serviceyears branch death_date placeofdeath birth_date laterwork commands battles rank image name caption servicenumber unit awards nickname placeofbirth article_title birth_name
1940-1976 pak 28 march 2002 rawalpindi , punjab province 07 july 1915 politician 8th division , sialkot iv corps eastern military high command ii infantry '' strike '' corps chief of army staff division , rann of kutch 15th infantry battle war of 1965 indo-pakistani war of 1971 bangladesh liberation war of operation searchlight rann of kutch battle of chawinda indo-pakistani 30px general general.tikkakhan.jpg tikka khan general tikka khan in mess dress , pa -lrb- pa -- 124 -rrb- 12th medium regiment , corps of artillery hilal-i-jurat -lrb- spk -rrb- -lrb- hj -rrb- hilal-i-quaid-i-azam -lrb- hqa -rrb- sitara-e-pakistan butcher of bengal rawalpindi , british punjab state , british indian empire tikka khan
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tikka khan

general tikka khan , hj , hqa , spk , -lrb- punjabi , ; 7 july 1915 -- 28 march 2002 -rrb- was a four-star general in the pakistan army who served as the first chief of army staff of the pakistan army from 3 march 1972 to 1 march 1976 .
after retiring from the army he was appointed to the cabinet position of defense and security advisor in prime minister z.a. bhutto 's administration .
he , along with secretary general of defense mr. ghulam ishaq khan oversaw the genesis of pakistan 's nuclear weapons project in kahuta according to dr. a.q. khan .
coincidentally , the decision to construct a.q. khan 's lab in kahuta was made in the days of gen tikka who was from kahuta .
-lrb- see early life -rrb- .
prior to tikka 's appointment , the chief of army staff was known as commander-in-chief .
before the four-star assignment -lrb- in 1971 -rrb- , tikka khan was a martial law administrator of erstwhile east-pakistan -lrb- later , bangladesh -rrb- .
he succeeded air commodore mitty masud , and assumed the command of eastern military high command on 26 march 1971 .
as a commander of eastern command , -lrb- then -rrb- lieutenant-general tikka khan was the architect and top planner of operation searchlight .
he is still remembered as the `` butcher of bengal '' for his ruthlessness against separatists and brutality inflicted in the erstwile east pakistan , in the remaining pakistan .
he became chief of the army , member of bhutto 's cabinet , governor of a province , leader of the pakistan people 's party and buried with full military honors upon his death in pakistan .
