Ayub Khan, Mohammad

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.
Craig Baxter (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emeritus of politics and history at Juniata College. He was a member of the Foreign Service and was posted in South Asia, in Bombay, New Delhi, Lahore (1965...