I remember a post by a member on a sister forum mentioning 2 PAF officers each having received 5 million dollars to do Zia in. He was becoming a thorn in the side of the US as he knew far too many secrets and could ask the difficult question of" whats in it for my country and for me?" So he was also becoming too expensive to maintain. The post was deleted within 24 hours and I later came to know the person as an Ex PAF person who was son of another PAF high up.
There is in my view sabotage written all over the event but will not be proven ever as people do not want to reopen the investigations as the implications cannot be handled. Zia's life was threatened and he had gone into self imposed exile for the last 6 weeks. A lot of persuasion was involved in getting him out of the Army house. He tried his best by taking along US personnel with him to avoid sabotage but it happenned. How will remain a mystery.
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