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The recently published ISI’s assessment in the Wall Street Journal leaked by a senior ISI official, which concludes that a "two-thirds likelihood a major threat to the state coming from militants rather than from India or elsewhere," appears to be a well crafted stratagem to ensure continued inflow of US aid without any criticism in the US congress as also to counter charges that the US aid is misused to develop the Pak Army’s capabilities against India.
Some of the Pak analysts have commented which give credence to this assessment. Talat Masood, a retired general and an analyst on security matters, stated that the assessment is based on the awareness that some of its previous friends have become its sworn enemies. Another analyst Imtiaz Gul similarly remarked that "many of the militant groups that the Pakistani military worked with in the past have now turned against them". However others like Ayesha Siddiqa suspect it to be a part of a game plan. Siddiqa have remarked that" there are games within games".
Since this assessment reflects the ground realities, it is logical to conclude that the Pak intelligence agency has changed its stance. Some articles in the media have highlighted that for the first time in 63 years, the ISI has determined that a majority of threats come
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Zia-ul-Haq
President of Pakistan from to
For other uses, see Zia-ul-Haq (disambiguation).
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq[a] (12 August &#;&#; 17 August ) was a Pakistani dictator who controlled Pakistan from his coup until his death in He took over the country after leading a coup on 5 July , which overthrew the democratically elected government of prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Zia subsequently imposed martial law, suspended the constitution, and served as chief martial law administrator before assuming the presidency and becoming a dictator. Zia served as the 2nd chief of the Army Staff from to , a position he later leveraged to execute a coup in ,[3] which was the second coup in Pakistan's history of coups; the first occurred in under Ayub Khan.[4]
Zia was born in Jalandhar and trained at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun. In , he was commissioned in the British Indian Army and fought in the Pacific War of the Second World War. Following the partition of India in , Zia joined the Pakistan Army and was stationed in the Frontier Force Regiment. During Black September, he played a prominent role in defending the Jordanian Armed Forces against the Palestine Liberation Organization. In , Zia was elevated to the rank of General and was a
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