Way back in 1980s
State welcomes notorious Pakistani - Lieutenant-General Fazle Haq, governor of Pakistan's opium-ridden North West Frontier Province, arrived in Washington the week of April 12 as the "honored guest" of the U. S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. According to the State Department, Fazle Haq is here to "observe the drug enforcement agency's methods of preventing drug inflow into the U. S." EIR reported last October that Fazle Haq's brother, Fazle Hussein, is wanted by Interpol in connection with various narcotics-trafficking-related cases, and that Governor Fazle Haq himself is linked to illegal drug traffickers. According to New York sources, Fazle Haq told Washington that he could do very little to stop drugs in the tribal areas unless the U. S. poured large amounts of money into the region. Fazle Haq also met with Undersecretary of State James Buckley, and Assistance Secretary Nicholas Veliotes to discuss security affairs. Fazle is thought to represent that faction of the ruling Pakistani junta which wants Pakistan to allow U. S. military bases on its territory.
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