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Zia, due to the geopolitical circumstances, was afforded a long list of possible
enmities. To put things in perspective, he had been targeted on at least six
previous occasions. PHOTO: FILE
T his year marks the 24th death anniversary of General Ziaul
Haq. His airplane called PAK-1 (Model C-130 Hercu les) crashed
on A ugust 17, 1988 about five m inutes after taking off from
Bahawalpur (Zia had flown t here to w itne ss a US M1 Abrams tank
demonstration).
Zia, due to the geopolitical circumstances, was afforded a long list of
possible enmities. To put things in perspective, he had been targeted
on at least six previous occasions including an especially close save
form a missile fired at his plane. The broad spectrum of his enemies
ranged from the Bhutto family domestically to the Red Army fighting
in Afghanistan.
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In his book Ghost, Fred Burton (now Vice President for Counter
Intelligence and Corporate Security at Stratfor) provides a compelling
insight into the investigations jointly carried out by the Pakistanis and
the Americans, to which he was a part of as the senior investigator
on behalf of Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). Two Americans
diplomats (American ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Lewis Raphel
and Brigadier General Herbert M Wassom, the head of the US
military aid mission to Pakistan) had also lost their lives in the crash.
A comm on misconception is that the two Am ericans were persuaded
by Zia to accompany him. This cant be any less true as Mel Harrison
(US embassys Regional Security Officer), admitted to Burton that the
American ambassador had swapped places with him on the final
minute as he wanted an opportunity to discuss with General Zia an
attack on an American nun.
The investigation team started ruling out the different causes one by
one. The weather was hot and clear and any chance of lightning
striking the airplane was ruled out. The aircraft was fuelled at
Chaklala Airbase and any possible contamination was checked for
with the remaining fuel at the base and that was ruled out too. Two
crates of mangoes and couple of model aircraft were brought on
board all of which were visually screened only. A bomb aboard,
however, was also eliminated as an option due to the lack of any
signature damage found in cases of a bomb explosion and also
because of the small wreckage radius. Moreover, the autopsy of
Brigadier Wassom showed that he had not inhaled any smoke which
proved the absence of any large fire or an on board explosive.
Methuselah, witness to the final minutes before the crash, told the
team that the plane had started moving up and down mimicking the
movement of a roller coaster until the crash. This meant the crash
was not deliberate. He also stated nothing from outside had hit the
plane. Based on this testimony and lack of any other credible evidence
at the crash site, a missile hit was also crossed out as an option.
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Strangely, a cockpit voice recorder wasnt installed on the plane but
the communication tower testified that the correspondence with them
was routine and the pilots had not issued a Mayday. However, the
Cessna security plane flying ahead of PAK-1 did hear a momentary
transmission from PAK-1 just before it crashed. Someone inside the
aircraft had shouted Mashhood! Mashhood!. The commanding
pilots name was Wing Commander Mashhood Hussain and was
handpicked by General Zia himself. The Wing Commander and the
co-pilot were in top mental and physical condition to fly the so piloterror was not possible either. The tower reported, however, that it was
not the co-pilot but someone from inside of the VIP suit had screamed
the commanding pilots name.
So it boiled down to one of the two things; either there was some sort
of a mechanical disaster or someone had taken out both the pilots
before they could even manage a distress call. The auxiliary systems
made into the Hercules can allow for very rough circumstances and
an absolute loss of control due to the failure of one of the systems wasrather implausible. Plus, the airplane had only flown less than 50
hours since a major overhaul. In contrast, incapacitation of both
pilots would explain the absence of the distress call which would have
certainly been made had it only been some sort of technical failure
giving the pilots ample time to react and make that call.
Several chunks of the debris were sent to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for further examination in the US. The striking
conclusion the results led to was that the plane had not crashed of a
mechanical mishap. Most importantly, their tests revealed traces ofseveral sinister elements namely antimony, chlorine and phosphorous
in the cockpit. I quote Fred Burton here:
Antimony. Phosphorous. Chlorine. All are ingredients in
various types of nerve gas Somebody planted nerve gas in the
cockpit. This can only mean one thing: President Zia and his
staff were assassinated.
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During their own investigation, the Pakistanis conclude that
a small detonator had been aboard the plane. Attached either
to a timer or a barometric pressure device, the detonator
touched off a very-small-yield explosion, perhaps just big
enough to blow the top of a Coke can placed on the flight deck.
The interior of the C-130 is so loud I doubt anyone would have
heard such a small pop.
But thats what killed the pilots.
The pilots never knew what hit them. The crash team
determined that the pilots were not wearing their oxygen
masks at the time of the crash That rules out a poisoned
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theory
Now all thats left is to figure out who did it.
