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  • Who killed Zia — Mossad?

    4 December 2005



    ISLAMABAD — The Israeli secret agency Mossad most probably killed General Ziaul Haq, suspects John Gunther Dean, who was the American ambassador to India in 1988.


    “When Mr Dean expressed his views to the State Department at the time and insisted on a thorough investigation of the Israeli-Indian axis, he was accused of mental imbalance and relieved of his duties, according to an article in the latest issue of World Policy Journal by Barbara Crossette, who was the South Asia Bureau Chief of the New York Times from 1988 to 1991.

    Dean was a distinguished diplomat who has garnered more ambassadorships than most envoys. He had strong opinions and years of valuable experience. As an independent thinker, he often had problems being a good “diplomat”.

    Dean believes that the Israelis wanted to stop Pakistan’s military from making nuclear weapons. They had attacked Iraq’s nuclear facilities at Osirak in 1981 and believed Gen. Zia when he declared in 1987 that Pakistan was a “screwdriver’s turn away from the bomb”.

    Dean, now 80, has remained silent for nearly 17 years but is now collecting his papers and is ready to share his thoughts.

    He was declared mentally unfit for demanding an investigation into the crash. He lost his medical clearance and security clearance because of his views and was forced to seek retirement in 1988.

    After he made the charge following the air crash in which the then US ambassador to Pakistan, Arnie Raphel was also killed, he was sent to Switzerland to “rest” for six weeks and only then allowed to return to New Delhi to pack his bags and quit. He is now opening the case because he wants to clear the charge of “mental imbalance” and ask the questions that have long remained buried about the aircrash that killed Gen. Zia.

    Dean says that when he was ambassador to India, various pro-Israel Congressmen and other US policy makers constantly asked him why he wasn’t cooperating with the Israelis to thwart Pakistan’s nuclear programme and demonise Pakistan.

    He says he was asked to persuade the Indians to be more pro-Israel too. He 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 (parliament).

    The US did not allow the FBI or any other agency to carry out a full-fledged investigation into the crash.

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  • #2
    I don't care who killed Zia, but I'm thankful to him!
    Good job!

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    • #3
      Hmm, if the Israelis wanted to halt the Pak.nuke program they would'nt kill Zia.
      They would have killed A.Q or somebody like that.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Samudra
        Hmm, if the Israelis wanted to halt the Pak.nuke program they would'nt kill Zia.
        They would have killed A.Q or somebody like that.
        This is load of *******s Samudra, Everyone knows that right from Nixon to Regan, successive administrations were anti-indian because they always feared India's tilt towards Soviet Union could change the balance of power in South East Asia.

        I can hardly imagine any US State Department policy upto the break up of Soviet Union which would have been 2 demonise Pakistan.

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        • #5
          Knew it Pal. ;)

          Which is why the alleged assasination of Zia did not make sense to me.

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          • #6
            General Zia was killed by the Shias of Gilgit.

            The subsequent death of Zia in a plane crash in August,1988, was believed to be an act of retaliation by a Shia airman angered by this brutal suppression. Since then, the Northern Areas have seen frequent eruptions of Shia-Sunni clashes resulting in fatal casualties over issues such as the curriculum in the local schools, which excluded lessons on the beliefs of the Shias, discrimination against the Shias in the recruitment to Government services etc.
            Zia not only encouraged and facilitated the migration of people from the other areas of Pakistan to the Northern Areas, but also assisted the anti-Shia Sunni extremist organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), then known as the Anjuman Sipah-e-Sahaba, to set up its presence in the area and start a large number of madrasas ( religious schools) to impart religious education to the local Sunnis in the Deobandi-Wahabi ideology and military training through the ex-servicemen in order to resist Shia militancy.
            To India, because, firstly, it is its territory, which has been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1948; secondly, this area, particularly Baltistan, has close ethnic, religious, cultural and other historic links with the Ladakh region of J&K, of which it used to be a part before the Pakistani occupation; thirdly, the Shias and the Ismailis of the area, who constitute the majority, have close fraternal links with the Shias of the Kargil area of the Ladakh Division and look up to India and its Shias for moral support in their struggle against the Pakistani authorities for the right of self-determination for the Shias of Pakistan in general and of the Northern Areas in particular; fourthly, part of the jihadi terrorist training infrastructure of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is located in this area; and, fifthly, the growing Wahabisation of the local population promoted by the Pakistan Army since the days of Zia. The developments in this area have an important bearing on India's national security.
            http://www.saag.org/papers13/paper1241.html
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            • #7
              Originally posted by DC Katoch
              General Zia was killed by the Shias of Gilgit.
              That would hold true, since most people around the world and even many Pakistani (civilians) are not aware of what really happened in 1988 in Gilgit. The true impact of the suppression of the Gilgit rebellion by the SSG and Osama Bin Laden is not known.

              Cheers!...on the rocks!!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by lemontree
                That would hold true, since most people around the world and even many Pakistani (civilians) are not aware of what really happened in 1988 in Gilgit. The true impact of the suppression of the Gilgit rebellion by the SSG and Osama Bin Laden is not known.
                Sir,

                Zia died much befor '88

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Neo
                  Sir,

                  Zia died much befor '88
                  Zia died on 17 August 1988.

                  Cheers!...on the rocks!!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by lemontree
                    Zia died on 17 August 1988.
                    Most Pakistanis believe it was work of ISI.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Neo
                      Most Pakistanis believe it was work of ISI.
                      I wonder why would the ISI do that. Zia was the best thing that happened for the PA and ISI.

                      Cheers!...on the rocks!!

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                      • #12
                        Whoever did it, [-x It Wasn't Me

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