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  Engineering Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yahya Khan was born in Peshawar in 1917 to a family of soldiers.
An infantry officer from the 4/10 Baluch Regiment, Yahya saw action during WW II in North Africa where he was captured by the Axis Forces in June 1942 and interned in a prisoner of war camp in Italy from where he escaped in the third attempt.
Yahya became a brigadier at the age of 34 and commanded the 106 Infantry Brigade, which was deployed on the ceasefire line in Kashmir in 1951-52.
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 Yahya Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of Ayub Khan.
Yahya Khan was born in Chakwal in 1917 to a family of Persian speaking soldiers.
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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 Ayub Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
It was under Ayub Khan that the capital was moved from Karachi to Rawalpindi, in anticipation of the construction of a new capital: Islamabad.
In 1960, Khan's government signed the Indus Waters Treaty with archrival India to resolve disputes regarding the sharing of the waters of the six rivers in the Punjab doab that flow between the two countries.
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 Yahya Khan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yahya Khan was born in (City in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass) Peshawar in 1917 to a family of soldiers.
Yahya liked courtesans but his passion had more to do with listening to them sing or watching them dance (His affair with Pakistan's most legendary singer (Click link for more info and facts about Noor Jehan) Noor Jehan was quite scandalous at its time).
Yahya Khan died in August 1980, in (An ancient city in northeastern Pakistan; served as capitol of Pakistan while Islamabad was being built) Rawalpindi.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/Y/Ya/Yahya_Khan.htm   (1931 words)

  
 Pakistan YAHYA KHAN AND BANGLADESH - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
Yahya Khan also determined that the parity of representation in the National Assembly between the East Wing and the West Wing that had existed under the 1956 and 1962 constitutions would end and that representation would be based on population.
Mujib, Bhutto, and Yahya Khan held negotiations in Dhaka in late March in a last-ditch attempt to defuse the growing crisis; simultaneously, General Tikka Khan, who commanded the Pakistani forces in East Pakistan, prepared a contingency plan for a military takeover and called for troop reinforcements to be flown in via Sri Lanka.
Yahya Khan declared a state of emergency in all of Pakistan on November 23 and asked his people to prepare for war.
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 Pakistan - Yahya Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yahya held national elections in December 1970 for the purpose of choosing members of the new National Assembly who were to be elected directly by the people.
Yahya accepted the demand of East Pakistan for representation in the new assembly on the basis of population.
With Pakistan's military in disarray, Yahya resigned, and Bhutto was appointed president and civilian chief martial law administrator of a truncated Pakistan.
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 Yahya Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was born at Chakwal in February 1917.
It goes to the credit of Yahya Khan that the first general elections in the history of Pakistan were held during his regime in December 1970.
Yahya Khan died on August 10, 1980, in Rawalpindi.
www.storyofpakistan.com /person.asp?perid=P018   (582 words)

  
 Yahya Khan
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (1917-1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969-71, following the resignation of Ayub Khan.
President Khan resigned and was succeeded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto[?], as a result of the Pakistani Civil War[?].
During World War II, Khan was an officer in the British 4th Indian Division.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ya/Yahya_Khan.html   (89 words)

  
 Virtual Bangladesh : History : The March Days
Yahya Khan was clear in his mind about what he should do.
Yahya Khan announces that the National Assembly would meet on March 25, 1971.
Yahya Khan went on the air and announced March 25 as the new data for the national assembly meeting.
www.virtualbangladesh.com /history/marchdays.html   (1198 words)

  
 Articles - Yahya Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Immediately after the 1965 war Major General Yahya Khan who had commanded the 7th Division in Operation Grand Slam was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, appointed Deputy Army C in C and C in C designate in March 1966.
Yahya’s announcement, although made with the noblest and most generous intentions in mind, was late by about twenty years.
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.
www.gaple.com /articles/Yahya_Khan   (2371 words)

