Muhammad Ziaul Haq

General, 6th president, and dictator of Pakistan . He has reigned as the real power of Pakistan since the July 1977 coup that overthrew Zulfikar Ali Bhutto .[1] He ran for president the following year and was elected, serving as president for about 10 years until his death in a plane crash in 1988 . He is the person responsible for turning Pakistan, which was a secular country in its own way , into an Islamic state like it is today by ruling with a democratization policy based on Islamic extremism .[2]

He was born in 1924 to a devout Muslim family in Jalandhar, Punjab , British Indian Empire . When he was young , India and Pakistan were the same country and British colonies, and he graduated from what is now the Indian Military Academy. He also joined the colonial army in 1943 and fought against the Japanese army on the Burma front.

In 1947, during the division of India and Pakistan into independence, the Punjab province was suddenly divided into Pakistani and Indian territories without much preparation or warning, resulting in large-scale bloodshed and refugees.[3] In this process, he also became a displaced person.

When the Pakistan Army was established in 1947 , he joined as a major and went on a military study abroad trip to the United States from 1962 to 1964 . He participated in the Second Indo-Pakistani War when it broke out in March 1965, and stayed in Jordan as a brigadier general from 1967 to 1970 to train the Jordanian army .

He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1975, and the following year, in March 1976 , Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto promoted him to general and appointed him as Army Chief of Staff.

On July 5, 1977 , he caused a bloodless coup called the Fair Play Operation, overturning the butto regime, proclaiming the instrument order, and serving as a martial law commander. In September 1978, he took office as president in September 1978 , and continued to dominate the military rights by serving as the Secretary of Defense, the Army Chief of Staff, and the Martial Martial Commander. Prime Minister Bhuto was executed in 1979 . After the coup, he removed the prime minister's position and was revived in 1985 .

After becoming president, he suspended political party activities, banned strikes, imposed strict censorship on the media, and maintained martial law.

He also valued relations with the United States and promoted pro-Americanism and anti-communism to keep communist powers such as the Soviet Union in check . In the 1980s, he A representative example is support for the Mujahideen in the Soviet-Afghan War . Looking at it this way, he appears to be a good president, but he is also a man who oppressed and mercilessly tortured and killed his political opponents. In April 1979, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed.

In the case of anti-communist policies , the Pakistan People's Party led by his predecessor, Bhutto, was an Islamic socialist line, so there was also the meaning of rejecting the line of his predecessor, which he overthrew in a coup. In return for the Pakistan People's Party's strengthening of friendly relations with the Soviet Union, he followed the line of China , which at the time criticized the Soviet Union as a revisionist, and actively kept the Soviet Union in check.

Perhaps due to trauma from his youth, he also has Islamic extremist characteristics and is a member of the far right. He is currently being criticized for supporting the Islamist political party Jamaati Islami Pakistan, thereby popularizing the Islamic fundamentalist ideas of Abul Allah Maududi and laying the foundation for the Taliban in Pakistan/Afghanistan.

In 1984, a referendum was held on whether to Islamize the country. It was implemented on December 19, and the results of the vote showed that 98% of voters supported the Islamization policy, and during the Zia-ul-Haq regime, Pakistan pursued an Islamic state building program. Accordingly, all existing legal systems were changed to comply with Sharia , and due to the impact of this policy, Pakistan became a country that is treated as an outcast even in the Islamic world, and continues to this day.

Martial law was lifted in March 1985 , non-party elections were held, and Muhammad Khan Junejo was appointed prime minister. In 1988, when Prime Minister Junejo was at odds with President Zia-ul-Hak on every issue, Zia-ul-Haq appointed the Junejo cabinet. It was announced that it would be disbanded and new elections would be held in November. however...

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1988 On August 17, a C-130B transport plane carrying a total of 30 people, including 17 passengers and 13 crew members, including Zia-ul-Haq, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Pakistan Army, and US Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Raffel, crashed while en route from Bahawalpur Airport in Punjab to Islamabad , killing all 30 people on board, including him. Age 64.

Contact with the control tower was lost shortly after takeoff, and eyewitnesses said the plane flew very erratically. The truth behind this accident is a mystery, but there are opinions that it was an attempt by political opponents to assassinate him or it was just an accident. The truth is out there .

It is criticized for consuming most of the huge amount of foreign aid that poured in during the Soviet-Afghanistan war through defense industry corruption and laying the foundation for the Taliban through attempts to subjugate neighboring Afghanistan.[4] Corruption in the defense industry and subjugation of neighboring countries are the same as other dictators, but despite receiving enormous support from the United States, this man deliberately did not build basic infrastructure such as schools and power plants. By the late 20th century, Pakistan's illiteracy rate reached 80%, and even as of the 2010s, Pakistan became a poor country with electricity for an average of 2 hours a day. See Jamaati Islami Pakistan document.

Unlike other Islamic military dictators who had secularism, this man was unusually soldiers and the Islamic fundamentalists.[5]

In 1950, she married her relative, Shafiq Jahan.[6] He was widowed when Zia-ul-Haq died in 1988, and his wife died in 1996. Died on January 6th . They gave birth to two sons and three daughters. Their son, Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq, born in 1953 , entered politics and served as a cabinet member during the Sharif and Musharraf regimes. He has a son, Anwar, born in 1960 .

Daughter Zain, born in 1972, is quite late , has a congenital disability, and married a banker. Another daughter, Rubina Saleem, has been living in the United States since 1980 , and another daughter, Quratulain Zia, is said to have married a Pakistani doctor, Adnan Majid, and lives in London .

He also visited Korea in May 1985 .