Curious Case Of Davis, Dual Nationals In Government and Friends

Curious Case Of Davis, Dual Nationals In Government and Friends

This curious case in Pakistan with the "contractors" and "diplomats" being exposed is becoming more intersting.   With 45 more arrests in connection to the Raymond Davis case and a "curious" mention of a strategic SWAP involving Davis and imprisoned Dr Aafia Siddiqui, as well just to spice things up, but that swap would never have gone ahead, that was a diversion.

Also the recently arrested Aaron Mark Dehaven, has been refused bail for another 14 days, whist investigations continue.

What have all of these got in common, what is being slowly exposed here?

Oh and casually mentioned was that there are Dual citizens sitting in prominent positions within Pakistan's national assembly, some of them holding high profile portfolios, the Government is being quiet on this and maybe are in collusion and have something to hide?

In a snip from Dawn, a Pakistan online newspaper.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/02/28/investigation-scope-broadened-in-davis%e2%80%99-case-45-arrested.html

"ISLAMABAD: The law enforcement agencies arrested 45 individuals for staying in constant contact with Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore last month, DawnNews reported on Monday.

The individuals had been arrested from Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar and their contact information was taken from Davis’ mobile phone. Investigations were underway."

and then, regarding the the Dehaven case, from source.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/02/28/peshawar-court-rejects-bail-for-us-national.html

"PESHAWAR: A court in northwest Pakistan Monday rejected the bail application of an American said to have been working for a private security company who is accused of overstaying his visa.

Aaron Mark De Haven has been rejected because he had no legal documents," public prosecutor Javed Ali told AFP in Peshawar.working for security contractor Catalyst Services, providing security and accommodation to foreigners working on development projects in the region.
remanded De Haven in custody for 14 days and on Monday, a magistrate rejected defence lawyer Sardar Raza’s argument that he should be freed on bail because he had no prior criminal record.

Police say his Pakistani visa had expired in October, The US embassy in Islamabad said Saturday that consular representatives had met De Haven, "as they would with any private American citizen".

Then i came across this article which states there are "DUAL" citizens within Pakistan's National Assembly.

and if you read it further you'll see that they are from countries with very VESTED interests.

from source http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/01/govt-quiet-on-mnas-holding-dual-nationality.html

Gov Quiet on MNA's Holding Dual Nationality

ISLAMABAD: On Monday, the government once again avoided answering in the National Assembly a question about the number of sitting parliamentarians possessing dual nationalities.

It was probably the fourth time that a question was asked on the subject, but the government remained silent like on previous occasions.

In the last session — the 28th sitting of the NA — no reply was given to this particular question.

However, on Monday, the government said the requisite information could be obtained from law, justice and parliamentary affairs division. The question was asked by Humair Hayat Rokhri of PML-N.

When Dawn contacted the National Assembly Secretariat, an official said the house only managed a brief bio-data of MNAs, which they provided at the inception of a parliament. And providing the resume was not even mandatory.
"Yes, there are a few sitting members who posses dual nationalities, but they have not shared the information with the secretariat," the official said.

Whenever there was a foreign trip, the house needed passports of lawmakers for necessary visa process, but there were some who simply said they would manage their travel documents by themselves, the official said.
Unlike many countries of the world, in Pakistan people having double nationalities can become a member of parliament.

Answering the second part of the question, in which the list of government officials having dual nationalities was sought, the house was informed that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman Dr Mohammad Yaseen, a BS-22 officer, was an Australian national.

Other top officials of the PTA having dual nationalities are: Mr Waseem Tauqir, Director General, (USA) and Mr Talat Mehmood Abbasi (UK).
Mr Iftikhar Hussain Arif, Chairman, National Language Authority, another Grade-22 officer responsible for promoting the national language, has the UK nationality.

In the Revenue Division two officers who have dual nationalities are: Deputy Collector Basit Hussain (UK), and Additional Commissioner Sajjad Taslim (UK).

Three top officials of Auditor General Office hold Canadian nationality.