He argues that at the time only three intelligence agencies had thecapability to carry out such a sophisticated assassination; CIA,
Mossad and the KGB. RAW was not deemed to have the competence
to carry this out.
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of motive gets CIA off the list of suspects. Due to the nuclear
program, there was considerable tension between Zia and the Israelis,
who had also taken out Iraqs nuclear program in 1981 w ith a
stunning air raid that signalled to the rest of the Muslim world thatIsrael was prepared to go to any length to ensure that an Islamic
country did not get the bomb. However, since Pakistan had already
acquired full nuclear capability much before August 1988 (mainly due
to the blind eye US had towards the Pakistanis), killing Zia belatedly
made little sense; so Mossad was struck of the list too. That left the
KGB on the suspect list.
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Markov assassination), it also had the operational
capability, coupled with the possible help of Indian intelligence, aided
with a very casual security at Bahawalpur or elsewhere (the plant at
Chaklala gave access to C-130s for maintenance routinely this puts
forth the idea of a bear trap) gave them the golden opportunity to
carry an assassination out.
Much about the intelligence agency responsible for carrying out this
assassination would have been left at only speculation had it not beenfor Colonel Sergei Tretyakov. He was the highest ranked officer to
defect the SVR (ex-KGB) to the United States. In one of the most
interesting leaks byWikileaks of Stratfor emails shows that Colonel
Tretyakovconfirmed to none other than Fred Burton himself, that
KGB had indeed assassinated Ziaul Haq. Not only that, this
assassination is taught as a case studyat their intelligence academy.
Case closed.
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Ali Aug 17, 2012 - 3:03PM
Intersting , with facts and figures
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Nobody Aug 17, 2012 - 3:33PM
The article is very informative and revealing specially the connection with Wikileaks.
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shihab hamza Aug 17, 2012 - 4:35PM
Sir
The whole wor ld Knows the Kgb was behind the assasination of Zia,
India a part of that ploy was dismissed by Cia, Mr. Branzig has given a de tailed and lengthy
Details of this , Some Pakistani military p ersonals were also included
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muzammil Aug 17, 2012 - 5:11PM
There has always been a misconception about Zias crash! When i asked other people about his
plane crash the people use to say that CIA was behind this crash and others point their finger on
India and Israel. Thats a very detailed and informativ e article and now after reading this article it
seems that KGB was the main culprit behind his assasination! thanks for sharing this piece o f
information!!!
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G. Din Aug 17, 2012 - 5:21PM
RAW was not deemed to have the c ompetence to c arry this out.
Phew!!!! Incompetence has its compensations! Yet RAW got dragged in for the possible help of
Indian intelligence. Cant help yourself, can you? Aadatan majboor(Force o f habit).
In one o f the most interesting leaks by Wikileaks of Stratfor emails shows th at Colonel
Tretyakov c onfirmed to none othe r than Fred Burton himse lf, that KGB had indeed assassinated
Ziaul Haq.
Now, if the author knew about this and considered it as clinching ev idence of what he intended toprove, where was the need of beating around the bush? ET probably pays by the number of words!
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Noman Ansari Aug 17, 2012 - 5:40PM
In other news, Shabie Iqbal has now applied for asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy.
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Sohail Anwer Aug 17, 2012 - 6:05PM
Who c are s who kil led Zia Ul Haq, he died like the filthy dog he was, and i believe th at Zia got what
he deserved for killing democracy and tolerance in Pakistan.
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salman Aug 17, 2012 - 6:15PM
The bigger question is why wasnt he killed earlier?
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Hasan Aug 17, 2012 - 7:33PM
I hope ev ery one is going through t he WIkileaks links (click Confirmed and Taught as a Case
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Study) before coming to a conclusion. Not clicking it greatly undermines the position of the
author!
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Den Aug 17, 2012 - 8:29PM
Thank you KGB! we owe y ou one :)
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Baqar Aug 17, 2012 - 8:32PM
wel l KGB we thank y ou fo r thatbut to o lit tle to o late
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san Aug 17, 2012 - 8:52PM
Zai was and is cruse to Pakistani nation. I am cele brating his death with three crates mangoes. He
was r oasted alive like ch icken an d will be ro asted in hell.
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ss Aug 17, 2012 - 9:09PM
KGB or CIA does it matter??? whoeve r did this really did us a favor
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AA Aug 17, 2012 - 9:51PM
Interesting with facts, .. KGB might have spearheaded ,but involvement of others can`t be ruled
out still !! .
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AA Aug 17, 2012 - 9:59PM
Interesting with facts KGB might have spearheaded , but still involvement of others can`t be
ruled out ! . Zia had enemies mostly loc al
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Usama Hamayun Aug 17, 2012 - 10:53PM
Very inte resting artic le replete with fac ts and figur es.
