Israel helped Pakistan aid Afghans fighting USSR

Daily Times:

Though the recent meeting of Israel and Pakistan’s foreign ministers was the first publicly-acknowledged meeting between leaders from the two countries, they have dealt secretly before, notably in weapons deals in the Afghan war, according to a recent book.

Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, by journalist George Crile, details the secret deals made by Pakistan’s Army, then headed by General Ziaul Haq, and Israel through the CIA for weapons to supply Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviet Union. The deals were brokered by US Congressman Charlie Wilson from Texas, the central figure in the book.

The book states that Wilson made the proposal to General Zia to deal with the Israelis during Zia’s first 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....
An interesting Houston connection. There is much more.

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