Ali Jan Aurakzai Politician

Lieutenant-General Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai (Urdu language: على محمدجان اوركزى), is a retired three-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army who served as the Corps Commander of XI Corps and the principle commander of the Western Command. As Commander, he commanded all military combat assets and oversaw the peaceful deployment of XI Corps in the Northern Areas and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).Aurakzai was the leading army general who led the Pakistan combatant forces in response to American invasion of Afghanistan as an aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States. After retiring from the military, he was elevated as the governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan, from May 2006 until his resignation in January 2008.

Personal facts

Ali Jan Aurakzai
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1947
Birth nameAli Muhammad Jan Aurakzai
Birth place
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Hangu Pakistan , Hangu District Pakistan , Orakzai Agency
Nationality
Pakistani people
Education
Pakistan Military Academy

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Office holder

awards
Tamgha-i-Khidmat
military operations
Kargil War
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
War in North-West Pakistan
Soviet war in Afghanistan
military command
Adjutant General
Northern Military Command
Western Military Command
XI Corps
military rank
Lieutenant general
military unit
Frontier Force Regiment
officeGovernor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
president
prime minister
service end2004
service start1967
successor
Owais Ahmed Ghani

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