THE MAN WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UPREST IN THW WORLD TALIBAN ALQAEEDA ALL HIS BRAINCHILD

General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

Pakistan Dictator - 1977-1988

8/6/2007

On July 5, 1977, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (whose name means "Muhammad - Light of the Truth") overthrew Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a bloodless military coup d'état to take control of Pakistan, known as Operation Fairplay. He immediately imposed martial law, which quickly took the form of strict Islamic Sharia law. The U.S. was accused of helping to overthrow Bhutto to prevent the development of a Pakistani nuclear reprocessing plant.

The elections he had promised during the coup were of course postponed. The excuse was that the higher priority for Pakistan was for the politicians that had forced Zia's hand to enact his coup needed to be held accountable. The "retribution first, elections later" plan was enacted, and several politicians, including ousted Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, were found guilty of malpractice and they were disqualified from participating in Pakistani politics.

Despite the dismissal of most of the Bhutto government, the President of Pakistan, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, was persuaded to continue in office. After completing his term, and despite General Zia's insistence to accept an extension as President, Mr Chaudhry resigned, and General Zia also assumed the office of President of Pakistan on September 16, 1978. As acting Chief Martial Law Administrator and President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq further anchored his position as the undisputed ruler of the country.

Nusrat Bhutto, the wife of the deposed Prime Minister, filed a suit against General Zia's military regime, challenging the validity of the July 1977 military coup. In what would later be known as the Doctrine of Necessity, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled, that given the dangerously unstable political situation of the time, General Zia's overthrowing of the Bhutto government was legal on the grounds of necessity. The judgment cemented Zia's hold on the country.

On April 4, 1979, former Prime Minister Bhutto was hanged, after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence as passed by the Lahore High Court. The High Court had given him the death sentence on charges of the murder of the father of Ahmed Raza Kasuri, a dissident politician from Bhuto's Pakistan People's Party. Despite many clemency appeals from foreign leaders requesting Zia to commute Bhutto's death sentence, Zia dismissed the appeals as "trade union activity" and upheld the death sentence.

During his rule, Zia had tried to maintain very close ties and help to rally the Muslim cause around the world. He worked vigorously with other Muslim states to stop hostilities between Iraq and Iran. He worked with the U.S as early as July of 1979 to start arming Pakistani and Afghani Mujahideen to fight against the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan, a fact that has only somewhat recently come out as former CIA and NSA officials have jumped up to claim their credit for helping to tear down the Soviet Union. Robert Gates, former director of the CIA, professed to this in his memoirs titled From the Shadows.In an interview with the French Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998, former National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said, "According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, Dec 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention." This is stunning, since the U.S. vilified the Soviet Union for being a cold-hearted oppressive aggressor and Jimmy Carter scoffed at their "lies" when the Soviets claimed they were trying to fight against the secret involvement of foreign influences [read: the United States] in Afghanistan. When Brzezinski was asked if he regretted pulling off such a massive deception against the world, he replied, "Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, in substance: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire." Brzezinski caps off his amazing confession with a callous disregard for the consequences of aiding and abetting Islamic jihadists, "What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?" The interviewer, even in 1998 and being a member of the typically Islam-tolerant French media threw back, "Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated:Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today." Brzezinski angered at his interviewer's attempt to diminish his great accomplishment of thwarting Communism while also trying to hold him accountable for his actions, responded, "Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries."

Brzezinski's ignorance of Islam and his errant comparison of it to Christianity set the stage for an onslaught from Islamic terrorism that has encompassed the world with fear, enslaved billions with its oppression, killed 3 million people, and is on an ever-growing path of increasing devastation . The U.S. not only manufactured a more lethal enemy than it eliminated by miscategorizing that enemy, Brzezinski and the others in the American government put the country and the world in far more danger. What's interesting here too is the hypocrisy of it all. The holier-than-thou Jimmy Carter boycotted the 1980 Olympics in protest of the Soviet Union's incursion, and set into motion an international anti-Soviet propaganda machine vilifying them as oppressive aggressors and a threat to world peace, when he himself was the instigator.

In late December, 1979, six months or more after the beginning of the build up of U.S. and Pakistani-backed resistance, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Pakistan under General Zia was instrumental in fighting the Soviets. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Special Service Group were actively involved in the conflict, and in cooperation with the CIA and the United States Army Special Forces, supported the armed struggle against the Soviets. It is speculated that United Kingdom's Special Air Service also played an unpublicized role during the war. In addition to the resources Pakistan gave to the Mujahideen, Pakistan was the essential conduit for foreign military aid to these Muslim factions. By the mid-80s, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and China began their support of the Islamic anti-Soviet fighters. Zia later began diverting Pakistani and US military aid and resources to the Muslim Kashmir terrorists in the late 1980s as the Soviet presence in Afghanistan started to diminish. The last Soviet soldiers left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989. Exact casualties of Afghanis are unknown. General estimates for all sides - the government, the rebels, and civilians - are around 1.3 million people. Only 14,453 of these deaths were Soviet soldiers, and many of those were from hepatitis and typhoid fever.

