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Military officers’ growing role in Pakistan’s economy sparks concern. ‘Not their job,’ say critics
Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), a federal body for economic reforms. These officers draw their salaries from ...
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How A First Lady Nurtured U.S.-Pakistan Relations
He struck up a friendship with Pakistani military dictator General Ayub Khan and received him at the Oval Office in July that year. President John F. Kennedy Meets with Mohammad Ayub Khan, President ...
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'You Can’t Please All' By Tariq Ali | Excerpt
The first military dictator, General Ayub Khan, was a Sandhurst-trained officer with nothing to recommend him. At the very first Cabinet meeting in October 1958, as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto later ...
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Historic Mass Upsurge Day today
The historic Mass Upsurge Day will be observed today to commemorate the 1969 movement against the Pakistani military ruler Ayub Khan, which eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence ...
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Conjoined In A Troubled Region
(Courtesy: Ayub Khan Archives/Tahir Ayub ... Pakistan repulsed the two attacks using military and air force to inflict heavy casualties on the other side. Pak-Afghan ties were frosty in 1947 ...