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Zia planned the Coup d ' état carefully, as he knew Bhutto had integral intelligence in the Pakistan Armed Forces, and many officers, including Chief of Air Staff General Zulfiqar Ali Khan and Major-General Tajammul Hussain Malik, GOC of 23rd Mountain Division, Major-General Naseerullah Babar, DG of Directorate-General for the Military Intelligence ( DGMO ) and Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, were loyal to Bhutto.
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Captain Rafiq planned to attack the cantonment and take over the supply dumps, but his troops moving towards the cantonment were taken to Kalurghat by Maj Zia enroute, scuttling this risky plan.
Pakistani troops had failed to take control of Chittagong as planned, but they had access to airborne reinforcements and no lack of supplies, while Bengali troops were running out of supplies, needed reinforcements and the lack of coordination between Maj. Zia and Captain Rafiq meant their effort were not fully effective.
Zia and d
* February 21 – Rezā Khan and Seyyed Zia ' eddin Tabatabaee stage a coup d ' état in Iran.
" On February 21, 1921, Reza Khan staged a coup d ' état, together with Seyyed Zia ' eddin Tabatabaee, to get control over a country which had practically no functioning central government at the time.
In 1921, realizing the threat posed by Reza Khan Mirpanj ( Reza Shah ), who had just staged a coup d ' etat with Seyyed Zia ' eddin Tabatabaee, Khaz ' al proceeded to take steps in order to protect himself.
Reza Khan Mirpanj, who had initiated a successful coup d ' état with Seyyed Zia ' eddin Tabatabaee several days beforehand, then began reasserting central government control over Gilan and Mazandaran.
Zia and Bhutto
* July 5 – General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq overthrows Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* Benazir Bhutto was a political prisoner for four years under General Zia ul Haq.
After Bhutto was overthrown by General Zia ul Haq, the provincial system was re-instated, and Quetta was once again made capital of Balochistan.
Instead of holding general elections, General Zia charged Bhutto with conspiring to murder the father of dissident politician Ahmed Raza Kasuri.
Following PPP's victory in the local elections, General Zia postponed the national elections indefinitely and moved Benazir, Murtaza, and their mother Nusrat Bhutto from Karachi to Larkana Central Jail.
He was a very close friend of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto renowned Prime Minister of Pakistan, as well as General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq.
In recognition, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed Zia Chief of Army Staff in 1976, over several senior officers.
Following increasing civil disorder, Zia deposed Bhutto and declared martial law over the country in 1977.
It was during this time that Zia invited Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as the Colonel-in-Chief of the Armoured Corps at Multan, using his tailor to stitch the Blue Patrols of his size.
After the function, Zia met Bhutto, placed his hand on the Qur ' an and said, " You are the saviour of Pakistan and we owe it to you to be totally loyal to you ".
On 1 March 1976, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto approved then-3 star general Lieutenant-General Zia as Chief of Army Staff and to be elevated to 4 star rank.
This promotion was highly controversial but had political motives for Bhutto, who saw Zia as firmly religious and an apolitical military figure who had distaste of politics.
Zia never called Bhutto as " Mr. Prime Minister ", but relied on the term Sir while referring to Bhutto.
On multiple occasions, Zia deliberately conceal intelligence information and misguided Bhutto on various political matters.
Arif, had tried to meet with Bhutto in various attempts, but such actions were thwarted by Zia.
Bhutto remained unconvinced and disbelieving, reportedly asking how his protege General Zia could do such things to him.
To remove this intelligence, Zia secretly contracted with the active duty British SAS army officers to maintain a staff course for the Army personnel while Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Shariff quietly removed naval personnel loyal to Bhutto and his government from the Navy's active duty.
On 5 July 1977, before the announcement of any agreement, Bhutto and members of his cabinet were arrested by troops of Military Police under the order of Zia by the evening.
Bhutto tried to call Zia but all telephone lines were disconnected and an army officer appeared in the Prime minister secretariat to arrest Bhutto.
Begum Khaleda Zia ()( born August 15, 1945 ) is the former First Lady of Bangladesh ( 1977 – 1981 ), and then Prime Minister of Bangladesh, having served from 1991 to 1996, becoming the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world ( only after Ms Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in 1988 – 1990 ) to head a democratic government as prime minister.
In a surprise move in 1976, Bhutto appointed General Zia-ul-Haq to replace General Tikka Khan as Chief of Army Staff, surpassing five generals senior to Zia.
Zia and had
In 2009 the Italian publisher Adelphi re-released the book, which had been out of print for many years in its Italian translation, under the title Zia Mame: the book reached the top spot on Italian bestseller lists and stayed there for many weeks, an unusual performance for a re-release.
The couple had five children, two sons ( Ahmad and Ghulam Hussein ) and three daughters ( Mansura, Zia Ashraf and Khadija ).
General Zia had been long planning to impose the Martial law and end of Bhutto's government since 1976, soon when he became chief of army staff.
It is not clear whether this explicit parliamentary approval was required for Gen. Zia's amendments to obtain legal validity, but it appears that Gen. Zia considered it desirable to obtain this approval and thus chose to compromise by watering down some of the presidential powers his amendments had granted.
Ershad remained loyal to Ziaur Rahman, Major General Zia had been appointed Army Chief by President of Bangladesh Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad after the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founding leader, on 15 August 1975 as the country headed towards communism banning multiparty rule by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
On several occasions during the 1980s and 1990s, the army had given Pakistani leaders ( Zia ul Haq and Benazir Bhutto ) similar proposals for infiltration into the Kargil region, but the plans had been shelved for fear of drawing the nations into all-out war.
Zia Chisti, one of the founders of Align, had started OrthoClear to compete against Invisalign.
In the late 1990s, Zia remarried, and had a daughter with his wife, Azra.
University Stadium had hosted the Division II national championship, named the Zia Bowl, in early December 1979 and 1980.
Choudhury and Major Zia, he had assumed they would take over the cantonment – an assumption that would have fatal consequences.
Maj Zia had decided not to enter the city until his forces were all organized, so 1000 + Bengali soldiers remained at Kalurghat.
By 27 March, most Bengali troops outside Chittagong city had assembled near the Kalurghat bridge, away from the battle in the city, where Major Zia had set up command.
Major Zia had not finished his reorganization so 1000 + Bengali troops still sat at Khalurghat.
Captain Rafiq and Maj. Zia had secured aid from BSF by April 6, and were busy organizing Bengali forces around Ramgarh.
Bengali troops had captured 18 Pakistani officers near Ramgarh including Lt. Col Sheikh and Major Iqbal, all of whom Maj. Zia surrendered to the Indian authorities.
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