"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 . ”"
— Yahya Khan

January 1, 1970

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Ministers for Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)
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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