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81 high-level insurgent leaders and thousands of low-level insurgents killed [123] Large number of insurgents killed while some fled to Afghanistan [124] Most recent drone strike launched in January 2018 [125] Fifth Balochistan Conflict (2004–present) [126] Pakistan: BLA BLF LeB BLUF BSO (Azad) BNA (2022–2023) BRA (2006–2022) UBA (2013 ...
Asif Nawaz Janjua was born in a small village, called Chakri Rajgan, which is located in the Jhelum District in Punjab in Pakistan into a Punjabi Janjua Rajput clan, on 31 January 1937.: 81 [7]: 441 [8]: 29 He was a military brat and his father, Raja Abdul Ghafoor Khan, had served as an officer in the British Indian Army, retiring at the rank of Major.: 441 [9]
[10] ~1,836 militants were killed in Operation Zarb-e-Azb. 2014 2,613 [1] [2] Total deaths by regions can be found here:. [10] 2,168 militants were killed in Operation Zarb-e-Azb. 40 militants were killed by the Pakistani military in crackdowns, after Tehrik-i-Taliban carried out a terrorist attack on civilian targets at a school. [5] 2013 ...
At 15:40 on 17 August 1988 the VIP flight took off from Bahawalpur Airport.On board the C-130 plane were a total of 30 people (17 passengers and 13 crew members); with Zia-ul-Haq were the United States Ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, Brigadier General Herbert M. Wassom, the chief of the U.S. military mission in Pakistan, and a group of senior Pakistani army officers.
Benazir Bhutto, September 2004. Bhutto had opted for self-exile while her court cases for corruption remained pending in foreign and Pakistani courts. [12] After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returned to Karachi on 18 October 2007 to prepare for the 2008 national elections, allowed by a possible power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq [a] (12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer who served as the 6th president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in 1988. He rose to prominence after leading a coup on 5 July 1977, which overthrew the democratically elected government of prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
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 .
In 1971, while she was at Harvard, Zulfikar invited her to join him in New York City, where he was involved in a United Nations Security Council meeting on that year's Indo-Pakistani War. [46] In December 1971, Zulfikar assumed the presidency of Pakistan, the first democratically elected leader after 13 years of military rule. [47]