Early Life and Education
Ghulam Ishaq Khan was born in a small village, located in Ismail Khel to an ethnic Bangash-Pashtun family, in the suburbs of the Bannu District located in the North-West Frontier Province of British Indian Empire, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of State of Pakistan. After matriculating from local high school, Ghulam Ishaq attended the Islamia College Peshawar in 1933, entering to attend the basic science courses. After attending the first semester, Ghulam Ishaq made a transfer to University of Peshawar where he enrolled in the department of science after declaring his major in chemistry. In 1938, Ghulam Ishaq Khan earned B.S. degree, in Chemistry and Botany; he would later go on to attend the post graduate school at the same institution in 1938. In 1940, he submitted his master's thesis and earned M.Sc in Nuclear chemistry, where he did fundamental research in atomic nucleus.
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