1988 Pakistan Air Force C-130B crash

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On 17 August 1988, a Lockheed C-130B Hercules operated by the Pakistan Air Force with thirty people onboard crashed in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Among the victims were President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, his close confidant CJCSC Akhtar Abdur Rahman, ISPR director-general Siddique Salik and United States ambassador Arnold Lewis Raphel. Zia's death was officially announced a few hours later on Radio Pakistan and Pakistan Television Network by Ghulam Ishaq Khan, the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, who assumed the presidency. Zia's state funeral took place at the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, drawing around a million mourners.

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