General Muhammad Zia Ul Haq.
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was the sixth President of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988. Distinguished by his role in the Black September in Jordan military operation in 1970, he was appointed as Chief of Army Staff in 1976. After widespread civil disorder, he overthrew ruling Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on 5 July 1977 and became the state's third ruler to impose martial law. He initially ruled as Chief Martial Law Administrator, but later installed himself as the President of Pakistan in September 1978.
Zia major domestic initiatives included the consolidation of the fledgling nuclear program, which was initiated by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, denationalization and deregulation and the state's Islamization. His tenure saw the disbanding of the Baloch insurgency. His endorsement of the Pakistan Muslim League the founding party of Pakistan initiated its mainstream revival. However, he is most remembered for his foreign policy; the subsidizing of the Mujahideen movement during the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which led to the Soviet Russian withdrawel from Afghanistan. Martial Law . On 8 January 1977 a large number of opposition political parties grouped to form the PNA. Bhutto called fresh elections, and PNA participated in those elections in full force. They managed to contest the elections jointly even though there were grave splits on opinions and views within the party. The PNA faced defeat but did not accept the results alleging that the election was rigged. First they claimed rigging for 14 seats and finally for 40 seats in the National Assembly. They proceeded to boycott the provincial elections. Despite this there was high voter turn out in national elections however as provincial elections were held amidst low voter turn out and an opposition boycott the PNA declared the newly elected Bhutto government as
Zia major domestic initiatives included the consolidation of the fledgling nuclear program, which was initiated by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, denationalization and deregulation and the state's Islamization. His tenure saw the disbanding of the Baloch insurgency. His endorsement of the Pakistan Muslim League the founding party of Pakistan initiated its mainstream revival. However, he is most remembered for his foreign policy; the subsidizing of the Mujahideen movement during the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which led to the Soviet Russian withdrawel from Afghanistan. Martial Law . On 8 January 1977 a large number of opposition political parties grouped to form the PNA. Bhutto called fresh elections, and PNA participated in those elections in full force. They managed to contest the elections jointly even though there were grave splits on opinions and views within the party. The PNA faced defeat but did not accept the results alleging that the election was rigged. First they claimed rigging for 14 seats and finally for 40 seats in the National Assembly. They proceeded to boycott the provincial elections. Despite this there was high voter turn out in national elections however as provincial elections were held amidst low voter turn out and an opposition boycott the PNA declared the newly elected Bhutto government as