Asghar Khan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistani Air Force air marshal
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Place of Birth: Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
About Asghar Khan
- Mohammad Asghar Khan (Urdu: ???? ???? 17 January 1921 ā 5 January 2018), was a Pakistani politician and an autobiographer, later a dissident serving for the cause of pacifism, peace, and human rights.Born into a military family, Asghar Khan briefly served as an officer in the Indian Army before being deputed to the Royal Indian Air Force as a military adviser in 1941ā he was later drafted in the air force as its commanding officer in the Asian front of the World War II.
- After the partition of India in 1947, he chose to join the Pakistan Air Force and subsequently secured promotion as a three star rank air officer where he was appointed to command the air force at the age of 36 in 1959ā the youngest officer at the command level in the military at that time.
- In 1965, his dissenting opinion with Gen.
- Musa Khan, the army commander, over the area contingency plans and vetoing the decisions to go on war with India eventually led to his replacement with Air Marshal Nur Khan.
- He continue to serve with his rank when he was deputed as a Pakistan International Airlines's executive until retiring in 1968.After his retirement from the military in 1968, Asghar Khan founded the Solidarity Party with a secular and centrist political program in a direct opposition to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) but failed to make any significant impact when the general elections held in 1970.
- From 1970sā90s, his political career focused towards the politics of agitations against the elected civilian governments, and gained notability when he filed the multiple lawsuits against the PPP and the PML(N) at the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1990s.
- During this time, he authored many political books, some very critical or given dissenting criticism to the Pakistan Army's involvement in the national politics.In 2011, Asghar Khan later merged his party with the Pakistan Movement for Justice led by Imran Khan, and was buried with state honours after passing away in January 2018.
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