 Ali Bhutto was Shia, Zia ul-Haq a Sunni.Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization that followed was resisted by Shia who saw it as "Sunnification" as the laws and regulations were based on Sunni "fiqh".In July 1980, 25,000 Shia protested the Islamization laws in the capital Islamabad.