A shekara ta 1958, tsarin majalisar dokokin Pakistan ya ƙare tare da kafa dokar soja.Rashin jin daɗin jama'a game da cin hanci da rashawa a cikin tsarin mulkin farar hula da gudanarwa ya haifar da goyon baya ga ayyukan Janar Ayub Khan.^[16] Gwamnatin soja ta aiwatar da gyare-gyaren ƙasa mai mahimmanci kuma ta aiwatar da Dokar Rarraba Zaɓuɓɓuka, ta hana HS Suhrawardy daga ofishin jama'a.Khan ya gabatar da "Basic Democracy," wani sabon tsarin shugaban kasa inda kwalejin zabe mai mutane 80,000 suka zabi shugaban kasa, kuma suka kaddamar da kundin tsarin mulki na 1962.^[17] A cikin 1960, Ayub Khan ya sami goyon bayan jama'a a cikin ƙuri'ar raba gardama ta ƙasa, yana rikidewa daga soja zuwa gwamnatin farar hula ta tsarin mulki.^[16]Muhimman abubuwan da suka faru a lokacin shugabancin Ayub Khan sun hada da mayar da ababen more rayuwa na babban birnin kasar daga Karachi zuwa Islamabad.Wannan zamanin, wanda aka fi sani da "Babban Goma," ana yin bikin ne saboda haɓakar tattalin arziki da sauye-sauyen al'adu, ^[18] gami da haɓakar kiɗan pop, fina-finai, da masana'antar wasan kwaikwayo.Ayub Khan ya hada kai da Pakistan da Amurka da kasashen yammacin duniya, inda ya shiga kungiyar ta Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) da kuma kungiyar kudu maso gabashin Asiya (SEATO).Kamfanoni masu zaman kansu sun karu, kuma kasar ta samu ci gaba a fannin ilimi, ci gaban dan Adam, da kimiyya, gami da kaddamar da shirin sararin samaniya da ci gaba da shirin makamashin nukiliya.^[18]Duk da haka, abin da ya faru na jirgin leken asirin U2 a 1960 ya fallasa ayyukan sirri na Amurka daga Pakistan, wanda ke yin illa ga tsaron kasa.A wannan shekarar, Pakistan ta sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar ruwa ta Indus tare da Indiya don daidaita dangantaka.^{[19 <]} > Dangantaka da kasar Sin ta karfafa, musamman bayan yakin Sino-Indiya, wanda ya kai ga cimma yarjejeniyar kan iyaka a shekarar 1963 wadda ta sauya yanayin yakin cacar baka .A shekara ta 1964, sojojin Pakistan sun murkushe wani tawaye da ake zargin 'yan gurguzu ne a yammacin Pakistan, kuma a shekarar 1965, Ayub Khan ya ci zaben shugaban kasa da kyar a kan Fatima Jinnah.