Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Country Leader and Military Leader
Pakistan Aid Places U.S. in the Midst of a DivideA common theme in the Parliament in the last few days has been to label the $1.5 billion a year as "peanuts" -- the same term used by the military dictator Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq when he turned down $400 million from President Jimmy Carter. A... In this article: Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Washington, United States, Pervez Musharraf, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, and Yousaf Raza Gilani |
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Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
Detente
American President Jimmy Carter boosted the U.S. defense budget and began financially aiding the President of Pakistan General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq heavily, who would in turn subsidize the anti-Soviet Mujahideen fighters in the region. The...
In this article: Soviet Union, United States, Leonid Brezhnev, Warsaw Pact, Europe, Richard Nixon, Democracy, and Communism
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www.washingtonpost.com | July 21, 2007
'Why Do They Hate Us?'
...weapons to Pakistan's dictator, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. In exchange, Zia supported the mujaheddin, the Afghan guerrillas waging a modern-day holy war against the Soviet occupation. With the help of the CIA, jihadist training camps sprung up...
In this article: United States, Pakistan, Lahore, Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, Anti-Americanism, Afghanistan, Jihad, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Heroin
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History of Afghanistan (1978-1992)
...States and other assistance to the mujahedin. Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq refused Carter's package but later a larger aid offer from the Reagan administration was accepted. Questions about Pakistan's nuclear program were,...
In this article: Mohammad Najibullah, Kabul, Afghanistan, Hafizullah Amin, Soviet Union, Islam, Pakistan, United Nations, and Babrak Karmal
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Washington Times | August 03, 2009
BOOK REVIEW: 'Continuing Crisis' collected
...in the year of our Lord 1980: "Pakistani strongman Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq has vowed to get tough with shepherds who enter into liaisons with members of their flocks ... in Sri Lanka the Rt. Rev. Mr. Achmed Abdullah has declared...
In this article: Henry Louis Mencken, Jimmy Carter, Mary Landrieu, Gloria Allred, Gruel, Hurricane Katrina, and Eddie Compass
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History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)
...relations and trade with the West. Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Detente, by militarily aiding President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who in turn funded the anti−Soviet Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan,...
In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, Moscow, The Communist Party, United Nations, Russia, Ronald Reagan, and World War II
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Newsweek Top News | October 21, 2009
A Timeline of U.S. Aid to Pakistan
...for economic and military aid from President Jimmy Carter, calling it "peanuts." The following year, he was rewarded with a much more attractive offer. 1979-1990: The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan changed everything. Pakistan's ISI...
In this article: Pakistan, United States, Taliban, Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter, Pervez Musharraf, Barack Obama, Islamabad, Stipulation, and Uranium
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Bhutto Is Hanged In Pakistan
...car, was killed. Throughout the court cases and appeals from world leaders Zia had consistently said he would abide by the decision of the court and send the former prime minister to the gallows if the judges so ruled. He stood firm...
In this article: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan, Zia ul-Haq, Rawalpindi, Deng Xiaoping, Supreme Court, James Callaghan, and Larnaka
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General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Arabic: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.
Zia initially ruled for a year as CMLA (Chief Martial Law Administrator), and later assumed the post of President of Pakistan in September 1978. During his tenure, he advanced the Islamization of Pakistan and carried out economic reform. The economy benefited from the influx of money from the West to support the mujahedin fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. To shore up the increasingly tenuous control of the central government over the tribal provinces, he appointed martial law administrators as governors of Balochistan and the tribal areas with wide powers, including the abridgement of civil liberties.
Zia was killed along with several of his top generals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Lewis Raphel in a mysterious aircraft crash near Bahawalpur (Punjab) on August 17, 1988, the circumstances of which remain unclear. His death with the American ambassador gave rise to many conspiracy theories.
- Birth Date:
- August 12, 1924
- Birthplace:
- Jalandhar, British India
- Death Date:
- August 17, 1988
- Place of Death:
- Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
- Religion:
- Islam
- Political party:
- Military
- Title:
- President of Pakistan
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