What exactly was Zia-ul-Haq doing to in Jordan?
The fact that pakistan supports palestine highlights the nation's dual nature, as pakistan has historically participated in the murder of thousands of Palestinian people. In truth, things had gotten rather tense in jordan following the 1967 Six-Day war defeat over Israel. In addition to egypt and syria, jordan also lost a great deal in this conflict, and palestine lost territory in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem.
The palestine Liberation group (PLO) began bombing Israeli-occupied territories every few days to mark its presence at the same time. As a result of these attacks, the PLO's popularity greatly expanded and it was viewed as a terrorist group in syria and Iraq. started receiving assistance as well.
Jordan had to lose other parts of Jerusalem at that time and did not want to experience any form of conflict once more. As a result, king Hussein of jordan asked his Pakistani brigadier friend Zia-ul-Haq for assistance. Zia was working as the defense attaché at the Pakistani embassy in oman at the time. Zia responded by advising the Jordanian army to train specifically to combat the PLO. The Jordanian army greatly benefited from this training in their battle against the PLO.
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