12-28-2007, 02:41 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>A violent history of political assassinations</b>
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Fifty-six years ago, Pakistan's Prime Minister and Muslim League leader Liaquat Ali Khan, a close associate of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, was assassinated on October 16, 1951, at Municipal Park in Rawalpindi. In January that year he had foiled a coup attempt -- the first by the Pakistani Army -- and arrested Chief of General Staff Akbar Khan along with 14 senior officers. On October 16, he was supposed to make an "important announcement" at a public rally. A man shot him twice in the chest. He was rushed to hospital where he died. The 'assassin', Saad Akbar, was lynched by the crowd at the rally. The motive behind the assassination was never established.
The founder of Pakistan People's Party and that country's most charismatic politician, Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was thrown out of power by his hand-picked Army chief, Gen Zia-ul Haq, on July 5, 1977. He was tried for "conspiring to murder" a political rival, held guilty by the courts, and executed on April 4, 1979, in Rawalpindi Central Jail. That execution has since been dubbed by the PPP and its supporters as a "judicially-sanctioned assassination".
Zia himself died in mysterious circumstances. After inspecting tanks supplied by the US at Bahawalpur, in Punjab Province, Zia took off in an American C-130 Hercules aircraft. He was accompanied by the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, and senior commanders. Soon after take-off, the aircraft flew erratically for a while and then nosedived and exploded. Nobody knows what led to the crash, but stories abound in Pakistan of bombs being smuggled onto the aircraft in a crate of mangoes, of the engines being tampered with and of mechanical failure caused by 'faulty' cables.
Benazir Bhutto is the fourth high-profile Pakistani to die a violent death.
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If we go by Paki history, After Z.A.Bhutto, Zia joined Bhutto.
Now after this Bhutto, Mushy is in line?
Whatever, Allah is watching Pakistan. <!--emo&
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Pioneer.com
Fifty-six years ago, Pakistan's Prime Minister and Muslim League leader Liaquat Ali Khan, a close associate of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, was assassinated on October 16, 1951, at Municipal Park in Rawalpindi. In January that year he had foiled a coup attempt -- the first by the Pakistani Army -- and arrested Chief of General Staff Akbar Khan along with 14 senior officers. On October 16, he was supposed to make an "important announcement" at a public rally. A man shot him twice in the chest. He was rushed to hospital where he died. The 'assassin', Saad Akbar, was lynched by the crowd at the rally. The motive behind the assassination was never established.
The founder of Pakistan People's Party and that country's most charismatic politician, Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was thrown out of power by his hand-picked Army chief, Gen Zia-ul Haq, on July 5, 1977. He was tried for "conspiring to murder" a political rival, held guilty by the courts, and executed on April 4, 1979, in Rawalpindi Central Jail. That execution has since been dubbed by the PPP and its supporters as a "judicially-sanctioned assassination".
Zia himself died in mysterious circumstances. After inspecting tanks supplied by the US at Bahawalpur, in Punjab Province, Zia took off in an American C-130 Hercules aircraft. He was accompanied by the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, and senior commanders. Soon after take-off, the aircraft flew erratically for a while and then nosedived and exploded. Nobody knows what led to the crash, but stories abound in Pakistan of bombs being smuggled onto the aircraft in a crate of mangoes, of the engines being tampered with and of mechanical failure caused by 'faulty' cables.
Benazir Bhutto is the fourth high-profile Pakistani to die a violent death.
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If we go by Paki history, After Z.A.Bhutto, Zia joined Bhutto.
Now after this Bhutto, Mushy is in line?
Whatever, Allah is watching Pakistan. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->