A
rare photo of "Mard e Momin", Ameer ul Momineen Hazrat Muhammad Zia ul
Haq Rehmatullah Eleh, killing Palestinians in Jordan during what is
known to the world as "Black September"
During Black September,
the head of Pakistani training commission took command of the 2nd
Division and helped slaughter around 25,000 Palestinians. Zia ul haq was
later awarded Jordan’s highest honor for the services rendered. Black
September resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people, the
vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict lasted until July 1971 with
the expulsion of the PLO and thousands of Palestinian fighters to
Lebanon.
Zia remained posted in Jordan from 1967 till 1970 as a
Brigadier, where he was involved in training and leading Jordan’s
military where he commanded Jordan’s 2nd division. He helped late. King
Hussain of Jordan in ‘cleansing’ the so-called Palestinian Insurgents,
Zia and Hussain butchered many innocent Palestinians in the name o
f
Operation against Black September. Zia's troops were heavily involved
in street-to-street urban fighting and are credited with killing scores
of Palestinians.
The intensity of bloodletting by Zia ul Haq
and King Hussain was such that one of the founder father of Israel Moshe
Dayan said:
“Hussein (with help from Zia-ul-Haq) killed more Palestinians in eleven days than Israel could kill in twenty years.”