Zia-Ul-Haq, Mohammad
(1924–1988), president of Pakistan. Zia was born on 12 August 1924 in Jalandhar in Punjab. He graduated from the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, in 1945, and served wit...
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Mohammad Zia ul-Haq (1924-1988), an army officer, was president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in an air crash that was a suspected assassination. He sustained a military government while stren...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Benazir Bhutto, the Moslem world's first woman
prime minister, was killed Thursday in a suicide bombing at a
campaign rally as she was attempting a politic...
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In his two turns as prime minister in the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif tried to endear himself to Pakistan's people with populist policies and did little to please the United States and other foreign allies...
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