Preceded by Muhammad Safdar Nationality Pakistani Succeeded by Salmaan Taseer | Profession Soldier, general Unit Baloch Regiment Name Khalid Maqbool Service/branch Pakistan Army | |
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Tedxhup lt gen khalid maqbool pakistan at peace hajvery university
Lieutenant General (retd) Khalid Maqbool Vohra, (Urdu: خالد مقبول), (born 1948), is a career Pakistan Army officer was the longest serving Governor of Punjab, the most populous province of Pakistan, under the General Pervez Musharraf government. He was replaced by Salmaan Taseer, a business tycoon and owner of the WorldCall Group.
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- Tedxhup lt gen khalid maqbool pakistan at peace hajvery university
- Military education
- Career with Pakistan Army
- Corps Command of Lahore
- Political career
- References
Military education
Khalid Maqbool Vohra was born in Faisalabad (formerly Lyallpur). He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in May 1966 in the 1st War Course in the Baloch Regiment. He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College Quetta, the National Defence College, Rawalpindi and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, where he attended the Senior International Defense Management Course. He holds an MSc. in Defense and Strategic studies.
Career with Pakistan Army
He saw action with an infantry regiment in 1971 Indo-Pakistani War in the Kashmir Sector. Throughout the 1980s, he was military secretary to General Rahimuddin Khan. During his military career he has held a number of prestigious appointments, including command of a Corps, Infantry Division and Brigade.
He has vast experience of instructional assignments including Chief Instructor at premier institutions of Pakistan for example National Defence College and Command and Staff College, Quetta, where he dealt with matters related to strategy and defence policy at the national level. In addition, he served as the Defence and Military Attache to the United States for two and half years. From March 1995 to November 1996, he stayed as the Chief Instructor of Armed Forces War College at the then National Defence College, Islamabad.
Corps Command of Lahore
Khalid Maqbool was promoted to the rank of Lt. Gen. on 16 October 1998, and made the corps commander of Lahore in place of Lt Gen Mohammad Akram (who proceeded as QMG), a post he continued till August 2000. He then took over as Chairman of National Accountability Bureau until his retirement from Army in October 2001, when he was sworn in as Governor of Punjab province.
Political career
He was chairman, National Accountability Bureau for over one year before he was sworn in as Governor of the Punjab Province on 29 October 2001. For meritorious services, he is recipient of Hilal-e-Imtiaz. On 15 May 2008, Salmaan Taseer was nominated to be new governor of Punjab replacing Lt. Gen. Khalid Maqbool.
During his tenure in the Governor House his contributions to education and health have been great. He was very respected among his staff. He changed the lives of families of workers that lived in the back area of the Governor house. This was done by building new accommodations and by providing better schooling and basic necessities to the workers. Brig Ahad Muzzafar Shah was appointed as his first Military Sectary from 2001-2004.