They are: Deputy Auditor General Muhammad Akhtar Buland Rana, PIFRA Project Director Suhail Ahmad, Director Finance, Multan, Syed Iqbal Mehmood Rizvi.

Mr Asghar Khan, a joint director in the audit house, is a UK national.

In the Ministry of Communication (National Highway Authority) Assistant Director Nadeem Qasim Khan holds a Canadian passport.

In the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis (Overseas Pakistanis Foundation), Director Finance Muhammad Yar Bhutto is a US national.

Deputy Census Commissioner (Population Census Organisation) Muhammad Ismail Leghari holds a Canadian passport.

Minister in-charge of the Establishment Division further told the house that similar information had also been sought from other government departments which included defence, commerce, culture, economic affairs, education, environment, finance, housing and works, industries & production, Kashmir affairs, planning commission, ports & shipping, railways, scientific & technological research division, frontier region, water & power, women development and both secretariats of parliament house.

As soon as the information was available, it would be put before the house, he said." (end Snip)

This admission that there are many dual citizens shows a clear case of conflicting and subversive interests, and influence that may not be in the best interests of the people.

with drone attacks and "terrorist" influences in Pakistan, i will leave this post with a quote from David Ben Gurion the first Israeli Prime Minister, as printed in the Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1967:

""The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs. This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan. Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work there from against Pakistan. It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans."

This leaves NOTHING to the imagination.

By Deception thou shall do war.

CIA mercenaries being hounded in Pakistan

You can run but you can’t hide: ISI to CIA.

How many “Raymond Davis” does the CIA have in Islamabad. It seems the question is being answered by arresting them one at a time.

When it comes to spies and mercenaries, Pakistan is the wrong place to be. The country is hunting down and arresting all those that are suspected in nefarious Anti-Pakistan activities. The furore over “Davis” has triggered a very serious crisis between the ISI and the CIA. The Guardian reports that “A senior ISI official told the Guardian that the CIA must “ensure there are no more Raymond Davises or his ilk” if it is to repair the tattered relationship of trust.” “They need to come clean, tell us who they are and what they are doing. They need to stop doing things behind our back,” he said. There are “two or three score” covert US operatives roaming Pakistan, “if not more”, he said.

Islamabad declares open hunting season on mercenaries.

A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against DeHaven in a police station under the Foreigners Act, officials said.

He was detained in the posh University Town area of Peshawar

Pakistani authorities have arrested a US government security contractor amid a worsening spy agency row between the countries

Pakistani intelligence called on the Americans to “come clean” about its network of covert operatives in the country.

Pakistan arrests US security contractor as rift with CIA deepens

ISI tells American agency to unmask all its covert operatives after arrest of Aaron DeHaven in Peshawar, over visa expiry.

“Treat us as allies, not as satellites,” said the official of the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. “Respect, equality and trust are needed.”

Pakistani intelligence officers were unwilling to have Mr. Davis released under almost any circumstances.

The demand for the C.I.A. to acknowledge the number of contractors in Pakistan was driven by the suspicion that the American spy service had slipped many such secret operatives into Pakistan in the past six month. Sources NY Times. and Guardian.
The clampdown on American contractors by the Pakistani authorities appeared to be under way. Pakistan’s chief spy agency has demanded an accounting by the Central Intelligence Agency of all its contractors working in Pakistan. The new arrest came at the start of the murder trial of another American held in Pakistan, the CIA agent Raymond Davis. The Police in Peshawar at the instigation of the Intelligence Services has arrested Aaron DeHaven, another American contractor who recently worked for the US embassy in Islamabad. Mr. DeHaven’s visa had expired, and he has now over-stayed his welcome in Pakistan.

On Tuesday, a Pakistani delegation led by General Ashfaq Kayani met the American Top Brass, led by Admiral Mike Mullen in Oman. During the high level meeting the US stressed that it “did not want the US-Pakistan relationship to go into a free-fall under media and domestic pressures”, according to an account of the meeting by General Jehangir Keramat published by Foreign Policy magazine. After the Mullen-Kayani meetings there was hope that the tiff had been resolved the issues, but this new development has poured water on those hopes and or agreements.

