Yahya Khan

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4 1917 – August 10 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of Ayub Khan.

Conclusion and Aftermath

In Pakistan, Mr Jinnah the politician-statesmen who created Pakistan almost single-handedly, as the country?s first Head of State, adopted a sensible policy, to make the army a national army. Jinnah ordered immediate raising of two infantry battalions of Bengali Muslims in 1948 reversing the anti Bengali policy of the pre-1947 British colonial government. Jinnah?s far-sighted and just policy of bringing Bengalis in the fighting arms of the Pakistan Army was discontinued by General Ayub Khan who was the first Pakistani Muslim C in C of the Pakistan Army and became the Army Chief in January 1951.

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Jinnah - Bengali - Ayub Khan

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Yahya paid for the sins of all that ruled Pakistan from 1951 to 1969. The failure of 1971 was not an individual's failure but failure of a system with flawed constitutional, geographic, philosophic and military organisational and conceptual foundations.

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Later anger over its humiliating defeat by India boiled into street demonstrations throughout Pakistan, rumors of an impending coup d'état by younger army officers against the government of President Mohammed Agha Yahya Khan swept the country. Yahya became the highest-ranking casualty of the war: to forestall further unrest, he hastily surrendered his powers to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, age 43, the ambitious leader of West Pakistan's powerful People's Party.

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India - Pakistan - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - West Pakistan

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On the same day that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and saw him off to London, Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a supreme irony, ordered the house arrest of his predecessor, Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, the man who imprisoned Mujib in the first place. Both actions produced headlines round the world. But in Pakistan they were almost overshadowed by what Bhutto grandly called "the first steps toward an economic and social revolution."

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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - London - Pakistan - Yahya Khan

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Yahya Khan died in August 1980, in Rawalpindi.

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1980 - Rawalpindi

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