Aziz Khan ( general ) General Muhammad Aziz Khan , NI ( M ) , SBt , HI ( M ) , ( born January 1 , 1947 ) is a retired four - star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee . Prior to this four - star appointment , he was the field operational commander of the IV Corps stationed in Lahore , Punjab Province of Pakistan . He came into public notice in 1999 and was an instrumental of removing elected Prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a military coup d ' état that brought General Pervez Musharraf into the power in country ' s national politics . Personal . General Aziz Khan was born on 1 January 1947 in the village of Dhar Dhrach , Palandri , and studied at High School Palandri ( now Post Graduate College Palandri ) . Military career . Aziz Khan was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1966 in the 1st War Course ( thus junior to 37th PMA , but senior to 38th PMA ) in the Infantry ' s Punjab Regiment . He was a graduate of Command and Staff College , Quetta and National Defence College , Rawalpindi . As a Colonel , Aziz was the Personal Military Secretary to the former President of Pakistan , General Muhammad Zia - ul - Haq . He also served as the Military Personnel at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC in late 1980s . Returning ot Pakistan , as a brigadier , Aziz worked as the Chief of Staff ( COS ) of the X Corps under the then Corps Commander Lt Gen Ghulam Muhammad Malik and also commanded an infantry brigade in the Siachen area around the same time . After that , he served as the deputy director of Inter - Services Intelligence . He was then posted as the Commander Force Command Northern Areas ( FCNA ) , Gilgit who is responsible for the entire Kashmir region and Northern Areas operations ( It is worthy to mention that the entire Pakistani forces in Kargil War was conducted by then Commander FCNA Maj Gen Javed Hassan ) . Chief of General Staff . General Aziz was promoted to Lt Gen in October 1998 by the recently appointed COAS Pervez Musharraf and posted as Chief of General Staff ( CGS ) . During the Kargil War in 1999 , General Aziz Khan was serving as the CGS under General Pervez Musharraf . Secret recordings of alleged conversations between General Musharraf and General Aziz were apparently " intercepted " by the Indian intelligence during the Kargil Campaign . Said recordings proved that Pakistan Army had secretly invaded Kashmir . When Aziz Khan was made the Chief of General Staff ( CGS ) , the posting was contrary to norms of Army , as generally the senior most Lieutenant General occupy it and is considered the second - in - command of the Army . In August 2000 , Aziz Khan was transferred as Corps Commander Lahore ( August 2000 - October 2001 ) . Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee . After the September 11 attacks and the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan , General Aziz Khan was transferred to the ceremonial post Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee . While being promoted , Aziz Khan was sixth in the seniority list of Lt Gens . Lieutenant Generals Muzaffar Usmani , Yusaf Khan ( who was also promoted to four - star and made VCOAS ) , Mahmud Ahmed , Khalid Maqbool , and Hamid Javaid were all senior to him , all of whom stood superseded . He also stayed as the Colonel - in - Chief of the Punjab Regiment appointed by General Pervez Musharraf on 21 March 2003 . Post - retirement . Aziz Khan also stayed as the honorary president of Pakistan Hockey Federation ( PHF ) from July 2000 to January 2005 . General Aziz is currently writing his memoirs . He belongs to the influential Sudhan tribe of Azad Kashmir . He is married and has three daughters and one son . References . of which the names of 2 daughters are humera and sumera .