Ayoob Mohammed, whose remarkable life journey was preserved in Richard Charan’s acclaimed book of essays, The Village of One, died on Tuesday. He was 94, having celebrated his birthday on March 27.

It was a jovial scene. President Iskander Mirza and his new Premier, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, sat having tea together for the benefit of newsreel cameramen. Like the good friends they were, they ...

Authority forgets a dying king. —Alfred Lord Tennyson The Passing of Arthur PAKISTAN’S President Mohammed Ayub Khan might well embrace that melancholy observation as his political epitaph. He had ...