The gig is over. Pakistan is not a Hunting Lodge for American. A regotiation has to be enacted. At a minimum, the ISI wants an accounting of all the contractors who work for the C.I.A. in roles that have not been defined to Pakistan, and a general rewriting of the rules of engagement by the C.I.A. in Pakistan

Aaron Mark Dehaven, (pseudonym Ahmed Haroon) is a US national from West Virginia illegally living in Peshawar

DeHaven’s visa had expired on 23 October 2010.

DeHaven was arrested from Jamrud Road and was taken by intelligence agencies to an undisclosed location for interrogation.

Dehaven had been living, for the past three years, in Peshawar’s Falcon Colony, a gated community and one of the most secured residential areas in the city.
DeHaven runs a company like Haperion. Like “Raymond” he is also involved in “Security”. It is named Catalyst Services which, according to its website, is staffed by mercenaries, retired military and defense department personnel who claim to have “played some role in major world events” including the collapse of the Soviet Union. In essence these soldiers for hire have led missions to Somalia etc. The services offered include “full-service secure residences”, protective surveillance and armed security–all “euphemisms for spy and mercenary services.

DeHaven in various reports have been described as a “small, slightly-built man, who wore glasses and had broad knowledge of Pakistani politics“. IN effect he is a clone of “Raymond Davis”. DeHaven spoke Pushto fluently, and  claimed that he had lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan, for one year, was married to a Pakistani woman along the border with Afghanistan. According to the Guardian “DeHaven said that he moved his base from Peshawar to Islamabad last year over suspicions that he worked for Blackwater, the controversial US military contracting firm. His business partner is listed on company documents as Hunter Obrikat with an address in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Guardian was unable to contact either men at listed numbers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, the US and Dubai.”

The Guardian report said that the “US embassy spokeswoman Courtney Beale said DeHaven was “not a direct employee of the US government” but added that details could not be confirmed until a consular officer had met him”. It is obvious that these unsavory characters are not longer welcome in Pakistan. One would have imagined that after the “Raymond Davis” affair they would have quietly made their exit. Obviously DeHaven could not leave because his expired visa would have raised a red flag.

Not much is known about DeHaven. His front describes him as part of a  firm, which also has offices in Afghanistan and Dubai. Like “Raymond Davis” the DeHaven firm is also made up of soldiers for hire,  retired US military and defense personnel who talk about experience in the “global war on terror”. It is obvious that the DeHaven arrest was linked to escalating tensions between the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), triggered by the trial of Davis, who appeared in handcuffs at a brief court hearing in a Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.

Former spy master Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul told Arab News, “Raymond Davis is the acting chief of CIA in Pakistan.”

He said, “Satellite phones, SIMs, and other items recovered from Davis clearly suggest that he has been directing the drones.”

Former Chief of Army Staff Gen. Aslam Beg in a TV interview said, ”Unauthorized visas were given to at least 3,000 CIA contractors by Ambassador Hussain Haqqani from Washington and Rehman Malik from Dubai.

Beg alleged, ”Most of terrorist activities inside Pakistan were supervised by Davis.” Local TV Channels, Geo and ARY.
Trial proceedings were against “Raymond Davis” were initiated by the District and Sessions Court in Kot Lakhpat Jail Friday before Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Muhammad Yousuf Aujla. Davis is accused of killing two youths , Faizan and Faheem, at Qartaba Chowk on Jan. 27. At the 20-minute court hearing on Friday, Mr. Davis told the judge he would not take part in the proceedings. On the advice of the US Embassy the the former special forces soldier, who was sold by the CIA  refused to sign a charge-sheet presented to him by the prosecution, for the murder of two men in the heart of Lahore on January 27. “Davis” retracted his old claim that he was a “contractor” (caught on tape) and instead said that he had diplomatic immunity – a claim blown to bits by newspapers like the Guardian and also by US officials.

The hearing in Kot Lakhpat jail was held “in camera”, with press and the public excluded. Pakistani has taken unusual measures to ensure “Davis’s” security amid stories that the US had planned to extricate him by force.

