led to the abdication of Yaqub Khan. He was succeeded by the new ruler, Amir Ayub Khan. During the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the British defeated the Amir...

Mohammad Ayub Khan (14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Pakistani military officer and statesman who served as the second president of Pakistan from 27...

Rahman Khan GCSI (Pashto/Dari: عبدالرحمن خان) (between 1840 and 1844 – 1 October 1901) also known by his epithet, The Iron Amir, was Amir of Afghanistan from...

Northern Afghanistan. Abdur Rahman marched on Kabul, and was declared Amir, being recognized by the British as well. Another uprising by Ayub Khan threatened...

Pashto: محمد نادر شاه; born Mohammad Nadir Khan; 9 April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination...

"The Durand Line: A British Legacy Plaguing Afghan-Pakistani Relations". Middle East Institute. Ayub, Mohammed (2014). The Middle East in World Politics...

on Maranjan Hill in Kabul, Afghanistan. H.M. Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan, great grandson of Emir Sultan Mohammed Khan Telai through his father Colonel...

Mohammad Daoud Khan (Pashto: محمد داود خان; also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan; 18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978) was an Afghan military officer and...

rulers of Afghanistan since 1747, except for a nine-month interlude in 1929 and between 1992 and 1996, have been Pashtuns. In Pakistan, Ayub Khan, a Tarin...

uncles, Mohammad Hashim Khan and Shah Mahmud Khan, who both served as Prime Ministers. This period fostered a growth in Afghanistan's relations with the international...

second half of the 18th century. Ahmad was the son of Muhammad Zaman Khan (an Afghan chieftain of the Abdali tribe) and the commander of Nader Shah Afshar...

closure of the port of Karachi to Afghan transit trade. Mohammed Daoud Khan became President of Afghanistan in 1973, Afghanistan—with Soviet support—again pursued...

and the Republic of Afghanistan (1987-1992), which followed the Saur revolution that toppled the government of Mohammed Daoud Khan, was a period of unprecedented...

first Barakzai King Sultan Mohammed Khan and his brother Dost Mohammed Khan named their Kingdom "Afghanistan", a fact some Afghans tried to hide because of...

at the Battle of Nowshera. The Afghan forces in the battle were led by Azim Khan, half-brother of Dost Mohammad Khan. By the end of his reign, he had...

contested for control over Afghanistan as part of the Great Game. After the decline of the Durrani dynasty in 1823, Dost Mohammad Khan established the Barakzai...

1879. He was one of the sons of Dost Mohammed Khan, founder of the Barakzai dynasty in Afghanistan. Sher Ali Khan was born into a Barakzai Pashtun family...

"Politik: Afghanistan: Nordallianz will verhandeln". Der Tagesspiegel Online. alternative name(s): (Marshal) Mohammad Fahim, Mohammad Fahim Khan, Mohammed Fahim...

then president of Afghanistan, Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan recognised Durand Line as international border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He made this declaration...

established in 1931, although early contacts date back to 1907 when the Afghan general Ayub Khan, who defeated the British in the 1880 Battle of Maiwand, visited...

Mohammad Azam Khan (1820-1870; Persian/Pashto: محمد عظم خان) was briefly the Emir of Afghanistan, from October 7, 1867, to August 21, 1868. He was born...

returned to Afghanistan following the treaty, crossing through Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, and Dera Ghazi Khan. The regions of Dera Ismail Khan and Dera...

Nasrullah Khan (Pashto/Persian: نصرالله خان), (1874–1920), sometimes spelt as Nasr Ullah Khan, was shahzada (crown prince) of Afghanistan and second son...

opposed the dictatorial and autocratic regimes of Field Marshal Ayub Khan, President Yahya Khan, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, General Zia-ul-Haq and...

Commander-in-Chief Ayub Khan. One of Ayub Khan's first decisions after he came to power was to outlaw political activity and imprison politicians. Abdul Wali Khan, along...

example, Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak, Siad Barre, Zia-ul-Haq, Yusuf Khattak, Ayub Khan and Reza Pahlavi use their given name, second given name, or surname.[citation...

coup in Pakistan's history of coups; the first occurred in 1958 under Ayub Khan. Zia was born in Jalandhar and trained at the Indian Military Academy...

Independence Mohammad Ayub Khan – Afghan Royal Prince and Emir of Afghanistan, fondly remembered as the Victor of Maiwand Muhammad Habib Khan Tarin – Nawab,...

Kingdom in 1954, he joined the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and under Ayub Khan's Basic Democracies system was elected as Chairman of Chairman of the Sanghar...

Ayub Khan on 1 September at the Battle of Kandahar, bringing his rebellion to an end. Despite this, no further trouble resulted between Afghanistan and...