Pakistan WI's

In 1988, Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq's C-130 crashed in Peshawar due to pilot incapacitation. WI he had decided not to go see the pathetic excuse of an M1 gunnery exercise as per OTL. How would he deal with Bhutto? Would he go the Marcos route or try to make a deal?

WI Jinnah lived longer, say till 1955 or so? Would Pakistan still be a predominately military/landlord society like today?

WI the 2002 attempt on Musharraf was successful? Would the Army appoint a senior general as dictator? Would the Taliban have their recent successes earlier?
 
Jinnah was a very secular guy, so if he had lived to rule Pakistan till 1955, Pakistan, although a Muslim state, might be a more secular state, and the Islamicization of state law begun under Zia from 1978 might not have occured. However, the Indian occupation of Kashmir occured before his death, and would still lead to very strained relations, so military influence probably remains strong: even if Jinnah had remained healthy, it's hard to see him suceeding in negociating a transfer of the Muslim-majority parts of Kashmir.

Bruce
 

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Zia died in Bahawalpur actually. And Jinnah alive dose not change the Islamists role. In OTL they had been discredited because of being againt the idea of Pakistan and spent most of the first 35 years of Pakistans existance being sidelined because of it.

The reason for their recovery in the 70's was due to the rapidly increasing and highly conservative lower middle class and expats from UAE. Niether would have been different sans Jinnah.
 
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