I am unable to understand what is new in this "news" so that mystery further deepens! This issue had been discussed at length during those days(Aug-Sept 1988) in media. C-130(Hercules) is a huge military transport aircraft with four turbo-prop engines. Why Zia, along with 24 senior personell and a US VVIP diplomat, should choose it for traveling between Bahavalpur and Ravalpindi? The pilot was Shia and remember that Zia never missed an opportunity to crush Shias in Pakistan using his all brutal powers. Considering Zia's extreme efforts to posses the so called Islamic atom-bomb and the (then ) Soviet existence in Afghanistan and Arnold Raphel's (this man was wellknown for his anti-Indian activities) roll in handling them through (now famous) Taleban, it is generally believed that it must be the handy work of either KGB or Mosaad and not that of CIA. Also the subliming type of narcotics (used to induce drowsiness in the occupants of the plane) suspected to have been hidden in the mango parcels, can not be expected to have been sythesized or procured in the backward Islamic countries. Now for our India, there was no dearth of stupids (and even today)in the media who were praising Zia's cricket-diplomacy as a tool of improving bilateral relations. If Indian secret agencies were involved,-- which is remote possibility given to understand their track record--, the above-mentioned stupids could have gone to the rock bottom to prove their investigative journalism.
