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Gul Hassan Khan

Lieutenant General

Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
Gul Hassan Khan, SPk, SQA, was the Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
. Lieutenant General Gul Hassan, a Sunni Pashtun born in Quetta

Quetta

Quetta is the largest city and the Subdivisions of Pakistan capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. It is an important marketing and communications centre for Pakistan with neighbouring Iran and Afghanistan....
, was educated at La Martiniere College

La Martiniere Lucknow

La Martini?re College is a premiere educational institution located in Lucknow, the capital of the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. The College consists of two schools on different campuses for boys and girls....
in Lucknow

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous States and territories of India of India. It has a population of 4,875,858. Lucknow is also the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
and the Royal Indian Military College (now the Rashtriya Indian Military College), Dehradun

Dehradun

, is the capital city of the States and territories of India of Uttarakhand in India, and the headquarters of Dehradun District.It is located in the Doon valley, 230 kilometers north of India's capital New Delhi and the Delhi metropolitan area....
, India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
. In 1940 he was commissioned in the Indian Army

Indian Army

The Indian Army is the largest branch of the Indian Armed Forces of India and has the responsibility for army military operations. Its primary objectives include defending India from external aggression, maintaining peace and security within the country, patrolling borders and conducting counter-terrorist operations....
. After independence, he served the Pakistan Army

Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army is the largest branch of the Pakistan military, and is mainly responsible for protection of the state borders, the security of administered territories and defending the national interests of Pakistan within the framework of its international obligations....
for 25 years. In 1969, he was made the Chief of General Staff (CGS) of the Pakistan Army.

Following the defeat of Pakistan to the Indian Military and the secession of East Pakistan

East Pakistan

East Pakistan was a former Provinces of Pakistan of Pakistan which existed between 1955 and 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal Province based on a plebiscite in what was then British Raj in 1947....
(present day Bangladesh

Bangladesh

, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....
), he became the Chief of Army Staff as Yahya Khan

Yahya Khan

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Lieutenant General

Pakistan

Quetta

La Martiniere Lucknow

Lucknow

Dehradun

India

Indian Army

Pakistan Army

East Pakistan

Bangladesh

Yahya Khan

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of Ayub Khan. He has one son, Ali Yahya and one daughter, Yasmeen Khan....
, his predecessor had to resign after widespread protests in Pakistan. He thus became the first person to be appointed to the post in a divided Pakistan (erstwhile West Pakistan

West Pakistan

West Pakistan was the popular and sometimes official name of the western wing of Pakistan until 1971, when the East Pakistan became independent as Bangladesh....
). His tenure, however, was shortlived. He was ousted as army chief on March 3, 1972 by President

President of Pakistan

The President of Pakistan is the head of state of the Islamic republic of Pakistan. Pakistan has a parliamentary form of government. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, the President is chosen by the Electoral College of Pakistan to serve a five-year term....
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977....
. He was allegedly huddled up in a car and taken to Lahore by road by Ghulam Mustafa Khar

Ghulam Mustafa Khar

Ghulam Mustafa Khar Malik , was a close ally of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his chief minister in Punjab , Pakistan during the 1970s,also Khar was one of the founders of the Pakistan Peoples Party , Khar was also jailed by the Zia ul Haq regime after the 1977 coup....
, a politician and a close associate of Bhutto's.He married later on with an Austrian lady and had a son, Sher Hassan Khan.

He had three brothers and a sister. He has relatives still residing in Pabbi near Peshawar

Peshawar

is the capital of the North-West Frontier Province and the administrative centre for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan."Peshawar" literally means The High Fort in Persian language and is known as Pekhawar in Pashto....
, and in Quetta

Quetta

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
. General Gul Hassan Khan died in 1999 and was buried in Pabbi in Nowshera District

Nowshera District

Nowshera is a Districts of Pakistan in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan - the principal city is Nowshera. Nowshera District is divided into 47 Union Councils and 5 provincial seats....
(Main town of Chearat Cant, Chowki Mumriaz, Taroo Jaba, Akber Pura).

In the last few years of his life he was dividing his time between Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
and Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi

is a city in the Potwar Plateau near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab . The area was home to the pre-historic Soanian culture indigenous to this region....
, Pakistan. He wrote a book Memoirs of Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan.

Gul Hassan Khan

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