Zia unmourned. (General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq) (editorial)

The Nation | September 19, 1988| | Copyright

Then a tyrant falls, the world's shadows lighten, and only hypocrites grieve; and Gen. mohammad Zia ul-Haq was one of the cruelest of modern tyrants, whatever his "great friend" George Bush and his staunch supporter Margaret Thatcher would have us think. Eleven years ago, he burst out of his bottle like an Arabian Nights goblin, and although he seemed, at first, a small, puny sort of demon, he instantly commenced to grow, until he was gigantic enough to be able to grab the whole of Pakistan by the throat. Now, after an eternity of repression (even the clocks ran slowly ...

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