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Mohammad Zia ul-Haq
Mohammad Zia ul-Haq 1924-88, Pakistani military and political leader. Named general and chief of staff by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1976, he declared martial law in July, 1977, in response to agitations against election fraud. He imprisoned Bhutto, later (1979) executing him. Zia became president in... Read more
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto , 1953-2007, prime minister of Pakistan (1988-90; 1993-96), daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto . Educated at Radcliffe and Oxford, she returned to Pakistan shortly before her father was overthrown by General Zia ul-Haq in 1977. Under detention and then in exile, she returned in 1986 t... Read more
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , 1928-79, Pakistani political leader. Member of a wealthy landowning family, he entered politics as the protégé of General Ayub Khan . Bhutto joined the cabinet in 1958, becoming foreign minister in 1963. Critical of the Indo-Pakistan agreement ending the 1965 war... Read more
Pakistan

Pakistan

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796,100sq km (307,374sq mi)

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130,578,000

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Mohammad Zia ul-Haq
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mohammad Zia ul-Haq Mohammad Zia ul-Haq (1924-1988), an army officer, was president of Pakistan...while strengthening Islamic institutions and practices. Mohammad Zia ul-Hag was born into a middle-class family on August 12, 1924... Read more
Benazir Bhutto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...years of struggle against the military regime of General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. She had taken up the leadership of the Pakistan People's...hand-picked but increasingly independent-minded prime minister, Mohammad Junejo. Fears that Zia would somehow keep the People's Party... Read more
Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Pakistan's Punjab province. His father, Nawabzada Sardar Mohammad Khan Leghari, was chief of the Baluch Leghari tribe, which...Punjab, Baluchistan, and parts of Sindh. Nawabzada Sardar Mohammad Khan Leghari played an active role in the Pakistan Movement...to a coup headed by the chief of the army staff, General ... Read more
Nawaz Sharif
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Ittefaq Industries in Lahore. The business was returned after Sharif developed political links with then-president, Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. It was General Zia who brought down Bhutto in 1975, executing him two years later on charges of conspiracy. By... Read more
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in the remaining western wing of the country, replaced Gen. Mohammad Yahya Khan as president. In April 1973 Bhutto became prime...military involvement. He was deposed in a bloodless coup by Gen. Zia ul-Haq on July 5, 1977. Several charges were brought against him... Read more

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Zia-ul-Haq, General Mohammed
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Zia-ul-Haq, General Mohammed (b. 1924, d. 17 Aug. 1988). President of...now led by Bhutto's widow and his daugher, Benazir Bhutto . Zia-ul-Haq ruled at the head of a civilian government which was led by Mohammad Khan Junejo. He remained firmly in control, however, until... Read more
Pakistan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...1977 he was deposed, and later executed. The regime of General ZIA UL-HAQ (1977–88) committed Pakistan to an Islamic code of laws...collapsing in 1990 on charges of corruption. Bhutto's successor Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Islamic Democratic Alliance, won... Read more

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Death of a friend. (Mohammed Zia ul-Haq)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/16/1988; ; 700+ words ; DEATH OF A FRIEND WHEN I INTERVIEWED President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan in January, he told me proudly, From the USSR to Vietnam, only one country stands up to the Soviets: Pakistan. Pakistan... Read more
Proximity talks relating to Afghanistan.
Magazine article from: UN Chronicle; 7/1/1984; 700+ words ; ...Afghanistan . The Afghan delegation, led by Foreign Minister Shah Mohammad Dost, and the Pakistani delegation, headed by Foreign Minister...15 April 1984. In Islamabad, he met with Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq, Foreign Minister Yaqub-Khan and other senior Government officials... Read more
Revolutionary nepotism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 12/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...assassination by dictator Ferdinand Marcos' goon squad. Benazir Bhutto ruled Pakistan after the downfall of General Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, who had overthrown and hanged her father. Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri is the daughter of the former... Read more
Falling into the Afghan trap.(The World Today)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Taliban when they seemed to emerge from nowhere in 1994-95. Mohammad Najibullah, Afghanistan's former president, was castrated and...British India in 1947--beginning when the dictator Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq came to power in 1977. Alien puts the impact of Zia succinctly... Read more
Last chance for Afghanistan?
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/30/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the radical Muslim mujahed leader. HEKMATYAR, a longtime favorite of Pakistans late president Mohammad Zia ul-haq and of the military officers still running Pakistan's Inter-services Intelligence agency (ISI), receives more money... Read more