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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Ahmed Raza <br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| country = Pakistan<br />
| fullname = Agha Ahmed Raza Khan<br />
| nickname = Aghajan<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|8|20|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Jalandhar]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|12|21|1910|8|20|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Islamabad]], [[Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan]]<br />
| batting = Right-handed <br />
| bowling = <br />
| family = [[Javed Burki]] (nephew)<br>[[Asad Jahangir Khan]] (nephew)<br>[[Majid Khan (cricketer, born 1946)|Majid Khan]] (nephew)<br>[[Imran Khan]] (nephew)<br />
| club1 = [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]<br />
| year1 = 1934/35–1945/46<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 15 <br />
| runs1 = 597<br />
| bat avg1 = 28.42<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 1/4<br />
| top score1 = 101<br />
| hidedeliveries = true<br />
| catches/stumpings1= 8/–<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/39470.html Cricinfo<br />
| date = 28 August<br />
| year = 2015<br />
}} <br />
[[Lieutenant-General]] '''Ahmed Raza''' (20 August 1910 – 21 December 1996) was a Pakistani [[Politician|statesman]], [[Pakistani diplomatic missions|diplomat]], military figure, [[Pacifism|pacifist]], cricketer, and a retired [[Three-star general|three-star]] rank army general in the [[Pakistan Army]].<br />
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He was born into Pashtun [[India]]n [[Sahib#Sahibzada|nobility]] in the home of Ahmad Hasan Khan, an aristocrat and politician who served as [[British India]]'s representative to the [[League of Nations]]. He was educated in England and at the [[Rashtriya Indian Military College|Indian Military College]] at [[Dehradun]], then the [[Indian Military Academy]] and served during [[World War II]] as an [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]] in the 18th K. E. O. Cavalry Regiment of the [[British Indian Army]]. After the [[Partition of India]] in 1947, he [[Pakistani citizenship|opted]] for Pakistan and joined Pakistan Army where he participated in the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1965]]. He was the [[Chief of General Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of General Staff]] of [[Pakistan Eastern Command|East Pakistani military]] and eventually appointed its [[Chief of staff|commander]] in 1967. He was appointed as [[List of current Pakistani governors|Governor]] of [[East Pakistan]] in 1969 and 1971 but recalled to Pakistan after submitting resignation amid civil unrest. After retiring from the diplomatic service in 1987, he spent his remaining years in [[Islamabad]], where he died in 1996.<br />
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He was also a [[cricket]]er who played [[first-class cricket]] in [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. His highest score was 101 in 1934-35 in [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]'s first match in the [[Ranji Trophy]], when he added 304 for the second wicket with [[George Abell (civil servant)|George Abell]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Northern India v Army 1934-35 |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15253.html|website=Cricket Archive|accessdate=26 August 2015}}</ref><br />
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He was a member of the [[Burki]] clan, of whom about 40 men have played first-class cricket.<ref>[[Peter Oborne]], ''Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan'', Simon & Schuster, London, 2014, p. 185.</ref> Three of his sisters became the mothers of Pakistan [[Test cricket]] captains: Iqbal Bano was the mother of [[Javed Burki]]; Mubarak married the Test cricketer [[Jahangir Khan (cricketer)|Jahangir Khan]] and was the mother of [[Majid Khan (cricketer, born 1946)|Majid Khan]]; Shaukat was the mother of [[Imran Khan]].<ref>Oborne, p. 189.</ref><br />
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