WAJsal
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American's thought they could control us later on. We had leverage over them, period. Funny how we couldn't use US to help us in disputes in India.One can still credit Zia for his successful engagement with the US over Afghanistan which imposed a willful choice blindness on Reagan administration. Unclassified documents show that the American intelligence community certainly knew:
We know the latter to be true now.
Source: New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program
Contrary to common beliefs, Zia didn't play it smart. He open Pakistan to AK-47 culture and drugs, used religion as a tool-political to be more exact.
As earlier quoted:
If only these idiotic fools were more concerned about Pakistan's interest.Americans have also famously said about all Pakistani dictators, Ayub, Bhutto, Zia, Musharraf, that he (they) are bastards, but they are our bastards.
And last point to add: the common argument is wrong, Zia didn't fool anyone.