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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 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...
Mar 26, 2018 · After President Ayub Khan handed over the presidency to his army chief General Yahya Khan in 1969, Tikka Khan was promoted to three-star assignment and made Lieutenant-General to command the IV Corps, stationed in Lahore. He was the martial law administrator of Punjab under President Yahya Khan who appointed him after replacing with Attiqur Rahman.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Khan, General Tikka (1915-2002) commander of the Eastern Command of the Pakistan Army. He was known as the 'Butcher of Bangladesh' for carrying out a ruthless and vicious military crackdown in Dhaka in 1971 to suppress the liberation movement in Bangladesh.
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.
