serviceyears servicenumber laterwork branch commands birth_place unit awards name battles birth_date nickname rank article_title birth_name
1952-1990 pa -- 4499 chairman chairman pakistan cricket board -lrb- pcb -rrb- pakistan hockey federation water -lrb- phf -rrb- and power development authority -lrb- wapda -rrb- pak project-706 e-in-c military engineering service pakistan army corps of engineers engineering adjutant-general research laboratories army technological research laboratories -lrb- ag -rrb- x corps , rawalpindi jalandhar -lrb- present-day india -rrb- , east punjab , british indian empire , corps of engineers , pakistan army tamgha-i-khidmat zahid ali akbar khan indo-pakistani conflict of 1984 war of 1965 indo-pakistani war of 1971 siachen 09 january 1933 zach 25px lieutenant-general zahid ali akbar khan
 zahid ali akbar
zahid ali akbar khan

lieutenant-general zahid ali akbar khan -lrb- urdu : زاہد على اكبر ; january 9 , 1933 -rrb- , `` tkdt '' , was an engineering officer in the pakistan army who oversaw the construction of the general headquarters -lrb- ghq -rrb- , and is well known as the director of the `` kahuta project '' as part of the pakistan 's acquisition of integrated atomic bomb project .
after graduating from the of military college of engineering , akbar was commissioned in corps of engineers , and took participation in both the 1965 and the 1971 wars ; and finally reached to a prestigious three-star assignment , the engineer-in-chief , while he also served as the military science adviser advising the military government of zia-ul-haq on important matters on science and technology , from 1977 until 1983 .
in january 1976 , as a brigadier he was delegated by then-prime minister zulfikar ali bhutto to the fledgling uranium-enrichment program under dr abdul qadeer khan .
he spearheaded the construction of science facilities -lrb- krl -rrb- at kahuta .
although , according to dr a.q. khan , brigadier zahid ali akbar was deputed to krl by gen zia ul haq .
under the fruition of cmla and president general zia-ul-haq , he was made the principle military director of the atomic bomb project 's one side `` kahuta project '' .
he took participation in site selections with pakistan atomic energy commission and directed the enormous construction of weapon-testing laboratories , made critical decisions on the various methods of gas-centrifuges on the acquired raw materials , directed the collection of military intelligence on indian nuclear programme .
in 1980 , he was promoted as the engineer-in-chief by general zia-ul-haq who also appointed him as the military science adviser , and remained associated with the atomic bomb project until 1983 when he handed over the responsibility of the entire nuclear technology project to pakistan atomic energy commission in 1983 .
in 1984 , akbar assumed the combat assignment when he commanded the x corps during the start of the arctic war in gilgit -- baltistan .
after the war , he then directed the desto laboratories which was established to produced the high-atomic explosive materials and weapons .
after retirement from the army in 1990 , zahid akbar was appointed chairman of the water and power development authority by then-prime minister navaz sharif .
he was then appointed chairman of the cricket control board of pakistan -lrb- bccp -rrb- and oversaw pakistan 's victory of the 1992 cricket world cup , following which he established scarsdale international school in lahore , pakistan .
