Akbar Khan Military person

Major General Akbar Khan, DSO (1912 - 1993) also known as Mohammed Akbar Khan, was a Pakistan Army officer who is most known as the Brigadier-in-Charge in Kashmir on the Pakistan side in Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. He also served as a commander of the Pakistan Army's division to stop the first Baloch insurgency of 1948. Khan had also served as appointed Chief of National Security under prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Under his guidance, the Army had quelled the Balochi Insurgency during the early and mid-1970s. In spite of his engaging military career, Khan is mostly known in Pakistan as the main conspirator of the first but failed coup attempt of 1951, which came to be known as the Rawalpindi Conspiracy.

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Akbar Khan
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1912
Birth place
Pakistan , Charsadda

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allegiancePakistan
award
Distinguished Service Order
military operations
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
World War II
1970s operation in Balochistan
Burma Campaign 1944
Burma Campaign 1944–1945
Waziristan campaign (1936–39)
military branch
Pakistan Army
military unit
13th Frontier Force Rifles
service start1934
service end1951

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