Ayub Khan

Ayub Khan (May 14 1907 – April 19 1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and the political leader 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 field marshall in Pakistan's military history.

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Not to be confused with Ayub Khan (Afghan commander), (1857 - 1914).

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Khan was born in the village of Rehana near Haripur Hazara to an ethnic Pashtun family, the first child of the second wife of Mir Dad Khan, who was a Risaldar Major in Hodson's Horse. For his basic education, he was enrolled in a school in Sarai Saleh, which was about 4 miles from his village. He used to go to school on a mule's back. Later he was shifted to a school in Haripur, where he started living with his grandmother. He enrolled at Aligarh University in 1922, but never completed his studies, as he was accepted into the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He did well at Sandhurst, and was given an officer's post in the British Indian Army. During World War II he served as a captain and later as a major. Following the war, he joined the fledgling Pakistani Army as its most senior Muslim officer.

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