Bhutto brought him in to secure his own position and continue his rule…it was bhuttos greed which prompted him to appoint zia, so all the gunah and galian ultimately end up with bhutto.
Mir Murtaza was Bhutto’s son not his brother, so lets get that right. If the investigation was called off by BB, why was the investigation not started again when NS govt came into office and his son was part of that govt?
If you read it again you will see it is written Mrs Bhutto’s brother i.e BB. Everybody in the know knows who were behind his assasination. An investigation would reach the top levels of Pakistani military leadership, civilian leadership and foreign power. So maybe it was decided to not open the can of worms.
So than how can you blame BB’s govt when you are now saying that other people were involved and didnt wanted to open the investigation. If his son couldnt investigate his fathers death how could BB, probably the same people put pressure on her as well. In any case Pakistan is still paying for his incompetence and will continue to pay for a long time to come.
BB tried to stop or obstruct an investigation, because she was part of the plot. After 2 years what exactly did you want NS to do? The truth did still get out. Did you want NS to purge the army and air force plus ISI? Did you want him to lock up the leadership of PPP? Did you want him to go to war with U.S?
Now that BB is gone, do you seriously think that a new government is going to find her assasins when the current government ignored the matter?
You shouldn’t become so emotionally tied to an issue that you become blind to the truth or logic.
I dont think I am the one so emotionally tied that I have become blind to the truth or logic. After all I am nto the one saying that after two years of BB’s rule when his son was in power it was too late to find the assasins. Maybe you dont realise but all over the world criminals, murderers are caught years later. Maybe you need to wake up and look around.
Ok name me 1 assassin that was caught after more than 2 years of a president’s or a prime minister’s murder. Just 1. Either they are caught within 2 years or they are never caught.
Zia’s son was a junior minister in the cabinet after 2 years. Now you have BB’s husband as the most powerful man in Pakistan due to his party being in power and still they cannot catch BB’s murderer. He was the President within months of her murder.
He was chosen by CIA on the recommendation of jordanian king. If you remember it was Pakistan’s defence Attache to Jordan who did a military operation in jordan against the palestinians (which resulted in the formation of Black-September faction of PLO). Now If ZAB appointed him on the instructions of CIA then wat is the status of ZAB?.
I think Zia had one quality for which he stands out above and beyond all other leader in history. The fact that he had absolutely no redeeming characteristics what-so-ever, and his entire legacy was utter disaster. I can’t think of anything that he did that was even remotely positive for the country. His era was the beginning of the dark ages in Pak.
Well unless you think religious fanaticism is a good thing, then Zia was the best thing since sliced bread.
Re: Poor Aitezaz… Na Khuda hi Mila na wisaal-e-Sanam
I thought you were of Pakistani origin so I found it odd that you could be anti-immigration yet you were either an immigrant or your recent ancestors were immigrants but as you are neither my comments should be ignored.
Re: Poor Aitezaz… Na Khuda hi Mila na wisaal-e-Sanam
Immigrants are usually against uncontrolled immigration. Pakistanis immigrating to the west = a controlled process where the host countries save money by importing skilled people, skills the host country never paid to develop. In the case of Afghan refugees we got immigrants who had no skills at all.
Ehsan put it this way. The US didn’t even investigate why it lost its Ambassador and a few other diplomats. Ever heard of the US ignoring the death of its people. The US does a lot wrong but for its own people it is literally the best government in the world.
Not. The US health care system is crappy, they’re getting their soldiers killed for the sake of Israel. Their government is the best for big businesses and Israel.
OP, you’re not being “fair to Zia,” you’re being partial to him. That much is obvious. Your justification of the execution of the country’s first democratically elected leader is a shame. Everyone knows it was a tainted judicial process.
Someone here called Zia a mard-e-momin and I actually laughed out loud. Check out the play, “The Leopard and the Fox” by Tariq Ali. It stars Bhutto as the leopard, and Zia as the wiley fox. The BBC tried to ban it back in the day because Tariq Ali infers American complicity in ZAB’s execution. It’s common knowledge Kissinger warned Bhutto that he’d be “made an example out of” if he didn’t stop provoking the U.S. The rest is history.
Rehashing the past is critical to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself. The politics of memory is important. He’s only been dead 24 years, and we’re still living the hellish aftermath. If there’s one person that shouldn’t be forgotten, it’s this sob.