actaully the FDR was foundon the 1st day. considering theh crash site is barely 2NM from the Air HQ and Naval HQ, they had people on site pretty quick.
no it has not been confiscated by the military. i can see this romour would come from, the CAA is comes under the MoD in pakistan. plus everything is blamed on the army anyway .
Meekal. the C-130 with Zia ul Haq went down due to full Boast Package Failure. in other words they lost total hydraullics including the 2 redundant systems. it take 2 fully grown men to move the yoke without hydraullics on the herk. anyone here flying the herks can verify that. it happens extremely rarely but yes it does happen. ps recurrent training after the BoI showed only 1 crew could actaully bring it back and that too resulted in a crash landing. all the info is there.