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eric margolis Aug 17, 2012 - 11:17PM
The abov e theo ry was all laid out in my bo ok War at the Top of the World, first published in the
US, Canada, India and Pakistan in 1999-20 00 . There is nothing new abo ut it. But having knownPresident Zia and Gen. Akhtar, and followed the murde r case c arefully, I dont think we have the
final answer.
KGB remains the most likely suspect, but not the only one. By the way, when I was the first western
jou rnal ist t o interv iew senior KGB gener als at their Mosco w headq uarters, the KGB stro ngly denied
any ro le this is just for the reco rd.
Eric Margolis
Toronto
http://www.ericmargolis.com
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S.A. Malik Aug 17, 2012 - 11:36PM
A well-writte n, info rmativ e piec e.
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Ben Aug 17, 2012 - 11:55PM
General Zia may b e the most unpo pular military dictato r, if viewed from the pr ism of Pakistani
democ racy but historians can not deny the fact that he has left most indelible marks on Pakistans
political, soc ial and religious landscape. He fought Sov iets, using Afghans, of course with Ame rican
dollars and Wahhabi merc enaries and pushed the world into dre adful unipolar er a. He gifts are
drugs, Kalashnikovs, Wahhabi extr emism and Afghan refugees, if we assess his achiev ements from
the prese nt-day standards. But those living in the world of 7 0s and 80s would shrug off this
criticism saying he achieved a feat even the Americans could not dream of with their money andmilitary might. Leav ing aside the deeds or misdee ds of Zia, it is ver y unfortunate that he was killed
in a mysterious air-crash along with 31 other passengers including members of his top-brass, air
crew and A merican diplomats, right in a garrison town which he was v isiting under the
arrangements of the army he was commanding at that time. It was a clear c ase of killing by
powerful political players in connivance with Zias own comrades. Read more at:
http://passivev oices.wordpress.com/2012/ 08/17 /bahawalpur-air-crash-who-killed-the-most-
powerful-military-dictator/
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Tanzeel Aug 18, 2012 - 12:53AM
That was really nice of the KGB consider ing Pakistans antagonistic role against their
(former?)country . This has to be up there with Jinnah creating the nation and Saad Akbar Babrak
taking out Zias spiritual predecessor, Liaquat Ali Khan in terms of service to the people of
Pakistan.
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Parvez Aug 18, 2012 - 1:08AM
.now te ll us who killed Benazir Bhutto.
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Oh, interesting facts. Seems like we are starting to hav e nice b loggers at ET
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Riaz Aug 18, 2012 - 2:52PM
@eric margolis Well it seems here t hat KGB may actually be the final answer if you go thr ough the
wikile ak links where KGBs guy co nfirms that it was their hit. Unless Fred Bur to n was t ry ing to foo l
his colleagues about a 20 year old story he would like to brag about, I think its safe to assume that
it was KGB.
The thing I want to know is, if the A mericans fuelled the Mujahiddeen war against the Russians, the
Russians can no do the same sinc e the Taliban are ver y muc h against US. So what level of
involv ement, if any, does KGB have in strengthening the Taliban? If it was possible then, it co uld be
possible now
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Saad Shams Aug 18, 2012 - 4:34PM
From what I have interpreted after going through various summaries and articles the KGB indeed
stood be hind the murder of the great Zia Ul Haq with little or no help from so c alled Raw.
Of course the involvement of so called Mossad can not be ruled out either since they are against
humanity in general. But y eah in this case KGB is the main culprit.
Fortunately after a few ye ars following this incident KGB was disbanded and transformed to FSB.
But eve n now they are as strong as ever and i wont be surprised if they are accused of more of such
assassinations unless proved otherwise.
Long Live General Zia !
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Tahir Ali Aug 18, 2012 - 5:25PM
While the a uthor may be right ab ou t the mo dus operandi, the reasoning to disc ard CIA as
perpetrator is not logical. After Geneva accord Zia was worthless to the Americans and, in fact,
beco ming a thr eat to the ir lo ng-term interests in t he r egion. By then, CIA had alre ady found a
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pliable leader in the shape of Benazir and for her ascent to power Junejo , under whom ML was
emerging as a formidable force, and Zia were to be taken c are of. Zia was used to remov e Junejo by
feeding him false info that the latter would announce his retire ment during the NA session and
thereafter Zia was eliminated. By A ugust 1988, KGB had many othe r serious issues to tackle then
Zia who was no more relevant for them.
