On the orders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" id="mw_w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Pakistan">President of Pakistan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq" id="mwAQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq">Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq</a>, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multan" id="mwAQE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Multan">Multan, Pakistan</a>; it is known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_massacre_at_Multan_Colony_Textile_Mills" id="mwAQI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills">1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills</a>.<sup about="#mwt153" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-29"}}' id="cite_ref-29" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_2#cite_note-29" id="mwAQM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 29;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQQ">[29]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-29"><cite about="#mwt150" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBernd_Michael_Scherer1993">Bernd Michael Scherer (1993). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xmGFAAAAMAAJ" id="mwB8g" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB8k">Society and dictatorship</i></a>. Progressive Publishers. p.<span id="mwB8o" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>105.</cite><span about="#mwt150" class="Z3988" id="mwB8s" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Society+and+dictatorship&amp;rft.pages=105&amp;rft.pub=Progressive+Publishers&amp;rft.date=1993&amp;rft.au=Bernd+Michael+Scherer&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxmGFAAAAMAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+2"></span></span>