Special Report: Darkness Descends 1977-1988

Rare audio / video excerpts from this epoch.
Published October 17, 2017
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  • Habib Jalib recites Zulmat ko Zia

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    First-hand accounts of a protest by the Women’s Action Forum in February 1983

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    Iqbal Bano and Zehra Nigah render Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poems; Ahmed Faraz recites "Mahasara"

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    Arshad Mahmud recites Habib Jalib's poem written in memory of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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    Reading: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from his autobiography, ‘If I am assassinated"

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    Muhammad Khan Junejo congratulates the country upon the lifting of Martial Law December 30, 1985

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    TV coverage of General Zia ul Haq's funeral - 1988

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    Read the special report here.