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1. CHAPTER NO.29
THE ZIAUL HAQ REGIME 1977_1988
Presented by: FABEHA NAFEES

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 1977 elections
 Events occur after elections
 Uprising of Zia-ul-Haq
 Islamisation
 Soviet invasion
 Effects of soviet invasion
 Ojhri munitions camp

3. BACKGROUND
 On April 1,1976 Zulfiqar Ali
Bhutto (prime minister )
appointed Zia-ul-Haq as
Chief of Army Staff.
 Bhutto probably wanted
somebody as the head of the
armed forces who would not
prove to be a threat for him.

4. 1977 ELECTIONS
 Elections held in 1977.
 PPP won more seats than
PNA .
 PNA (Pakistan National
Alliance) refused to accept
the results.
 PPP_PNA clash ruined the
economy .
 Destabilized the state.
 Z.A Bhutto had banned night
clubs ,horse racing, liquor.
 Declared Friday as a holiday .

5. HIS PERFOMANCES
 Gen Zia removes Bhutto in a bloodless coup,
suspending the constitution and declaring martial law.
 Announces elections will be held in 90 days.
 But simultaneously begins a censorship regime.
 Political activists and journalists are arrested and
flogged in public.
 September 17, 1977 ZAB is arrested for “conspiracy
to murder”
 October 1, 1977 Elections postponed indefinitely .

6. ISLAMISATION
 Ziaul haq supported the movement for Islamisation.
 Imposed Zakat and Ushr.
 Introduced Islamic punishments for all crimes except murder,
since Islamic laws would ensure Z.A Bhutto release .
 Give a boost to religious parties
 Banned political parties.
 This led to sectarian militancy and emergence of ethnic parties.

7. SOVIET INVASION
 In December 1979, in the midst of the Cold War,
the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order
to prop up the communist government of the
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA)
against a growing insurgency. ... The Soviet Union
feared the loss of its communist proxy
in Afghanistan.
 At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent
thousands of troops into Afghanistan and
immediately assumed complete military and political
control of Kabul and large portions of the country.

8. SOVIET
INVASION
EFFECTS
 Afghan refugees flooded
pakistan after soviet invasion.
 Society was brutalized.
 Introduction of klashinkov and
drug cultures.

9. EVENTS OCCUR AFTER SOVIET
INVASION
 Under cover of afghan crisis
Ziaul Haq was able to
replenish both coffers and
arsenals of Pakistan.
 He continued the nuclear
program.
 He allowed to given Siachen
to India.
 In 1983,crushed the
movement for Democracy
MRD .
 Held referendum to give 5
year term as a president .

10. 1985 ELECTIONS
 Held in 1985 February.
 A non party parliament was introduced.
 Muhammad khan Junejo a Prime Minister.
 He made the passing of Eight Amendment
essential for the restoration of parliament,
which gave constitutional cover to Martial
law
 58(2)(B) clause allowed to dismiss the
prime minister.
 31 December 1985 Martial law was lifted,
but Zia remained President and chief of
Army staff.

11. MUHAMMAD KHAN JUNEJO
 Junejo acted in an independent manner and
displayed an admirable character.
 He signed an accord in Geneva which paved the
way for soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
 He practised and imposed austerity in government
expenditure .
 He put both military and civil officers in small cars.

12. OJHRI MUNITIONS CAMP
 In April1988,ojhri munitions
camp blew up, and Junejo
launched an inquiry .
 On may 29 1988, Zia
dismissed Prime Minister
Junejo and dissolved the
Assembly.

13. CONCLUSION
 On 17 August 1988,Zia was killed in an aircrash. The chairman of
the senate, Ghulam Ishaq khan became president.