Khalid Maqbool

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Salmaan Taseer
Personal details
Born1948
Governor of the Punjab
former National Accountability Bureau

Governor of Punjab between October 2001 and May 2008.[1]
He is the longest-serving governor of Punjab in Pakistani history.

Military education

Khalid Maqbool Vohra was born in

.

Career with Pakistan Army

He saw action with an infantry regiment in

1971 Indo-Pakistani War in the Kashmir Sector. Throughout the 1980s, he was military secretary to General Rahimuddin Khan
. During his military career he has held a number of prestigious appointments, including command of a Corps, Infantry Division and Brigade.

He has vast experience of instructional assignments including Chief Instructor at premier institutions of Pakistan for example

National Defence College and Command and Staff College, Quetta, where he dealt with matters related to strategy and defence policy at the national level. In addition, he served as the Defence and Military Attache to the United States for two and half years.[2] From March 1995 to November 1996, he stayed as the Chief Instructor of Armed Forces War College at the then National Defence College, Islamabad.[3]

Corps Command of Lahore

Khalid Maqbool was promoted to the rank of Lt. Gen. on 16 October 1998, and made the corps commander of Lahore in place of Lt Gen Mohammad Akram (who proceeded as QMG), a post he continued till August 2000. He then took over as Chairman of National Accountability Bureau until his retirement from Army in October 2001, when he was sworn in as Governor of Punjab province.

Political career

He was chairman,

Salmaan Taseer
was nominated to be new governor of Punjab replacing Lt. Gen. Khalid Maqbool.

During his tenure in the Governor House his contributions to education and health have been great. He was very respected among his staff. He changed the lives of families of workers that lived in the back area of the Governor house. This was done by building new accommodations and by providing better schooling and basic necessities to the workers. Brig. Ahad Muzzafar Shah was appointed his first Military Secretary from 2001-2004.

References

  1. ^ "Salmaan Taseer to be new Punjab governor" Daily Times, 15 May 2008
  2. ^ "Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Meets with US Officials" USIA News Report, 4 April 1994
  3. ^ "Chief Instructors Gallery" Archived 17 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine National Defence University, Islamabad accessed 6 October 2009

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Political offices
Preceded by
Governor of Punjab

2001–2008
Succeeded by
Salmaan Taseer