Special Report: Darkness Descends 1977-1988
Rare audio / video excerpts from this epoch.
Habib Jalib recites Zulmat ko Zia
First-hand accounts of a protest by the Women’s Action Forum in February 1983
Iqbal Bano and Zehra Nigah render Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poems; Ahmed Faraz recites "Mahasara"
Arshad Mahmud recites Habib Jalib's poem written in memory of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Reading: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from his autobiography, ‘If I am assassinated"
Muhammad Khan Junejo congratulates the country upon the lifting of Martial Law December 30, 1985
TV coverage of General Zia ul Haq's funeral - 1988
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Read the special report here.