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ज़िया-उल-हक़

Also known as Muhammad Zia Ul-Haq, Mukhammed Zia-үl-Kha

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 192417 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He also served as the second chief of the army staff of the Pakistan Army from 1976 until his death. The country's longest-serving de facto head of state and chief of the army staff, Zia's political ideology is known as Ziaism.

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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani military leader who served as the country's president and army chief for a decade, from 1978 until his death in a plane crash in 1988. He remains historically significant as Pakistan's longest-serving military ruler, whose political ideology, known as Ziaism, shaped the nation's governance during that period.

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