How Pakistan's Gen Zia Helped Jordan King Massacre Thousands Of Palestinians As Arab States Watched

Jordan's King Hussein killed more Palestinians in 11 days than Israel could kill in 20 years, former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan is quoted by authors to have said. And it was none other than Pakistan’s General Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq, then a Brigadier, who helped King Hussein carry out the massacre of 25,000 Palestinians, in what is now known as Black September of 1970. On October 17, Pakistan army chief General Syed Asim Munir extended “diplomatic, moral and political support of the Pakistani nation” to the Palestinians. Pakistanis, too, have taken to the streets against Israel’s counter-offensive in Gaza after Hamas terrorists butchered hundreds of Israelis on October 7.
Zia-ul-Haq would go on to become the army chief of Pakistan and, after ousting the civilian government in a military coup, introduce Islamic Shariat laws.

It was the same Zia-ul-Haq, who, as Brigadier and during his secondment in Jordan, assisted King Hussein to kill thousands of Palestinians and drive out the Palestinian resistance leadership from that country.

People in Pakistan have seen Zia-ul-Haq’s role in the massacre of Palestinians as a warm-up for the upheaval he would go on to carry out in Pakistan. He came to be known as the "Palestinian killer” in Pakistan.

"Even a then-obscure Pakistani Brigadier bearing the uplifting name of Zia-ul-Haq performed yeoman’s service for King Hussein by blatantly violating the

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