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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicZia ul haq

Topic: Zia ul haq

For Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, blame Zia-ul-Haq. It’s more political than religious

Pakistan has the world’s second-strictest blasphemy laws after Iran.

What Imran Khan is doing to Pakistani school textbooks even Zia-ul-Haq didn’t

The huge volume of religious material the proposed Single National Curriculum contains beats all previous version’s in Pakistan’s history.

Modi’s India unhappy with protesters singing Faiz’s Hum Dekhenge. Zia’s Pakistan was too

IIT Kanpur sets up a panel to decide if 'Hum Dekhenge' is anti-India. Whether it is Modi, Indira or Zia, the best time for poetry is the worst of times.

Zia-ul-Haq, the Stephanian Pakistani dictator who feared Indira Gandhi

On his 31st death anniversary, ThePrint brings to you a few fascinating nuggets about ex-Pakistan president Zia-ul-Haq.

‘Butcher of Kabul’ Gulbuddin Hekmatyar wants to be Afghan President

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is trying to position his Hizb-e-Islami as a legitimate political party, says he is keen to arrive at a political settlement.

30 years on, Zia ul-Haq’s extremist, military legacy alive and well in Pakistan

Zia inherited a culture of little respect for the political class and he cemented that disrespect during his tenure, a legacy Pakistan still carries.

Lawyers hid themselves in Asma Jahangir’s office when they were chased by the security agencies

Asma Jahangir’s real struggle began under General Zia-ul-Haq’s military government and its Islamisation process, the darkest period in Pakistan’s history.

Sharif’s ouster shows Pakistani Establishment is a banyan tree keeping a viceregal control

Under Pakistan's viceregal system, the purpose of elections is merely to identify intermediaries between the people and a permanent state establishment.

Lesson from Pakistan: Don’t erase history

Pakistan shows that the disfigurement of our collective history to create exclusionary imagined communities can leave a bloody imprint for generations.

On Camera

New Delhi prefers to look at Manipur as a horizontal problem, not vertical

‘Well-entrenched institutional apathy' is how Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur defined it. 'New Delhi has the power to intervene at every level,' he said.

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.