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Ayub Khan (Emir of Afghanistan)
Victor of Maiwand
For the name, see Ayub Khan.
Ghazi Mohammad Ayub Khan (Pashto: غازي محمد ايوب خان&#;; Dari: غازی محمد ایوب خان) ( – 7 April ) also known as the Victor of Maiwand or the Afghan Prince Charlie was, for a while, the governor of Herat Province in the Emirate of Afghanistan. He was briefly the Emir of Afghanistan, from 12 October to 31 May He also led the Afghan troops during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and defeated the British Indian Army at the Battle of Maiwand. Following his defeat at the Battle of Kandahar, Ayub Khan was deposed and exiled to British India. However, Ayub Khan fled to Persia (now Iran). After negotiations in with Sir Mortimer Durand, the United Kingdom's ambassador at Tehran, Ayub Khan became a pensioner of the British Raj and traveled to British India in , where he lived in Lahore, Punjab, until his death in He was buried in Peshawar and had eleven wives, fifteen sons, and ten daughters. Two of his grandsons, Sardar Hissam Mahmud el-Effendi and Sardar Muhammad Ismail Khan, served as brigadiers in the Pakistan Army.
In Afghanistan, he is remembered as the "National Hero of Afghanistan."
Early life
Khan was born into a Pashtun family. His father was Sher Ali Khan and his mother was the daughter of an influential Mohmand chief of Lalpura, Saadat Khan. His brother was Mohammad Yaqub Khan.
Second Anglo-Afghan war
During the second Anglo-Afghan war, Afghans under the command of Ayub Khan clashed with Anglo-Indian troops at Maiwand on 27 July and emerged victorious. The Afghan victory at Maiwand was strategically significant for Afghanistan as it saved the country from getting dismembered by Britain, and saved Kandahar from a permanent British occupation. The defeat at Maiwand also compelled the British to withdraw from Kandahar. After the bat Pakistani politician and military officer Sahabzada Mohammad Yaqub Ali KhanSPk (Urdu: صاحبزادہ یعقوب خان&#;; 23 December – 26 January ) was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, military figure, linguist, and a retired general in the Pakistani Army. After the Partition of India in , he opted for Pakistan and joined the Pakistan Army where he participated in the Indo-Pakistani war of He was the commander of the army's Eastern Command in East Pakistan. He was appointed as governor of East Pakistan in and but recalled to Pakistan after he submitted his resignation amid civil unrest. In , he joined the foreign service and was appointed as the Pakistan Ambassador to the United States and later ascended as foreign minister, serving under President Zia-ul-Haq in His stint as foreign minister played a major role in the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (–89) and he took part in negotiations to end the Contras in Nicaragua (–87) on the behalf of the United Nations. In the s, he served as an official of the United Nations for Western Sahara until he was reappointed as foreign minister under Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. After retiring from diplomatic services in , he spent his remaining years in Islamabad and died in Islamabad in Mohammad Yaqub Ali Khan was born into Indian nobility into the Rohilla branch of the Kheshgi familyPashtun tribe in Rampur, United Provinces, British Indian Empire on 23 December He had also been a close relative of the family of the Nawabs of Kasur, of Punjab. His father, Sir Abdus Samad Khan was an aristocrat and politician who served as chief minister of Rampur, and as British India's representative to the League of Nations. He was educated at the Rashtriya Indian Military College at Dehradun, then the Indian Military Academy and gained a commission in British Indian Army in and attached to the 18th King Edwa Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
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Youth and World war II
Early days
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Foreign Relations of the United States, –, Volume XVII, Near East, –
“The officer corps that the Pakistan Army inherited was not monolithic either in its social or service backgrounds. At the top of the social plane, were officers who came from the families of the rulers of Indian states and their senior officials while the lineage of others went back to the ruling families of Bengal and Arcot.”
here were yet others whose lineage dated back to the period of Shah Abbas of Safavid Iran. One of them was the eighth-most-senior officer in the Pakistan Army at Independence, Brigadier Sardar Ahmed Jan (7th Light Cavalry and Central India Horse). Known to his friends as AJ, he was from the Saddozai clan of the Popalzai tribe which can boast of having given kings and vazirs to Afghanistan.
Ahmed Jan was the eldest son of the legendary Brigadier Sir Sardar Hissam ud Din (fondly known as Sir HD); the grandson of the even more legendary Colonel Sir Sardar Muhammad Aslam Khan, the first native commandant of the Khyber Rifles. Till the early 20 century, sons of influential and tribal chieftains were sometimes directly commissioned as Viceroy Commissioned Officers (VCOs). Around at the young age of sixteen, Sir HD was inducted into the 3rd Regiment of the Cavalry, Frontier Force, as a risaldar major. Fifteen years earlier, this regiment had accompanied General (later Field Marshal) Roberts in his famous march from Kabul to Kandahar and was the predecessor of 11th Prince Albert Victor’s Own (PAVO) Cavalry, Frontier Force, which was transferred to the Pakistan Army at Independence. Sir HD participated in operations on the Frontier, in Mesopotamia during the First World War and in the Thi