On 17 August 1988, a Lockheed C-130B Hercules operated by the Pakistan Air Force with thirty people onboard crashed in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Among the victims were President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, his c
An Argentine Air Force C-130B, similar to the aircraft involved
General Muhammad Zia Ul Haq
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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani general who ruled Pakistan from his coup in 1977 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He served as the chief martial law administrator from 1977 to 1985, a
1988 Pakistan Air Force C-130B crash
…Lockheed C-130B Hercules operated by the Pakistan Air Force with thirty people onboard crashed in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Among the victims were President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, his close confidant CJCSC Akhtar Abdur Rahman, ISPR director-general Siddique Salik and United States ambassador Arnold Lewis Raphel. Zia's death was…
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq with his father in 1929
Zia presenting the Hilal-i-Imtiaz to Shamim Alam Khan
President Ronald Reagan and Bill Clark meeting with President Zia-ul-Haq, 1982