* Benazir Bhutto was a political prisoner for four years under General Zia ul Haq.

Pakistan, under Zia ul-Haq, continued to support the mujahideen even though it was a contravention of the Geneva Accords.

Pir Hazrat Inayat Khan was the original leader of this movement and the founder of the Sufi Order of the West, which is now known as the Sufi Order International and is led by his grandson, Pir Zia.

After Bhutto was overthrown by General Zia ul Haq, the provincial system was re-instated, and Quetta was once again made capital of Balochistan.

This originated during the General Zia era when the largest denomination currency was 100 rupee note and one lakh rupees used to fill a small suitcase hence even now one pati means one lakh rupees and so on.

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, a woman was chairwoman of a major political party, though she was unable to make her political presence felt in Pakistan until after the death of General Zia.

The video was shot by director Zia Mohajerjasbi and was filmed at sites around Monroe, Washington.

He was a very close friend of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto renowned Prime Minister of Pakistan, as well as General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq.

Zia also bolstered ties with China and emphasised Pakistan's role in the Islamic world, while relations with India worsened amid the Siachen conflict and accusations that Pakistan was aiding the Khalistan movement.

Zia was commissioned in the British Indian Army in a cavalry regiment on 12 May 1943 and served against Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II.

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Zia was a tank commander.

Zia was stationed in Jordan from 1967 to 1970 as a Brigadier, helping in the training of Jordanian soldiers, as well as leading the training mission into battle during the Black September operations as commander of Jordanian 2nd Division, a strategy that proved crucial to King Hussein's remaining in power.

By 1973, then Major General Zia was commanding the 1st Armoured Division at Multan.

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.

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.

General Zia and his military government portrayed the coup as a " spontaneous response to a difficult situation ", but his response was a complete contradiction.

Parliamentary Adviser of Khaleda Zia was against him.

Recently Khaleda Zia realised that decision was wrong.

In June 2009, a new food court was completed, featuring Starbucks, Quiznos, Cinnabon, and Zia locations.

The VIII Amendment was first used by General Zia-ul-Haq to dismiss the government elected technocrat Prime minister Khan Junejo on alleged corruption cases, though General Zia developed serious matters of authority with the Prime minister who wanted to decrease the authoritative role of General Zia.

Zia is survived by his sons, Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq, ( born 1953 ), who went into politics and became a cabinet minister in the government of Nawaz Sharif, and Anwar-ul-Haq ( born 1950 ) and his daughters, Zian ( also Zain ) ( born 1972 ), a special needs child, and Rubina Salim, who is married to a Pakistani banker and has been living in the United States since 1980, and daughter Quratulain Zia who currently lives in London, and is married to Pakistani doctor, Adnan Majid.

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.

Sameer Zia was born on 8 September 1981 in the United Arab Emirates and plays cricket for them as a specialist bowler.

Zia Mohyeddin ( born June 20, 1933 ) is a Pakistani actor famed for his voice.

Zia McCabe ( born Aimee Springer on June 2, 1975 ) is a keyboard player, percussionist and bass guitarist, and member of American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols.

The sisters ' maternal grandmother was born Countess Anastasia de Torby ( later Lady " Zia " Wernher ), younger morganatic daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mihailovich of Russia ( a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I ) by his wife Countess Sophie von Merenberg, morganatic daughter of Prince Nikolaus of Nassau ( himself brother of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg ) by his wife Natalya Aleksandrovna, Pushkin's younger daughter.

His brother Haroon Akhtar Khan also contested that same year and defeated Qasim Zia for a seat in the Punjab Assembly.

" In Article 25 ( 2 ), Zia introduced the principle that " the state shall endeavour to consolidate, preserve and strengthen fraternal relations among Muslim countries based on Islamic solidarity.

The flag of the state of New Mexico consists of a red sun symbol of the Zia on a field of yellow.

Major Zia kept his troops at Kalurghat bridge, but after being requested by several people found time to broadcast a declaration of independence with himself as the provisional head of state in the evening.

Zia saw action in World War II as a British Indian Army officer, before opting for Pakistan in 1947 and fighting in the war against India in 1965.

After graduation from St. Xavier College, prior to his graduation, Zia joined the British Indian Army in 1943.

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.

Soon after the coup, General Zia told the British journalist Edward Behr of Newsweek:

ACM Shamim told General Zia that, " Indian aircraft could reach the area in 3 minutes whereas the PAF would take 8 minutes, allowing the Indians to attack the facility and return before the PAF could defend it ".

Sporadic clashed took place around the EPR HQ, while Major Zia left Maj. Shawkat in command at Kalurghat Bridge ( 1000 + Bengali troops were still positioned there ) and left for Ramgarh around 7: 30 PM to seek Indian assistance.

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.

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar ( 14 March 1929 – 28 September 1990 ), popularly known as Z. M. Dagar, was a North Indian ( Hindustani ) classical musician, one of the 19th generation of Dagar family dhrupad musicians.

BNP leader Khaleda Zia becomes President of Bangladesh on March 19.

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.

Formation on Zia Pueblo, New Mexico.

Further pressure from the international community forced General Zia to hold elections, for a unicameral legislature on a non-party basis.

Shafiq Zia died on 5 January 1996.

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 ".

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.

Wilson's position on the appropriations committees, and his close relations with CIA officer Gust Avrakotos, allowed him to steer billions of dollars to the Mujahideen through the CIA and Zia ul-Haq's ISI.

Four important advisors of his caretaker cabinet resigned in December 2006, accusing the Chief Adviser of making the decision of Army deployment while ignoring the advisor council's recommendation against it. In this situation, President's Advisor Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury went to Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia and after successful negotiation he brought all parties to President for dialogue and finally they participated in polls on 26 December for 22 January 2007 election ..

Khaleda Zia challenged this in court, but her appeal was rejected on April 10, 2008.

In 1983, when the first batch of F-16s reached Pakistan, ACM Shamim informed Zia of the PAF's capability to respond to an attack on the nuclear research facilities at Kahuta.

The name was changed on the suggestion of Pakistan's then President General Zia ul Haq to Karakorum-8 to represent the friendship between the two countries.

In an effort to promote cultural assimilation and economic development, Zia appointed a Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Commission in 1976, but resisted holding a political dialogue with the representatives of the hill tribes on the issue of autonomy and cultural self-preservation.

But Zia was found to put strong emphasis on regional cooperation particularly for South Asia.

Later on, General Zia got all the Muslim Leagues together, but installed Muhammad Khan Junejo as PML president.

General Zia respected Chaudhry and came to visit him on his deathbed.

Mera was an archaeologist who was familiar with the Zia sun symbol found at Zia Pueblo on a 19th century pot.