General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi | |
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| Birth name | Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi: 154 [1] |
| Born | Lahore, Punjab, British India (present day, Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Allegiance |  Pakistan |
| Service |  Pakistan Army |
| Years of service | 1964–1999 |
| Rank |  General |
| Service number | PA–6989 |
| Unit | Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers |
| Commands | |
| Battles / wars | |
| Awards |  Hilal-e-Imtiaz |
| Other work | Chairman of Chief Minister’s Inspection Team, Punjab Provincial Government.[2] |
General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi (Urdu: خواجہ ضیاء الدین عباسى), also known as Ziauddin Butt (Urdu: ضیاء الدین بٹ), is a retired four-star rank army general[3][4][5][6] in the Pakistan Army, who served as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), for few hours, until Chairman joint chiefs General Pervez Musharraf reasserted the command and control of the military despite his termination on 12 October 1999.: 167 [6] : 169 [7]
His appointment as the chief of army staff is distinguishable since he was the first army engineer and the first Director ISI who was appointed to four-star command appointment.[8] His career in the military spent as an engineering officer Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers before becoming the spymaster in the ISI on 7 October 1998.
After the military's war performance in Kargil against the Indian Army, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif forcefully terminated the commission of then-Chairman joint chiefs and then-army chief General Pervez Musharraf by elevating General Ziauddin as an army chief on 12 October 1999. This order of promotion was then refused by General Musharraf's military staff as General Musharraf immediately led the military takeover of the civilian government while dismissing General Zia from his appointment and commission.
After a nearly two-year military investigation which found no evidence of his involvement in Prime Minister Sharif's decisions during the coup, Zia retired from his military service in 2001.
In 2011, Ziauddin revealed to the news media that, it was Brigadier Ijaz Shah, the DG of Intelligence Bureau from 2004 to 2008, who had provided the support and hideout to Osama bin Laden in a IB's safe house in Abbottabad.[9] But he later denied making any such statements.[10]
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- ^ Riedel, Bruce (14 February 2012). "Pakistan's Musharraf Has Been Accused of Knowing Osama bin Laden's Hideout". The Daily Beast.
- ^ "The Jamestown Foundation". www.jamestown.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ^ "Special Report, NOS, The News International". jang.com.pk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ^ a b Chaudhry, Aminullah (2009) Hijacking from the Ground: The Bizarre Story of Pk 805. Authorhouse. Pg 167
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Jamestown Foundation, Jamal (2011)was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Jamal, Arif. "Former Pakistan Army Chief Reveals Intelligence Bureau Harbored Bin Laden in Abbottabad". Terrorism Monitor Journal. The JamesTown Foundation.
- ^ Ashraf Javed (16 February 2012). "Ijaz Shah to sue Ziauddin Butt". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2012.