EurAsian Times: Pakistan’s “C-130 Has Crashed”: Why Israel’s Mossad Was Linked to the 1988 Crash That Killed Zia-ul-Haq
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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani general who ruled Pakistan from his coup in 1977 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He served as the chief martial law administrator from 1977 to 1985, and as the president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death. Zia was also the chief of the army staff of the Pakistan Army from 1976. He remains Pakistan's longest-serving de-facto ruler to date, and hi…
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politics · 6th President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988 · politician · military officer · also Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad Zia Ul-Haq, Mukhammed Zia-үl-Kha
Born 12 August 1924 · Died 17 August 1988 · Q200499
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 2,941 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5× the usual 583, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Pakistan’s “C-130 Has Crashed”: Why Israel’s Mossad Was Linked to the 1988 Crash That Killed Zia-ul-Haq” (EurAsian Times).
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The News Pakistan: The architect of defiance: the Shaheed who guarded faith, frontiers, and future: Remembering President Gen Zia-ul-Haq Shaheed on his death anniversary
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2024· 1 entry
In response to a 2011 reference filed by Bhutto's son-in-law and former president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled that Bhutto was not subject to a fair trial
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2007· 1 entry
By Israel in its successful strategic operation, Orchard, which resulted in them sabotaging the Syrian nuclear programme as well as the deaths of 10 senior North Korean scientists who were aiding the nuclear programme
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2004· 1 entry
Abdul Qadeer Khan's dismissal from the nuclear weapons programme was considered a face-saving exercise by the Pakistan Armed Forces and political establishment under the then Chief of Army Staff and President General Per
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1989· 1 entry
But also led to the proliferation of millions of refugees, with heroin and weaponry into Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province
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1988· 5 entries
Died 1988-08-17.
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Against Zia's wishes, and called for an inquiry into the Ojhri Camp disaster, Zia dismissed Junejo's government and announced fresh elections in November 1988
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“Cricket can be a bridge and a glue... Cricket for peace is my mission.”
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“I genuinely feel that the survival of this country lies in democracy and democracy alone.”
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After the dismissal of Junejo government
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1987· 1 entry
Zia launched the clandestine aerospace project, the Integrated Missile Research Program under General Anwar Shamim in 1985, and later under Lieutenant-General Talat Masood in 1987
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1986· 2 entries
Stating or doing anything that implied disrespect to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Ahl al-Bayt, Sahabah, or Sha'ar-i-Islam was made a cognisable offence, punishable with imprisonment, a fine, or death
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And had announced that she would be contesting the elections
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1985· 2 entries
Career landmark: Federal Minister for Defence (1985–1985).
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Zia appointed Muhammad Khan Junejo Prime Minister but accumulated more presidential powers via the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution
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1982· 1 entry
The small Ahmadiyya religious minority were prohibited from saying or implying they were Muslims
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1981· 2 entries
Interest payments were replaced by profit and loss sharing accounts; however, profit and loss sharing was simply viewed as another name for the practice of interest
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Zia contracted with China when he sent weapon-grade uranium to China and also built the centrifuge laboratory which increasingly enhanced the Chinese nuclear programme
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1979· 5 entries
Given to British journalist Ian Stephens:
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The Chiefs of Army, Navy, and the Air Force, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff validated the coup as constitutional and legal under the war-torn circumstances, pledging their support to Zia as well
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When Zia departed for Saudi Arabia, Justice Anwar-ul-Haq served as interim president of Pakistan
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Zia influenced the Pakistan Navy's Promotion Board several times after he succeeded first in the appointment of Admiral Karamat Rahman Niazi as chief of naval staff in 1979, and Admiral Tarik Kamal Khan, also as chief of
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Disbanded parliament and at the end of 1981 set up the Majlis, which was to act as a board of advisors to the president and assist with governance
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1978· 4 entries
Zia played a major role in the Soviet-Afghan War
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Zia pressured President Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry to appoint Air Marshal Anwar Shamim as Chief of Air Staff; and Admiral Karamat Rahman Niazi as Chief of Naval Staff in 1979
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Defence (1978–1978).
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Career landmark: President of Pakistan (1978–1988).
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1977· 3 entries
Until his death in an airplane crash in 1988
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Before the coup, the drinking and selling of wine by Muslims, along with nightclubs, and horse racing was banned by Prime Minister Bhutto to stem the tide of street Islamisation
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Was to militarise the integrated atomic energy programme which was founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1972
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1976· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chief of Army Staff (1976–1988).
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1970· 1 entry
Led a military training mission to Jordan, proving instrumental to defeating the Black September insurgency against King Hussein
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1969· 1 entry
Raised the 9th Armoured Brigade in Kharian as the first Brigade Commander of the unit; the brigade is currently stationed in Gujranwala under the 6th Armoured Division
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1947· 2 entries
And fighting as a tank commander in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
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Zia was the escort officer for the last train of refugees to leave Babina, an armoured corps training centre in Uttar Pradesh, a difficult journey that took seven days, during which the passengers were under constant fir
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-08-12.
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