Ayub khan was the first dictator. He serve army from 1928 to 1958. During his tenure of presidency of Pakistan, government corruption in addition to an environment of repression of free speech and political freedoms increased unrest. Criticisms of his sons and family's personal wealth increased, especially his son's actions after his father's election in the allegedly rigged 1964 Presidential elections against Fatima Jinnah is a subject of criticism by many writers. Gohar Ayub, it is said led a victory parade right into the heartland of Opposition territory in Karachi, in a blatantly provocative move and the civil administrations failure to stop the rally led to a fierce clashes between opposing groups with many locals being killed. Gohar Ayub also faced criticisms during that time on questions of family corruption and cronyism through his business links with his father-in-law retired Lt. general habibullah khan. One Western commentator in 1969 estimated Gohar Ayub's personal wealth at the time at $4 million dollars, while his family's wealth was put in the range of $10–$20 million dollars.
Ayub began to lose both power and popularity. On one occasion, while visiting East Pakistan, there was a failed attempt to assassinate him, though this was not reported in the press of the day.[
Ayub was persuaded by underlings to award himself the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan's highest civil award, on the grounds that to award it to other heads of state he should have it himself and also promoted himself to the rank of Field Marshal. He was to be Pakistan's second Field Marshal, if the first is regarded as Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884-1981), supreme commander of military forces in India and Pakistan in the lead-up to independence in 1947.
Aggravating an already bad situation, with increasing economic disparity in the country under his rule, hoarding and manipulation by major sugar manufacturers resulted in the controlled price of 1 kg sugar to be increased by 1 rupee and the whole population took to the streets. As Ayub's popularity plummeted, he decided to give up rule.
In 1971 when war broke out, Ayub Khan was in and did not comment on the events of the war. He died in 1974.
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nice work :)
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he was a great man..bt he made sm mistakes..
yes man he did some major mistakes... we r stil facing its consiquenses...
comon guys....the econom development and all that development in his tenure... dnt forget it.
yes. we must not forget the industrialization that took place in his era. though i myself am not in support of dictatorship but still we must not take away credit of the their positive contributions in Pakistan!
the reason why dictatorship gets its support from the people is that they are considered to be the lesser evil. Pakistan has had corrupt democratic leaders. but my point is who hasn't. the leaders of the other countries like India are no less corrupt. but the difference between them and us is that we have very weak democratic institutions which i think is because of the interference of the dictators that don't allow the democratic institution to become strong. i strongly feel that dictators should not intervene with the democratic institutions and the people should be the ones to remove the corrupt leaders in the next election and not the military dictator.
i second Shuja!!!!!
i second shuja!
in a country like Pakistan, democracy cannot work. look at the current conditions in Pakistan and it is strange that in spite of that there are supporters of democracy!!!!!
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