"Yahya Khan claimed to be a descendant of Nadir Shah . Robert Payne commented : “ That Nadir Shah was inhumanely cruel and rapacious , a looter and murderer on a prodigious scale , was not a matter which gave him much concern . ”"
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Attributed, in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 179
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Yahya Khan
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan NePl (Urdu: آغا محمد یحییٰ خان; 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980), commonly 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. Along with Tikka Khan, he is considered a chief architect of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.
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