“Pakistan One – the C-130 – has crashed. No one is visible.” With those stark words, General Mirza Aslam Beg, then Pakistan’s Vice Chief of Army Staff, confirmed the death of the country’s longest-serving military ruler, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, on 17 August 1988. Thirty-eight years later, the crash of that Lockheed C-130 Hercules – one … Continue reading Pakistan’s “C-130 Has Crashed”: Why Israel’s Mossad Was Linked to the 1988 Crash That Killed Zia-ul-Haq