New Delhi, October 9
The Atal Behari Vajpayee government is understood to have been given a startling information that a Nepalese media moghul, close to Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), has of late been frequenting the Royal Palace and keeping close contact with King Gyanendra.
Disturbing reports have come in here from Nepal through diplomatic channels suggesting that the Managing Director of Space Time Network (STN) Jamim Shah who has had a meteoric rise in last few years, was one of the few media personalities whom King Gyanendra met on
October 4.
Subsequently, he visited the palace several times and has been masterminding pro-palace demonstrations hailing the King’s sacking of the Sher Bahadur Deuba government and taking over of the political system. Not only this, Shah has borne all expenses of such events, well-placed sources said today.
The classified reports also suggest that Jamim Shah, also known as Jamil Shah and Jumbo Shah, had been supplying drugs to the late Crown Prince Dipendra, who had massacred the entire Royal family in June 2001.
These reports bear immense strategic significance and shed a new light on the royal family massacre. Crown Prince Dipendra is also known to be close to Jamim Shah.
Shah is a close contact of Dawod Ibrahim, the notorious international mafia don who is engaged in a plethora of criminal and terrorist activities, mainly across Asia. Initially, Dawood used the services of Jamim for smuggling gold via Nepal into India.
According to Interpol, Shah has also been involved in drug trafficking, especially hashish and heroin with Dawood. More recently there were classified reports that for his drug smuggling operations he had diverted a part of the Nepali Rs 300 million loan sanctioned to STN by a consortium of banks.
Moreover, Shah has also been involved in illegal sale of arms in partnership with another smuggler Nakim Bhai.
