Gul Hassan Khan

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**General Gul Hassan Khan**

Date of Birth:	1921
Date of Death:	1999
Chief of the Army Staff
Tenure Order:	6th Chief of the Army Staff
Took Office:	20th of December, 1971
Predecessor:	Gen. Yahya Khan
Successor:	Gen. Tikka Khan

General Gul Hassan Khan was the Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan. General Gul Hassan was born in Quetta, was educated at the Royal Indian Military College (now the Rashtriya Indian Military College), Dehradun , India. In 1933 he was commissioned in the Indian Army. After independence, he served the Pakistan Army for 25 years. Following the defeat of Pakistan to the Indian Military and the secession of East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh), he became the Chief of Army Staff as Yahya Khan, his predecessor had to resign after widespread protests in Pakistan. He thus became the first person to be appointed to the post in a divided Pakistan (erstshile West Pakistan). His tenure, however, was shortlived. He was ousted as army chief on March 3, 1972 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He was allegedly huddled up in a car and taken to Lahore by road by Ghulam Mustafa Khar, a politician and a close associate of Bhutto's.

He had three brothers and a sister. He has relatives still residing in Pabbi near Peshawar, and in Quetta, Pakistan. General Gul Hassan Khan died in 1999 and was buried in Pabbi in Nowshera District (Main town of Chearat Cant, Chowki Mumriaz, Taroo Jaba, Akber Pura).

In the last few years of his life he was dividing his time between Vienna, Austria and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He wrote a book Memoirs of Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan.