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Ayub Khan was born on May 14, 1907, in Haripur British India, in the village of Rehana near the Haripur
District of North-West Frontier Province. He was a Pashtun Pathan of the Tareen tribe. He was the first
child of the second wife of Mir Dad Khan Tareen
Military career:
Ayub Khan was given an officer's commission in the British Indian Army on 2 February, 1928 l. During
World War II, he served as a captain and later as a major on the Burma front. He was promoted to
Brigadier and commanded a brigade in Waziristan and then in 1948 was sent with the local rank of Major
General to East Pakistan ,for which non-combatant service he was awarded the Hilal-i-Jurat. He returned
to West Pakistan in November 1949 as Adjutant General of the Army and then was briefly Deputy
Commander-in-Chief.
Ayub Khan was made Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army on January 17, 1951
He removed the post of governor general and announced the new post as president of Pakistan.
President of Pakistan:
Within three weeks of assuming charge on October 27, 1958, General Ayub khan forced Sikander mirza
to resign with the post of Governor General and then he became the first president of Pakistan.
On April 1, 1948, India stopped the supply of water to Pakistan from every canal flowing from India to
Pakistan. It was finally in Ayub Khan's regime that an agreement was signed between India and Pakistan
in September 1960. This agreement is known as the Indus Water Treaty.
This treaty divided the use of rivers and canals between the two countries. Pakistan obtained exclusive
rights for the three western rivers, namely Indus, Jhelum and Chenab. And India retained rights to the
three eastern rivers, namely Ravi, Beas and Sutluj.
He died in 1974.