PAKISTAN: NECESSITY AND OVERKILL BY IKRAM SEHGAL.
From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
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Date: 10/3/2007
Gen Mohammad Ayub Khan vacated the post of C-in-C Pakistan Army in 1958 when he removed Iskandar Mirza as President but remained in uniform as Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), taking in 1962 the rank of Field Marshal (Field Marshals never retire). He was elected President (obtaining 61%) by an electoral college of 80000 Basic Democrats (40000 each in East and West Pakistan) in a much-vilified contest against Madar-i-Millat Mohtrama Shirin Jinnah in 1964. Pervez ...
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