ALI explains.
The new Afganistan is that country's most radical regime. is new •leader Nur Mohammed Taraki is a member of a political party which contains large numbers of pro-Moscow Communists.
Taraki is in many ways. simiar to me are wrancan anti-imperialist Icader, Mossadegh, who tried, UESUOCESS fully, to unseat the Shah in the 1950. Mossadesh thrown by the CIA and the Shah put back on the throne The advent of Taraki has frightened both the confronting growing discor ent at bome) and General Zi: The latter has recently come under incrcasing internanonal pressure not to hang Bhutto.
The coup in Kabul could well be the espread tation te widespread agitation Pakistan following the executionthen the Afghans could well aid any resistance.
And the Kabul example might find some admirers within the Army itself.
Writing in the Washingtor Pont of 1 May, Bernard Nossite reported from Rawalpindi how government in | the generals were preparing fo semi-permanent role He described Zia thus: "Like so many generals who eized power in the World, he has been trained in and admires the United States Zia has taken the school course in Ft Knox and graduated from the command and general staff school at Ft Leavenworth."
LONG SILENCE implication is that Zia would be susceptible to State Department United States has broken it Jong silence on the issue and its Ambassador Arthur Hummel, has joined the list of countries asking for Bhutto's life to be spared.
Not so his British counterart. In a letter to Stan Newen MP. Foreign Secretary Davic Owen spelt out Line: an appeal fo certainly be regarded interferenoc judicial processes and could do more harm than good: there is in already a body of opinion In which critical of "foreign intervenhave tion" in the case.
Third No prizes for guessing who that body" might be! armoured In Pakistan all the left-wing groups, opposition to Bhutto's polities, have demanded his release and that prisoners.
There are at least solitical prisoners i country today. Many of them are regularly flogged The This barbarism reached new beights when four journalists were flogged on 13 May for going on strike. They chanter "Long live froodom of the press while they were being whipped Pakistani polities will never be the same again, whatever happens cynical uniformed despots have almost ensured that Pakistan as a separate state are as an lintited.
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in Afghanistan and his replacement by a pro-Moscow Communist has confounded all political analysts. The change-over in Kabul might be the most powerful factor now in ensuring that the life of Bhutto, the former Pakistan Prime Minister, is spared. TARIO