The former U.S. Ambassador to India, John Dean, has accused Israel of being behind the assassination of Pakistan President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1988.
Dean made the allegation in an article in the World Policy Journal. He said he believed the attack was carried out by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service.
It happened on August 17 1988. Pak One, Pakistan’s equivalent of Air Force One, took off from a military air base outside of Bahawalpur in the late afternoon. On board was Pakistan’s president, joint chief of staffs, and most of the Pakistan army’s top generals, the U.S. Ambassador to pakistan Arnie Raphael and General Herbert M. Wassom, the chief U.S. military official in Pakistan, and a four-man crew. Within minutes the plane crashed and all 30 on board were killed.
The U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz pressed the FBI not to participate in the ensuing investigation, notwithstanding two very senior U.S. officials had been killed in the incident, and that a substantial team of investigators had already been assembled. Schultz was supported by the Pentagon.
The State Department actively promoted the notion that the incident was an accident and even leaked stories to that effect to several newspapers including the New York Times. The official investigation subsequently concluded the plane crashed as the result of sabotage, and not any mechanical failure.
Nobody could touch Zia except his close soldiers. How do you think Musharraf got attacked twice in the span of weeks? God forbid, assassins were successful in Musharraf’s case, who would you blame? Mossad, Raw, or CIA?
Zia was replaced by rabid Islamist like Aslam Beg as COAS.
Also Zia’s ISI director Akhtar Abul Rehman was replaced by another Islamist Hamid Gul.
Both Zia’s son, and Gen Rehman’s son are on the record accusing Aslam Beg for killing their fathers.
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P.S. February 21, 2003 Pak air force chief Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, his wife and several senior officers were among 17 people killed when their plane crashed. Again this was an internal struggle between secular and a small group of Islamist generals.
p.p.s ..John Dean, is on record as having alleged that the Israelis tried to kill him in 1980 when he was US ambassador to the Lebanon because he disagreed with Israeli policies. He was accused of being “pro-Palestinian” in the Israeli Knesset
And everyone knows Zia not only used islam to keep his position but regardless how succesful he was he was also the only ruler in last few decades who actually did something in the country to change the attitude of people towards Islamization.
I say just avoid taking mangoes on board when travel.:)
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its One general (Ayyub) going for American freindship with Bada Ber.
the second (Zia)one comes and turns the country into mullah power or someting
the third(Busharraf) one comes and out laws all mullahs
God knows wat we have next
all that comes to my mind is lagay rahoo
A bomb (stolen from American aid for Afghans) was mixed with the mango seed and was planted. Then the product of this tree was left in the plane alongwith Zia. The bomb-cum-mango destroyed the plane (worth millions $) and Zia. It is not good to relate Zia's death to Israel and thus try to make him a hero.
It was the punishment offered by nature to people like Zia. It was the expected (and natural) death of a person who was responsible for spreading drugs and weapons all over Pakistan as well as Afghanistan. The person who turned the city of lights to the city of blood and destruction, the person who gave Pakistanis a new identity of drug-dealers.
I still remember when uttering such words in era of Zia-ul-Haq was great crime and punishment was 20 lashes and jail term. My ears still echoing with slogans and shouting "Mard-e-Haq, Mard-e-Haq Zia-ul-Haq. I wonder where are all those *******s who made Zia-ul-Haq the immortal and forever president.
No one dared to say any bad word against him when was alive and in power.