Muhammad Ayub Khuhro

{{short description|Pakistani politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2013}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ayub Khuhro

| image =Muhammad Ayub Khuhro.jpg

| birth_date ={{birth date|1901|8|14|df=y}}

| death_date ={{death year and age|1980|1901}}

| office = 1st, 5th & 7th Chief Minister of Sindh

| term_start = 16 August 1947

| term_end = 28 April 1948

| office2 = Minister of Defense

| term_start2 = 9 April 1958

| term_end2 = 7 October 1958

|primeminister1=|primeminister2=Feroz Khan Noon|predecessor2=Feroz Khan Noon|successor2=Ayub Khan|termstart1=25 March 1951|termend1=29 December 1951|predecessor=Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah|successor=Pir Ilahi Bux|predecessor1=Qazi Fazlullah Ubaidullah|successor1=Governor's Rule|governor=Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah|governor1=Mian Aminuddin|party=Pakistan Muslim League}}

Muhammad Ayub Khuhro ({{Langx|sd|محمد ايوب کهڙو}}) (14 August 1901 – 1980) was a Pakistani politician who served as the Chief Minister of Sindh for three terms, and as the Defence Minister in the Feroz Khan Noon Ministry.{{cite journal |title=Review of Mohammed Ayub Khuhro: A Life of Courage in Politics by Hamida Khuhro |first=Francis |last=Robinson |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |series=Third |volume=9 |issue=2 |date=July 1999 |pages=326–328 |jstor=25183701 |doi=10.1017/s1356186300011275}} {{subscription required}}

In 1946, Khuhro was elected by the Sindh Provincial Assembly to be among the three members to represent the province in the Constituent Assembly of India but he abdicated attendance until the Mountbatten Plan sanctioned the creation of Pakistan and its own constituent assembly.{{Cite book |title=The Commonwealth Relations Office List 1952 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |year=1952 |location=London |pages=171 |language=en |chapter=Pakistan}}{{Cite web |last=Khaskheli |first=Muhammad Abbas |date=2019-07-26 |title=Democracy’s Shield |url=https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2019/07/26/democracys-shield/ |access-date=2022-09-05 |website=The Friday Times - Naya Daur |language=en-US}}

Hamida Khuhro, an academic, is his daughter and has written his biography.