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President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988

For other uses, see Zia-ul-Haq (disambiguation).

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq^[a] (12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer who served as the 6thpresident 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. Zia subsequently imposed martial law, suspended the constitution, and served as chief martial law administrator before assuming the presidency.

Zia served as the 2nd chief of the Army Staff from 1976 to 1988, a position he later leveraged to execute a coup in 1977,^[3] which was the second coup in Pakistan's history of coups; the first occurred in 1958 under Ayub Khan.^[4]

Zia was born in Jalandhar and trained at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.

In 1943, he was commissioned in the British Indian Army and fought i