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Who killed General Zia?
Ijazul Haq blamed General Beg for trying to hide the effects of a missile fired into Zia's plane from another plane.
Ijazul Haq, son of army chief General Zia, has accused Zia’s then vice-chief General Aslam Beg of being a part of the conspiracy to kill his father. He appeared on Geo TV on December 1, 2012, and said he was sorry that General Hameed Gul, who was the ISI chief at the time, took no notice of his officers plotting to kill his father. He added that General Beg caused the wreckage of the plane to be removed to hide the effects of a missile fired into the plane from another plane. He also prevented autopsies of the dead to hide the fact that everyone on the plane had died from gas poisoning. A report by an air force officer, Zaheer Zaidi, was suppressed because it focused on the “other plane”. He said Beg had reacted to his certain impending replacement with General Afzaal as vice-chief.
No one can say who killed Zia. But when he took Beg as the army vice-chief, Zia was deeply committed to the Arabs in the post-Bhutto period. He was to offer Islamisation in return for funds that went into buying Pakistan’s sorely needed 40 F-16 warplanes and seed-money for the Zakat Fund. Islamisation was also meant to restrain revolutionary Iran. (Tehran was seen as destablising the Gulf states with acts of terrorism.) In 1980, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was created and Zia could not resist being secretly its ‘military teeth’.
According to Christopher M Davidson in The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers), 2005, p.206 and p.244, the plan for an anti-Iran axis existed up until 2001: “Until September 11, 2001, many of the strongly anti-Iranian emirates had favoured a ‘Sunni axis’ comprising the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the Afghan Taliban, in an effort to curb potential Shia expansion.” The author footnoted that his information had come from “personal interviews, undisclo
An Alternative Career in Architecture: Kamil Khan Mumtaz
Author(s): Chris Moffat with Kiran Ahmad and Amen Jaffer
Publisher: Folio Books
Publishing Date: October 2023
ISBN: 978-969-7834-64-8 (PBK)
ISBN: 978-969-7834-65-5 (PDF)
A book review by Hasan-Uddin Khan
The influence of the eminent Pakistani architect, Kamil Khan Mumtaz (KKM), has been felt both in practice and education in contemporary 20th and 21st century Pakistan. A biography by Chris Moffat (with Kiran Ahmed and Amen Jaffer), The Time of Building, follows both his career and philosophy. The book is based on a series of conversations over several years between Mumtaz and Chris Moffat, a Senior Lecturer in South Asian History at Queen Mary University in London. Moffat worked with Kiran Ahmed, a graphic designer and artist at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. There is an Afterword by Amen Jaffer, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lahore University of Management Sciences, who cites his own journey influenced by Mumtaz.
Well-researched and interesting, the book starts with Mumtaz’s current work on the Baba Hasan Din Mazar in Lahore, which began in 2001 and continues to this day. This case study seeks to explain how Mumtaz’s work contrasts with the “commercial imperatives and compressed timelines of most contemporary architecture”. It is a reverse trajectory of an architect’s usual journey which in this case commences with modernism and rationalism and finds its way back to tradition and spirituality. It generally follows a chronological narrative in eleven chapters. The publication is available on-line and as a hard copy, and is well illustrated with images, many of which have not been previously published. The photographs of the architect over the years give insight into his life and experiences, and his development in architecture.
Born in Calcutta in 1939, Mumtaz belongs to the architectural generation born around the time of independence, a generation which came of a Former Pakistan wicketkeeper and PCB chairman Ijaz Butt has died at the age of 85 in Lahore. In 2008, he was appointed chairman of the PCB by then-president Asif Ali Zardari. He held that position through one of the most chaotic and tumultuous periods in Pakistan's cricketing history. Just five months into his tenure, there was a terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team and match officials that claimed the lives of eight people and stopped international cricket in Pakistan for the best part of a decade. It was followed by angry accusations of lax security by ICC match referee Chris Broad which Butt dismissed as "lies". The Pakistan captaincy changed hands several times during his tenure, with Shoaib Malik famously described as "aloof and a loner" in a report, days after he was sacked. After a disastrous tour of Australia, the PCB hit back with huge sanctions against its own players. Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan were banned "indefinitely" in 2010, Malik and Naved-ul-Hasan were handed one-year bans, while Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal were put on six-month probations. Yousuf and Younis were back playing Test cricket a few months later. Butt would also have to content with the fallout from the spot-fixing scandal that saw three Pakistan players - captain Salman Butt, and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir - caught agreeing to bowl no-balls in a Test at Lord's in exchange for money. The three players were banned, and relations between the PCB and England turned especially frosty, which Butt played a part in contributing to on at least one occasion. Butt was replaced by Zaka Ashraf, who is also the current PCB chairman, in 2011. He played eight Tests for Pakistan, making his debut in Karachi against West Indies in 1959 as a wicketkeeper-batter. His last match came at The Oval against England in 1962. He was the manager of the Pakistan team for a tour of Australia in 1982 and heade The family of Imran Khan, the 19th Prime Minister of Pakistan and former captain of the Pakistan cricket team, is a prominent family of Pakistani origin with Niazi and BurkiPashtun ancestry. They are active in sports, politics, and the Pakistan Armed Forces. Imran, his third wife Bushra Bibi, and her children were the first family for the duration of his premiership. Imran's father Ikramullah Khan Niazi was a civil engineer, while his mother Shaukat Khanum was a housewife and daughter of a prominent civil servant. Imran has two children from his first wife, Jemima Goldsmith. Main article: Jemima Goldsmith On 16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, in a traditional Pakistani wedding ceremony in Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond registry office in England, followed by a reception at the Goldsmiths' house in Surrey which was attended by London's elite. The wedding was named by the media as "The wedding of the century". Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and Billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith, who was one of richest men in UK. Goldsmith enrolled at the University of Bristol in 1993 and studied English, but dropped out when she was married in 1995. She eventually completed her bachelor's degree in March 2002 with upper second-class honours. In 2003, she received her MA in Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, focusing on Modern Trends in Islam. The marriage, described as "tough" by Khan, ended in 2004 after nine years. Shortly after their marriage, Imran and Jemima arrived at Zaman Park in Lahore from their honeymoon at one of the Goldsmiths' farms in Spain, and were greeted by international and local reporters. It was also announced that Jemima had converted to Isla Former Pakistan keeper and PCB chair Ijaz Butt dies at 85
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