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| Diaries of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, 1966–1972 |
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| Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan |
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For diplomats, historians, and the general reader. |
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Field Marshal Ayub Khan kept his diary from September 1966 to October 1972, a very active period in Pakistan’s history which included Ayub’s yielding of the presidency to Yahya Khan and the period of Yahya’s rule that saw the independence of Bangladesh, and also the replacement of Yahya by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Ayub’s diaries present his views and interpretations of the events of the period for which they were kept. The diaries will provide essential material for those studying the period and for those who lived through these times to understand the views of Ayub. |
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Mohammad Ayub Khan (1907–1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and the second President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969. He became Pakistan's first native Commander in Chief in 1951, and was the youngest full-rank general and self-appointed field marshal in Pakistan's military history. He was also the first Pakistani military general to seize power through a coup. |
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| Hardback | 610 pages | ISBN: 9780195474428 | Price: Rs.795.00 | |
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