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The Federal Security Force (FSF) was a paramilitary and secret police force in Pakistan from 1972 to 1977. The FSF was established by then-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as a task force of the Government of Pakistan as a substitute for the use of the Pakistan Armed Forces in civilian affairs.
The 1977 Pakistani military coup (codenamed Operation Fair Play) was the second military coup in the history of Pakistan.Taking place on 5 July 1977, it was carried out by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the chief of army staff, overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
When Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto quit the Ayub government in the aftermath of Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Ahmad Raza Kasuri joined his party, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) at its launch in 1967 as his father Nawab Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri was a founder and major financier of the PPP. Due to his father's close relations with Bhutto, Kasuri was ...
He was appointed Pakistan Ambassador to France by Bhutto just to get him out of the way and away from Pakistani politics. But he returned to Pakistan unscheduled. [3] Abdur Rahim was then tortured by the members of the secret police, the Federal Security Force (FSF), and was thrown into jail in 1976. [2] [8] Shortly afterwards, he was released.
In September 1977, two months after General Zia Ul-Haq toppled and deposed the Bhutto regime in a military coup earlier on 5 July 1977, [2] the almost three-year-old local police report registered on 11 November 1974 at Ichhra police station in Lahore, known in Pakistan as First Information Report (FIR), of Nawab Mohammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri's murder was dug out and used as a pretext to arrest ...
Bhutto's extensive knowledge, intelligence, and keen awareness of post-World War II and the nuclear history enabled him to shape foreign policy, resulting in unparalleled unity in Pakistan's foreign policy history. [80] Elements of his policy were continued by successive governments, playing a vital role in world politics. [80]
8 August: Pakistan Soviet air confrontations, Colonel Alexander Rutskoy's Sukhoi Su-25 was shot down by PAF. 14 August: Pakistan signs the Geneva Accords (1988) with Afghanistan under the mediation of United States and Soviet union respectively. 17 August: General Zia-ul-Haq is killed in a plane crash near Bahawalpur. 30 September: 1988 ...
General elections were held on 25 July 2018, which resulted in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf winning 156 out of 342 seats. making a coalition government of 177 members including PTI, MQM, BAP and others. On 18 August, he was elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan. On 10 April 2022, a no-confidence vote was conducted and he was ousted from office ...