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haris its better than indian media, dinn the claim that the destroyed lalukhet airport? :D
Pakistani troops traded arms for gold
more disgrace to name of Pakistan and surprise surprise, its the army again
Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops have traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the BBC has learnt.
These militia groups were guilty of some of the worst human rights abuses during the Democratic Republic of Congo’s long civil war.
The trading went on in 2005. A UN investigative team sent to gather evidence was obstructed and threatened.
The team’s report was buried by the UN itself to “avoid political fallout”.
These events took place in and around the mining town of Mongbwalu, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Pakistani battalion of the UN peacekeeping mission deployed there two years ago and helped bring peace to an area that had previously seen bitter fighting between the Lendu and Hema ethnic groups.
Locals welcomed them, but the lure of the rich alluvial gold mines proved too much to resist for some, recalls the head of the miners’ association, Liki Likambo.
“I saw a UN Pakistani soldier who came to buy gold from one of the gold negotiators here in Mongbwalu. I was there in the shop. I saw it with my own eyes.”
Deals
Soon the Pakistani officers were doing deals directly with the FNI militia.
Weighing gold
The gold from mines run by militias went to Pakistani peacekeepers
Evarista Anjasubu - a local businessman said he had known of transactions between Pakistani officers and two of the most notorious militia leaders called Kung Fu and Dragon who controlled the gold mines.
“They were already friends. I knew well. It was gold that was the basis of their friendship. So the gold extracted from the mines went directly to the Pakistanis. They used to meet in the UN camp in Mongbwalu, in a thatched house.”
As the trade developed the Pakistani officers brought in the Congolese army and then Indian traders from Kenya.
Richard Ndilu, in charge of immigration at Mongbwalu airstrip, became suspicious in late 2005 when an Indian businessman arrived there and went to stay at the camp of the Pakistani peacekeepers.
Scandal
Alerted to this illegal trade by her officials, the District Commissioner of Ituri, Petronille Vaweka, went to Bunia airport to intercept a plane from Mongbwalu.
She said her way was blocked by Congolese army officers, who refused to allow her to inspect the cargo.
“I knew they had gold because the price of gold increased when the Indians went to Mongwalu,” she said.
“When we wanted to verify what was inside the plane the pilot refused to allow us to enter the plane - me who was the chief, he refused! It was a big scandal.”
When the UN was alerted to the allegations of gold trading by Human Rights Watch in late 2005, they instituted a major investigation by the Office for Internal Oversight Services.
What they uncovered was even more explosive.
Rearming
This is from a witness statement given to the UN by a Congolese officer engaged in the disarming of the militia in the nearby town of Nizi:
"The officer expressed his regrets over the malpractices of a Pakistani battalion under the auspices of Major Zanfar. He revealed the arms surrendered by ex-combatants were secretly returned to them by Major Zanfar thereby compromising the work they had collectively done earlier.
“Repeatedly he saw militia who had been disarmed one day, but the next day would become re-armed again. The information he could obtain was always the same, that it would be the Pakistani battalion giving arms back to the militia.”
This evidence was backed up by an interpreter working with the Pakistani battalion at Mongbwalu.
On arriving at the Officer’s Mess, the interpreter found two militia leaders - known as Kung Fu and Dragon.
The interpreter said that the first question from Major Ali was to Kung Fu - asking him: ‘What about the weapons I gave you? What about the weapons Monuc gave you?’
Stand-off
A UN investigation team arrived in Mongbwalu in August 2006.
At first the Pakistani battalion there cooperated with them. But when they attempted to seize a computer with apparently incriminating documents on it a stand-off ensued.
The Pakistanis surrounded the UN police accompanying the investigators with barbed wire and put two armoured personnel carriers outside their living quarters at a nearby Christian mission.
Thoroughly intimidated, the investigators were airlifted out of Mongbwalu.
The Pakistani troops are replaced every six months and the BBC investigation concerns events that took place prior to the deployment of the current Pakistani battalion.
When we put the allegations of weapons trading to the head of the UN in Congo, Ambassador William Swing, he denied emphatically that peacekeepers had been rearming the militia.
“This I can categorically deny. What we have done is just the opposite. We have demobilised more than 20,000. We have taken in caches of arms. We have destroyed arms. We have done public burnings of these arms. And there is absolutely nothing to that allegation.”
He says that the investigation into gold trading has yet to be completed.