The CIA restarted its drone campaign in the tribal belt last Monday, further escalating tensions. The DeHaven arrest may have been in retaliation for the drone bombing escalation. This cycle of retributions and counter-measures will exacerbate the situation and take it to the point of no return.

It is expected that dozens if not scores of these contractors will be arrested in the next few weeks. There are press reports that the CIA is contemplating on a tit-for-tat trapping or targeting Pakistani counterparts serving as diplomats abroad. Easy prey of this revenge design of the Americans could be Pakistani intelligence staff serving abroad chiefly in US, Europe, and Afghanistan.” If this happens there would be retaliation and outing of other CIA spies in the Middle East and other places. Human Intel is one of the big weaknesses of the CIA. A few agents outed would destroy its efficacy.

 

Pakistan arrests another US CIA security contractor

ISI tells American agency to unmask all its covert operatives after arrest of Aaron DeHaven in Peshawar, over visa expiry

Declan Walsh in Islamabad
guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 February 2011

Supporters of the religious party Jamaat-e-Islami rally against CIA employee Raymond Davis, accused of murdering two Pakistanis. Photograph: K.M.Chaudary/AP Pakistani authorities have arrested a US government security contractor amid a worsening spy agency row between the countries, with Pakistani intelligence calling on the Americans to "come clean" about its network of covert operatives in the country.

The arrest came at the start of the murder trial of another American held in Pakistan, the CIA agent Raymond Davis.

Peshawar police arrested Aaron DeHaven, a contractor who recently worked for the US embassy in Islamabad, saying that his visa had expired.

Little was known about DeHaven except that his firm, which also has offices in Afghanistan and Dubai, is staffed by retired US military and defence personnel who boast of direct experience in the "global war on terror".

It was unclear whether his arrest was linked to escalating tensions between the Inter-Services Intelligence and the CIA, triggered by the trial of Davis, who appeared in handcuffs at a brief court hearing in a Lahore jail.

The 36-year-old former special forces soldier, whose status as a spy was revealed by the Guardian, refused to sign a chargesheet presented to him by the prosecution, which says he murdered two men at a traffic junction on January 27.

Davis instead repeated his claim of diplomatic immunity – a claim supported by President Barack Obama, who called him "our diplomat".

The press and public were excluded from the hearing in Kot Lakhpat jail, where Pakistani officials have taken unusual measures to ensure Davis's security amid a public clamour for his execution.

The furore has also triggered the most serious crisis between the ISI and the CIA since the 9/11 attacks. A senior ISI official told the Guardian that the CIA must "ensure there are no more Raymond Davises or his ilk" if it is to repair the tattered relationship of trust.

"They need to come clean, tell us who they are and what they are doing. They need to stop doing things behind our back," he said. There are "two or three score" covert US operatives roaming Pakistan, "if not more", he said.

CIA spokesman George Little said that agency ties to the ISI "have been strong over the years, and when there are issues to sort out, we work through them. That's the sign of a healthy partnership".

Pakistani civilian officials warned that the ISI was amplifying fallout from the Davis crisis through selective media leaks to win concessions from the US.

"They're playing the media; in private they're much more deferential to the Americans," said a senior government official, who added that the two agencies had weathered previous disagreements in private.

The crisis has sucked in the military top brass from both countries. On Tuesday, a Pakistani delegation led by General Ashfaq Kayani met US generals, led by Admiral Mike Mullen, at a luxury resort in Oman to hammer out the issues.

The US stressed that it "did not want the US-Pakistan relationship to go into a freefall under media and domestic pressures", according to an account of the meeting obtained by Foreign Policy magazine.

The ISI official agreed that future co-operation was vital. "They need us; we need them," he said. "But we need to move forward in the right direction, based on equality and respect."

The media furore over Davis has fuelled scrutiny of other American security officials in Pakistan and their visa arrangements, and may have led police to Aaron DeHaven in Peshawar on Friday.

