Was Zia-ul-Haq a God or just a Pak-army's general?

GoldenAsif · October 29, 2007, 3:37am

Re: Was Zia-ul-Haq a God or just a Pak-army’s general?

Some people want to propagate the fallacy that Gen. Zia-ul-haq was a God, or at least a deity. Who are these “propagators” of Gen. Zia? They fall into a couple of categories: the ones who are jihadi fanatics, and the others who are ex-commie-neo-liberal fanatics.

Both of them have their own agenda to prove that Gen. Zia was not a mere mortal, or just a general in Pakistani army. They rather insist that Gen. Zia was a modern day God, a Messiah, or a deity.

According to neo-liberals (ex-commies) Zia single-handedly created Jihadis, Talibans, and above all MQM.

In reality, Gen. Zia played a role along with right-wing Pakistanis, Americans and other free-market forces to topple the commies. That’s all.

Unfortunately there is no way you can win a debate with the Jihaids (they prefer chopping heads) or the neo-liberals. So I rest my case.

Peace.

Well as far as I know, no one in Pakistan considers Zia a saint. Please don’t make him out to be what he clearly is not. Musharraf (despite his flaws) is easily more popular esp. among the younger generation because of his progressive views on education etc.

The greatest thing that Zia ever did was to persuade Imran Khan in 1988 to come out of retirement just before the Pakistani team were bound for West Indies :k: And Imran led from the front taking 23 wickets in the three tests (series was drawn 1-1)