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After commanding the II Corps in the war with India in 1971, Tikka Khan was promoted to four-star rank and appointed as the first chief of army staff of the Pakistan Army in 1972. As an army chief, Tikka Khan provided support to the Pakistan nuclear programme alongside bureaucrat Ghulam Ishaq Khan. [10]
Mar 26, 2018 · Raja Tikka Khan was born in the village of Jochha Mamdot in Kahuta Tehsil near Rawalpindi, in 1915 (in what was then British India). He was a graduate of the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun and was commissioned in 1939. During his military career, he served on various staff, command and instructional positions.
Mar 30, 2002 · Gen. Tikka Khan, 87, the former chief of the Pakistani army who was once called the “Butcher of Bengal” for his ruthless crackdown on separatists in what became Bangladesh, died Thursday in...
Tikka Khan was a Pakistani military officer who served as the first chief of the army staff from 1972 to 1976. Along with Yahya Khan, he is considered a chief architect of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide which according to independent researchers led to the deaths of 300,000 to 500,000 people.
General Tikka Khan, who ordered and supervised the crackdown and killings of March 25, 1971, had none of President Khan’s vices. The failures attributed to the Pakistan army trivialise the...
Apr 15, 2002 · As martial law administrator of East Pakistan in 1971, Lt-General Tikka Khan earned the epithet "Butcher of Bangladesh". His job was to efface the separatist mass movement that was threatening to split his country and, by the end of the year, did.
On 25 March 1971, the Pakistan Army, led by Lieutenant General Tikka Khan, who later went on to become Pakistan’s first COAS, launched Operation Searchlight to quell the rebellion in East...
Mar 29, 2002 · RAWALPINDI, March 28: Gen Tikka Khan (Rtd), former chief of the army staff, died here on Thursday, at CMH Rawalpindi, after a protracted illness. He was 87. He was laid to rest with full military...
Mar 29, 2002 · Pakistan's former army chief Tikka Khan - once known as the Butcher of Bengal for his actions against Bangladeshi separatists - has died after a long illness. He was 87.
Jun 24, 2008 · General Tikka Khan carried out the controversial military action at midnight on March 25, 1971. Under his command, the military carried out an assault on Dhaka University and Old Dhaka, which left thousands of Bengalis dead.
