Actually it was Iran that modeled alot of its Islamic revolution after Pakistan. The revolution wasnt foolish - life, economy and condition significantly increased.
I dont think so..Iran took a backward gear and is actually much poor now on individual level...almost every Iranian i have met has a nostalgia for Shah era...only people who ended up happy with the revolution were the backward villager bigots...
Then is their constant love of marg bar america, marg bar israel, marg bar france, marg bar UK and politicizing of everything..
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Night and day all we hear from the sectarians in Pakistan is that Zia was anti-Shia. I am no fan of Zia but this is a lie. The Saudis told Zia they didn't want Pakistani Shia soldiers on Saudi soil; Zia refused. Zia secretly supplied the Ayatollahs with radar systems parts. He let them use Karachi to trade when they were sanctioned....there is so much that Zia did for the Ayatollahs even when helping them would likely have caused Pakistan problems with allies and the international community...and what has been the result? they insult Zia on sectarian grounds.
Iranians politicians are just one big trolls and Iranian citizens are like zombies who will follow their mullahs and supreme leaders in anything they say...the ones with a free mind want to escape Iran at first opportunity and many have already ended up in west.
Iranian revolution[edit]
Bhutto's ouster was followed a year and a half later by the
Iranian Revolution and overthrow of the
Shah of Iran. Iran's new Supreme Leader, the
Ayatollah Khomeini, withdrew the country from CENTO and ended its association with the United States.
[1] The religiously influenced military government of Zia-ul-Haq and the Islamic Revolution in Iran suited one another well, and as such there was no diplomatic and political cleavage between them.
[1] In 1979, Pakistan was one of the first countries in the world to recognize the revolutionary regime in Iran. Responding swiftly to this revolutionary change,
Foreign Minister of PakistanAgha Shahi immediately undertook a state visit to Tehran, meeting with his Iranian
counterpart Karim Sanjabi on March 10, 1979.
[1] Both expressed confidence that Iran and Pakistan were going to march together to a brighter future.
[1] The next day, Agha Shahi held talks with the
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which developments in the region were discussed.
[1] On 11 April 1979, Zia famously declared that "Khomeini is a symbol of Islamic insurgence".
[1] Reciprocating President Zia's sentiments, Imam Khomeini, in his letter, called for Muslim unity.
[1] He declared: "Ties with Pakistan are based on Islam."
[1] By 1981, however, Pakistan, under
Zia-ul-Haq, had once again formed close ties with the United States, a position it has remained in since.
[1]
Iranian support for Pakistan dates back to the 1960s when Iran supplied Pakistan with American military weaponry and spare parts after America cut off their military aid to Pakistan.
[45] After
1971 Indo-Pakistani War, new Prime minister
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto immediately withdrew Pakistan from
CENTO and
SEATO after Bhutto thought that the military alliances failed to protect or appropriately assist Pakistan and instead alienated the
Soviet Union. A serious military cooperation between took place during the
Balochistan insurgency phases against the
armed separatist movement in 1974–77.
[46] Around ~100,000 Pakistan and Iranian troops were involved in quelling the separatist organisations in Balochistan and successfully put the resistance down in 1978–80.
[46] In May 2014, the two countries agreed to joint operations against terrorists and drug traffickers in the border regions.
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Pakistani support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq war[edit]
Main articles:
Iran–Iraq War and
Pakistan and the Iran–Iraq War
The 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War was a polarizing issue in Pakistan. Despite their long friendship, the militancy of Shia inspired by revolutionary Iran left many Pakistani Sunni feeling deeply threatened.
[10] President Zia had to manage his country's security carefully, knowing that Pakistan risked being dragged into a war with its closest neighbor because of its alliance with the United States.
[10] In support of the
Gulf Cooperation Council, formed in 1981, around 40,000 personnel of the Pakistan Armed Forces were stationed in
Saudi Arabia to reinforce the internal and external security of the region.
[10] Although high-ranking members of Pakistan Armed Forces strongly objected to the killing of Shia pilgrims in the
1987 Mecca incident in Saudi Arabia, Zia did not issue any orders to Pakistan Armed Forces-Arab Contingent Forces to engage any country militarily.
[10]
Despite its stated neutrality, ties to the U.S., and fears of Shia militancy, Pakistan came to be seen as generally pro-Iranian in sentiment.
[10] Many
Stinger missiles shipped to Pakistan for use by
Afghan mujahideen were instead sold to Iran, which proved to be a defining factor for Iran in the
Tanker war.
[10]
Atoms for Peace cooperation[edit]
See also:
Atoms for Peace
Since 1987, Pakistan has steadily blocked any Iranian acquisition of
nuclear weapons; however, Pakistan has wholeheartedly supported Iran's viewpoint on the issue of its
nuclear energy program, maintaining that "Iran has the right to develop its nuclear program within the ambit of NPT." In 1987 Pakistan and Iran signed an agreement on civil nuclear energy cooperation, with Zia-ul-Haq personally visiting Iran as part of its "Atoms for Peace" program.
[50] Internationally, Zia calculated that this cooperation with Iran was purely a "civil matter", necessary for maintaining good relations with Tehran.
[50] According to IAEA, Iran wanted to purchase fuel-cycle technology from Pakistan, but was rebuffed.
[50] Zia did not approve any further nuclear deals, but one of Pakistan's
senior scientists did secretly hand over a sensitive report on centrifuges in 1987–89.
[50] In 2005,
IAEA evidence showed that Pakistani cooperation with Iran's nuclear program was limited to "non-military spheres",
[51] and was peaceful in nature.
[51] Tehran had offered as much as $5 billion for nuclear weapons technology in 1990, but had been firmly rejected. Centrifuge technology was transferred in 1989; since then, there have been no further atoms for peace agreements.
[51]
In 2005, IAEA evidence revealed that the centrifuge designs transferred in 1989 were based on early commercial power plant technology, and were riddled with technical errors; the designs were not evidence of an active nuclear weapons program.
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brave general on live T.V..such sissy..
