into these Matter by Competent Authorities . 

 DRUGS IN OFFICE OF SYED WAQAR SHAH :

While serving as Ad-hoc and junior Base Manager Flight service at Bacha Khan International Airport Mr. Syed Waqar Shah was found to be in Possession of Heroin in His office of which was recovered by the Anti Narcotics in his Office, and was duly verified to be Heroin of 990 Gram or 1 Kilo at 1100 hrs on 12^th of July 2012.

This is demonstrated by the copy of FIR below which is obtained from Anti-Narcotics and it clearly shows it.

When this happened the Keys to his office was in his Possession and he was In charge of his office, how come somebody can put this heroin of about 1 KG in his office without his Knowledge and without Possession of the Keys to his office , it may be Noted that PIA never did any Inquiry into this Matter in Violation of its Rules and regulations of PIA and Civil Aviation both .  

Which Points to fact that Mr. Syed Waqar Shah did have means to bribe the Civil Aviation to which the Bacha Khan Airport Belongs and also PIA where he was Serving and Also the Local PIA Top Boss who is Mr. Sahibzada Tariq Mehmood as District Manager Peshawar in PIA.

It is clear fact that demonstrate his links with drug Mafia and access to money also with PTI  who could Manipulate the PIA + the Anti Narcotics and Civil Aviation ( Run by Army and Air force Officers by Bribing and corruption )

FIR was Lodged in Anti-Narcotics Department run by Army Offices in uniform  is also has a Questionable role was why when Heroin was found in such Sensitive Places as the Bacha Khan Airport in office of Incompetent and Politically connected Person to PTI Asad Qasier Relative  Syed Waqar Shah was not changed to a case and why no further Enquiry and further Investigation was carried out ?.

Why Anti Narcotics did not complete its Investigation and why it did not catch a culprit points to political Interference and corruption, Under PTI

ILLEGAL CREATION OF JOB AS SPECIAL SECRETARY PAKHTUNKHWA :

In order to save Mr. Syed Waqar Shah Relative of Assad Qasier of PTI ( Who was Previously Jamaat Islami as leader ) a Scheme was Launched to transfer him out of PIA on Deputation via a Job In Grade -19 of Special Secretary to Asad Qasier, was not Present but was Specially created for him bending Rules , he still never relinquished his Job as Cabin crew as Junior Gp-5 Person Cabin Crew having only 4-5 Years of Service in PIA, has zero Experience in  Management Post of Briefing Manager Flight Service is now a Special Secretary .

Why such Post Is created by Imran Khan party who claims to be honest while the Facts are contrary to reality .

ROLE OF RELIGIOUS PARTIES AND PTI IN CORRUPTION :

It is concerning how ,a Job was created for an Incompetent man with heroin Popping up in his office in at 1100 hrs on 12 July 2012.

This Job was Created by Acknowledgement of Jamaat Islami head of Jamaat Islami Mr. Siraj Ul haq as Finance Minister of Pakhtunkwa and special budgets was Allocated for it from poor Pakistan tax payers money at that time.

Role of Asad Qasier in corruption is more the Evident .

ROLE OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN CORRUPTION :

Also the Aviation Secretary under which both PIA and Civil Aviation and ASF works, he  is Involved who did not do Investigations of Drugs at Bacha Khan International Airport in Mr. Syed Waqar Shah Office.

Also the Director Civil Aviation who Allowed this Transfer of this Drug Baron and also un Experience and not Qualified Person while not doing any Investigation of drugs in his office .

Thirdly the Anti Narcotics did not do its Job after Launching an FIR and Nabbing the Culprit of this National Shame.

How a PIA corporation Steward was deemed fit to be Transferred from federal Government to Provincial Government of Pakhtunkwa of Unqualified and Inexperience Person and with Moral turpitude of Heroin and Drugs in His office worthy of being a Special Secretary ?

 Those who allowed this and without going into the Personal file and looking into this matter is also Criminals and are liable to Answer to people of Pakistan .

