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{{Short description|22nd ministry of interior (1931-2004)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[Lieutenant general (Pakistan)|Lieutenant general]]
| name = F. S. Lodhi
| image =
| office = 22nd [[Ministry of Interior (Pakistan)|Ministry of Interior]]
|
| term_start = 22 January 1985
| term_end = 24 March 1985<ref name="Ministry of Interior, Pakistan 2017">{{cite web | title=Federal Minister | website=Ministry of Interior, Pakistan | date=2017-07-17 | url=https://www.interior.gov.pk/index.php/about-moi/about-us/federal-minister-2/91-about-us | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717213551/https://www.interior.gov.pk/index.php/about-moi/about-us/federal-minister-2/91-about-us | archive-date=2017-07-17 | url-status=live | access-date=2021-08-28}}</ref>
| predecessor = [[Mahmoud Haroon]]
| successor = [[Aslam Khattak]]
| office2 = 8th [[Governor of Balochistan, Pakistan]]
| president = [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]]
|
| term_start2 = 23 March 1984
| term_end2 = 7 July 1984<ref name="governorbalochistan.gov.pk 2020">{{cite web | title=Official Website - Governor House Balochistan | website=governorbalochistan.gov.pk | date=2020-01-14 | url=http://www.governorbalochistan.gov.pk/former.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114024345/http://www.governorbalochistan.gov.pk/former.html | archive-date=2020-01-14 | url-status=unfit | access-date=2021-08-28}}</ref>
| predecessor2 = [[Rahimuddin Khan]]
| successor2 = [[Khushdil Khan]]
| alma_mater = [[S. P. College]]
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| birth_date = {{Birth date |1931|06|17}}
| birth_place = [[Baghdad]], Iraq
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|09|14|1931|06|17}}
| death_place = [[Karachi]], Pakistan
|allegiance = {{PAK}}
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|unit = [[East Bengal Regiment]]
|commands = [[Chief of General Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of General Staff]]
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| alma_mater = [[Staff College, Camberley]]
| spouse = Jamila Khanum
|laterwork = Editor at ''[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]'' and ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]''
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'''Sardar F. S. Lodhi''' (born '''Sardar Farooq Shaukat Khan Lodhi'''; 17 June 1931 {{endash}} 14 September 2004){{efn|'''[[Sardar]]''' and '''Lodhi''' are variously spelled such as Sardar as '''Sirdar''' and Lodhi as '''Lodi'''.}} was a [[Lieutenant general (Pakistan)|lieutenant-general in the Pakistan Army]] who served 8th [[Governor of Balochistan, Pakistan|governor of Balochistan]] from 23 March 1984 to 7 July 1984 and 22nd [[Ministry of Interior (Pakistan)|minister of Interior]] from 22 January 1985 to 24 March 1985.<ref name="Lodi 2004"/> He was formerly associated with the Pakistan Army as a writer.<ref name="Chengappa 2004 p. 28">{{cite book | last=Chengappa | first=B.M. | title=Pakistan, Islamisation, Army and Foreign Policy | publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation | year=2004 | isbn=978-81-7648-548-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDoMlBd4dYsC&pg=PA28 | access-date=2021-08-28 | page=28}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Lodi was born on 17 June 1931 in [[Baghdad]], Iraq to Sardar Mohammad Abdullah Khan Lodi, an [[Indian Civil Service|Imperial civil servant]] who was posted in Iraq in the [[British Indian Army]] at the department of finance. Lodi's father was married to a prominent woman, Jamila Khanum. They returned to [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] which was their hometown. His father was later appointed as accountant-general in the [[government of Jammu and Kashmir]].

F. S Lodhi did his schooling at [[St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Baramulla]]. He obtained his FSC from [[S. P. College]], Srinagar. He later obtained an uncertain professional degree from [[Pakistan Military Academy]]. He also did his LLB from an uncertain university.<ref name="Lodi 2004">{{cite web | last=Lodi | first=Dr. F.A. | title=Features; 07 October, 2004 | website=DAWN.COM | date=2004-10-07 | url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1066541 | access-date=2021-08-28}}</ref>

== Career ==
He started his career after obtaining his degree from Military Academy. He was first posted to the [[East Bengal Regiment]] in the [[East Pakistan]] where he later commanded an uncertain regiment. Prior to his promotion to the rank of colonial, he was sent to [[Staff College, Camberley]] by the Pakistan Army for further training. During the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]], he commanded a brigade in [[Lahore]] upon his promotion to the rank of [[brigadier]]. After conflict ended between the two countries, he was appointed as an instructor with the second assignment as a chief instructor at the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Command and Staff College]]. He again went to the UK for professional military training.

