The Ayub Years
The Tashkent Agreement and the Kashmir war, however, generated frustration among the people and resentment against President Ayub. Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto resigned his position agitated against Ayub's dictatorship and the loss of Kashmir.
Ayub tried unsuccessfully to make amends, and in March 1969 he resigned. Instead of transferring power to the speaker of the National Assembly, as the constitution dictated, he handed it over to the commander in chief of the army, General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan. Yahya assumed the presidential office and declared martial law.
My Comments
Ayub did not resigned rather he was forced to resign by Yahya. Infact, it was a silent military coup. So, Yahya was always afraid that if by chance the ex-Muslim Leaquer comes to power he had it. Yahya at once freezed all the central fund of Conventional Muslim Leaque since it was the party created by Ayub. Moreso, in those days ML was divided into 4/5 fractions like Council Muslim Leaque, Qaumi ML, Convention ML etc. He and his intelligence group never tried to unite all these political parties in the true sense rather it paved the smooth way for victory for Butto and Mujib. Even he did not help or give proper protection to other Islamic political parties. I remember on 18 January, 1970 at Dacca once Mulana Modudi came to address, the members of AL did not allow rather they attacked in all side on the meeting three died on the spot and around 500 seriously injured. Again on 25 January 1970 same at Dacca on the meeting of Convention Muslim Fuzlul Kader Chow(ex-speaker of Ayub's cabinet) was made injured and the political main stage was burned. This was the political scenerio in the then East Pakistan. At that time I was at Rawalpindi and saw the same thing about PPP's activities." Ayub ***** hai hai". I never consider the election of 1970 was a real free and fair. It was something like might was right. How could all these happened during the Martial Law times? Again why Yahta dismissed all the senior 300 CSP officers. What was the motive ? Was all these CSP officers were corrupt ?
The 10 year reign of Ayub era was a golden era in united Pakistan. His era was regarded as the "nomuna" in the Third World Countries