Furthermore in a Nutshell

      

1.  PIA        
2.  Civil Aviation
3.  Anti Narcotics
4. Police
5.  ASF
6. Media of Pakistan

Did nothing to Punish or do any Inquiry into this Matter, OF Grave concern and which made his office a  matter of shame and his office at Bach Khan Airport closed for 2 days and also not reported in media but still the high ups are not pushed about it .

Why such Shameful person as Mr Syed Waqar Shah is rewarded in Pakistan just because he is related to Asad Qasier of PTI and he is Secretary to Speaker Pakhtunkwa Assembly and is assisting him in Haram Khori and also selling the Jobs in his constituency and also making Haram Illegal money , he has kept a Steward of PIA as his Personal Secretary while he is paid from hard earned tax Payers money .

Is it because of his Political links? This is answer that has to be asked from those responsible.

ROLE OF MEDIA IN CORRUPTION :

When this was happening Samaa TV reported about this but the General Media Neglected it and was not reported by order of Whom here is clip: 

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DOUBLE PAY SLIPS REWARD FOR A CRIMINAL:

His PIA Pay Slip is Given Below: 

His Pay slip is showing Flying Allowance as he was Cabin Crew in Flight Services Department till the Last day that is 18^th December 2013 when he Joined as Special Secretary of Pakhtunkwa on Deputation and it also shows lack of PIA in Punishing him or making an Enquiry into his Alleged drugs recovery from his office according to FIR shown above and also that of Civil Aviation who Posses and Administrate the Bach Khan Airport and his office is under Civil Aviation.

IT may be noted that he continued to take salary from PIA while he was taking salary from Pakhtunkwa Government at the same time . what a Shame for People of Pakistan .

WHY PTI IS REWARDING A CRIMINAL :

Mr. Syed Waqar Shah Son of sister of Assad Qasier wants to be Next PTI , Head of Union of PTI as Cabin crew and this Is reason a Criminal is facilitated like and this and has been confirmed by his close friend and he want to be their President , and this explain the Weight behind him of PTI and Assad Qasier .

Furthermore in TOR , or Terms of Reference it is written that he is assisting the Speaker Asad Qasier in his work in constancy of construction and other Administrative things like what ? how can a Steward do construction he is not even a Civil Engineer ?

This is Joke of Highest order and is not Naya Pakistan or Tabdeli but it is Status quo

SOURCE: http://pakiaja.blogspot.com/2014/09/-pti-appoints-cabincrew-secretary.html

Blaming Malalaa Yousafzai for In Action of Mullah Military Taliban Alliance over Gaza Massacre.

            

Malalaa yousafzai 

A famous Punjabi saying, ‘digga khoti tooN gussa kumhar tay’ [One is fallen from the donkey but blames the potmaker] is the most appropriate expression for describing certain Pakistani ‘friends of Gaza’ busy blaming Malala for not condemning Israel’s latest aggression. Had Jalib been around, he would have poured his scorn anew, ‘Dartay hain mo’chooN wallaya ik nehti larki say’.

            What unites Ummah is definitely not Israel. It is highly contagious ignorance. Conspiracy theories to vilify Malala when she was shot at by a Talib, reached all the way to Palestine itself. Many aPalestinian declared the attack on  Malala as a mock attack. However, it is our Muslim Indian brethren often proving more Pakistani than Pakistanis.  A Facebook friend (I sometimes wish one also had the option of  Facebook Enemies) from India has also hosted a full fledge ‘poem’ (though badly rhymed) condemning Malala. No counter-check, no verification is considered necessary when it comes to ‘Western agents’.

