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Aftab Ahmad Khan

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|name=Aftab Ahmad
|office1=Pakistan Ambassador to Libya
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|office2=Pakistan Ambassador to Philippines
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|birth_date=22 October 1923
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|awards=Datu of the [[Order of Sikatuna]] [[File:PHL Order of Sikatuna - Grand Cross BAR.png|30px]] Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [[File:GER Bundesverdienstkreuz 4 GrVK.svg|30px]]
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[[File:Flag of Pakistan's X Corps.png|thumb|200px|right|As an ode to Aftab Ahmad Khan for raising the [[X Corps (Pakistan)|X Corps]], the Pakistan Army created an insignia for the Corps which reflected a Rising Sun (Urdu for Aftab) with ten rays extruding from it.]]
[[Lieutenant-General]] '''Aftab Ahmad Khan''' was a [[Pakistan Army]] [[Infantry]] Officer, born in [[Batala]], [[Gurdaspur District]], [[British India]] on 22 October 1923 to the illustrious family of [[Khan Bahadur]] Mian Altaf Hussain Khan (1874–1946) and Mehndi Begum.

== Biography ==

=== Early life, military education and honours ===
After his initial education, at the Municipal Board (MB) High School Batala, Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan graduated from the [[Government College, Lahore]], and joined the [[Indian Military Academy]], [[Dehradun]].

During his tenure in the Army, Lieutenant General Aftab Ahmad Khan graduated from [[Staff College, Quetta]] – 1952; the United States Army Command and Staff College, at [[Fort Leavenworth]], USA, 1961–62; the Army War Course, [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Command and Staff College]] Quetta – 1967; and [[Royal College of Defence Studies]] (formerly known the Imperial Defence College), London – 1971.

He was [[Mentioned in Despatches]] during the 1965 India-Pakistan War, where he commanded a brigade defending the city of [[Lahore]], Pakistan.

He was a recipient of 2 gallantry awards for his work as Pakistan's Ambassador in Philippines in 1984–86: Rank of Datu in the [[Order of Sikatuna]], Government of Philippines, 8 April 1986, awarded by [[Corazon Aquino]], President of the Republic of Philippines; and Das Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Commander's Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]) in recognition of his exceptional services to the State and People of Germany, 9 May 1986. Both awards were awarded in recognition of the two respective governments to have facilitated the rescue of two hostages held by the [[Moro Islamic Liberation Front]]. Photographs of both Citations have been included for historical reference.

=== Military career ===
He was commissioned in the Indian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant on 21 June 1942 and soon, thereafter, joined the 1st Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment in the British Middle East Command.

As a young officer, he served in various regimental appointments for the following two years in [[Egypt]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Syria]] and [[Lebanon]].

In March 1944, his Battalion the 1st Battalion of 2nd Punjab, as part of the 10th Indian Division sailed for Italy and fought against the Germans in [[World War II]] as part of the British 8th Army. Major Aftab Ahmad Khan, then a company commander, returned home in December 1945.

His Battalion joined the 1st Indian Parachute Division where he trained as a paratrooper and became Company Commander.

In 1947, when the Government of India created the [[Punjab Boundary Force]] during [[Partition of India|independence]], in the position of Major served in it till it was disbanded.

Having overseen the safe evacuation of hundreds of thousands of [[Hindus]] and [[Sikhs]] from areas lying between the [[Sutlej]] and [[Ravi River|Ravi]] rivers to [[India]], and was responsible to safely escort back hundreds of thousands of [[Muslims]] stranded in southern eastern [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] province of [[India]].

In January 1948, he was seconded from the Pakistan Army as a Major to [[Zhob]] Militia (formally known as Fort Sandeman), [[Quetta]], [[Baluchistan]] part of the [[Frontier Corps]] for 3 ½ years and also commanded Pishin Scouts. During this time, he saw action in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

In 1951, on posting back to the Army, he was posted first as a company commander and then a Brigade Major of an Infantry Brigade in [[Peshawar]].

After attending the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Command and Staff College]], Quetta in 1952, he took command of the 14th Battalion, 1st [[Punjab Regiment (Pakistan)|Punjab Regiment]] ([[Pakistan]]) for the next 3 years.

In 1956 to 1959, he was posted as General Staff Officer-1 (GSO-I) in Murree serving there for 3 ½ years. He received command of the 1st Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment in Lahore and paraded the Regiment on its 200th raising day. The parade was commanded by Lt. Col. Aftab Ahmad Khan and led by [[Field Marshal]] Sir [[Claude Auchinleck]] former Commander-in-Chief. The 1/1 (or commonly known as the first/first) is the senior most Battalion of the [[Pakistan Army]].

[[Field Marshal]] M. [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]] at that time the ([[President of Pakistan]]) and Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army took the salute at the march past.

After having been posted as Colonel Staff of a Division, [[Colonel]] Aftab Ahmad Khan was promoted to command a Brigade and fought in defence of Lahore on the [[Wagah]] border, extremely successfully in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]].

