A TV channel of Delhi has started a deplorable campaign against Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who led the Indian Army to victory in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, which led to the birth of Bangladesh. This campaign not only casts doubts on the real contribution of the Field Marshal to the victory, but has also givenwide dissemination to allegations and insinuations made by Gohar Ayub Khan, the son of Field Marshal Ayub Khan.
Gohar Ayub Khan, who did not rise beyond the rank of Captain in the Pakistan Army despite his father's support, because of allegations against him of being an alcoholic and a man of loose sexual morals, took premature retirement in 1962 and worked as a staff officer to his father. He joined the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and rose to be the Speaker of the National Assembly when Mr. Nawaz Sharif was the Prime Minister between 1990 and 1993. He had also served as the Foreign Minister of Mr. Nawaz Sharif in 1997-98. He was known to be strongly anti-India and used to make all sorts of baseless allegations against Indian political leaders, including Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and P.V.NarasimhaRao.
WIKIPEDIA writes of him as follows: "His role n Karachi after his father's election in the allegedly rigged 1964 Presidential elections against Fatima Jinnah is a subject of criticism by many writers. Gohar Ayub, it is said, led a victory parade right into the heartland of Opposition territory in Karachi, in a blatantly provocative move and the civil administration's failure to stop the rally led to fierce clashes between opposing groups with many locals being killed. Gohar Ayub also faced criticism during that time on questions of family corruption and cronyism through his business links with his father-in-law retired Lt. General Habibullah Khan Khattak. One Western commentator in 1969 estimated Gohar Ayub's personal wealth at the time at 4 million dollars, while his family's wealth was put in the range of 10-$20 million dollars. "
In 1993, he led a Pakistani delegation to a conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which was held in New Delhi. During his interactions with the media in the margins of the conference he made despicable remarks about the state of India and its leaders, which embarrassed even the Nawaz Sharifgovernment despite the strained relations between India and Pakistan at that time.