            Our Facebook jihadis do not even read newspapers, it seems. Honestly, I heard Malala’s statement condemning the Israeli invasion on BBC Urdu before I noticed a Facebook post condemning her for ignoring the Gaza crisis. I was critical of both. Malala, I thought, should not poke her nose everywhere. Likewise, I regretted BBC Urdu’s editorial judgment. Malala is not an expert  on Gaza crisis. She is not a politician She has dedicated herself to the cause of, in particular, girls’ education. In this regard, there is a justification if she travels to Nigeria to express her solidarity with the girl-students kidnapped by Boko Haram. She may be outraged over hundreds of issues on a daily basis. But we should be spared her statements on BBC Urdu and other mainstream media outlets on topics she is hardly expert on, even if she is entitled to hold whatever views and freely express them.

            I was definitely wrong. Malala paid the price for violating Salafi-Sharia the Taliban had imposed in Swat. From now on, she will be paying the price for refusing to toe the Online-Sharia that middle-class, clean-shaven urban  Taliban (but beards in their stomachs) have devised for Pakistani women, peasants and workers.

            While Swat’s mountain Taliban attempted to assassinate her physically, their urban counterparts are trying to assassinate her integrity, commitment, and character till she recants (Will she submit?). I wish I had not written about Malala. I did not before. I still think a coward like myself lacks the moral ground to even pay tribute to Malala’s courage. But her critics unfortunately are people with few scruples. They are not angry at the OIC (justifiably ridiculed as Oh I See!) or the Arab League for betraying the Palestine cause.

            It does not bother Malala-haters that both the Pakistan government and their political leadership, from Imran Khan’s Tehrik-e-Insaf to Nawaz Sharif’s Muslim League have looked the other way as Israel devastates Gaza [I am discounting PPP and ANP since they do not represent the Urban Taliban even if their role is equally regrettable].

Since ‘ignorance is power’ in the case of Malala bashers [even Google is helpless before the power ignorance commands in the blogosphere where Pakistani middle classes operate],   I, therefore, will not blame them for not directing their anger towards Brigadier Zia-ul-Haq for his notorious role in Black September.

 However, now when Malala has condemned the Gaza invasion (please do not ask her to receive a fake Israeli bullet in a mock encounter in Gaza to prove her sincerity), should not Malala critics muster courage and express solidarity with dozens of Gazas regularly created domestically: Imambargahs, Hazara and Christian neighbourhoods, Sufi shrines, Ahmedi mosques, Hindu Bastis and whole of FATA.   

(II)

            Rafeef Ziadah is many things – an activist, scholar, musician, poet. In every role, she is the voice of Palestine. During a demonstration, a western journalist asked her: “Ms Ziadah, don’t you think that everything would be resolved if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your children?”

            In mainstream western discourses, it is usually not Israel that is posing any problem. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is explained away by an instinctive Muslim/Palestinian hatred for Jews. Islamophobic clichés strengthened by the rise of Hamas help ease the job. 

            As if to introduce the journalist to the rich tradition of Arabic poetry, Rafeef responded with a dazzling poem, titled, ‘We teach life, sir!’Here is an excerpt: 

“Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits.

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response.

And I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions.

But still, he asked me, Ms Ziadah, don’t you think that everything would be resolved if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your children?

Pause.

 I look inside of me for strength to be patient but patience is not at the tip of my tongue as the bombs drop over Gaza.

Patience has just escaped me.

 Pause. 

Smile.

“We teach life, sir!”

Rafeef, remember to smile.

Pause

 “We teach life, sir! We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky.

 “We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies. We teach life, sir!”

Yet again Israel is pounding Gaza. In the realm of social media, any gesture of solidarity with Palestine earns you liberal wrath. ‘Why do a few dead bodies and a couple of bombs over Gaza bother you so much when the Taliban are massacring innocent Pakistanis next door?’ comes the reprimand. Ironically, this is exactly what the religious right does. Point out any puritan barbarity and in response puritans will cite two imperial/infidel outrages. The way politicised Islam refuses to be a ‘religion of peace’ beyond Nile-to-Kashgar, the liberalism of many Pakistan liberals also begins to wane when the victims at the receiving end of imperial or Zionist barbarisms happen to be ‘uncouth Arabs’.

