Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in 1977, the same year her father’s government was overthrown by a military coup led by ...

tracing its ascendancy under the devout dictator general Zia ul Haq, the man who overthrew and subsequently hanged Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. General Zia had a great hatred for the Soviet Union and felt ...

Attempts made by Z A Bhutto to break the deadlock through talks failed. This plunged the country into a long spell of dictatorship. With the advent of dictator Zia-ul-Haq, the country lost ...

Fourty-four years ago, Bhutto was hanged after a trial under the military regime of late General Zia-ul-Haq. The ex-prime minister founded the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which is now run by ...

At this meeting, Bhutto hinted in testimony he would give at his trial in 1977 when he was jailed and subsequently executed ...

Zia, a devout Muslim known as ‘Maulvi Zia-ul-Haq’ in some Pakistani military circles, saw Islam as the panacea for Pakistan's ills as well as the glue to hold the nation together. His Islamisation ...

Bila­w­al Bhutto also stressed that PPP's legacy of ... even during the rule of military dictators such as General Zia-ul-Haq and General Pervez Musharraf. He praised the PPP for consistently ...

Later on, it was closed. Justice Tariq Masood asked from Kasuri when Gen Zia ul Haq grabbed the power after the removal of Bhutto then why the Lahore High Court, which acted as trial court ...