Governors of North-West Frontier Province - Naseerullah Babar, Hayat Sherpao, Miangul Aurangzeb, Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar (Paperback)

Chapters: Naseerullah Babar, Hayat Sherpao, Miangul Aurangzeb, Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar, Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, Owais Ahmed Ghani, List of Governors of the North-West Frontier Province. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Major General (retd) Naseerullah Babar (Urdu: ) was born in 1928 in Ismaeil Khel near Akora Khattak Nowshera, Pukhtunkhwa Pakistan. His family is from the Babar tribe of Pashtuns and hails from the village of Pirpiai in district Nowshera. Babar is a former Pakistan Army general, a former Inspector General Frontier Corps and Babar is a senior central leader of Pakistan Peoples Party. He served as Governor of the North-West Frontier Province from 1975-1977 under Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's government as well as interior minister during Benazir Bhutto's second government from 1993-1996. He was Special Assistant in Benazir Bhutto's first government from 1988-1990. His early education was from Presentation Convent School, Peshawar between 1935 to 1939. From 1939 to 1941 he attended Burn Hall then located at Baramula and Srinagar. The school was subsequently shifted to Abbottabad after Partition. He then attended Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dheradun and joined the Pakistan Army in 1948. He is from the first PMA long course which graduated in 1950. In his long career in the Army, Babar served in the Artillery Corps and Aviation. During the 1965 war with India, Babar single handedly captured an entire Indian company of soldiers (over 70 POWs) and was awarded Sitara-e-Jurat for this action. In the 1971 war, he commanded an artillery brigade in support of 23 Division and later commanded an infantry division until he was wounded and evacuated from the battlefield. He also h...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=241181