THE LISTS discussion

"The parade was being held under Code Red and even an uninvited bird trying to invade the airspace above it would find itself the target of a sharpshooter. Zia had gone through the lists of invitees himself, taking out all unfamiliar names. Then Brigadier TM had crossed out all the names of people who in the distant past might have been related to someone who might have said something negative about General Zia's moustache or his foreign policy."

Zia was a very paranoid person. He believed that there was some scheme out there that was to kill him. Most of his days, he would spend in the Army House under intense supervision. In the major cities of the country there would be curfew everyday after a certain point of time.

Even after the intense supervision and paranoia Zia got murdered... can only explain that the people who took care of him murdered him.