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Pakistan is also an example of the danger that the pendulum could swing too far in the other direction. The U.S. could throw itself foursquare behind the military rule of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq just before Zia came tumbling down-another client-dictator the U.S. would then have "lost...
...forces fanned out to consolidate their hold on Afghanistan last week, the aftershocks of the invasion were causing tremors all over Southwest Asia. In neighboring Pakistan, which must now worry about Soviet incursions across its border in pursuit of Muslim Afghan rebels, the unsteady government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq appeared ready to accept emergency military aid from the U.S. and its allies. In India the stunning resurgence of Indira Gandhi, long a friend of Moscow, raised the prospect of an ominous tilt toward the Soviet Union in the subcontinent's largest country. In Iran, Ayatullah Khomeini...
...Pakistani government of President Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq is tempted to encourage the Afghan tribesmen to fight the Kabul government, with which Pakistan has always had uneasy relations. But the Pushtun (or Pathan) tribesmen, whose homeland is on both sides of the border, also have their differences with Pakistan. So Zia is reluctant to grant the insurgents too much aid lest they use it to fight his government, which has serious problems...
...Afghanistan is in blatant violation of accepted international rules of behavior." He conveyed the same harsh message to Leonid Brezhnev personally on the rarely used White House-Kremlin hot line. At the same time, the President got in touch directly with Western European leaders and President Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq of Pakistan, among others, in an attempt to obtain a collective condemnation of Moscow. All shared his concern. As a result, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher was dispatched to London over the weekend to discuss the situation with U.S. allies...
Hearing of the violence, President Carter got on the telephone to President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and told him that Pakistan was responsible for the Americans' safety. Zia, who seized power in a coup 2½ years ago and whose regime has been facing stiff resistance, said he had been doing what he could, but he proved reluctant to use real force against the crowd...