Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Omar Ayub Khan on Thursday submitted a request to National Assembly (NA) Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to constitute a committee to appoint a new chief ...

ISLAMABAD: The Elec­ti­­on Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a disqualification reference against National Assembly Opposition Leader Omar Ayub Khan until July ...

The promotion is the first since Pakistani dictator General Ayub Khan made himself a field marshal in 1965, he said. With the new ceremonial rank, he said, Munir will remain the army chief.

The reference is based on an application filed by former MNA Babar Nawaz, who lost 2024 general election from NA-18 (Haripur) to Omar Ayub Khan with a margin of 82,000 votes.

Asim Munir is the first Pakistani army officer since general Ayub Khan to be promoted to the rank of field marshal, a title last conferred in 1959. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on ...

Asim Munir is the second army chief to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. The first was Ayub Khan (R) who would mark the nation's first military takeover. (AP/ Pakistan Embassy in Washington) ...

Only 20 days later, Ayub Khan turned against Iskander Mirza. On the evening of October 27, 1958, the President and his handpicked Chief Martial Law Administrator were seen sipping tea together in ...

In today's episode of India Global, Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir has been promoted to the topmost military rank of Field Marshal - an honour given only in the rarest of occasions and on ...

This prestigious promotion makes him the second military officer in Pakistan’s history to hold this rank, after General Ayub Khan, who was conferred the rank in 1959.

Ayub Khan was the first indigenous army chief of Pakistan, who held the responsibility from 1951 to 1958. But in 1958 Ayub Khan usurped power by removing the then President Iskandar Ali Mirza.

ISLAMABAD: The opposition leader in the National Assembly, Omar Ayub Khan on Saturday sharply criticised Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government for its four-day delay in responding to India ...

Since Pakistan's Mohammed Ayub Khan seized power in 1958. he has argued that Western-style constitutions are unsuited to new, underdeveloped nations. Banning political parties, which he blamed ...