10 Facts About Khalid Maqbool

Khalid Maqbool Vohra was born on 1948 and is a Pakistani military officer who served as Governor of Punjab between October 2001 and May 2008.

Khalid Maqbool is the longest-serving governor of Punjab in Pakistani history.

Khalid Maqbool Vohra was born in Lyallpur in 1948.

Khalid Maqbool was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in May 1966 in the 1st War Course in the Baloch Regiment.

Khalid Maqbool is a graduate of the Command and Staff College Quetta, the National Defence College, Rawalpindi and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, where he attended the Senior International Defense Management Course.

Khalid Maqbool saw action with an infantry regiment in 1971 Indo-Pakistani War in the Kashmir Sector.

Khalid Maqbool has vast experience of instructional assignments including Chief Instructor at premier institutions of Pakistan for example National Defence College and Command and Staff College, Quetta, where he dealt with matters related to strategy and defence policy at the national level.

Khalid Maqbool then took over as Chairman of National Accountability Bureau until his retirement from Army in October 2001, when he was sworn in as Governor of Punjab province.

Khalid Maqbool was chairman, National Accountability Bureau for over one year before he was sworn in as Governor of the Punjab Province on 29 October 2001.

Khalid Maqbool changed the lives of families of workers that lived in the back area of the Governor house.