Who was the spy who led prayers at the “Pul-i Khishti” Mosque?
Author: Mahfuz
To understand the essence of the MI6 game — the British intelligence service — in Afghanistan and the region, it is first necessary to explain the deeper strategy of the British in their confrontation with the Islamic world, and then examine the early actions and operations of MI6 involving the deployment of spies to Afghanistan disguised as mullahs and religious scholars.
“How to Destroy Islam?” is the title of a book which, according to the version presented in this article, lies at the foundation of the activities of the British intelligence organizations MI6 and MI5. According to this account, the book was developed two centuries ago by British thinkers and strategists to implement their long-term strategies in the Islamic world and became the basis of their foreign and expansionist policies, both in the present and in the distant future. “Mr. Hempher,” a British spy in Muslim countries, writes in his memoirs about the implementation of the provisions of this book, “How to Destroy Islam?”:
“After numerous wars and experiences, we concluded that it is impossible to confront Islam through war and destroy it in this way. The leaders of the British state concluded that Islam should be destroyed from within through a precise and carefully calculated plan and with very long-term patience. It is true that ultimately we will have to resort to military force, but we will implement this decision at the final stage, when we have weakened the Islamic countries. We must strike at every part of the body of Islam so that it can no longer gather its forces and take action in response.”
One of the chapters of the book is devoted to fomenting wars and internal and border uprisings between Muslims and non-Muslims, as well as among Muslims themselves in various countries over an extended period of time. The alleged aim is to weaken the strength of Muslims, distract them from the pursuit of development and the unification of their ranks, destroy their intellectual potential and material resources, eliminate their young, active, and capable forces, and establish chaos and conflict within the Muslim world.
Any conflicts, wars, and killings among Kashmiris, Pakistanis, and Afghans have been and remain a means of sustaining bloodshed among Muslims and keeping the “MI6 mill” operating in the region. The formation of Pakistan’s system of governance and leadership within the region, even before it emerged as an independent Islamic state, represents, in the author’s view, a mysterious and mafia-like structure designed, controlled, and directed in accordance with the regional interests of the great powers, above all Britain and the United States.
The British feared and continue to fear the unity and intellectual development of the Islamic world. They sought, by sending their agents and spies to Afghanistan, to obstruct the development of Islamic culture and scientific philosophy, keeping Afghans confined within dogmas and superstitions, distancing them from the true essence of Islam, and keeping their religious sentiments captive to magic and superstition.
To achieve this objective, they sent their representatives to Afghanistan dressed as pirs, hazrats, sheikhs, and talibs, wearing abās, qabās, turbans, and chiltars, so that through these outwardly pious emissaries they could pursue their political and colonial objectives in Afghanistan under the cover of Islam.
According to the author, numerous examples of such individuals and their activities are presented in the book Afghanistan on the Path of History, while in the book Afghanistan — A Springboard of Colonialism, on pages 23–27, their alleged identities and activities as spies are supposedly revealed in detail.
According to the author’s claim, it was precisely as part of the implementation of the provisions of this book that British MI6 left the region with the legacy of the Durand Line and Kashmir border dispute near Afghanistan and India, on both sides of Pakistan, turning it into a permanent base and gateway for pursuing its long-term objectives, maintaining ethnic tensions among Muslims, and creating a permanent source of instability for the region.
Let us name one of the mysterious agents and protégés of the British — a man operating under the pseudonym Sayyid Hussein, known as Naqib. He entered Afghanistan through British India during the reign of Habibullah Khan and settled in Jalalabad, in the Charbagh district. Presenting himself as a pir and murshid, he laid a web of deception before the simple-hearted and pure-minded people of the province, associating their sincere beliefs with hypocrisy and sorcery and plunging the population into ignorance and superstition.
He incited the people to revolt against Amanullah. In the garden of his country residence, which became known as “Naqib’s Garden,” he distributed hashish among young people under the name “the poor man’s shrub” and gave people water with which he had washed his hands and feet, presenting it as blessed and healing water.
Another was Thomas Edward Lawrence, one of the mysterious political figures of England, a colonel and military pilot known as “Lawrence of Arabia” or “Al-Lawrence,” and a member of the MI6 intelligence network. In Afghanistan, he was allegedly known by the name “Haji Pir Karam Shah” and, dressed in a mullah’s aba and qaba, supposedly performed various tricks every day and demonstrated purported miraculous abilities.
It was Lawrence who distributed thousands of photographs allegedly depicting Queen Soraya naked among the population. The images had supposedly been deceptively manipulated: the head was taken from photographs of Queen Soraya, while the body belonged to an English woman.
He allegedly even served for several years as the mullah-imam of the “Pul-i Khishti” Mosque, and through this position, his intelligence activities supposedly involved inciting the population to revolt against the regime of King Amanullah Khan.
