Zahid Ali Akbar Khan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Pakistani general and engineering officer
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Place of Birth: Jalandhar, Punjab, India
About Zahid Ali Akbar Khan
- Lieutenant general Zahid Ali Akbar (Urdu: ???? ??? ?????; b.
- 1933) HI(M), SBt, was an engineering officer in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, who oversaw the civil construction of the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, and later directing the Engineering Research Laboratories (ERL), a top secret research facility developing the clandestine atomic bomb program in 1970s. His career mostly spent in the Corps of Engineers as civil engineer before being posted to conduct the survey of Kahuta where he designed, established and later directed the enormous construction of the research site that was critical in the clandestine development of the atomic bomb program.
- In addition to his secretive role in the atomic bomb feasibility in 1970s, he took up charge on collecting military intelligence on the India's nuclear program but later appointed as an Engineer-in-Chief at the Army GHQ.
- His war appointment also included the command of the X Corps but appointed as Chairman of Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) as a secondment in 1984–89.
- In 1989–90, he then headed the Defence Science and Engineering Organization, and later Chairing the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), witnessing the national team winning the Cricket World Cup in 1992.His role in the atomic bomb program remains well hidden until memoirs written by dr.
- Abdul Qadeer Khan in 2009.
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