In December 1984, a referendum was held asking the people if they wanted Islamic Sharia law enforced in the country, which was also a vote to have General Zia preside as President for a five-year term. The official tally said over 62% of the country voted and 98% of them voted for Sharia law under President Zia-ul-Haq. The opposition disputed this claim, stating that only 10-15% of the people had voted, however. In February 1985, Zia lifted martial law and held partyless elections where he appointed Muhammad Khan Junejo to be Prime Minister of Pakistan, but not before he had made certain amendments to the Constitution allowing the President of Pakistan absolute power under the premise of safeguarding national security in a state of emergency. (Thoughts about circumventing checks and balances with unsanctioned phone taps, the freedoms removed by the Patriot Act, reductions in personal privacy at airports, legislation to allow US citizens to be imprisoned indefinitely and without charges being brought against them if they are said to be involved in terrorism, and unfounded premises for a declaration of war should be coming to mind if you are a U.S. citizen reading this.) However, the Prime Minister was not the puppet for which Zia had hoped. Junejo had his minister of state for foreign affairs sign the Geneva Accords to end the fighting in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, before the Soviets had withdrawn, which Zia had insisted upon as a condition for the signing.Next, Junejo challenged Zia's appointment of two army generals and also demanded that General Zia step down from his role as Army Chief of Staff, a position he had held since 1976. Zia effected no serious reprisals on Junejo, however, until after the Ojhri Camp incident on April 10, 1988.

The Ojhri Camp in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan, was used as an ammunition depot for the Afghan Mujahideen, and served as a primary store for US-supplied arms. The camp was destroyed and thousands were killed when thousands of rockets rained down on Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A Pakistani investigation reported that General Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Zia's most powerful general and strategic military ally, and another Pakistani general were behind the attacks. The report cited the motive for the attacks as being to cover up many millions of dollars in US arms that were sold off to other countries or reappropriated to various Pakistani-backed Islamic terrorist movements - mostly in Kashmir. Included in these arms was a significant number of Stinger missiles, the favorite asset of Muslim terrorists. The report further validated its findings by noting that the attacks occurred just days before a US Defense Department audit team was scheduled to check up on their supplies as the Soviet-Afghan conflict was wrapping up. So think about this for a moment... The Islamic leaders of Pakistan used American weapons to murder thousands of innocent civilians, for no other reason than to cover up the fact that they had personally profited by transferring American-supplied weapons to the world's most lethal Islamic terrorists. Sobering as that thought is, America continues to support the Pakistani military with billions of dollars of American aid and weapon systems. And today, its leaders, who are still corrupted by Islam, possess nuclear weapons - a program that began under General Zia.

Zia defended his generals and himself by playing the Islam card. On May 29, 1988, he invoked an amendment that he had recently added to the Pakistani Constitution that allowed him to dismiss the Prime Minister, dissolve the National Assembly and all provincial assemblies - basically, the entire legislative portions of the government outside of the Presidency. Zia's loyalists in the military were called to form an interim government. President Zia justified his actions and diverted attention from his corruption by focusing on how the further Islamization of Pakistan had been negligently delayed by Junejo and his government.

His second bloodless military coup d'état went well, and included the same promise as the first to have general elections in 90 days. The country rallied around blaming the woes of the nation on its deviation from Allah's manifesto. However, Zia had upset many powerful people within Pakistan as well as the U.S. On August 17, 1988, with again no sign of keeping his promise to hold new elections, the longest reign in Pakistan's short history ended when Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq died along with almost the entire Pakistani military elite and the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan in a plane crash surrounded by suspicion. The plane was a Hercules C-130 and there are reports of witnesses who stated that the plane blew up in mid-air. For those unfamiliar with a C-130, it is a flying tank and can take an amazing amount of punishment and still land safely. Even under enemy fire, C-130s don't blow up in the air. Therefore, something inside the plane is almost certainly what exploded.

Here is some interesting pre-Pakistani Corps Commander background on General Zia: After receiving his early education from Government High School Simla, he received his B. A. Honors from St. Stephen College, Delhi. He was commissioned in the British Army in 1943 and served in Burma, Malaya, and Indonesia during World War II. When the war was over, he joined the armored corps. At the time of Pakistani Independence, like most of the Muslim officers in the British Army, Zia-ul-Haq joined the Pakistan Army. As a Major he got an opportunity to do a training course in the Commander and Staff College of the United States of America in 1963-64. During the 1965 War, he acted as the Assistant Quarter Master for the 101 Infantry Division, which was posted at the Kiran Sector. He remained posted in Jordan from 1967 till 1970, where he was involved in training and leading Jordon's military. He is still highy respected in Jordan for his role in the Black_September operations in support of King Hussein, where he commanded Jordan's 2nd division. Zia's troops were heavily involved in street-to-street urban fighting and are credited with killing scores of Palestinians. Black_September was a great example of how the Arab nations despise the Palestinians, and their support of them only goes as far as to encourage and help the Palestinians to kill Jews.