A UN official connected with the inquiry told the BBC there seems to have been a plan to bury it, to avoid alienating Pakistan - the largest contributor of troops to the UN.
The UN in New York has refused to explain what took place or why, nearly two years after the allegations first surfaced, the Congolese people have no idea what action - if any - has been taken to discipline the Pakistani soldiers concerned.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the UN had informed it of the allegations only on Tuesday, and they would be looked into.
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dont we have a thread on this subject already?
Re: Pak Peace Mission involved in Gold smuggling
And BBC is also the org which showed footage of Indian buses running through Lahore on 6 Sep 1965 :D
Yep, I remember that.... "Lahore Has Fallen" BTW BBC also reported Saddys WMD that can be deployed in 45 minutes.
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Pakistani has been doing great in every field of life, they live only for material not for humanity, we should pray for good governing over pakistani people who teach and lead them on straight path with great implementations of law and order, i think no any politician or army can implement such law by which pakistani maintain their attitude of living according to yardstick of humanity.
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Africans arent people.
First/Second generation factory workers in English ghettoes have an even less of a claim...
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almost as coveted as police and customs :D
and I agree with you che, without the complete cooperation of army and border control we wuld not have smuglging. I mean all the smuggling of drugs that those filthy afghans did in the 80's during Zia's regime, had to be blessed by the military govt of the era.
I dont know if you were in pakistan then, but the drug problem was just out of hand.
In Pakistans case when there is no one checking on military's activities, of course there will be corruption, anuone left unchecked has the opporunity to bcome corrupt. we have seen that with military, we hve seen that with politicians we have seen that with judges, and we have seen that with mullahs. it needs to stop.
we need better checks and balances.
Not so fast hommie...Drug smuggling and smuggling of other goods are two different things...Drug smuggling problem shot through the roof during BB's first tenure...there was even a scandal of a whole ship loaded with drugs that was caught with PPP higher ups/Zardari having been the beneficiaries...
And which mullahs are corrupt??? If anything the one or two odd mullahs like Fazlu are an exception to the rule??? How many mullahs were on the NAB's list...How many were involved in BB or Nawaz style embezzelments or Altaf bhai style bhatta khori and mobile chori???
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Nahin bhai mullah are the only shareef and innocent in Pakistan...
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Nahin bhai mullah are the only shareef and innocent in Pakistan...
Haan yaar, barri dair say samajh ai....khair dair aai drust aai...
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^^ bilqul yaar…hum eslow loag hain 
so whose help do mullahs take for preparing their followers for jihad…MQM, PPP, PML-N, etc…or they just do it themselves…
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lolz…I wonder if there is anything left we haven’t been charged with 
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This is not a ghetto, but one of the most desirable locations in the nation.
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no. 1: just to clarify, I am no PPP/PML etc, so i condemn Benazir’s corruption as much as the corruption done by The Emperor and his Army.
no.2: that the US govt. considered changing banking law for benazir and not for mush is hardly a proof/justification/excuse/explanation or certificate of character for Musharraf’s under the table policies. The emperor servers a purpose right now and gets preferential treatment. 1 billion dollars a year, no questions asked. How many political govt’s have been beneficiary of such treatment? Forget changing laws for others, the US govt. itself is not being honest to its public here.
no.3: fifteen wrongs, don’t make sixteen rights
no.4 http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=254111
no. 5 : 
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This is truly a shame... Pakistanis have shown themselves to be extremely reliable and won praise for their UN work... And ow the jerks pull this crap.. Greedy scum.
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still allegations though.
but troubling regardless.
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Fraudia,
“they must have learnt it from zardari”
It should be other way round. One of the reason, none of the corruption cases proved against him, is that big lords of military were share holders with him in the loot. Any thing prove against him would automatically prove against them. They are ham pyala and ham navala. In fact it is the stupidity of military government that he came out from jail as super politician of Pakistan who remained in jail for 8 or 9 years without any conviction. Paki Faujeon Ko Salam.
FARID
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Yeah! 
Exactly!
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FOL and Farid
by all means, I am completely against the military corruption. I hve seen too many colonels kids living lavish lives in unis that I wonder what they pay in COD. I mean in a country where the military is so corrupt that it has to blow up its own ordinance depot to cover up its misdeeds , u dont need to convince me of military corruption.
Farid- come on man, quit defending BB and zardari they are as haramkhor hadharam as they come. sheesh even her brother as against her
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hariss so where was this alleged lalukhet airport? by the furniture market?