Researching Yahya Khan
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 37 people with the Khan surname? In that year Khan was ranked number 3542 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Yahya means "living; John the Baptist" and is of Arabic origin.
Records of Yahya Khan on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Yahya Khan and the Khan Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 40936 people with the Khan surname in the UK? Khan is now ranked number 104 for popularity in the UK. |
Khan Genealogy Databases
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Khan Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 21268 people with the Khan surname in the USA? Khan is ranked number 150 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Yahya Khan
Yahya Khan
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan ( 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980), commonly known as Yahya Khan, was a Pakistani general who served as the third president of Pakistan from 25 March 1969 until December 1971.
Having participated in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II on behalf of Great Britain's British Indian Army, he opted for Pakistani citizenship and joined its military after the United Kingdom partitioned India in 1947, and helped in executing the covert infiltration in Indian Kashmir that sparked the war with India in 1965. After being controversially appointed to assume the army command in 1966, Yahya Khan took over the presidency from unpopular former dictator and elected President Ayub Khan, who was not able to deal with the 1969 uprising in East Pakistan, forced to resign by protests and offered him the office. Yahya Khan subsequently enforced martial law by suspending the constitution. Holding the nation's first nationwide elections in 1970, 23 years after independence, he delayed the power transition to victorious Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from East Pakistan, which further inflamed the civil violent unrest in the East, and authorised the East Pakistani authorities to violently suppress dissent leading to the Bangladesh Liberation War and the creation of Bangladesh. Along with Tikka Khan, he is considered a chief architect of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide which according to independent researchers led to the deaths of 300,000 to 3,000,000 people.
Pakistan suffered a decisive defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, resulting in the dissolution of the Eastern Command of the Pakistan Army and the secession of East Pakistan as Bangladesh – thus Yahya Khan's rule is widely regarded as a leading cause of the break-up of Pakistan. Following these events, he turned over the leadership of the country to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leading politician from West Pakistan, and resigned from the command of the military in disgrace, both on 20 December 1971. He was then stripped of his service honours and put under house surveillance for most of the 1970s.
After being released from these restrictions in 1977, he died in Rawalpindi in 1980. He is viewed largely negatively by Pakistani historians and is considered among the least successful of the country's leaders.
Source: Yahya Khan, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Khan
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