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Yahya Khan — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Yahya Khan; used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth at Chakwal on 4 February 1917, his commission in the British Indian Army in 1939, his command of the Pakistan Army from 1966, his presidency and martial law from 1969, the 1970 election, Operation Searchlight and the 1971 war, his resignation, house arrest, and his death at Rawalpindi on 10 August 1980 with burial at Peshawar. Its Personal life section has a Religion subsection stating he was nominally a Shia Muslim.

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islam.museum contributors. “Yahya Khan — English Wikipedia”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/source/wikipedia-yahya-khan-en/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.

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