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Article: DEATHS IN THE NEWS
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 21, 1988
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Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, president of Pakistan, 64, died in a plane
explosion Wednesday after taking off from Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
President Zia, whose 11-year rule of Pakistan was the longest in the
country's 41-year history, overthrew Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto in a bloodless coup July 5, 1977. Under President Zia,
Pakistan was a strong ally of the United States, particularly in
support of the "mujahadeen" against the Soviet-backed government in
neighboring Afghanistan, following the Soviet Union's 1979 military
intervention in Afghanistan. The crash is under investigation.
Arnold L. Raphel, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, died in the
same explosion that killed Pakistani ...
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