Ziaul Haq to be deleted as president from history

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Its never too late to correct historical mistakes. This monster was responsible for destroying our beautiful country & does not deserve the title of president. He should be called what he really was, a murderous thug.

18th Amendment
18th Amendment

Monday, March 22, 2010
Ziaul Haq to be deleted as president from history

By Rauf Klasra

ISLAMABAD: President General Ziaul Haq will be deleted from Pakistan’s constitutional history when the 18th Amendment, to be moved in parliament in a few days, is passed.

A new history is being written by our politicians as ruthless military dictator General Ziaul Haq will be stripped of his title of President of Pakistan, 22 years after his death in a plane crash. General Zia’s election as the president of Pakistan through his infamous presidential referendum of December 19, 1984, will be deleted from the pages of the Constitution.

The ironic part of this unprecedented move is that a large number of parliamentarians sitting in the lower and upper houses were part of the Majlis-e-Shoora of General Zia and had greatly helped him win the referendum. They would now vote against their own actions of the past to strip him of the title of the President of Pakistan.

After this passage of the new amendment, General Zia would be remembered in the Constitution and political history of the country only as General Ziaul Haq, not the president of Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif, the Chaudhrys of Gujrat and their political lieutenants, who had played an important role in the victory of General Zia in his presidential referendum of 1984, will now vote in favour of deleting their one time benefactor from the pages of the Constitution.

According to the available copy of the proposed amendments to be laid down in the lower house, Article 41 which was added in the Constitution of 1973 at the behest of General Zia in 1985 by the then assembly is now being changed. Clause 7 of Article 41 is being deleted to strip Zia of his title of the president. After holding the referendum in 1984, one year before the general election of 1985, Zia had got himself declared as the president of the country.

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^^ Good move...

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^Agreed. Better late than never.

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Monsters deleting monsters...

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:cb: so true^

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not that I am the supporter to Zia - ul -hak ... but it stuns me to see how the government keeps throwing these unnecessary stunts while the nation is dying of terrorism, poverty, expense, corruption .. so many other things that need serious attention and action ... but no ... clearing the history is more important than anything at all ... Sad , very very very sad ..

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This is not government. It is Parliament. This may be only a small part of 18th amendment.

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Anyhow editing the past can only prevent it happening in the future… at least thats the message i got when i went to germany :cb:

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as much as we like to hate but he had some good points too

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as much as people hate him, fact is, he is a part of Pakistan's history. Erasing him would be a huge mistake ... the Parliament is setting a really bad precedent, one which will be justified to erase further 'history' in the future.

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^

M!

So true.

This is a petty tribal approach to have politicians start writing the history.

We should accept our past whether it is good or bad. In fact we should remember the "bad past" in order to learn from it.

I'd say it is just waste of time in the parliament. Pure emotional stuff.

So people who hate Zardari now,

Would they be allowed to "erase him" from Pak history if and when they come to power?

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The Parliament is not moving to erase him from history, but to put him in proper context of history. They're just taking his title of president away. Mushrraf will lose that title too. The title of president gives these dictators legitimacy that they do not deserve in democratic context. I don't know why anyone would have problem with that if you believe in the rule of law.

Did Zardari came to power through military coup?

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If military coup is the criteria for "deleting someone from the Pak history", then Zia is not alone.

As I said, this is a fazool idea, and waste of time.

The real method to stop future coups is that these dimwit politikos should work on improving the situation on the ground.

If load shedding and high taxation goes on, Pak awam will invite military and distribute mithai in the street when that deed is actually done.

We should learn lessons from the past instead of foolishly erasing one or the other form history.

You can never "legislate" history.

Why our legislators are so out of touch intellectually? No wonder our country is in difficult situation.

Our priorities are all messed up. That's why!

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jiss ki lathi uss ki bhens

zia was much better than the ba$tards running the country now

whos gonna delete this zaradari thingy, guess we have to wait few more decades for that.

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What a farce. This PPP government is capitalizing on the deaths of BBand ZAB, and cashing in on them in a big way. They have had nothing to show for during their 2+ years in power, and this is how they are masking their failures.

If General Zia is being removed as president, why dont they simultaneously do the same for Gen. Ayub, Gen Yahya, Gen. Musharraf etc? Is Gen Zia being targeted because he was responsible for ridding the country of one of the worst thugs and ruthless feudal ruler?

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Pakistan was not a democracy when these two individuals were in Power like Pakistan is supposedly now ..... I feel like this is playing with fire and will open an ugly can of worms, one that will get so out of control that nobody will be able to contain the ugliness .... oh well ....

Our past is our past. Learn from it but don't erase it.

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yes 99%

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I totally agree with Mehnaz ... Pakistani nation is least bothered wether it was a democratically elected president or not .. for all we know, zardari or zia , musharaf or nawaz .. what difference does it make to anyone on the streets?

If the pathetic parliament had anything better to do , they would concentrate on the real street issues , then wasting time on this bollocks !

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Again you're missing the point. Regardless of the situation on the ground today, which I might add has lot do with Zia's dictatorship, he is not being removed from the history. The Parliament is the supreme national institution, and it has the power to take his title away.

In fact, if it was up to me, I would demote him and all dictators who came to power by force to lowest level of military hierarchy, and t give them dishonorable discharge from military & then retroactively court martial them under uniform code of military justice. That would be a justice for law breakers.

As for Zardari, I don't like the guy, but he is the elected president of the country. He was voted in by vast majority of the parliamentarians. That is why he has law and legitimacy to stands on, unlike those thugs.

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I beleive they are talking about 8th amendment, I don’t know if 18th amendment even exists.

We are not living in old times when a new king orders to re-write history from his own perspective, I agree thread title is however misleading towards that. They want to remove 8th amendment from constitution which specifically granted title to Ziaul Haq. So by removing that provision the constitution will no longer carry the name of Ziaul Haq in its entirety (apparently).