25 Images of General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq

 BEATING THE SUMMER HEAT  Lt. Col Ziaul Haq in a vest dictating to his Captain Mahmood Zia, November 1967

Brigadier Zia Ul Haq with Air Commodore Khaqan Abbasi in Jordan, 1971

Zia ul Haq with General Ejaz Azeem in Multan

 Col. Hameed Gul, IG Punjab Police Ata Hussain, Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ziaul Haq and Col. Hayat at a banquet given by Prime Minister Bhutto, 1976

 Gen Zia meeting envoys of Pakistan, 1979 Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Agha Shahi, Lt Gen Jilani and Gen K M Arif are seen in the picture

 Gen. Ziaul Haq meets 'deposed' Prime Minister Z A Bhutto, where the employer - subordinate relationship continues with a fidgety general, July 17, 1977

There are several accounts of this historic meeting which took place ten days after General Zia's coup following which Mr. Bhutto was in protective custody at Government House, Murree. Many claim Bhutto threatened Zia Ul Haq. Mr. Abdul Hafiz Pirzada who was present disagreed with this view although he conceded that the mention of Article 6 of the Constitution relating to treason did come up for discussion. He claims that the meeting was held in a cordial atmosphere although Mr. Bhutto refused to see Ghulam Ishaq Khan the de facto Prime Minister of Zia Ul Haq on the grounds that he had been disloyal to him as Secretary General Defense, although he had brought him in service after retirement as Governor State Bank.

Mr. Burhanuddin Hassan the PTV News Director who received the footage of the meeting was shocked and had an interesting story to tell in his memoirs entitled "Uncensored". The footage showed Zia Ul Haq as very nervous and fidgety continuously opening and closing a button of his as shown here. Hassan called him and sought his permission to censor the scene and could show it only for three seconds, that too after substantial editing. Bhutto was released on July 29,1977 but was again arrested on September 3,1977 on a hastily contrived conspiracy to murder charge. He was released on bail by Justice K.M.A. Samdani of the Lahore High Court due to “contradictory and incomplete” evidence on September 13, 1977. Three days later on September 16, 1977 Bhutto was rearrested under a Martial Law regulation, and was never a free man again until his judicial murder on April 4, 1979. The fidgety general had succeeded in the short term at least from entering the grave he had dug for himself

 General Zia Ul Haq welcoming the Imam-e-Kaaba

 General Zia Ul Haq with Sindh Governor Gen. Abbasi in Mirpurkhas Gymkhana during the MRD movement, 1983

 Imran Khan with the dictator Ziaul Haq

 Mian Sharif meets General Zia Ul Haq

 Nawaz Sharif playing golf With Zia Ul Haq

 President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq shakes hands with Emperor Hirohito during their farewell meeting, July 20, 1983 in Tokyo

 President Zia Ul Haq and Prime Minister Junejo with outgoing Air Chief Marshal Jamal A. Khan and incoming Air Chief Marshal Hakimullah Khan, March 1988 Two months later the Prime Minister was dismissed and in another three months the President was killed.

 President Ziaul Haq arrives for talks in Havana with President Fidel Castro, 1979

 President Zia Ul Haq with Governor Punjab Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, Mian Nawaz Sharif and Federal Minister Air Commodore Khaqan Abbasi

 President Zia Ul Haq with his favorite Punjab Governor Sajjad Hussain Qureshi

 President Zia Ul Haq with Imran Khan

 President Ziaul Haq with Indian actor Shatrughan Sinha during the eighties

 President Zia Ul riding a bicycle

 Prince Karim Aga Khan with Chief minister Punjab Nawaz Sharif, President Zia Ul Haq, Governor Punjab Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi and his brother Prince Amyn, November 1987

 Senator Amir Hussain Shah welcomes Gen Zia Ul Haq to Nawabshah

 Ziaul Haq presented a sword by his Prime Minister and Colonel in Chief of the Armoured Corps Bhutto, 1976

 Zia Ul Haq with Saddam Hussein

 Ziaul Haq reviewing a guard of honour

Ziaul Haq with Nawaz Sharif and Manzoor Wattoo