Re: Islami Jamhoori Ittehad
The distinction between being offered and accepting is something one can never really know ...Syed Abida Hussain has now accepted she was paid at the time.
The story is not straight forward as it may sound..Jatoi was backed by the ISI but Nawaz Sharif through his hold over Punjab managed to become PM..similarly the MQM needed no /money in winning it's seats in Karachi unlike many IJI people but the way it switched between the PPP and IJI was very suspect at the time (1989) . It's initial support for Jam Sadiq Ali and his reign of terror against the PPP in Sind is also very unfortunate.
The PPP isn't without it's own skeletons in the closet, how Sherpao kept his position in NWFP 1988-1990) and the way the PPP ousted Sabir Shah is anothed sordid story of money being passed around. Also the way the IB was used from 1993-1996 wasn't very different from the ISI.