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 strengthening Islamic institutions and practices....

(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 with the British army in Southeast Asia. Upon India's independence...

General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq 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...

Byline: Armin Sethna Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor From the August 21, 1985 edition. ''I am basically a person who has devoted myself to the overthrow of martial law,'' declares Benazir Bhutto, daughter of the late Pakistani prime minister,...

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 will never become a drop in the Red Ocean."...

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. He might yet get the chance to repeat that role.Last week's...