1. Tikka Khan's tenure ended when President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government in 1990 and he was succeeded by Mian Muhammad Azhar.
34 Facts About Tikka Khan
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Tikka Khan died on 28 March 2002 and was buried with full military honours in Westridge cemetery in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Tikka Khan was born on 10 February 1915 into a Punjabi family of the Janjua Rajput clan in the Jochha Mamdot village of Kahuta Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, British India.
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Tikka Khan participated in World War II and fought with the 2nd Field Regiment, Regiment of Artillery in Libya against the Afrika Korps led by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in 1940.
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Tikka Khan was captured by German troops and held as a POW in Libya for more than a year.
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Tikka Khan worked hard to raise the Medium Regiment in the new army.
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In 1965, Major-General Tikka Khan was the GOC of the 8th Infantry Division that was positioned in Punjab, Pakistan.
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Tikka Khan made a bold stand against the Indian Army's encirclement in the Sialkot sector in 1965.
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Tikka Khan later led the 15th Infantry Division in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.
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Tikka Khan was the martial law administrator of Punjab under President Yahya Khan who appointed him after replacing with Attiqur Rahman.
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Tikka Khan's personality was well known in Pakistan as being tough and ruthless.
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In March 1971, Tikka Khan was sent to Dacca and left the post to Lieutenant General Bahadur Sher in March 1971.
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Tikka Khan arrived in Dacca the same month and took over the governorship.
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Tikka Khan assumed command of the Eastern Command on 7 March 1971.
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Tikka Khan has faced accusations of killing thousands of civilians.
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Tikka Khan took assistance from loyal Bengalis and Biharis for the operation and organized a paramilitary force called Razakars.
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Tikka Khan ordered the arrest of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, outlawed the Awami League, and ordered a midnight attack on the University of Dhaka.
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Tikka Khan was the architect and top planner of Operation Searchlight.
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In West Pakistan, domestic criticism and disapproval of Lieutenant General Tikka Khan grew to the point that President Yahya Khan replaced him with a civilian government led by a governor and a cabinet drawn from different political parties.
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Tikka Khan was recalled to Pakistan, relinquishing the Eastern Command to Lieutenant General Amir Khan Niazi, and given command of the II Corps based in Multan, Punjab.
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Tikka Khan commanded the II Corps during the 1971 war with India.
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Tikka Khan was a highly unpopular choice in military circles for the chief of army staff because it was felt strongly that he was professionally unprepared for the assignment.
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In 1972, he supported the militarisation of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission by supporting Munir Ahmad Tikka Khan to take over the commission's chairmanship and the directorship of the clandestine atomic bomb programme.
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Tikka Khan was implicated in the Hamoodur Rahman Commission's report on the 1971 war with India over East Pakistan, but much of the report remains classified.
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In 1974, Tikka Khan led the counterinsurgency military operation in Balochistan and successfully crushed Baloch independence movement.
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Tikka Khan was appointed National Security Advisor in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
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General Zia ordered the military police to arrest both Bhutto and General Tikka Khan and placed them under house arrest.
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Bhutto was executed in 1979, after which General Tikka Khan emerged as one of the leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party, becoming its secretary general.
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Tikka Khan was appointed as the Governor of Punjab by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December 1988.
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Tikka Khan's governorship ended when President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in August 1990, after which Tikka Khan retired from active politics.
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Tikka Khan refused many television interviews on the subject of the controversial events of 1971 and died on 28 March 2002.
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Tikka Khan was survived by three sons and two daughters.
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Tikka Khan was laid to rest with military honours in the Westridge cemetery in Rawalpindi.
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Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Aziz Tikka Khan attended his funeral, accompanied by the Army Chief of Staff, Chief of Air Staff, Chief of Naval Staff and other senior military and civil officials.