Ali Kuli Khan
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Lieutenant General Ali Kuli Khan was a former Chief of General Staff (CGS), Commander X Corps (Rawalpindi) and Director General Military Intelligence (DGMI) of the Pakistan Army who was superseded when the then Lieutenant General Pervez Musharraf was promoted as the chief of army staff. As a major general, he exposed the Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 in which Major General Zahirul Islam Abbasi tried to overthrow the Benazir Bhutto government and install an Islamist regime. This was the second failed (and exposed) coup attempt in Pakistani history, the first one being the 1951 Rawalpindi Conspiracy.
Ali Kuli Khan retired from the army when Musharraf was made the COAS in 1998. At that time, Musharraf superseded two senior officers; Ali Kuli Khan and Khalid Nawaz, the then Quarter-Master General (QMG).
Owing to Musharraf's claim of Kargil War as a military success, General Ali Kuli Khan in a scathing review brushed off Musharraf's claim as fictitious, and termed the debacle as the biggest tragedy of Pakistan even bigger than East Pakistan dismemberment. He is also very critical of Musharraf's book In the Line of Fire, where according to him, the author puts Ali Kuli Khan's image in a negative manner.
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General Ali Kuli Khan Accuses Musharraf of Lies and Half-Truths
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| Preceded by unknown |
Chief of General Staff 1997–1998 |
Succeeded by Lt. General Muhammad Aziz Khan |
