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Pakistan Muslim League (N) – 8 Farooq Leghari (1940–2010) 14 November 1993 2 December 1997 4 years, 18 days Pakistan People's Party: 1993 — Wasim Sajjad (born 1941) acting: 2 December 1997 1 January 1998 30 days Pakistan Muslim League (N) 9 Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929–2022) 1 January 1998 20 June 2001 3 years, 170 days Pakistan Muslim ...
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq [a] (12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer who served as the 6th president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in 1988. He rose to prominence after leading a coup on 5 July 1977, which overthrew the democratically elected government of prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
The current head of state of Pakistan is Asif Ali Zardari, elected in 2024 after being nominated by the Pakistan People's Party. From 1947 to 1956 the head of state was the Pakistani monarch, who was the same person as the monarch of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The Monarch was represented in Pakistan by the Governor ...
Nurul Amin was born on 15 July 1893 in Shahbazpur, Sarail located in the Tippera District of the Bengal Presidency (now in Brahmanbaria District, Bangladesh). [1] He belonged to a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Bahadurpur in Nandail, Mymensingh District. [2]
Her father, the PPP leader Zulfikar Bhutto, was elected prime minister on a socialist platform in 1973. She returned to Pakistan in 1977, shortly before her father was ousted in a military coup and executed. Bhutto and her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, took control of the PPP and led the country's Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD).
Shortest-tenured prime minister. After the general elections in 1971, Amin was invited to be appointed as prime minister under Yahya administration; he was also the first and the only vice president of Pakistan from 1970 to 1972, leading Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. [3] 5th — Office vacant December 21, 1971 – August 13, 1973 ...
One 56-year-old man, described as a political and religious leader from Pakistan, was sentenced to 14 Two Pakistani men convicted over calls to murder Dutch anti-Muslim leader Wilders Skip to main ...
5 July – Pakistan's army led by General Zia ul-Haq stages a military coup and seizes power. Martial law is enforced and the Constitution suspended. [2] 14 August – Pakistan celebrates 30 years of independence. 17 September – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is arrested under martial law orders.