The outrage over the Gaza bombings is not owing to the fundamentalists’ hegemonic sway over the apocryphal Muslim world, or Talibanisation in the case of Pakistan. Long before the Taliban were even born, Jalib used to mock the mullahs for ignoring the Palestinian cause while Faiz penned ‘Lullaby for a Palestinian Child’ and attributed his ‘Meray Dil Meray Musafir’ to Yasser Arafat.

That Palestine invokes such passions in the Muslim world and beyond mirrors, in the first place, the success of the Palestinian liberation struggle as a political project. Second, symbolised by Leila Khaled, Mehmoud Darwesh, Edward Said and Yasser Arafat, the heroic Palestinian resistance against the last surviving and violent colonial project has invoked a general solidarity worldwide. From post-apartheid South Africa to communist Cuba, Palestine has won global solidarity. After 200 invasion f Gaza, Bolivia and Venezuela severed diplomatic ties with IsraeI In Sweden, a Davis Cup match in 2009 between Sweden and Israel was played in an arena without spectators. Authorities banned any audience for fear of anti-Israel protesters. In fact, Palestine solidarity is much stronger in the west than the Muslim world. Third, history and the west’s guilty conscious/hypocrisy further stoke the Palestinian fire. I would humbly suggest: instead of getting irritated over Gaza, let us learn lessons in resistance and dignity from Palestine. Rafeef Ziadah correctly points out:

We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world life, sir!

(III)

            Dear Liberals! When are you going to stage a Syria-solidarity sit-in? But watch out. A demonstration against the Assad regime will land you in the ISIS camp (by the same logic you bracket the left with Hamas). A demonstration against ISIS will land you in the camp of Iranian Ayotollahs.

sources : http://viewpointonline.net/2014/07/vp212/ridiculing-left-for-solidarity-with-gaza-goading-malala-for-silence-over-gaza

Severe Discrimination by and Bias of Punjabi's to Quota of Other Provinces and their Rights in Jobs and Education

In order to provide equal access to underprivileged/minority groups as well as to enhance the proportion of any under-represented class or area in the society, many countries in the world have devised effective laws and policies that promote equal opportunities and give special preferences to these groups in terms of distribution of resources and services. 

These laws are termed as affirmative actions or positive discrimination and are continuously being reviewed in terms of their implementation and effectiveness. Under these laws all the public bodies are responsible to eliminate discrimination and promote equality and publish the details of such initiatives in their annual reports. 

These laws also specify that it is not the responsibility of those who claim unfair treatment to provide evidence but it is the responsibility of the alleged discriminator to prove his/her legitimacy. Those who ignore the implementation of the affirmative action laws are heavily penalized and the penalty could include imprisonment as well.

In this regard article 27 of the Constitution of Pakistan prescribes mechanism to safeguard against discrimination. This article authorizes the parliament to make effective legislation in order to redress the under-representation of any class or area in the service of Pakistan. 

Under this provision the parliament of Pakistan devised provincial quota system for federal services as well as for admission in federal institutes/universities so as to provide equal opportunity/representation to all the provinces. According to this quota system, the share of Punjab (including federal capital Islamabad) in federal services and admissions in educational institutes is 50%, Sindh 19% (11.4% rural and 7.6% Urban), KPK 11.5 %, Baluchistan 6%, GB & FATA 4%, AJK 2% and the remaining 7.5% for the open merit. 

Now let us see if the above affirmative action is implemented by federal public bodies in its true letter and spirit. In this regard a news item appeared in some sections of the press recently (July 2, 2014) which concludes that the ‘Senate committee on job quota failed to do its job’. This committee was formed around four years ago (Sep 2010) when some Senators from the smaller provinces complained against non-implementation of the provincial job quota in federal services. 

The committee was headed by the then leader of the house Nayyar Bokhari and was tasked to review the appointment between 2007 and 2010. The committee conducted around 32 meetings but could not produce the final report and now it has been dissolved as the subject matter has been transferred to Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice. So that’s the state-of-the-art of the government initiatives regarding implementation of the affirmative actions to provide equity based representation and distribution of services and resources to all the provinces. 