After various staff appointments in General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, including as Vice Chief of General Staff, Director General Military Training, Research and Development, he commanded a division in [[Chamb]] Sector in 1972 followed by taking command of a newly raised X Corps with the rank of Lieutenant General from where he retired after 34 years of service.

==Post-military career==
After retirement, Lt. Gen. Aftab Ahmad Khan was sent as Ambassador of Pakistan to [[Libya]] between 1976 and 1980 and later appointed as Ambassador of Pakistan to the [[Philippines]] 1984–1986.

==Awards and citations==
{|style="margin:1em auto 1em auto"
|-
|[[File:Order of Sikatuna Citation.jpg|thumb|Order of Sikatuna Citation]]
|[[File:Citation of Grosses Deutsche Verdienst Kreuz.jpg|thumb|Citation of Grosses Deutsche Verdienstkreuz]]
|-
|}

==Family==
Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan was married to Nasreen Hayat Khan in 1960 and had a daughter Umbereen A. Khan and a son Shahbaz A. Khan. And 3 grand children Adil Shahbaz Khan, Fahd Shahbaz Khan and Sharmeen
Inam.
Mrs. Nasreen Aftab Khan died of a protracted illness in 2001.

He had an elder brother Professor Namdar Khan (late – died 2002), a renowned educationalist, who taught Comparative Education at University of California's School of Education (Tollman Hall) from 1972 to 1976,a younger brother [[Air Marshall]] Iftikhar Ahmad Khan, ([[Hilal-i-Imtiaz|HI]])M & (SBt) Sitara-e-Basalat and two sisters Mrs. Ismat Akhtar and Mrs. Najma Chaudhury.

==Death==
Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan died of a sudden Heart Attack on 12 July 2011 at the age of 88, and was laid to rest with Pakistan Army's traditional Military Honors for retired commanders.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

* http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/general-aftab-ahmed-khan-dies/
* http://oly.com.pk/ayub-khan-to-ziaul-haq/{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/the-order-of-sikatuna/

== External links ==
* http://pakistan-army-interviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/maj-gen-retd-tajammal-hussain-malik.html
* http://www.namdar.net

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Aftab Ahmad Khan

2022-12-20T13:04:36Z

2601:41:C200:8F0:C95D:66C0:5A70:9447: robot: Create/upgrade articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

{{Distinguish|Aftab Ahmed (disambiguation) }}
{{no footnotes|date=November 2022}}
{{EngvarB|date=September 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Aftab Ahmad
|office1=Pakistan Ambassador to Libya
|term_start1=1976
|term_end1=1980
|office2=Pakistan Ambassador to Philippines
|term_start2=1984
|term_end2=1986
|birth_date=22 October 1923
|death_date= {{death date and age|df=yes|2011|7|12|1923|10|22}}
|birth_place= [[Batala]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj|India]]
|death_place=[[Lahore]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]
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|serviceyears= 1941–1976
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[[File:Flag of Pakistan's X Corps.png|thumb|200px|right|As an ode to Aftab Ahmad Khan for raising the [[X Corps (Pakistan)|X Corps]], the Pakistan Army created an insignia for the Corps which reflected a Rising Sun (Urdu for Aftab) with ten rays extruding from it.]]
[[Lieutenant-General]] '''Aftab Ahmad Khan''' was a [[Pakistan Army]] [[Infantry]] Officer, born in [[Batala]], [[Gurdaspur District]], [[British India]] on 22 October 1923 to the illustrious family of [[Khan Bahadur]] Mian Altaf Hussain Khan (1874–1946) and Mehndi Begum.

== Biography ==

=== Early life, military education and honours ===
After his initial education, at the Municipal Board (MB) High School Batala, Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan graduated from the [[Government College, Lahore]], and joined the [[Indian Military Academy]], [[Dehradun]].

During his tenure in the Army, Lieutenant General Aftab Ahmad Khan graduated from [[Staff College, Quetta]] – 1952; the United States Army Command and Staff College, at [[Fort Leavenworth]], USA, 1961–62; the Army War Course, [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Command and Staff College]] Quetta – 1967; and [[Royal College of Defence Studies]] (formerly known the Imperial Defence College), London – 1971.

He was [[Mentioned in Despatches]] during the 1965 India-Pakistan War, where he commanded a brigade defending the city of [[Lahore]], Pakistan.

He was a recipient of 2 gallantry awards for his work as Pakistan's Ambassador in Philippines in 1984–86: Rank of Datu in the [[Order of Sikatuna]], Government of Philippines, 8 April 1986, awarded by [[Corazon Aquino]], President of the Republic of Philippines; and Das Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Commander's Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]) in recognition of his exceptional services to the State and People of Germany, 9 May 1986. Both awards were awarded in recognition of the two respective governments to have facilitated the rescue of two hostages held by the [[Moro Islamic Liberation Front]]. Photographs of both Citations have been included for historical reference.

