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6 unusual facts about Ayub Khan


A. K. Fazlul Huq

He was dismissed from public office by the Governor-General of Pakistan on charges of inciting secession, and was later banned from politics by the military junta of General Ayub Khan.

Ayub Khan-Din

In 2007 Rafta, Rafta..., a play Kahn-Din wrote, opened at the Lyttelton stage of the Royal National Theatre in London.

Miangul Aurangzeb

After the resignation of President Ayub Khan in 1969, the Government of Pakistan under President Yahya Khan took over the administration of all the remaining princely states including Swat.

In 1955, he married the daughter of General Ayub Khan and thereafter quite the army service to enter into politics.

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Sammy (Ayub Khan-Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) are a married couple, both leading a promiscuous bohemian lifestyle until Sammy's father (Shashi Kapoor) comes to visit to escape past issues.

Sheikh Abdullah

President Ayub Khan also sent telegrams to Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah with the message that as Pakistan too was a party to the Kashmir dispute any resolution of the conflict without its participation would not be acceptable to Pakistan.


Aftab Ahmad Khan

Field Marshall M. Ayub Khan at that time the (President of Pakistan) and Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army took the salute at the march past.

Amir Mohammad Khan

He was appointed Chairman Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation with the rank of a Central Minister in 1959, and subsequently Governor of West Pakistan on 12 April 1960 by Pakistan President General Ayub Khan.

Anwar Saifullah Khan

He is also the father-in-law of Omar Ayub Khan, the grandson of former Pakistani military dictator and President Ayub Khan.

Gohar Ayub Khan

Gohar Ayub Khan is the son of former President Field Marshal Ayub Khan and played an influential role in sustaining his father's presidential rule after the 1965 presidential elections.

Sherbaz Khan Mazari

Sardar Sherbaz Khan Mazari entered politics by supporting Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, against Ayub Khan in the Presidential elections of 1964.


see also

Bengali Language Movement

Although the question of official languages was settled by 1956, the military regime of Ayub Khan promoted the interests of West Pakistan at the expense of East Pakistan.

Hakim Said

In 1964, Said came into public limelight when he gave rogue criticism to Lieutenant-General Vajid Burkie, then-Surgeon General of Army Medical Corps and then high profile officer leading the Ministry of Health under the government of Field Marshal Ayub Khan.

Shalimar, Lahore

Shalimar town was officially declared a township of Pakistan in 1962 when the main attraction of the area, the Shalimar Gardens were nationalised by General Ayub Khan.