Pakistan's former spy chief blames US for military ruler's killing
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, Dec 20, IRNA
Pakistan-Spy chief
The former chief of Pakistan's spy agency has held America responsible for the killing of the former military president General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq.
The late General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq was killed along with top military generals in a plane crash in 1988.
The former director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt General (Ret) Hamid Gul, told a private TV channel that the United States masterminded the plane crash of General Zia ul-Haq when his plane was flying over the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur in Punjab.
Regarding alleged information provided to General Zia ul-Haq three weeks prior to the Bahawalpur incident, Hamid Gul said that a report from the ISI was submitted to him that he should restrict his movements.
"The situation was grim.
"The parliament was dissolved by the president at that time which annoyed the Americans," he said.
"Generally, it was believed as we were also getting indications from diplomatic channels that General Zia ul-Haq had isolated himself," he recalled.
When asked who stopped the American FBI team to come to Pakistan to investigate the incident, General Hamid Gul quoted a former American ambassador, Robert Oakley, as saying that it was the former US secretary of state George Schultz who stopped the team.
He said Pakistan at present is playing the game of the United States.
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