JPRS ID: 10569 SOUTH AND EAST ASIA REPORT

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JPRS L/ 10569
7 June 1982
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- 7 June 1982
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CONTENTS
. I~JDIA
Cuban News Agency on CIA Activities i.n Subcontinent
(Ilsa Rodriguez; PRELA, 19 Fpb 82) .6 1
PAKISTAN
Wali Khan Interviewed
(FAR EASTERN ECONONIIC REVIEW, 2 Apr 82) 3
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INDTA
CUBAN NEWS AGENCY ON CIA ACTIVITIES IN SUBCONTINENT
PA192300 Havana PRELA in English 19Q2 GMT 19 Feb 82
[Article by Ilsa Rodriguez]
[Text] New Delhi, 20 Feb (PL)--A mysterious virus in the plantations, ou_*.-
breaks of uxiknown sicknesses and the fear that India might be affected by
chemical weapons, are considered here as consequences of the activities of
= the CIA against that Asiatic nation.
The facts of the ~last few months make suspicious that the Central Intelli-
gence Agency (CIA) of tiie United States is increasing its pressures against
- India and that they operate in this country without any res~riction of the
- U.S. Gover~ent.
_ While the CIA is charged of openly using the war of germs against Latin
American nations, among them, Cuba, India seems to have also became victim
of these plans.
In the middle of 1981, the inhabitants of different regions of this south~m
African [as received] country began to suffer sudden liver sicknesses and
appeared a breakout of con~unctivitis, meningitis and encephalitis.
The agriculture sector has been the mostly affected by the strange appear-
- ~ ance o~ the "green evil", which'prov~kes in the workers of the tobacco
plantatio~ls a strange sickaess which brings respiratory problems, vomits
and other effects which are being analyzed by Iocal scientists.
, The destruction of great extensions of cultivations of fruits and vegetables
- in the state of Haryana, north of this capital, also surprised the experts.
At the beginning of last December it was reported that the outbreak of this
virus, called "stinall leaves" could anlq be controlled by removing and
destroying the affected plants.
i~nder these circumstances, the obse~vers gave great importance to the recent
expulsion from Pakistan of Professor David Nalin, who is being charged of
using the Pakistani-U.S. research center of malaria to produce infected
- mosquitaes which would be us~ed, in the first place, against its neighbor,
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N~UIt UNMII,IAL U,r. UtVLY
That cent~er, located in the Pakistani city of Lahore, ie considered among
the great~st af the world and the expulsion of Nalin--who was.also told to
abandon Pakistan immediately--confirtms that his work is iinked to the
bacteriological war carried out by the CIA, although tliis ie being dffi-
cially denied by the United Statea.
- A similar institution was closed in India in 197~, for the existence of
evi~ences on its psrticipat~.on in the plans o~ bacteriological war carried
~ out by the CIA.
Meanwhile, sectors cf the Indian press have 3ust dex~ounced that ~his country,
together with other ones with coaets to the Indian Ocean, could become
guinea-pigs, for the experiment of new U.S. chemical arms, which are betng
transported in war ships which are operating in ~his ocean.
- Article pu~lished on last Monday:by the daily NATIONAL HERALD warns on the ~
dangers of the chemical war carried out by the United States and stressed
that the reach of the chemical arms and nuclear arms in the Diego Garcia
Island is of up to four thousand miles and that Yndia is only 1,200 miles
away.
These facts, accusations and rumors are linked here with the recent announc~-
- ment on that the gover~ent of Prime Minister Indira Gandh3, is analyzing
the creation of a legal commission which would be responsible of investf-
gating the activities of th~ CIA in India.
According to an article which appeared in the magazine INDIAN OBSERVER
numerous intellectuals, politicians, ~ournalists and busin~ssme~ of India
are working for this U.S. espionage agency.
~ Local experts, for their part, favourably received the declarations of the
minister of the interior [home affairs], Zail Singh, on the prohibition of
the activities of. foreign missions~ies in tribal zones and border line
regioiis of this nation.
buring last year, nearly 10 of these so-called religious missionaries were
'expelled from India ior being ?inked to espionage and intelligence activities.
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PAKISTAN
We~LI KHAN INTERVIEWED
- Hong Kong FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW in English 2 Apr 82 pp 28, 29
[Text] Veteran political leader Wali Khan gives his critical views on Paki-
stan's domestic situation and foreign policy
Charsada, Pakistan: In accordance with traditional hospitality, the tall,
65-year-old politician with thick white hair and dressed in a crumpled shalwar
kameez offered the casual visitor a pot of tea and plates ~f ca.kes and bis-
cuits. With a disarming smile he apologised for the fact t~at his roses were
not yet in bloom. It had, he regretted, been a late spring on Pakistan's
northwest froi~tier.
