Khwaja Mohammad Azhar Khan
| Khwaja Mohammad Azhar Khan | |
|---|---|
| 7th Governor of North-West Frontier Province | |
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In office 1 July 1970 – 23 December 1971 |
|
| President |
Agha Yahya Khan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| Preceded by | Qurban Ali Khan |
| Succeeded by | Hayat Mohammad Khan Sherpao |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 1918 Aligarh, British India |
| Died | 29 October 2006 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 British India Pakistan
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| Service/branch |
 British Indian Army Pakistan Army
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| Years of service | 1942–1971 |
| Rank |
 Lieutenant General
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| Unit | Pakistan Army |
| Commands | Pakistan Army General Infantry |
| Battles/wars |
Burma Campaign World War II Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |
Lieutenant General Khwaja Mohammad Azhar Khan (Urdu: خواجہ محمد اظہر خان) (usually shortened to K.M. Azhar) (1918 – 29 October 2006) was the chairman of the high-powered committee of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and a former governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Lt Gen Azhar was born in Saugar, India in 1918 into the (Mian Sheikh Darvesh) Waziris and received education in Lahore and then Aligarh. He started his career as a doctor after receiving education at the King Edward Medical College. He attended the historic meeting of the All-India Muslim League in which the Lahore Resolution was adopted in 1940. Responding to a call of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah exhorting the youth to join the armed forces, he left the medical profession and got commission in the armed forces in 1942.
He fought on the Burma front during the Second World War and participated in the wars against India on the Kashmir front in 1947 and at Rann of Kutch in 1965.
He defeated one division of the Indian Army with the help of only two battalions during the 1965 War and conquered 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) area in Rajasthan and captured the Munabao Railway Station along with a large number of Indian soldiers and three tanks.
He was injured while commanding Pakistani forces on the Rajasthan front in 1971 during his tenure as the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor.
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