DeHaven runs a company named Catalyst Services which, according to its website, is staffed by retired military and defence department personnel who have "played some role in major world events" including the collapse of the Soviet Union, the military mission to Somalia and the "global war on terror". Services offered include "full-service secure residences", protective surveillance and armed security.

One prospective customer who met DeHaven last year described him as a small, slightly-built man, who wore glasses and had broad knowledge of Pakistani politics. DeHaven said he had lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan, for one year, had married a Pakistani woman along the border with Afghanistan, and spoke Pashto fluently.

He said he moved his base from Peshawar to Islamabad last year over suspicions that he worked for Blackwater, the controversial US military contracting firm.

His business partner is listed on company documents as Hunter Obrikat with an address in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Guardian was unable to contact either men at listed numbers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, the US and Dubai.

US embassy spokeswoman Courtney Beale said DeHaven was "not a direct employee of the US government" but added that details could not be confirmed until a consular officer had met him. The arrest is another sign of brittle relations between the two countries.

US officials in Washington argue that Davis is a registered diplomat who should be immediately released under the provisions of the Vienna convention. But that plea has fallen on deaf ears in Pakistan, where the papers have been filled with lurid accounts of the spy's alleged activities, including unlikely accounts of him working with the Taliban and al-Qaida.

The US has also struck some blows in the covert public relations war. After a lull of three weeks, the CIA restarted its drone campaign in the tribal belt last Monday, with near-daily attacks on militant targets since then. "It's their way of showing who's in charge," said a senior Pakistani official.

And at the Oman meeting, Mullen warned Kayani he would apply "other levers" to the Pakistanis if a solution to the case was not found, the official added.

Since Davis's CIA status was revealed, US officials have told Pakistani officials that their best hope is in offering compensation to the families of the two men Davis shot in Lahore. Religious parties, however, have pressured relatives not to accept money.

Meanwhile, the Zardari government says it will settle the issue of Davis's diplomatic status at a court hearing scheduled for 14 March.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/25/pakistan-arrests-security-contractor-cia

US ‘ready to mend Pakistan ties’

WASHINGTON, Feb 25: The United States has revived high-level diplomatic and military contacts with Pakistan, indicating a desire to put behind the bitterness created by the arrest of a CIA contractor in Lahore, diplomatic sources told.

On Wednesday, when the US and Pakistani military chiefs had a day-long meeting in Oman, Pakistan`s Ambassador Husain Haqqani was invited to the State Department for a formal meeting with Marc Grossman, the new US Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

During the meeting, the State Department informed the ambassador that Mr Grossman planned to visit Islamabad early next month for exploratory talks with Pakistani leaders.

Although Mr Grossman served in Islamabad from 1976 to 1983, this would be his first visit to the country since his appointment earlier this month as US special representative for the region, replacing the late Richard Holbrooke.

“There`s no severance of relations,” said a diplomatic source while describing the impact of Raymond Davis`s arrest on US-Pakistan ties. “The Americans were still talking to the Pakistanis but almost always focused on the Davis affair.”

In Wednesday`s meeting, the source said, the Americans did not raise this issue. “Instead, they expressed the desire to move ahead with the efforts to build a strategic relationship with Pakistan.”

The source said that while the trilateral — Afghanistan, Pakistan, the US — talks scheduled in Washington this week had been postponed, the strategic dialogue would go ahead as planned.

The US-Pakistan strategic talks were scheduled next month and may still be delayed but would be held “more or less as planned”, the source said. The source confirmed a news report that the Davis dispute had strained relations between the CIA and the ISI but both sides had agreed to mend those ties as well.

“Misunderstandings and suspicions,” said the source while explaining what caused the tensions between the two spy agencies.

“The Pakistanis complained that the Americans were working behind their back, against the spirit of the partnership,” the source added, while “the Americans felt that the ISI was protecting some insurgents”.

In November, WikiLeaks confirmed that large numbers of US special operations forces had been operating inside Pakistan with or without Islamabad`s consent.

The source also confirmed that the Pakistan Embassy had issued thousands of visas to Americans, more than 400 on a single day. “But all those visas were issued with Islamabad`s consent,” said the source.