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[[General officer|General]] '''Sawar Khan''' ([[Urdu]]: '''سوار خان''') {{small|[[Nishan-i-Imtiaz|NI(m)]]}}, is a retired [[Four-star rank|four-star]] rank [[Pak Fauj|army general]] who served as the [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)#Vice Chief of Army Staff|Vice Chief of Army Staff]] under [[President of Pakistan|President]] [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]] from 1980 until 1984. Prior to that, he served as the [[Governor of Punjab, Pakistan|Governor of Punjab]] to enforce [[Martial law in Pakistan|martial law]] imposed by then-[[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)|army chief]] [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Gen. Zia]] [[Operation Fair Play|against civilian government]] in 1977.

==Biography==

Sawar Khan was commissioned into the [[Pakistan Army Corps of Artillery|Regiment of Artillery]] of the [[Indian Army]] in 1946 after his [[Passing out (military)|passing out]] from the [[Officers' Training School, Bangalore|OTS]] in [[Bangalore]].<ref>EAS Bokhari [http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/april/obituary.htm "Late Lt Gen SM Abbasi"] ''Defence Journal'', April 2002</ref> As an [[Captain (army)|army captain]], Sawar served as an instructor gunnery (IG) at the School of Artillery.<ref>{{cite web|title=LATE LT GEN SM ABBASI|url=http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/april/obituary.htm|website=archive.is|accessdate=7 April 2018|date=23 July 2012|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120723140847/http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/april/obituary.htm|archivedate=23 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> His combat services witnessed his participation in [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|second]] and [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|third war]] with [[India]]. In 1975-76, [[Major-General|Maj-Gen.]] Sawar was posted in [[GHQ (Pakistan Army)|Army GHQ]] in [[Rawalpindi Cantonment|Rawalpindi]] as an [[Adjutant-General]].{{rp|209}}<ref name="Jang Publishers, Malik">{{cite book|last1=Malik|first1=Maj-Gen. Tajammal Hussain|authorlink1=Tajammal Hussain Malik|title=The Story of My Struggle|date=1991|publisher=Jang Publishers|location=Karachi, Pakistan|pages=249|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r8MsAAAAIAAJ&q=major+general+sawar+khan+adjutant+general|accessdate=7 April 2018|language=en-pak|format=snippet view}}</ref>

On 24 March 1976, [[Major-General]] Sawar was informal by then-[[Defence Secretary of Pakistan|Defence Secretary]], [[Ghulam Ishaq Khan|Ghulam Ishaq]], of government's decision of retiring the commissions of seven army generals, with Sawar promoting to [[three-star rank]].{{rp|contents}}<ref name="Grosvenor House Publishing, Sehri 2012">{{cite book|last1=Sehri|first1=Inam|title=Judges and Generals of Pakistan Volume - I|date=2012|publisher=Grosvenor House Publishing|isbn=9781781480434|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzllAgAAQBAJ&q=sawar+khan&pg=PT72|accessdate=7 April 2018|language=en-us|format=google books|chapter={{small|§(Who Supported Zia?)}}}}</ref> [[Lieutenant-General]] Sawar Khan was eventually appointed as the field commander of the [[XI Corps (Pakistan)|XI Corps]] based in [[Peshawar Cantonment|Peshawar]].<ref>A.H. Amin [http://www.defencejournal.com/2001/september/tajammal.htm "Remembering Our Warriors: Maj Gen (Retd) Tajammal Hussain Malik"] ''Defence Journal'', September 2001</ref> In 1978, [[Lieutenant-General|Lt-Gen.]] Sawar Khan was posted as a field commander of the [[IV Corps (Pakistan)|IV Corps]] in [[Lahore Cantonment|Lahore]], taking over the command by Lt-Gen. [[Iqbal Khan (general)|Iqbal Khan]].<ref>Rahimullah Yusufzai. [http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/2001/may/may10n2001.html "Change of Guard at Peshawar's 11th Corps"] ''The News'', 10 May 2001</ref><ref name="Routledge, Burki, 2018">{{cite book|last1=Burki|first1=Shahid Javed|title=Pakistan: Fifty Years Of Nationhood, Third Edition|date=2018|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780429978135|edition=3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpZNDwAAQBAJ&q=sawar+khan&pg=PT82|accessdate=7 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>

===Governorship of Punjab and vice-chief of army staff===
In 1978, Lt-Gen. Sawar was appointed as [[martial law administrator]] and took over the [[Governor of Punjab, Pakistan|governorship]] of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], performing a difficult task in the province where the [[Democracy in Pakistan|democratic movements]] were taking place.{{rp|34}}<ref name="Skyhorse Publishing Inc., Cloughley, 2008">{{cite book|last1=Cloughley |first1=Brian|title=War, Coups & Terror: Pakistan's Army in Years of Turmoil|via=[[Internet Archive]] |date=2008|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Inc.|isbn=978-1-60239-698-2|url=https://archive.org/details/warcoupsterrorpa00clou|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/warcoupsterrorpa00clou/page/34 34] |quote=sawar khan governor. |accessdate=7 April 2018|language=en }}</ref><ref>Rizwan Hussain. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TRW_M_xybyYC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=x+corps+rawalpindi&source=web&ots=6eYZCeRyaH&sig=ymmhRi4nuxjr00Sp3yiaamd1oXI&hl=en "Pakistan and the Emergence of Islamic Militancy in Afghanistan"] ''Ashgate Publishing'', 2005, {{ISBN|0-7546-4434-0}}</ref>

In 1980, Lt-Gen. Sawar Khan was promoted to [[Four-star rank|four-star]] rank and was posted as the [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)#Vice Chief of Army Staff|Vice Chief of Army Staff]] under President [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]] at the [[GHQ (Pakistan Army)|Army GHQ]] in [[Rawalpindi Cantonment|Rawalpindi]]. His views reflected the [[Anti-Russian sentiment|anti-Russian views]] and supported the [[Inter-Services Intelligence activities in Afghanistan|covert operations]] against the Soviet Union [[Soviet–Afghan War|intervened]] in [[Afghanistan]], which he viewed as a direct threat to Pakistan.{{rp|xix}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Service|first1=United States Foreign Broadcast Information|title=Daily Report: People's Republic of China|date=1982|publisher=National Technical Information Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f74sAAAAMAAJ&q=sawar+khan+soviet|accessdate=7 April 2018|language=en}}</ref> In 1984, Lt-Gen. Sawar sought retirement from the military and was eventually replaced by Lt-Gen. [[Khalid Mahmud Arif]]; and by the time, Sawar retired from the army, he built up his reputation in the army as a professional soldier.<ref>"Pakistan under Zia, 1977–1988", by Shahid Javed Burki ''Asian Survey'', Vol. 28, No. 10 (Oct., 1988), pp. 1082–1100</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Gang of Four (Pakistan)|Gang of Four in Pakistan Army]]

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