Gen. Zia ul-Haq died with several of his generals and the US Ambassador in a mysterious aircraft crash in 1988. The mystery of his death still captures the imagination. James Bone and Zahid Hussain in The Times, UK:
Gen. Zia ul-Haq
This month, General Hameed Gul, the Islamic hardliner who was head of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency at the time, suggested that the United States might be responsible for murdering its Cold War ally – even though the US Ambassador and military attaché were also killed.
General Gul told The Times that the Pakistani President was killed in a conspiracy involving a “foreign power”.
The Times has uncovered a far less complicated explanation. According to US investigators, a mechanical problem, known to be relatively common with the C-130 military transport aircraft, was to blame. “There were a lot of conspiracy theories and there still are, understandably in that part of the world,” Robert Oakley, who took over as US Ambassador after the crash and helped to handle the politically fraught investigation, told The Times. “
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