Background
General Aziz Khan was born on 1 January 1947 in the village of Dhar Dhrach, (Now Afzalabad) Palandri, Azad Kashmir, and studied at High School Palandri (now Post Graduate College Palandri).
General Aziz Khan was born on 1 January 1947 in the village of Dhar Dhrach, (Now Afzalabad) Palandri, Azad Kashmir, and studied at High School Palandri (now Post Graduate College Palandri).
Prior to this four-star appointment, he was the field operational commander of the IV Corps stationed in Lahore, Punjab Province of Pakistan. He came into public notice in 1999 and was an instrumental of removing elected Prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a military coup d"état that brought General Pervez Musharraf into the power in country"s national politics. Aziz Khan was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1966 in the 1st War Course (thus junior to 37th PMA, but senior to 38th PMA) in the Infantry"s Punjab Regiment.
He was a graduate of Command and Staff College, Quetta and National Defence College, Rawalpindi.
As a Colonel, Aziz was the Military Secretary to the former President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. He also served as the Military Personnel at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington District of Columbia in late 1980s.
After that, he served as the deputy director of Inter-Services Intelligence. He was then posted as the Commander Force Command Northern Areas (FCNA), Gilgit who is responsible for the entire Kashmir region and Northern Areas operations.
General Aziz Khan is thought to be one of the primary architects of an unprovoked, covert attack on the Indian controlled territory in the Indian State of Kashmir, which resulted in the Kargil War.
(lieutenant is worthy to mention that the entire Pakistani forces in Kargil War was conducted by then Commander FCNA Major General Javed Hassan). General Aziz was promoted to Lieutenant General in October 1998 by the recently appointed COAS Pervez Musharraf and posted as (CGS). During the Kargil War in 1999, General Aziz Khan was serving as the CGS under General Pervez Musharraf.
Secret recordings of alleged conversations between General Musharraf and General Aziz were apparently "intercepted" by the Indian intelligence during the Kargil Campaign.
Said recordings proved that Pakistan Army had secretly invaded Kashmir. When Aziz Khan was made the (CGS), the posting was contrary to norms of Army, as generally the senior most Lieutenant General occupy it and is considered the second-in-command of the Army.
In August 2000, Aziz Khan was transferred as Corps Commander Lahore (August 2000 - October 2001). After the September 11 attacks and the subsequent United States invasion of Afghanistan, General Aziz Khan was transferred to the ceremonial post While being promoted, Aziz Khan was sixth in the seniority list of Lieutenant Generals
Lieutenant Generals Muzaffar Usmani, Yusaf Khan (who was also promoted to four-star and made VCOAS), Mahmud Ahmed, Khalid Maqbool, and Hamid Javaid were all senior to him, all of whom stood superseded.
He also stayed as the Colonel-in-Chief of the Punjab Regiment appointed by General Pervez Musharraf on 21 March 2003. Aziz Khan also stayed as the honorary president of Pakistan Hockey Federation (Paired Helical Filaments) from July 2000 to January 2005. General Aziz is currently writing his memoirs.
He belongs to the Sudhan tribe of Azad Kashmir.