With Ayub Khan ousted from office in 1969, Commander of the Pakistani Army, General Yahya Khan became the country's second ruling Chief Martial Law Administrator.

Having such a strong background in administration, and being an expert on East Pakistan affairs, General Yahya Khan appointed Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan as Martial Law Administrator, with absolute authority in his command.

Civil rule improved and stabilized in East Pakistan under Martial Law Administrator Admiral Ahsan's era.

East Pakistan's Martial Law Administrator Admiral Ahsan, unified commander of Eastern Military High Command ( EMHC ), and Air Marshal Mitty Masud, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), were the only officers to object to the plans.

When it became obvious that a military action in East Pakistan was inevitable, Admiral Ahsan resigned from his position as Martial Law Administrator in protest, and immediately flew back to Karachi, West Pakistan.

" Martial Law in Jamaica ", pp. 403 – 442.

During that time, the City of Brooklyn, NY was placed under Martial Law.

Trouble in the Hutt Valley, near Wellington, early March 1846 prompted the new Lieutenant Governor George Grey to proclaim Martial Law and call out the Hutt Militia.

On May 18, 1980, a confrontation broke out in the city of Gwangju between protesting students of Chonnam National University and the armed forces dispatched by the Martial Law Command.

Pakistan's first Chief Martial Law Administrator ( CMLA ) Field Marshal Ayub Khan, who remained in office from 1958 until 1969, worked for a full alignment with the West rather than neutrality.

In 1967, another martial law was imposed by another Army Commander-in-Chief General Yahya Khan, who designated himself as the Chief Martial Law Administrator.

Ayub Khan abolished the Governor's office and instead established the Martial Law Administrator of West-Pakistan ( MLA West ).

He was first appointed as Chief Martial Law Administrator in 1969 ( 20th March ), succeeding Field Marshal Ayub Khan as military dictator and president in 1969 ( 25th MARCH1969 ), declaring martial law and dissolving much of the civilian infrastructure, government ministries and appointments, replacing them with military infrastructure and personnel instead.

* September 20 – General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of Martial Law Governor of Balochistan.

* Full text of the 1972 Martial Law in the Philippines

* Macomb, Alexander, A Treatise on Martial Law, and Courts-Martial as Practiced in the United States.

Line troops and militia were brought in from surrounding counties, swelling the forces at Amherst's disposal to over 15, 000 many of whom were quartered in tents in Hyde Park and a form of Martial Law was declared, giving the troops the authority to fire on crowds if the Riot Act had first been read ; although order was eventually restored, Amherst was personally alarmed by the failure of the authorities to suppress the riots.

In the early 1950s the Israeli army relocated the majority of the Bedouin living in the Negev to an area under Martial Law north of Beersheba know as the Siyah (" the fence " in Arabic and Hebrew ).

In 1998, US television network CBS began to broadcast Martial Law ( 1998 – 2000 ) on Saturday nights, an action-drama built around Hung.

Lee also worked on Hung's Martial Law series.

* Timmy Hung has appeared alongside his father in SPL: Sha Po Lang, Legend of the Dragon, and Kung Fu Chefs, as well as having a recurring role in Sammo's series, Martial Law.

Also, in the second half of 1980s, a student-based happening movement Orange Alternative founded by Major Waldemar Fydrych became known for its much attended happenings ( over 10 thousand participants at one time ) aimed against the military regime led by General Jaruzelski and the fear blocking the Polish society ever since the Martial Law had been imposed in December 1981.

Birkhimer describes the difference on page 1 of his opus Military Government and Martial Law ( 3rd edition, 1914 ) by saying that

: Military jurisdiction is treated in the following pages in its two branches of Military Government and Martial Law.

* Military Government and Martial Law, by William E. Birkhimer, third edition, revised ( 1914 ), Kansas City, Missouri, Franklin Hudson Publishing Co.

Appeals for clemency were dismissed by Chief Martial Law Administrator General Zia-ul-Haq.

On behalf of Bhutto's former Law minister Abdul Hafeez Pirzada and Fakhruddin Abrahim, the Bhutto's family filed a petition at the Chief Martial Law Administrator Office for the reconsideration the sentence of Zulfikar Bhutto, and for the release of Bhutto's friend Dr. Mubashir Hassan.

Bhutto who was sworn in on 20 December 1971 as President and as the ( first civilian ) Chief Martial Law Administrator.

B. Raman, the former head of the Counter-Terrorism Division of R & AW and noted security analyst, reveals that, in an unguarded moment, Morarji Desai indiscreetly told Pakistan's Chief Martial Law Administrator General Zia ul-Haq that his government was well aware of Pakistan's nuclear development.

Former president Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad made her husband Major General Ziaur Rahman Chief of Staff of Bangladesh Army after Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who subsequently assumed power as Chief Martial Law Administrator following a series of military coups on and following National Revolution and Solidarity Day.

On 20 December, he was taken to the President House in Rawalpindi where he took over two positions from Yahya Khan, one as President and the other as first civilian Chief Martial Law Administrator, thus he was the first civilian Chief Martial Law Administrator of the dismembered Pakistan.

On 7 October 1958, President Iskander Mirza declared martial law and appointed army chief General Ayub Khan as Chief Martial Law Administrator.

As the vountry was in dire situation with no stability and security, acting at Zia's behest, Sayem then promulgated martial law, continued Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's State of Emergency, and less than replaced President Sayem as the Chief Martial Law Administrator ( CMLA ).

A year later in November 1976, Ziaur Rahman became Chief Martial Law Administrator ( CMLA ).

Mirza appointed Army Commander-in-Chief General Ayub Khan ( Field Marshall ) as the first Chief Martial Law Administrator.

He stepped down in favour of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General Yahya Khan who imposed martial law ; suspended the presidential constitution and became military President and Chief Martial Law Administrator.

Zia declared himself the third Chief Martial Law Administrator ( CMLA ).

After only twenty days of martial law, Mirza was forced out of the presidency by his Chief Martial Law Administrator Field Marshal Ayub Khan.

The American East Coast features a branch of Kenpo created by Nick Cerio, and later built upon and redefined by Fredrick J. Villari who brought the hybrid art of Shaolin Kempo Karate to the general public through his nationwide network of " Villari's Martial Arts Centers ".

He is responsible for bringing several obscure forms of the South East Asia Martial Arts into the public eye such as Silat, a hybrid combative form existing in countries as Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

In 1970, the Martial law office was dissolved by General Yahya Khan who disestablished the state of West Pakistan.

On 25 March 1969 the second Martial law was imposed and General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan took-over as the President of Pakistan and Chief Martial Law Administrator.

On 20 December 1971 Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto took over as the President of Pakistan as well as the first civil Chief Martial Law Administrator.

This operation was named Chagai-I by Pakistan, the underground iron-steel tunnel having been long-constructed by provincial Martial Law Administrator General Rahimuddin Khan during the 1980s.

In November 2009, Hussain was a beneficiary when the Government of Pakistan enabled a legal act ( in December 2009 it was repealed ) called National Reconciliation Ordinance which granted amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused of crimes between 1986 and October 1999, the time between two occurrences of Martial law.

Thus he was the first civilian Chief Martial Law Administrator of the Pakistan.

* The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan ’ s Political Economy of Defence ( 1990 )

Defence writers in Pakistan have noted that the 1971 defeat was partially attributable to the flawed ' Martial Races Theory ' which merely led to, ' wishful thinking ' that it was possible to defeat the Indian Army based on the theory alone.