Background
Lieutenant General Azhar was born in Saugar, India in 1918 into the (Mian Sheikh Darvesh) Waziris and received education in Lahore and then Aligarh.
Lieutenant General Azhar was born in Saugar, India in 1918 into the (Mian Sheikh Darvesh) Waziris and received education in Lahore and then Aligarh.
He started his career as a doctor after receiving education at the King Edward Medical College. Responding to a call of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah exhorting the youth to join the armed forces, he left the medical profession and got commission in the armed forces in 1942. He fought on the Burma front during the Second World War and participated in the wars against India on the Kashmir front in 1947 and at Rann of Kutch in 1965.
He defeated one division of the Indian Army with the help of only two battalions during the 1965 War and conquered 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) area in Rajasthan and captured the Munabao Railway Station along with a large number of Indian soldiers and three tanks.
He was injured while commanding Pakistani forces on the Rajasthan front in 1971 during his tenure as the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor. He also served as president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation in 1970 before retirement in 1972 and was the first chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board from 1978 to 1980.
K.M. Azhar died at the Combined Military Hospital in Lahore on 29 October 2006 when he was admitted to the hospital after receiving a head injury while performing ablution for prayers. Upon his death in his remembrance his Waziri tribe named a mountain peak after him in Kaniguram Village Kaniguram of South Waziristan.