Muhammad Ayub Khan (Urdu/Pashto: محمد ايوب خان), N.Pk., H.Pk., HJ, psc, (May 14, 1907 – April 19, 1974) was the first military ruler of Pakistan, serving as the President of Pakistan (1958 - 1969). He became the Pakistan Army's first native Commander in Chief in 1951, and was the youngest full general and self-appointed Field Marshal in Pakistan's military history.
Ayub Khan was born on May 14, 1907, in the village of Rehana near Haripur, in the ...
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Muhammad Ayub Khan (Urdu/Pashto: محمد ايوب خان), N.Pk., H.Pk., HJ, psc, (May 14, 1907 – April 19, 1974) was the first military ruler of Pakistan, serving as the President of Pakistan (1958 - 1969). He became the Pakistan Army's first native Commander in Chief in 1951, and was the youngest full general and self-appointed Field Marshal in Pakistan's military history.
Ayub Khan was born on May 14, 1907, in the village of Rehana near Haripur, in the former Hazara District of North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He was a non-Pashto-speaking Pashtun of the Tareen tribe. He was the first child of the second wife of Mir Dad Khan Tareen, who was a Risaldar-Major (the senior most non-commissioned rank) in Hodson's Horse, a cavalry regiment of the Royal Indian Army. For his basic education, he was enrolled in a school in Sarai Saleh, which was about four miles from his village and used to go to school on a mule's back. Later he was moved to a school in Haripur, where he started living with...
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