Zahid Ali Akbar Khan Military person
Lieutenant-General Zahid Ali Akbar Khan'>Ali Akbar Khan (Urdu: زاہد على اكبر; January 9, 1933), TKdt, was an engineering officer in the Pakistan Army who oversaw the construction of the General Headquarters (GHQ), and is well known as the director of the Kahuta Project as part of the Pakistan's acquisition of integrated atomic bomb project. After graduating from the of Military College of Engineering, Akbar was commissioned in Corps of Engineers, and took participation in both the 1965 and the 1971 wars; and finally reached to a prestigious three-star assignment, the Engineer-in-Chief, while he also served as the military Science Adviser advising the military government of Zia-ul-Haq on important matters on science and technology, from 1977 until 1983.In January 1976, he was delegated by then-Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the fledgling uranium-enrichment program under Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, spearheading the construction of science facilities (KRL) at Kahuta as he also served its first director. On behalf of the military, he was involved in most aspects of the atomic bomb development project. Under the fruition of CMLA and President General Zia-ul-Haq, he was made the principle military director of the atomic bomb project's one side Kahuta Project. He took participation in site selections with Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and directed the enormous construction of weapon-testing laboratories, made critical decisions on the various methods of gas-centrifuges on the acquired raw materials, directed the collection of military intelligence on Indian nuclear programme.In 1980, he was promoted as the Engineer-in-Chief by General Zia-ul-Haq who also appointed him as the military Science Adviser, and remained associated with the atomic bomb project until 1983 when he handed over the responsibility of the entire nuclear technology project to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in 1983 . In 1984, Akbar assumed the combat assignment when he commanded the X Corps during the start of the Arctic war in Gilgit–Baltistan. After the war, he then directed the DESTO Laboratories which was established to produced the high-atomic explosive materials and weapons. After retirement from the army in 1990, Zahid Akbar was appointed Chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority by then-Prime Minister Navaz Sharif. He was then appointed Chairman of the Cricket Control Board of Pakistan (BCCP) and oversaw Pakistan's victory of the 1992 Cricket World Cup, following which he established Scarsdale International School in Lahore, Pakistan.
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| award | |
|---|---|
| military operations | |
| military command | X Corps Rawalpindi Adjutant-General (AG) Army Technological Research Laboratories E-in-C Military Engineering Service Engineering Research Laboratories Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers Project-706 |
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| service number | PA – 4499 |
| service start | 1952 |
| service end | 1990 |