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Imad Uddin Aug 18, 2012 - 6:38PM
Well re searc hed and well p resented. But I hav e reservations on how y ou disr ega rd involv ement of
some other agencies.without corroboration and lateral thinking merely on a superficial
evaluation of motive. But it could be due to the style of the piece that u couldnt put a few
important evaluations.
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curious Aug 18, 2012 - 6:41PM
A. Zia w as persu aded to go for th e pro gram m e by peo ple in t he Arm y
B. Every thing loaded on the Aircraft, including nerv e gas if any, was controlled and
authorised by Pakistan Army .
C. Anoth er General who was supposed to be on the aircraft, preferred to board
another.
D. This Generals aircraft circled the acc ident site to en sure that t here were no
survivors and then it went off without summ oning help or staying back to extend
any.
E. Th e General was a possible successor to Zia.
The people who have the oppo rtunity and the motive are usually the perpetrators.
KGB,RAW,MOSSAD all may have had the motiv e, but not the o pport unity.
The rest is simple deductio n. For help, read- A Case of Exploding Mangoes.
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Ahmadi Muslim Aug 18, 2012 - 10:43PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgu0ErUNB_E
This is how he died!!
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Wasim Aug 19, 2012 - 4:11AM
The agency or state which killed Zia ul Haq, was a true friend of Pakistan. I salute those who killed
this tower of hypoc risy.
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Aziz Aug 19, 2012 - 9:12AM
Zia got what he dese rv ed hats off to KGB and its agent.
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zishan Aug 19, 2012 - 12:19PM
@Baqar:
good one! :)
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zishan Aug 19, 2012 - 12:27PM
Dear friends,
I am doing some rese arch on black Septembe r of Jordan and zia,s role. the information with
plausible reference needed to address following questions
1. how the permission to participate in black September was authorized by Pakistan military and
what was t he a ctual c hain o f co mmand?
2. what was the post blac k Septemb er relations of Pakistan government with Jor dan ?
3 who authorized the the operation from civil government of Pakistan ?
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3. who authorized the the operation from civil government of Pakistan ?
regard,
zishan hyder
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shahmeer Aug 19, 2012 - 5:44PM
very inte resting .bu t i do nt think that KGB was behind this.there are mo re chanc es t hatmosaad or CIA were behind this
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Tahir Ali Aug 19, 2012 - 8:04PM
@Wasim: We as a nation are hypocrites. We call ourselves an ideological state, yet curse Zia who
was instr ume ntal in inde pendence of Centra l Asian Mu slim states fro m Erstwhile USSR. A t least
give the dev il his due.
Another example o f our double standa rds as a na tio n is that we r uled over Hindu major ity in India
for over 1 000 years through brute force and there was no issue at all. As the sy stem changed to
majority r ule, we demanded a separate st ate on grounds that Hindus and Muslims were two
different nations who could not live together. I can give yo u many more examples of our
hypocrisy as a nation, so dont just blame Zia.
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Sachin Aug 19, 2012 - 8:51PM
@shahmeer: I dont get your point, why would CIA kill him, in fact he was a Pro American..
@Tahir Ali: He was the one who m essed up Pakistan with his idiotic policie s..So he is to be blame
for the prese nt conditions of Pakistan
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@Wasim: We as a nation are hypocrites. We call ourselves an ideological state, yet curse Zia
who was instrumental in independence of Central Asian Muslim states from Erstwhile USSR. At
least give the devil his due.
We cant bec ause of o ur south asian o bse ssio n with sho rt cuts, loo king fo r sim ple answers to
complex issues.
Anothe r examp le o f our d ou ble sta ndard s as a nation is that we ruled o ve r Hindu ma jority in
Ind ia for ov er 1 00 0 y ears throu gh b rute forc e and th ere was no issue a t all . As th e sy ste m
changed to majority rule, we de manded a separate state o n grounds that Hindus and Muslims
were tw o different nations who could not live together.
To be fair you sho uldnt blame the current gene ration for this particular double st andard, its an
inheritance. From the st art we were unde mocratic . One who justified partition because Hindus
and Muslims were two different nations who co uldnt live togethe r is the same one who was
against partition of Punjab and Bengal. Talk about hipo crac y!
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Bilal Aug 20, 2012 - 12:00AM
@shahmeer its people like you who amaze me. Lots of evidence to support the claim in this article
y et y ou just dont ge t it!
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bangash Aug 20, 2012 - 7:01PM
I will join the othe r co mmentators in pr aising KGB if they indeed eliminated Zia ul Haq.
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eric margolis Aug 20, 2012 - 7:35PM
@Riaz: No KGB backing for Taliban, but a great de al for the Nor thern A lliance during and after
Massoud who was a KGB asset.
eric margolis
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