No bomb blasts, ate you sure, thousands died in bomb blasts.
I present to you news articles of final years of Zia's rule and the soviet war in afghanistan.
Zia Blames Kabul for Terrorist Blast in Pakistan
The Washington Post | July 16, 1987 | Richard M. Weintraub |
President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq today linked two massive terrorist bombings that killed at least 72 here last night to agents opposed to Pakistan's support for Afghan guerrillas fighting against the Kabul regime and Soviet forces there.
Business and government life came to a halt in reaction to the bombings, which also left 140 hospitalized, including 15 listed in critical condition tonight.
Zia, who flew to Karachi today from Islamabad, was able to visit survivors in only one of two major hospitals because angry students were demonstrating at the other.
Zia Blames Kabul for Terrorist Blast in Pakistan - The Washington Post | Encyclopedia.com
Pakistan's Premier Points At India in Fatal Bombings
The Washington Post | July 17, 1987 | Richard M. Weintraub |
Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo said tonight that India and not Afghanistan may have been behind the two car bombings Tuesday that killed at least 72 persons here.
Junejo, who cut short a state visit to Japan to rush back to Karachi, appeared to be distancing himself from President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who said yesterday that he believed the bombing was related to Pakistan's support for Afghan refugees and that recent bombings were "only the beginning" of a severe test for this country.
The two bomb blasts, and earlier ones in Rawalpindi, Lahore, and Peshawar
Bombs kill 7 as Pakistani opposition hits Zia's rule
Chicago Sun-Times | July 6, 1987 | Copyright
KARACHI A series of bombs killed seven people and wounded at least 50 Sunday in Pakistan as opposition parties held protest rallies to mark the 10th anniversary of a coup that brought President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq to power.
Police said the explosions came around midday in Lahore.
ZIA TIES AFGHANS TO KARACHI BLASTS AS THE TOLL INCREASES TO 75 DEATHS
KARACHI, Pakistan - President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq said yesterday that Afghan agents were responsible for bombings Tuesday that killed 75 persons. It was the deadliest terrorist bombing in Pakistan's history.
Police and rescue workers, meanwhile, removed the last of the bodies from the wreckage of the fashionable Saddar market and residential area, which was teeming with shoppers, commuters and street vendors when the bombs exploded. More than 300 people were injured.
At Karachi's two central hospitals, relatives tried to identify victims from photographs posted on bulletin boards.
The rest of Pakistan's largest city was virtually shut down, as officials
KGB: War between India and Pakistan
This is an untold spy story culled out from the files of KGB spy Vasili Mitrokhin. But this story you won't find in the recently published The Mitrokhin Archive II by Christopher Andrew. Outlook has accessed it from the documents which had been out in the public domain. Believe it or not, in 1981, the KGB resident in Delhi proposed that another war between India and Pakistan would be advantageous for the Soviet Union and the Babrak Karmal regime in Afghanistan, and that India and Pakistan "must be steered in that direction".
"The KGB carried out active measures jointly with the Hungarians, who were in operational contact with an Indian hack based in Vienna."
It was in December 1979 that the Russians had invaded Afghanistan and installed Babrak Karmal as president.
The proposal to provoke a war between India and Pakistan is included in a paper that Mitrokhin presented in 2002 to the Cold War International History Project based in Washington. This material, however, is separate from the information from KGB files he referred to in the 1999 book co-authored with Cambridge scholar Christopher Andrew or even The Mitrokhin Archive II.
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