17 August 1988
Death in Air Crash
Zia-ul-Haq dies in an aircraft crash near Bahawalpur.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Bahawalpur in Pakistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Zia-ul-Haq dies in an aircraft crash near Bahawalpur.
The unexplained crash ends Zia-ul-Haq's presidency and military rule.
Death of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Provenance
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