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|hobby = }}'''Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan''' NePl (Urdu: آغا محمد یحییٰ خان‎; 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980), widely known as '''Yahya Khan''', was a Pakistani General who served as the third President of Pakistan, serving in this post from 25 March 1969 until turning over his presidency in December 1971.

After being controversially appointed to assume the army command in 1966, he 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 country’s constitution. As a result ~~of that~~, it is now highly illegal to suspend the Pakistani constitution, it being a charge f treason with a penalty of death.

After being controversially appointed to assume the army command in 1966, he 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 country’s constitution. As a result, it is now highly illegal to suspend the Pakistani constitution, it being a charge of treason with a penalty of death. Khan is now regarded as one of the country's least successful leaders.

==Biography==

Yahya was born to a Pashtun family in Chakwal, British India. He was educated at Punjab University and later graduated first in his class from the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun. He served in Italy and the Middle East during [[World War II]] and, after the partition of India in 1947, organized the Pakistani Staff College.

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 |hobby = }}'''Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan''' NePl (Urdu: آغا محمد یحییٰ خان‎; 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980), widely known as '''Yahya Khan''', was a Pakistani General who served as the third President of Pakistan, serving in this post from 25 March 1969 until turning over his presidency in December 1971.
-After being controversially appointed to assume the army command in 1966, he 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 country’s constitution. As a result of that, it is now highly illegal to suspend the Pakistani constitution, it being a charge f treason with a penalty of death.
+After being controversially appointed to assume the army command in 1966, he 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 country’s constitution. As a result, it is now highly illegal to suspend the Pakistani constitution, it being a charge of treason with a penalty of death. Khan is now regarded as one of the country's least successful leaders.
 ==Biography==
 Yahya was born to a Pashtun family in Chakwal, British India. He was educated at Punjab University and later graduated first in his class from the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun. He served in Italy and the Middle East during [[World War II]] and, after the partition of India in 1947, organized the Pakistani Staff College.