After he served as a brigadier, he was then promoted to the rank of [[major general]] during which, he commanded a division in [[Kharian]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]]. He later served as a divisional commander during the [[Operation Fair Play|government of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]].<ref name="Lodi 2004"/> As a major general, he was posted as [[Chief of General Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of General Staff]] from 1978 to March 1980.<ref name="Shah 2015">{{cite web | last=Shah | first=Sabir | title=Five Chiefs of General Staff served as head of Pakistan Army in 64 years | website=The News International | date=2015-04-11 | url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/34381-five-chiefs-of-general-staff-served-as-head-of-pakistan-army-in-64-years | access-date=2021-08-28}}</ref> He was also assigned to command [[IV Corps (Pakistan)|IV Corps]] with his last promotion of lieutenant general, during which he also served as governor of Punjab.

After serving as a governor of Punjab, he was sent from [[Rawalpindi]] to [[Quetta]] with his second appointment as governor of Balochistan in 1984.<ref name="Lodi 2004"/> However, his [[Cessna]] aircraft crushed in a remote area and pilot and ACD died in [[Aviation accidents and incidents|aviation accident]] and Lodi received minor injuries. He was admitted to a local hospital where the doctors gave him [[blood transfusion]] that infected him with [[malaria]] and later [[hepatitis C]]. The infectious disease damaged his liver and he was subsequently airlifted to the [[Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi]] where he recovered from disease, and he resumed his duties in Quetta. After retiring from the services, he moved to [[Karachi]] on the request of his wife where he spent his last days and started teaching in a law college in Karachi, and used to wrote articles for newspapers, including ''[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]'' newspaper<ref name="Lodi 2004"/> and ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]'' magazine.<ref name="magazine.outlookindia.com">{{cite web | title=Articles by Lt Gen Sardar F.S. Lodi | website=magazine.outlookindia.com | url=https://magazine.outlookindia.com/author/lt-gen-sardar-fs-lodi/9074 | access-date=2021-08-28}}</ref>

As aa defence writer, he was among the others who outlined the use of the basic principles of [[nuclear doctrine of Pakistan]].<ref name="Kanwal 1998">{{cite web | last=Kanwal | first=Colonel Gurmeet | title=India's Nuclear Doctrine and Policy | website=CIAO | date=1998-05-27 | url=https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/sa/sa_feb01kag01.html | access-date=2021-08-29}}</ref>

== Articles ==
*Lt. Gen. Sardar F. S. Lodhi (Retd., Pakistan Army), ''Pakistan’s Nuclear Doctrine'', ''Pakistan Defence Journal'', 1999.<ref name="Kanwal 2011 pp. 67–95">{{cite book | last=Kanwal | first=Gurmeet | title=The India-Pakistan Military Standoff | chapter=Military Dimensions of the 2002 India-Pakistan Standoff—Planning and Preparation for Land Operations | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US | publication-place=New York | year=2011 | doi=10.1057/9780230118768_4 | pages=67–95}}</ref>
* {{cite web | title=The Army's Chequered March | website=magazine.outlookindia.com | date=1997-09-01 | url=https://magazine.outlookindia.com/story/the-armys-chequered-march/204137 | ref={{sfnref | https://magazine.outlookindia.com/ | 1997}} | access-date=2021-08-29}}

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite web | last=Cullison | first=Alan | title=Northern Alliance's Sweep Through Kabul Raises Hopes and New Problems for U.S. | website=WSJ | date=2001-11-14 | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1005647112466553480 | access-date=2021-08-28}}

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[[Category:Interior Ministers of Pakistan]]
[[Category:Governors of Balochistan, Pakistan]]
[[Category:Defence and security analysts in Pakistan]]
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