Adil Najam
Can you recognize this man? No, not Nixon, the other guy. The one to the left.
I imagine that most of you can. But still, do tell me. In case you cannot, here is another picture of him.
I wanted to get us going with an easy picture on what I hope will be a somewhat regular feature of guessing who or what is in the picture. Feel free to share your thoughts on the person if you wish.
[P.S. I know, this is a sly way of checking if anyone is even reading this thing, and finding it useful enough to merit a response. But keeping this blog going is taking a lot of time, and I would like some indication from the readers that its worth the effort; that there are at least a few who are not just visiting but willing to actively engage in the discussions. Thanks.]
On the post about the PIA advert and the lady in it, while I have no idea where she is now–but, assuming that she was in her 20s then, she woudl be in her 60s now. Just thought you might want to know ;-)
On being drunk, you just may be right… Gen. Yahya was rather know to be in a perpetual state of intoxication. Ordinarily, I woudl have said that was his personal business, except in this case he happened to be the President of Pakistan at a crucial juncture in our history and his fondness for the bottle may well have clouded his judgement… Something certianly did!
AOA,
well pardon my tardiness, since I havent contributed in a couple of days…I am visiting Dallas and picking up my wife and kids from my in-laws house from a month long Vacatino from reality…AND Celebrating my fourth wedding anniversary today…
All I can say about this picture is the guy on the left seems to be drunk with really creepy bushy eyebrows !!! I still cant keep my eyes off the flight attendant on the right…r u doing this to tease me ?
Well, he did hold teh only fully free and democratic elections in Pakistan.
I can’t add anything more about the picture apart from that fact that i think it was taken on October 25th 1970. Mr Najam, I stumbled upon your blog after watching your Pakistan related compilation on youtube( the Faiz inspired one). I just wanted to congratulate you on a very interesting blog. Keep up the Good work!
Adil, this is very unfair. You ask us to talk about Yahya Khan and then ask us to be polite. There is really nothing ‘polite’ that any Pakistani can say about this guy. i can usually find at least something good to say about even the worst of our politicians and rules. But about this guy, I can think of nothing good to say. So, let me not say anything!
And the winner is… Suleman… who gets unlimited uninterrupted use of this website for as long as it is up ;-)
Thanks Suleman, for playing along. This IS General Yahya Khan
General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was born at Chakwal in February 1917. The 5th Chief of the Army Staff and the 3rd President of the Country.
I hope others will take Suleman’s lead and add more about the picture and the person. (P.S. By way of a premptive suggestion, I know he is likely to ignite passions, but let us keep it clean and civil and rational…)
OK, I’m going to expose myself here and attempt this to be the State visit; when he met with President Yahya Khan