FIELD MARSHAL MOHAMMAD AYUB KHAN

"By all accounts the part played by Artillery can only be termed as MAGNIFICENT. The results achieved are MIRACULOUS. They deserve congratulation and gratitude of us all."

Mohammad Ayub Khan, was a Pakistani General and the second President of Pakistan who forcibly assumed the presidency from the first president Iskander Mirza through coup in 1958, the first successful coup d'état of the country.

• Born: May 14, 1907, Rehana
• Died: April 19, 1974, Islamabad
• Awards: Hilal-i-Jur'at, Royal Victorian Chain
• Grandchild: Omar Ayub Khan
• Children: Gohar Ayub Khan, Begum Nasim Aurangzeb, Akhtar Ayub Khan