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 Glimpses Into The Corridors of Power
Product Details:
Author: Gohar Ayub Khan | ISBN: 978-0-19-547354-4 | Format: Hardcover | Pages: 354 | Weight: 1.43 lbs | Pub. Date: 2007 | Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book offers an insider’s view of people and events that directly affected the course of Pakistan’s political history. The author gradually widens the scope of his recollections from his boyhood and school days as a child in a peripatetic military family, to events of Partition, his cadetship at Sandhurst, and the huge affairs of state he experienced as the son of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, former Commander-in-Chief and President and Pakistan’s first military ruler, as also in his capacity as Ayub Khan’s ADC, and eventually as a politician in his own right.
Details of important military campaigns of the period before and during which Gohar Ayub rejoined service in the army are also included in these memoirs, as are pen portraits of members of his immediate family and leading contemporary personalities.
"Glimpses into the Corridors of Power" will appeal to all readers interested in an informed personal perspective of significant events in Pakistan ’s history from a leading political personality who had access to the inner sanctums of power.
Gohar Ayub Khan, the son of Pakistan ’s first military ruler, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, graduated from the Royal Military Academy , Sandhurst , UK and attained the rank of captain in the Pakistan army before resigning in 1962.
Taking up a political career in 1964 as a member of the Muslim League, he was elected six times to the National Assembly, representing his home constituency of Haripur, NWFP. From 1990—1993 he was Speaker of the National Assembly, and following his party’s defeat in the 1993 elections, became Deputy Leader of the Opposition. In November 1997, after the Muslim League’s election victory, he was appointed Foreign Minister in Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet but requested a change of portfolio, becoming Federal Minister for Water and Power in August 1998 until General Pervez Musharraf took control of the government in a bloodless coup in October 1999.
Gohar Ayub Khan is currently Senior Vice President of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q).
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