=== Military career ===
He was commissioned in the Indian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant on 21 June 1942 and soon, thereafter, joined the 1st Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment in the British Middle East Command.

As a young officer, he served in various regimental appointments for the following two years in [[Egypt]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Syria]] and [[Lebanon]].

In March 1944, his Battalion the 1st Battalion of 2nd Punjab, as part of the 10th Indian Division sailed for Italy and fought against the Germans in [[World War II]] as part of the British 8th Army. Major Aftab Ahmad Khan, then a company commander, returned home in December 1945.

His Battalion joined the 1st Indian Parachute Division where he trained as a paratrooper and became Company Commander.

In 1947, when the Government of India created the [[Punjab Boundary Force]] during [[Partition of India|independence]], in the position of Major served in it till it was disbanded.

Having overseen the safe evacuation of hundreds of thousands of [[Hindus]] and [[Sikhs]] from areas lying between the [[Sutlej]] and [[Ravi River|Ravi]] rivers to [[India]], and was responsible to safely escort back hundreds of thousands of [[Muslims]] stranded in southern eastern [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] province of [[India]].

In January 1948, he was seconded from the Pakistan Army as a Major to [[Zhob]] Militia (formally known as Fort Sandeman), [[Quetta]], [[Baluchistan]] part of the [[Frontier Corps]] for 3 ½ years and also commanded Pishin Scouts. During this time, he saw action in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

In 1951, on posting back to the Army, he was posted first as a company commander and then a Brigade Major of an Infantry Brigade in [[Peshawar]].

After attending the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Command and Staff College]], Quetta in 1952, he took command of the 14th Battalion, 1st [[Punjab Regiment (Pakistan)|Punjab Regiment]] ([[Pakistan]]) for the next 3 years.

In 1956 to 1959, he was posted as General Staff Officer-1 (GSO-I) in Murree serving there for 3 ½ years. He received command of the 1st Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment in Lahore and paraded the Regiment on its 200th raising day. The parade was commanded by Lt. Col. Aftab Ahmad Khan and led by [[Field Marshal]] Sir [[Claude Auchinleck]] former Commander-in-Chief. The 1/1 (or commonly known as the first/first) is the senior most Battalion of the [[Pakistan Army]].

[[Field Marshal]] M. [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]] at that time the ([[President of Pakistan]]) and Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army took the salute at the march past.

After having been posted as Colonel Staff of a Division, [[Colonel]] Aftab Ahmad Khan was promoted to command a Brigade and fought in defence of Lahore on the [[Wagah]] border, extremely successfully in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]].

After various staff appointments in General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, including as Vice Chief of General Staff, Director General Military Training, Research and Development, he commanded a division in [[Chamb]] Sector in 1972 followed by taking command of a newly raised X Corps with the rank of Lieutenant General from where he retired after 34 years of service.

==Post-military career==
After retirement, Lt. Gen. Aftab Ahmad Khan was sent as Ambassador of Pakistan to [[Libya]] between 1976 and 1980 and later appointed as Ambassador of Pakistan to the [[Philippines]] 1984–1986.

==Awards and citations==
{|style="margin:1em auto 1em auto"
|-
|[[File:Order of Sikatuna Citation.jpg|thumb|Order of Sikatuna Citation]]
|[[File:Citation of Grosses Deutsche Verdienst Kreuz.jpg|thumb|Citation of Grosses Deutsche Verdienstkreuz]]
|-
|}

==Family==
Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan was married to Nasreen Hayat Khan in 1960 and had a daughter Umbereen A. Khan and a son Shahbaz A. Khan. And 3 grand children Adil Shahbaz Khan, Fahd Shahbaz Khan and Sharmeen
Inam.
Mrs. Nasreen Aftab Khan died of a protracted illness in 2001.

He had an elder brother Professor Namdar Khan (late – died 2002), a renowned educationalist, who taught Comparative Education at University of California's School of Education (Tollman Hall) from 1972 to 1976,a younger brother [[Air Marshall]] Iftikhar Ahmad Khan, ([[Hilal-i-Imtiaz|HI]])M & (SBt) Sitara-e-Basalat and two sisters Mrs. Ismat Akhtar and Mrs. Najma Chaudhury.

==Death==
Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan died of a sudden Heart Attack on 12 July 2011 at the age of 88, and was laid to rest with Pakistan Army's traditional Military Honors for retired commanders.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

* http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/general-aftab-ahmed-khan-dies/
* http://oly.com.pk/ayub-khan-to-ziaul-haq/{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/the-order-of-sikatuna/

== External links ==
* http://pakistan-army-interviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/maj-gen-retd-tajammal-hussain-malik.html
* http://www.namdar.net

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[[Philippines]]
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[[Category:Pakistani generals]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Defence Studies]]
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[[Category:Ambassadors of Pakistan to Libya]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Pakistan to the Philippines]]
[[Category:Punjab Regiment officers]]