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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

1924 - 1988

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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer and statesman 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. Zia's role as Pakistan's longest-serving head of state and chief of the army staff resulted in the development Ziaism, his personal political thought that steered his administration of Pakistan as president. Born in Jullundur, Zia joined the British Indian Army and trained at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun before fighting in the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq is the 457th most popular politician (up from 5,977th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from India (up from 201st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Politician.

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani general and politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1978 until 1988. He is most famous for his role in the military coup of 1977, which overthrew the democratically elected government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ranks 457 out of 19,576. Before him are Lapu-Lapu, Stepan Bandera, Edward I of England, Porus, Mars, and Mahidevran. After him are Radovan Karadžić, Ibn Saud, Nicolas Sarkozy, Henry VII of England, Pertinax, and Alfred the Great.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ranks 6. Before him are Jimmy Carter, Marlon Brando, George H. W. Bush, Charles Aznavour, and Marcello Mastroianni. After him are Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Kim Dae-jung, Truman Capote, Robert Mugabe, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Eli Cohen. Among people deceased in 1988, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ranks 2. Before him is Enzo Ferrari. After him are Georgy Malenkov, Richard Feynman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Nico, John Holmes, Bacha Khan, Ernst Ruska, Valery Legasov, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Kurt Georg Kiesinger.

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In India

Among people born in India, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ranks 23 out of 1,861. Before him are Droupadi Murmu (1958), Nagarjuna (150), Patanjali (-200), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887). After him are Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), and Jamsetji Tata (1839).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ranks 10. Before him are Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Pratibha Patil (1934), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Droupadi Murmu (1958), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), and Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775). After him are Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Zakir Husain (1897), and Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910).

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