Pakistani Sunni Muslims

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Chapters: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Mukhtaran Bibi, Abul Ala Maududi, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Rahimuddin Khan, Wasim Akram, Shoaib Malik, Saadat Hasan Manto, Allama Mashriqi, Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri, Yousaf Raza Gillani, Shaukat Aziz, Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Tikka Khan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Shahbaz Sharif, Sabiha Khanum, Ali Zafar, Shaan Shahid, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ahmed Faraz, Sohail Ahmed, Rameez Raja, Noor Aftab, Junaid Jamshed, Rani, Javed Sheikh, Farooq Leghari, Muhammad Munawwar Mirza, Gohar Ayub Khan, Khalida Ghous, Ghulam Ali, Abdur Rahman Hye, Mushahid Hussain Syed, Iftikhar Arif, Aamir Liaquat Hussain, Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, Nasir Kazmi, Umer Sharif, Shoaib Mansoor, Musarrat Nazir, Bano Qudsia, Majnun Gorakhpuri, Khurram Murad, Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, Amjad Bobby, Zara Sheikh, Himayat Ali Shair, Raja Aziz Bhatti, Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Amir Mohammad Khan, Raza Rabbani, Mian Muhammad Aslam, Iqbal Bano, Khan Mohammad, Syed Noor, Ashraf Rashid, Manzoor Wattoo, Mohsin Khan, Ghulam Hussain, Ibn-e-Insha, Mehreen Raheel, Muhammad Owais Raza Qadri, Arif Lohar, Khursheed Bano, Hamid Nasir Chattha, Zeba, Karam ud Din, Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, Syed Ishrat Abbas, Ghulam Rasool Jamaati, Fakhar Zaman, Iqbal Tikka, Ali Zaidi, Rauf Khalid, Syed Munawar Hasan, Syed Ahmad Hussain Shah Tirmezi, Munir Niazi, Yusuf Haroon, Qabil Ajmeri, Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan, Moammar Rana, Tabish Dehlvi, Annie, Arshad Mehmood, Saima Noor, Sardar Khalid Ibrahim Khan, Rustam Jamali, Alys Faiz, Hamid Ali Khan, Zille Huma, Wajid Nashad, Arbab Alamgir Khan, Zafar qabil, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, Hafiz Laique Ahmed, Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, Muhammad Rafi Usmani, Intizar Hussain, Muhammad Yousaf, Malik Anokha, Mardan Shah II, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Shamil Khan, Iqbal Bahu, Muhammad Sharif, Amanullah Nasir, Qazi Nisar Ahmed, Sardar Muhammad Chaudhry, Waris Baig, Faisal Kapadia, Allama Ali Khan Abro, Hamid Rana, Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman. Excerpt: General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Punjabi, Urdu: ; 12 August 1924 - 17 August 1988) was the sixth President of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988. Distinguished by his role in the Black September in Jordan military operation in 1970, he was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976. After widespread civil disorder, he overthrew ruling Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a bloodless coup d'état on 5 July 1977 and became the state's third ruler to impose martial law. He initially ruled as Chief Martial Law Administrator, but later installed himself as the President of Pakistan in September 1978. Zia's major domestic initiatives included the consolidation of the fledgling nuclear program, which was initiated by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, denationalization and deregulation and the state's Islamization. His tenure saw the disbanding of the Baloch insurgency. His endorsement of the Pakistan Muslim League (the founding party of Pakistan) initiated its mainstream revival. However, he is most remembered for his foreign policy; the subsidizing of the Mujahideen movement during the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which led to the Soviet Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan. He was described by some as a "fundamentalist Sunni dictator". Zia died along with several of his top generals and then-United States Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Lewis Raphel in a suspicious aircraft crash near Bahawalpur (Punjab) on 17 August 1988. Zia was born in Ja...