  
 The American Experience | Nixon's China Game | Sultan Mohammed Khan, Foreign Secretary, Pakistan, on Nixon’s ...
Mohammed Khan: Nixon had come to Pakistan many times when he was vice president, when he was out of power.
Yahya said he would be happy to do so and would wait to hear from Nixon on this subject.
But nothing more was said until October of 1971 when the Yahya Khan had come to take part in the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations founding.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/china/filmmore/reference/interview/khan01.html   (336 words)

  
 MARCH
Then-President Yahya Khan, in a radio broadcast on March 1st, 1971, postponed the meeting of the National Assembly, and there was an immediate reaction among the East Pakistan constituents.
Yahya Khan, in a radio speech, called for the National Assembly to meet on March 25th.
Later that day, it was learnt that Yahya Khan had stealthily left the province, leaving behind him orders for the Army to unleash an unprecedented attack on the Bengali people in a ruthless effort to suppress their move for independence.
www.msstate.edu /org/ba/focus_march.html   (1606 words)

  
 Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion
Khan was either in Beijing or Washington or in Karachi holding very important positions of ambassadorship or Foreign Secretary.
Yahya Khan had a coterie of people around him who were his eyes and ears and all the decisions were taken by them.
Khan gives a detailed account of this unusual happening at a time when both the countries, that is USA and China were at daggers drawn and the Chiang Kai Shek’s Taiwanese regime was the favorite of the former.
www.pakistanlink.com /Opinion/2004/June04/04/05.html   (1339 words)

  
 'We should never trust India'
Besides Yahya Khan, there were a few more personalities equally responsible for the East Pakistan crisis who have not been blamed in the report.
Yahya and Bhutto viewed Mujib's victory in the 1970 election with distaste, because it meant that Yahya had to vacate the presidency and Bhutto had to sit in the Opposition benches, which was contrary to his aspirations.
Connected to this conspiracy was the 'M M Ahmed plan', which aimed at allowing Yahya and Bhutto to continue as president and prime minister, besides leaving East Pakistan without a successor government.
www.rediff.com /news/2004/feb/02inter1.htm   (2286 words)

  
 Yahya Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yahya Khan fue llevado en Peshawar en 1917 a una familia de soldados.
Yahya Khan no podía alcanzar un compromiso, y en lugar de otro agrietado hacia abajo en la agitación política en Paquistán del este.
Yahya Khan murió en agosto el de an o 80, en Rawalpindi.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ya/Yahya%20Khan.htm   (403 words)

  
 Islamic Pakistan
In order to hold the proposed elections, President Yahya Khan promulgated a Legal Framework Order on March 30, 1970 that also spelled out the fundamental principles of the proposed constitution and the structure and composition of the national and provincial assemblies.
Thus the general elections of 1970 produced a new political configuration with three distinct centers of power:(i) the AL in East Pakistan: (ii) the PPP in Sindh and the Punjab; and (iii) the NAP-JUI in Baluchistan and the NWFP.
Demoralized and finding himself unable to control the situation, Yahya Khan surrendered power to Bhutto who was sworn-in on December 20, 1971 as President and the Chief Martial Law Administrator.
ghazali.net /book1/body_chapter_5.htm   (1748 words)

  
 Bacha Khan in Afghanistan - Asian Reflection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bacha Khan was so pleased over the disintegration of the One-Unit that he sought special permission to broadcast a message over radio Kabul and offer his gratitude to President Yahya Khan.
It was later explained by Khan Abdul Wali Khan in a meeting with the Ambassador of Pakistan at his residence in Kabul that the Afghan government would not liked to have seen the National Awami Party win the elections in Pukhtunkhwa, because she would then have no point to continue her propaganda for Pukhtunistan.
Gran told her that Bacha Khan was well aware of my position and had expressed satisfaction with my contacts with him that led to improvement of relations between him and the government of Pakistan.
www.asianreflection.com /khanafghanistan.shtml   (4437 words)

  
 Ayub Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Khan was born in 1907 in the village of Rehana, to Mir Dad Khan.
Ayub Khan was later made Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistani Army, becoming in 1951 the first non-United KingdomBritish general to hold that position.
Under Khan's presidency, the industrial sector of Pakistan grew very rapidly, and this in turn improved the economy, as did Khan's educational and land reforms.
www.infothis.com /find/Ayub_Khan   (812 words)

