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among young people. In 1981, the Zia government passed the
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Zia-ul-Haq became engaged to his cousin (the daughter of his mother's sister), who was eight years younger than he was. Begum Shafiq Zia-ul-Haq was born in 1932 in Uganda, where her father lived. According to the traditional religious custom, it was an arranged marriage and was solemnized on August
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on 10 August 1950 in Lahore. Shafiq was eight years younger than her husband and related to him on her maternal side. Her father, a medical doctor who lived and worked in
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that same year, where, at a second meeting attended by the first ladies of thirty nations, she called for holding a conference in a developing country where drug use could be studied in the context of poverty. Upon returning to
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called for the creation of a federal fund for the disbursement of stipends and scholarships for disabled persons. Begum and
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