Mystery Chinese ship to Karachi, 5 indicted in US show Pakistan’s nuclear racket is alive

The seizure shows India has made great progress in tracking ships using technologies like Automatic Identification Systems.

In January this year, five men were indicted in the US for operating an international procurement racket that serviced at least two Pakistani government entities considered a threat to US national security. Even more recently, Indian customs officials detained a Chinese ship bound for Karachi, carrying dual-use equipment. That means it could be destined for either civilian use or military purposes.

Both these developments come at a time when the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary meeting in Paris is to decide whether Pakistan will remain on the ‘Grey List’ in terms of risks to the international financial system. The assessment is not limited to terror finance alone. The FATF also concerns itself with the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and on this parameter, Pakistan is only ‘partially compliant’, at a time when rumours of Turkey-Pakistani nuclear cooperation are resurfacing.

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>>8230945

2/2

The US crackdown

The proliferation ring unearthed by US officials seemed to have been operating through front companies in Hong Kong, Canada, the UK and the US. Of the five indicted, one is a resident of Pakistan, two are from Canada and one each from Hong Kong and the UK. Three others linked to the case are Pakistani citizens.

The network seems to have been a family concern, run by a man named Md Kamran Wali. The group supplied the Advanced Engineering Research Organisation (AERO) and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) with goods that they could not legally procure as sanctioned entities.

The modus operandi was fairly simple. Kamran’s offices in Rawalpindi, Karachi (in Defence Housing Authority) and at an upmarket address in Islamabad, received the orders, which was then passed on to front companies outside Pakistan for sourcing. The listing provided by the District Court, New Hampshire, describes the set-up as a far-flung enterprise, sourcing satellite communication systems and emulators.

According to data from Wikileaks, a group of US officials who earlier visited its office in Wah found that it was co-located inside the top-secret Air Weapons Complex — an establishment that designs all airborne platforms for the Pakistani Air Force, including for its newest thrust area, the armed unmanned aerial vehicle. AERO is staffed by retired Air Force officers, who in this instance, were looking for technology to replace defective Chinese equipment. Put into the Entity List of the US Commerce Department in 2014, AERO has now come again into the limelight, for not just violating US laws, but also as a potential threat to the “delicate balance of power among nations within the region.”

Whatever equipment it was, it was certainly something the Pakistanis could not get from China in spite of their close defence relationship.

A third company is also mentioned. The Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC), Taxila, wanted Electro-Magnetic and Radio Frequency shielding, which was shown on paper as destined for MRI rooms in hospitals. The HMC was transferred to the Special Projects Division and the PAEC in 2016. While the whole case may have merited only a few pages of print space, it is one that would have involved months of patient intelligence gathering. This is intelligence cooperation at its best.

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>>8231059

>the American Red Cross has been notified,

>The condo project was new construction and was nearly completely framed before it caught fire Sunday,

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>>8231127

>giving vouchers to the displaced residents.

It was at the framing stage, no occupants.

>>8231178

DECLAS will never happen under Barr the fixer.

>>8231455

>→ Wouldn't be surprised if it turns out (The Awan Brothers Affair) is an "OP" coordinated w/ China thru Pakistan.

Was wondering the same.