Bhutto often made Zia the butt of public ridicule, shouting at him from the head of the dinner table,
“Where is my monkey-general? Come over here, Monkey!”.

He'd pretend to pull Zia toward himself on an invisible string and then introduce him to a distinguished foreign guest..

..quickly dismissing him, even before Zia finished bowing, ever-smiling.
Sometimes Bhutto “joked” about how “funny” Zia’s teeth looked; humiliating the man he had singled out for such high and powerful distinction.

Once later in 1976, Gul Hasan, then ambassador to Greece, returned home and went to Bhutto’s office to pay a courtesy call. He found Zia waiting in the anteroom, with many files obviously brought from GHQ to brief Bhutto on some very important army matters.

Gul Hasan had nothing special or urgent to say, he recalled. “We were just chatting.” Inside with Bhutto, Ambassador Hasan reminded him, “General Zia is outside, Sir.” Zulfi replied, “Fuck him!”