Muhammad Anwar Khan (politician)

Major General Muhammad Anwar Khan

President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
In office 25 August 2001 – 25 August 2006
Preceded by	Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan
Succeeded by	Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan
Colonel Commandant Azad Kashmir Regiment
In office November 1999 – July 2001
Preceded by	Muhammad Saleem Arshad
Succeeded by	Javed Hassan

Personal details
Born	9 May 1945 Tain, Jammu and Kashmir
Died	19 January 2023 Pakistan
Children	5, including Colonel Adnan Anwar
Alma mater	Pakistan Command and Staff College Pakistan Naval War College National Defence University United States Army War College
Military service
Allegiance	Pakistan
Branch/service	Pakistan Air Force Pakistan Army
Years of service	1963-2001
Major General	Major General
Unit	7 Azad Kashmir Regiment
Commands	7 Azad Kashmir Regiment GOC 11th Infantry Division, Lahore GOC 8th Infantry Division, Sialkot Vice Chief of General Staff, Rawalpindi
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Service number	PA-66705

Major General Muhammad Anwar Khan, (9 May 1945 – 19 January 2023) was a career soldier and politician who served as the President of Azad Kashmir from 25 August 2001 to 23 August 2006.^[1] He belonged to a Sudhan family.

Khan served on various command and staff appointments that included VCGS, GOC of Lahore, and GOC of Sialkot.

Education and career

Sardar Anwar Khan received his early education from Tain and then got recruited in the Pakistan Air Force on 7 January 1963 and was allotted the service number PA-66705. He served the air force until October 1966 when he was then selected for commission in the Pakistan Army. On 15 April 1967, he was commissioned in the Azad Kashmir Regiment. He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College, Quetta, Pakistan Navy Staff College, Karachi and National Defence College, Rawalpindi. He also attended the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania and received a Master's Degree in War Studies.

During a span of 35 years of his distinguished army career, he held various important commands of staff and instructional appointments. He commanded two infantry battalions, a brigade and as Major General commanded two infantry divisions. As a young officer he also actively participated in 1971 war in the Kashmir sector. He made significant contribution to the leadership development within the Pakistan Army as an Instructor at the Pakistan Military Academy, School of Infantry and Tactics, Command and Staff College, Quetta and as the Chief Instructor at National Defence College, Islamabad from December 1996 to December 1998. He retired from the army as Vice Chief of General Staff (VCGS) in July 2001. He also served as the colonel commandant of Azad Kashmir Regiment till April 2003.^[2]

Personal life and death

He is married and has three sons and two daughters. His son, Colonel Adnan Anwar is currently serving in the army. His personal efforts to bring Army Public School in his native village of Tain brought useful result in 2021 when APS Tain started it's educational functionality.

He died on 19 January 2023 and his funeral was held in Army Race Course Graveyard on 20 January 2023. Many officials from the Pakistani Army attended his funeral.

References

^ Zutshi, Chitralekha (2017), Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation, Cambridge University Press, pp. 125–, ISBN 978-1-107-18197-7
^ Yaqoob Malik. "Armed forces proved their capability: Musharraf" Dawn, 5 April 2003

Preceded by Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan	President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir 2001–2006	Succeeded by Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan

External links

Profile of the AJK President

v t e Presidents of Azad Kashmir
Sardar Ibrahim Khan Syed Ali Ahmed Shah Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah Sher Ahmed Khan Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan Sardar Ibrahim Khan Khurshid Hasan Khurshid Abdul Hamid Khan Abdul Rahman Khan Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan M. I. Khan Muhammad Hayat Khan Abdul Rahman Khan Sahibzada Ishaq Zafar Abdul Rashid Abbasi Sikandar Hayat Khan Abdul Rashid Abbasi Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Muhammad Anwar Khan Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan Muhammad Yaqoob Khan Masood Khan Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry

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