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- Lt General Shah served as Deputy Chief of Army Staff before retirement. He was also Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University.
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He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of India, in 1972 for his services to the nation. Manekshaw was promoted to the rank of field marshal in January 1973, the first of only two Indian officers to be ever promoted to this rank. He retired on 15 January 1973, a date celebrated as Army Day in India.
Oct 14, 2018 · New Delhi: Retired Lieutenant-General Zameer Uddin Shah, who led the Indian army tackling the 2002 Gujarat riots, has just released a book, The Sarkari Mussalman.
Oct 11, 2018 · The retired Lt General writes that the “partisan attitude of the police lay exposed” when he saw that when the “minority-populated localities were surrounded by mobs, the police did not fire at the rioters laying siege, but into windows of surrounded homes of minorities” instead to “keep the two rioting communities apart”.
Oct 13, 2018 · Lt General Zameer Uddin Shah (Retired) reiterated on Saturday that the army was delayed transport for over a day despite a request made to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the 2002...
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Oct 6, 2018 · Lt General (retired) Zameer Uddin Shah, who led the Army operations during the riots, said they had to wait for a day before being provided vehicles.
Apr 3, 2018 · In fact, when he was asked to go to Dhaka to accept the surrender of the Pakistani forces, Manekshaw declined the honour, saying that it belonged to the eastern army commander, Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora.
