Re: Pakistan Airforce News and Discussions
Here is an interesting article on what u guys are talking about.
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=19697
Pakistan, Israel collaborated during Afghan war: book:
Islamabad: Even as a furious debate rages in Pakistan on the pros and cons of recognising Israel, it has been revealed that Islamabad and Tel Aviv collaborated to provide arms to the mujahideen during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979-1989.
"Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History", by journalist George Crile details the secret deals made by late Pakistani dictator Zia-ul Haq and Israel through the CIA for weapons to be supplied to the Afghan mujahideen.
US Congressman Charlie Wilson of Texas, the central figure in the book, brokered the deals, according to the book. According to a report in Daily Times Sunday, the book states that Wilson made the proposal to Zia to deal with the Israelis during his visit to the US after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The proposal was made at a dinner hosted by a Houston woman, Joanne Herring, who Zia took a fancy to and later named honorary consul of Pakistan.
Says the author: "He (Wilson) told Zia about his experience the previous year when the Israelis had shown him the vast stores of Soviet weapons they had captured from the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) in Lebanon. The weapons were perfect for the mujahideen, he told Zia. If Wilson could convince the CIA to buy them, would Zia have any problems passing them on to the Afghans?
"Zia, ever the pragmatist, smiled on the proposal, adding, 'Just don't put any Stars of David on the boxes,'" the book states.
Wilson, after learning that the Israelis were secretly upgrading the Chinese army's Russian-designed T-55 tanks, and that the Chinese were supplying Pakistan with T-55s, proposed that Zia enter into a similar secret arrangement with the Israelis.
The proposition was sensitive, as just three years earlier, a rumour that Israel had been involved in an attack on the Great Mosque in Makkah had prompted thousands of people to storm the US embassy in Pakistan and burn it to the ground, the book notes.
"Publicly, Pakistan and Israel would have to remain foes, he (Wilson) conceded. But as Zia well understood, Pakistan and Israel shared the same deadly foe in the Soviet Union. And the fact was that each could profit mightily by secretly cooperating with the other," Crile writes.
"Zia left the congressman with an understanding that he was authorised to begin secret negotiations to open back channels between Islamabad and Jerusalem. Wilson would leave for Israel in March and travel on to Pakistan to brief Zia immediately afterward," the book states.
On one of his visits to Israel, Wilson convinced IMI, the weapons conglomerate that produces Israel's artillery, tank shells, and machine guns, to design a rocket launcher for the mujahideen.
"By the time Wilson was ready to leave, they'd presented him with an impressive-looking design, complete with detailed specifications. It was a mule-portable, multi-rocketed device named, to the congressman's delight, the Charlie Horse."
Wilson ended up overseeing much of this weapons programme for Pakistan out of his own congressional office.
US-based Web newspaper South Asia Tribune contacted Wilson in July, after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had initiated a major debate on whether Islamabad should recognise Israel for his comments on what impact their previous nexus would have.
Said Wilson: "I will not comment on the present situation. It is for the governments of the two countries to decide what they want to do."
The meeting in Istanbul last Thursday of the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel, their first official contact, has upped the ante of the debate Musharraf set in motion.
The opposition, spearheaded by the Muttahida Majils-e-Amal religious alliance, has slammed the meeting and accused the Pakistani government of a U-turn in its 57-year-old policy on Israel at Washington's behest.
The government has denied any move to recognize Israel, saying any decision on this would be taken only after taking parliament and the nation into confidence.
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I personally think that if there where relations between the two nation they can only be very limited. In this case i doubt that pakistan would ask for much military assistance from israel.
but the war game between Blue Forces & Fox Forces would be the best feature & very entertaining 
