Ghazi Mohammad Ayub Khan (Persian: غازی محمد ایوب خان) (Pashto: غازي محمد ايوب خان) (1857 – 7 April 1914) also known as The Victor of Maiwand or The Afghan Prince Charlie was, for a while, the governor of Herat Province in Emirate of Afghanistan. He was Emir of Afghanistan from 12 October 1879 to 31 May 1880. He also the led the Afghan troops during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and defeated the British Indian Army at Battle of Maiwand. Following his defeat at Battle of Kandahar, Ayub Khan was deposed and exiled to British India. However, Ayub Khan fled to Persia (now Iran). After negotiations in 1888 with Sir Mortimer Durand, the ambassador at Tehran, Ayub Khan became a pensioner of the British Raj and traveled to British India in 1888 and lived there until his death in 1914 in Lahore, Punjab. He was buried in Peshawar and had eleven wives, fifteen sons and ten daughters. Two of his grandson, Sardar Hissam Mahmud el-Effendi was Brigadier in Pakistan Army.
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Mohammad Ayub Khan 1857 Kabul, Afghanistan
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7 April 1914 (aged 56) Lahore, British India
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