Ex-Navy chief confirms French kickbacks

It has been a norm among the influential persons at the helms of affairs to go for personal interests at the cost of national defense. It is time all such practices should be opposed by the patriotic Pakistanis.

ISLAMABAD: “Former Naval chief Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza gives credence to the recent French investigative report that talked of almost $49 million kickbacks in the Agosta-submarine deal allegedly received by President Asif Ali Zardari and others, including Naval officers, disclosing that the then Benazir government had urged the Pakistan Navy to go for the French subs.

Mirza, while quoting the then Naval chief Admiral Saeed Khan, also revealed that Benazir Bhutto’s defence minister Aftab Shaban Mirani had clearly indicated to the Pakistan Navy’s high command the government’s preference for the induction of the French submarines.”

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