Authentic Knowledge About Colonel Imam
Little is known of Amir Sultan Tarar's true history or operational profile as an agent of the ISI. Most information about 'Colonel Imam' was generated by his own admission, as well as news media speculation. Pakistan's secrecy over internal and external security, plus the code of conduct of Pakistan Armed Forces personnel serving in sensitive institutions, prevents such details from being available or verifiable. In 2010, however, he gave interviews to foreign and domestic journalists in Rawalpindi.
Imam's initial objective, pre-taliban and post Mujahedin infighting after Soviet withdrawal were unclear and his objectives at that time were just to find new friends for Pakistan from where to operate later, such as Akhaundzada of Helmand who had a blood feud with Hikmatyar and was a warlord with 17000 men under command.
It was the claim of Col.Imam that Soviets when in Afghanistan had put a 200 million Afghani bounty on him. He also claimed that when he presented operational details to Aslam Baig after Gen.Zia's death about anti-soviet struggle, the later was surprised as to the extent.
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