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...Carter hope to befriend Pakistanis when he supports the regime of their Public Enemy No. 1, General Zia ul-Haq? It will be yet another folly on the part of Americans to seek a partnership with a military junta...
...Carter Administration, to become more amenable to U.S. efforts to protect them and help them put their houses in order. Perhaps the Saudis will be more receptive to American pressure for a crackdown on corruption, one of several slow-burning fuses in Riyadh. Perhaps Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq will allow the U.S. to push him more quickly toward restoring a broad-based democratic government...
...news for detente and for U.S. peace initiatives in the Middle East. Also, in its eagerness to make friends in the Third World, the Administration tended to give the benefit of the doubt to leftists who also seemed to be nationalists. Pakistan's strongman, Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, warned that a Marxist government in Kabul, supported by the Soviets, had gravely upset the balance of power in the region. "The Russians are now at the Khyber Pass," Zia told TIME in September 1978-but that was simply not a message Washington wanted to hear...
...trucks, new missiles, tough soldiers and plenty of bravado " This is peanuts," scoffed Pakistan's President, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. That was his ungracious comment on the report that the U.S. was set to give him $400 million over the next two years to shore up Pakistan's defenses against the potential threat posed by 80,000 Soviet troops in neighboring Afghanistan. Zia's outburst of piqued surprise was a bit unfair since the offer had already been discussed with his chief foreign affairs adviser. In fact, the U.S. was far from being stingy...
Relations between the two countries, which were good during the Nixon Administration, have deteriorated in recent years, and turned notably sour after General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq took power in a 1977 military coup. Washington was annoyed by the general's refusal to abide by his promise to hold elections and restore civilian rule, and was alarmed as well by Pakistan's plan to build a uranium-enrichment plant, reportedly financed in part by Libya...