"Prison," he said, "clears the mind." Abdul Wali Khan, eminence grise of the
_ banned National Democratic Party (NDP},sshould know. Gf his 40 years' polit-
ical activity, 14 have been spent behind bars and last month he emerged from
yet another, albeit brief, spell in the cells. He was detained at a condolence
meeting held to mark the murde?- of a fellow NDP leader and former North West
Frontier Pr4vinca governor, Arbab Sikander Khan, on March 7.
He said: "It was sheer madness. I cannot imagine why thE auth~rities arrested
us." He is convinced, however, that Arbab Sikander's death was a political con-
� spiracy. That is a view widespread among people here and the rumour that the
killer was inspired by religious fundamentalism has done nothing to i.mprove
relation~ between~secular-minded people and their Islamic rivals in th~
= country.
On the widespYead speculation over possible elections in Pakistan, Wali Khan
remained sceptical: "Thos who really know keep silent. Others go in for
familiar kite-flying." In his view the members of the newly created Federal
Advisroy Council, due to start its second session on Apr~l 3, were at best
advisers and at worst svcophants. From the authorities' point cs~ view the
council's creation had already proved cc+unter-productive. "It has raised po-
litical expectatioris, not dissipated them."
Commenting on President Zia-ul Haq's military government he said: "Obvious-
ly, we don't live according to policies. kTe live on the bssis of contingen-
cies, stumbling f~~om one crisis to the next, improvising as we god...Running
a country is a full-time job. Responding to popular opinicn is a full-time
job. Defending a country is a full-time job. The military is trying to do
all three."
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slaming the qovernment for merely exploiting the fragmented opposition, he
added: "7n effect, for the 3.5 year~ since independence we have been denied
~ our fundamental political rights in this country. It is fashionable for the ~
authorities to malign politics and politicians...We had more rights--the
rights of association, movement and expression--under colonial rule."
The Pathan leader's views on foreign policy also reflect his stand on domes-
tic politics. "Today the No. 1 enemy is the Soviet Union because it is co~n-
munist. Yet China is now a close ally, and it is communist. How do you rec-
oncile that?" He was critical, also, of American support for Pakistan. "There
are basically two ideological camps in the world. The totalitarian camp offers
a guarantee of mater'_al welfare while sacrificing basic rights. The free w~rl~d
offers human rights, but cannot guarantee material welfare. Therefore Third
World countries can expect one or the other. But in this situation, what can
~ we expect?"
Reflecting on anather dilemma for his country, he asked rhetorically: Pakistan
wanted Afghan refugees to return home to elect their own government and to be
free to choose tl:eir own ideology, but did Islamabad offer that ~hoice to its
own people? "Some Afghan refugee groups in Pakistan are encouraged to enter
the political life of the nation. They can go to meetings. We cannot."
Dwelling on the presence of Afghan refugees he said: "You are creating a prob-
lem here. In the settled areas of the province there are 3 million people.
There are 2.5 mi.llion refugees from Afghanistan and most of them are in North
West Frontier Province."
Wali Khan is presently engaged in a lively debate with Attorney-General Shari-
fuddin Pirzada over the former's recent allegations--based, he says, on offi-
cial British correspondence between New Delhi and London--to the effect that
the concept of Pakistan as a separate state for Muslims was a colonial ploy,
engineered by Britain and to which the nation's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah,
was a conscious accessory. The ferocious response to what is otherwise an ac- .
ademic controversy demonstrates how the issue strikes at thP root of Zia's Is-
lamisation policy.
Asked if the state of Pakistan was viable today and if integration of four
provinces comprising four language groups'was effective, he responded: "Sov-
ereignty depends on the state's institutions: its parliament, its judiciary,
its executive and its press. ..Integration is only possible through demo-
cratic processes."
Soon after Wali Khan was released from jail last month, authorities gave him
permission on humanitarian grounds to visit Afghanistan. His 92-year-old
father Abdul Ghafar Khan--tYte grand old man of Pakhtoon politics who is in
- self-exile in Kabul--has been hospitalised with a broken hip.
Wou1d not such a visit lend itself to speculation that Kabul and its Soviet
sponsors are using the founders of the NDP--a banned political party striving
for provincial autonomy--for their own ends? Wali Khan dismissed the ques-
tion, saying such alleqations were not new. He said he had been accused of
treachery before by the late premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutt~.
_ Copyright: FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Ltd., Hong Kong, 1982
CSO: 4220/502. END .
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