Now the incumbent Government could appoint another committee to find out the reasons as to why the Senate’s Special Committee on Job Quota failed to do its job in 4 years? And this process could continue endlessly without delivering anything good to the masses. 

The under-represented classes and areas are continuously crying for justice. Leaving other federal bodies/institutes aside let us look at the biased and discriminatory attitude of the country’s premier education related body i.e. the Higher Education Commission (HEC). In this regard an important source of reference could be the letter written in July 2012 by the then Governor of Baluchistan Mr Zulfiqar Ali Magsi to the Prime Minister of Pakistan which says that  ‘provincial quota in Higher Education Commission (HEC) becomes 6 percent while only 0.9 percent employments have been given to the province’.

Similarly, Sindh Chapter of the Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) urged the Prime Minister and the President of Pakistan to make the Higher Education Commission accountable for continued discrimination against Sindh in terms of distribution of services and resources (Press Release Jan 1, 2014).

In response to this complaint the then Executive Director who is now the incumbent Chairperson of HEC visited the HEC Regional Centre Karachi and assured FAPUASA Sindh Chapter that an independent inquiry would be held to review HECs services and resource distribution since 2002 and in the light of the findings of this inquiry a transparent mechanism would be devised for better implementation of the affirmative action. 

Unfortunately, even after six months there had been no any progress towards this aim and the biased and discriminatory policies are going on continuously. As a proof of biased attitude one could cite HEC’s own data. According to HEC’s annual report 2010-11 the percentage of province-wise distribution of scholarships is: Punjab 66.5; KPK 21.7; Sindh 5.7; Federal 3.5; AJK 1.9; Baluchistan 0.6 and FATA 0.5.These figures are clearly against the constitutionally approved rights of the smaller provinces specially in the case of Sindh and Baluchistan! 

Similar trend of distribution could easily be found for research and development grants, travel grants, number of tenure track faculty members, number of national and international seminars and conferences grants, number of Business Incubator Centres, number and location of federal Universities/institutes such at COMSATS, number of HEC funded research journals, number of Campus Management Software Solutions, number of sports events and many other projects.  

It is not only Sindh and Baluchistan but recently Vice-Chancellors of 18 public sector Universities of KPK also issued a joint statement regarding continued biased attitude of HEC in terms of job/admission quota and distribution of resources (reported in press on July 3, 2014). The Vice-Chancellors have complained that not only HEC but except the QAU, all other 13 public sector federal Universities neither implement job nor admission quota despite the facts that the major portion of funding goes to federal Universities due to biased attitude of HEC.  

It is pertinent to note that the non-implementation of the affirmative action is the violation of the Constitution of Pakistan and may lead Pakistan’s already fragile federation towards a serious national crisis! It is the time that the government pays heed to this very important issue and learning from other countries moves toward more positive discrimination to compensate the loss of the under-represented classes and areas.

 To this aim a joint committee consisting of Senators from smaller provinces and representatives of the University teachers may immediately be constituted to conduct a thorough review of HEC and prepare 5 year strategic plan for the future. 

source: http://viewpointonline.net/2014/07/vp212/time-to-end-hec-s-discriminatory-attitude-towards-sindh-baiochistan

How President Carter, Pakistan Trapped Russians into Invading Afghanistan Via Taliban

JANUARY 15, 1998

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Brezeinski Most was Advisor to US President for last 50 Years and he is Made behind the Taliban and Mujahideen and American Establishment  

Zbigniew Brzezinski:
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair

Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?

Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

* There are at least two editions of this magazine; with the perhaps sole exception of the Library of Congress, the version sent to the United States is shorter than the French version, and the Brzezinski interview was not included in the shorter version.

The above has been translated from the French by Bill Blum author of the indispensible, “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” and “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower” Portions of the books can be read at: <http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm>