General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi, known as Ziauddin Butt, is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, who served as the Chief of Army Staff, for few hours, until Chairman joint chiefs General Pervez Musharraf reasserted the command and control of the military despite his termination on 12 October 1999.
16 Facts About Ziauddin Butt
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In 2011, Ziauddin Butt revealed to the news media that, it was Brigadier Ijaz Shah, the DG of Intelligence Bureau from 2004 to 2008, who had provided the support and hideout to Osama bin Laden in a IB's safe house in Abbottabad.
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Ziauddin Butt was born in Lahore, Punjab in British India, and is of Kashmiri descent.
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Ziauddin Butt was educated in Rawalpindi before being accepted at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, prior joining the Pakistan Army.
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Ziauddin Butt's father, Aftabuddin Butt, was a graduate of the Indian Military Academy in 1943 and was an officer of the 9th Bhopal Infantry, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1964.
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Ziauddin Butt's uncle, Ghulam Jilani Khan, was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who played a crucial role in stabilizing the Zia administration in 1980s and later in creating Pakistan Muslim League faction headed by Nawaz Sharif.
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Ziauddin Butt was then commissioned in the Corps of Engineers, where his career in the army is mostly spent.
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In 1993, Major-General Ziauddin Butt was posted on the security details for the technicians working at the Khan Research Laboratories in Kahuta.
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In 1992, Maj-Gen Ziauddin Butt was posted at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, becoming the DG of the Combat Development Directorate, which he remained until 1996.
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In 1998, Lieutenant-General Ziauddin Butt was posted as an Adjutant-General at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, which he served until 1998 when General Pervez Musharraf was appointed chief of army staff and Chairman joint chiefs at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi.
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Ziauddin Butt had been one of the most senior army generals in the military when Lt-Gen.
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Ziauddin Butt was assigned to direct the Inter-Services Intelligence by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, after replacing Lt-Gen Naseem Rana who was posted as Master-General Ordnance at the Army GHQ.
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Ziauddin Butt was one of the senior-most generals ever to occupy the post of Intelligence Chief and is credited with major revamping and evolution of the agency and its operations.
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Ziauddin Butt is currently serving as the elected chairman of the LGH Post Graduate Medical Institute.
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Ziauddin Butt was kept in solitary confinement for two years, and was subject to three army investigations which aimed to find some element of wrongdoing on his part.
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General Rashid Quraishi was quoted as saying "General Ziauddin Butt was one of the best generals in our army's history, so now we have to change the history".