Ayub Khan : Pakistan's First Military Ruler/Altaf Gauhar. Reprint.
Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1996, lvi, 380 p., photographs, ISBN 0 19 577647 X.
Ayub Khan : Pakistan's First Military Ruler/Altaf Gauhar. Reprint.
Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1996, lvi, 380 p., photographs, ISBN 0 19 577647 X.
Contents: Introduction. I: 1. With the benefit of Hindsight. 2. Man on horseback. 3. Search for legitimacy. 4. The international tightrope. 5. The Kashmir situation--1964. 6. Presidential election. 7. Back on the international trail. II: 8. Pakistan's adventure in Kashmir. 9. The war. 10. Road to Tashkent. 11. Tashkent backlash. 12. Ayub loses heart. 13. 'Bitter and ungrateful sands' 14. Conclusion: 'what is past is prologue'. Appendix: the Nehru letters. Bibliography. Index.
"Ayub Khan : Pakistan's First Military Ruler, is a candid account of the controversial period of Ayub's rule. The much-publicized decade of reforms, the inner story of Ayub's election struggle against his chief contender, Miss Jinnah, and the story behind the Tashkent declaration and the Agartala conspiracy, are all under scrutiny. This analyses the 'two pleas' sent by Nehru to Kennedy and the resulting correspondence, and throws light on subjects that were previously unknown or shrouded in mystery." (jacket)