Khalid Ahmed was a Pakistani Urdu poet and a newspaper journalist. He was awarded the Pride of Performance award by the President of Pakistan in 2011. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: The Death of Zia-ul-Haq The Shia of Iraq and the South Asian Connection The Roots of Sectarianism in Pakistan Transformation of Al Qaeda […]
THE DEATH OF ZIA-UL-HAQ Khalid Ahmed[1] Abstract General Zia-ul-Haq’s death in an air-crash on 17 August 1988 has remained a mystery. Since then various theories have been advanced. Three depositions were made to the inquiry commission headed by the former Supreme Court judge, Justice Shaifqur Rehman, by citizens accusing: (i) the Ahmadis; (ii) the Americans,
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