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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's Biography

General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Urdu:محمد ضياء الحق) (b. August 12, 1924–August 17, 1988) was the president and military ruler of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988. Appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976, General Zia-ul-Haq came to power after he overthrew ruling Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état on July 5, 1977 and became the state's third ruler to impose martial law. The coup itself was largely bloodless; however, he later had Bhutto executed.

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  • Pakistani Politics Take On a Familiar, Nationalist Tone
    News Source: The New York Times | 3 days ago
    Pakistan — These days, politics here look more and more like a movie Pakistanis have seen before...Enemies of the state lurk around every corner, if the nationalist media is to be believed...Political insiders make a sport of handicapping how long
  • Pakistan's film industry is in collapse
    News Source: Los Angeles Times | 15 days ago
    The Odeon Cinema's creaky, ripped red vinyl seats are mostly empty except for a couple of back rows where a dozen Pakistani men sit slouched, their eyes half-open, legs slung over the seats in front of them. Along the hall's bubble-gum pink walls,
  • Newsweek: About Those Billions
    News Source: Uinta County News | about 1 month ago
    It was with the best of intentions that the U.S. funneled nearly $5.3 billion to Pakistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. After all, that money helped strike down a Cold War adversary. But there were unintended consequences
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  • Morning Must Reads -- Dems willing to win ugly on health ...
    Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com | 1 day ago
    Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, whose textbooks and ideology were aggressively Islamist and ultranationalist. 'The state-supported Islamist-jihadi politics of the last 30 years has had a profound impact on the mind-set of the new urban middle ...
  • IntelliBriefs: From Kabul to Kashmir
    Blog Source: intellibriefs.blogspot.com | 1 day ago
    In an interview with me in 1988, Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq declared that "we have earned the right as a frontline state against the Russians to have a friendly regime in Kabul, a regime to our liking. ...
  • Pakistan's Anti-U.S. Tone « Neocrack.info
    Blog Source: neocrack.info | 1 day ago
    Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, whose textbooks and ideology were aggressively Islamist and ultranationalist. Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq di not start this movement, he merely encouraged what is and was there. But there are concrete reasons for the ...
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