  
 Pakistan Link
Be that a sit may, wherever old Yahya Khan may now be besporting himself, he would be happy to know that there are some earthlings who remember him with fondness and with joy.
Quite in character, as soon as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took over from Yahya, Midwood, much to his regret and against his conscience, was prevailed upon by the revengeful president of the Republic and the world's first civilian martial law administrator to sack Ali Yahya.
On the subject of Yahya, his army career, and the role he played in the dismemberment of our country, more needs to be written now that the issue has been reopened.
www.pakistanlink.com /cowasjee/09-02-2000.html   (1481 words)

  
 Yahya Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Image:Yahyakhan.jpgframethumbrightAgha Muhammad Yahya KhanAgha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4 1917–August 10 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of Ayub Khan/.
Yahya Khan As Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
Gohar Ayub Khan, son of Field Marshal Ayub Khan, pinches some of the headlines with the titillating claim that an Indian brigadier sold India's 1965 war plans.
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 Yahya Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Violence flared as a result of this which promted Khan to send in the tanks to East Pakistan.
India came to the rescue and this sparked another bout of warfare which resulted in incredibly humiliating losses for Pakistan, and the eventual declaration of independence by East Pakistan, soon to be renamed Bangladesh.
Khan's approval fell through the floor and he was forced to ceed power to the Bhutto in December 1971.
www.giles.34sp.com /biographies/khan.htm   (236 words)

  
 Yahya Khan, Agha Muhammad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His mishandling of the Bangladesh separatist issue led to civil war and he was forced to resign.
Yahya Khan fought with the British army in the Middle East during World War II, escaping German capture in Italy.
Later, as Pakistan's chief of army general staff, he supported General Ayub Khan's 1958 coup and in 1969 became military ruler.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0025689.html   (145 words)

  
 Yahya Khan
Yahya Khan immediately after getting powers declared Martial Law in the country on March 25 1969 and assumed the title of Chief Martial Law Administrator.
Immediately after taking the charge of the country, Yahya Khan started looking for the options through which he could hand over power to the elected representatives.
It goes to the credit of Yahya Khan that the first General Elections in the history of Pakistan were held during his regime.
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 Yahya Khan, Agha Muhammad on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yahya Khan performed well during the 1965 war with India, and in 1966 became commander in chief of the army.
Economic problems and disputes between East and West Pakistan led to Ayub Khan's resignation and his replacement as president by Yahya Khan in 1969.
The defeat of Pakistan's army and the ultimate success of Bangladesh (see India-Pakistan Wars) caused him to resign in late 1971.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/YahyaK1ha.asp   (307 words)

  
 The American Experience | Nixon's China Game | Sultan Mohammed Khan, Foreign Secretary, Pakistan, on Yahya Khan’s ...
It was a nice, comfortable, colonial-type of building from the old days and it was there in one of the rooms that the Yahya Khan had a one to one meeting with Chou En-lai the next day after his arrival.
From accounts I gathered later on from the Yahya Khan, he conveyed President Nixon's proposal for sending an envoy to China to meet Chou En-lai or some other Chinese leader to discuss problems between the two countries.
The Yahya Khan’s attention was diverted by the cyclone in East Pakistan, he was also involved with finalizing the steps for holding an election in East Pakistan.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/china/filmmore/reference/interview/khan02.html   (489 words)

  
 Inretrospect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In response to Yahya Khan's March 6 broadcast in which he announced his decision to convene the National Assembly on March 25, Sheikh Mujib put forward four conditions of which the fourth one, transfer of power to the elected representatives of the people, was the most crucial to the Awami League.
There was not the slightest possibility either of Yahya Khan or of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to concede that demand and it meant that there was practically no possibility of holding the National Assembly session on March 25 as announced by President Yahya.
Wali Khan, President National Awami Party, criticising Bhutto's demand for transfering power separately to East and West Pakistan said, "We would like to have clarifications whether the concept of a single state is there in the proposal.” He said it should be clear that West Pakistan ceased to exist politically since July 1, 1970.
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