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Ali Jan Aurakzai

Ali Jan Aurakzai
26th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
In office
23 May 2006 – 8 January 2008
President General Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
Preceded by Cdr Khalilur Rehman, PN
Succeeded by Owais Ahmed Ghani
Personal details
Born Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai
1947
Hangu, Hangu District, Orakzai Agency, Khyber-Pakhtunkwa
Nationality Pakistani
Alma mater Pakistan Military Academy
Awards Tamgha-i-Khidmat
Military service
Nickname(s) General Jan Aurakzai
Allegiance  Pakistan
Service/branch  Pakistan Army
Years of service 1967–2004
Rank US-O9 insignia.svg Lieutenant-General
Unit Frontier Force Regiment
Commands XI Corps
Northern Military Command
Adjutant General
Western Military Command
Battles/wars Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Soviet war in Afghanistan
Indo-Pakistani War of 1999
War in North-West Pakistan

Lieutenant-General Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai (Urdu language: على محمدجان اوركزى), is a retired three-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army who served as the Corps Commander of XI Corps and the principle commander of the Western Command. As Commander, he commanded all military combat assets and oversaw the peaceful deployment of XI Corps in the Northern Areas and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Aurakzai was the leading army general who led the Pakistan combatant forces in response to American invasion of Afghanistan as an aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States. After retiring from the military, he was elevated as the governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan, from May 2006 until his resignation in January 2008.

Passing out from Pakistan Military Academy with the 38th PMA Long Course, he got commission (second lieutenant) in 1967 in the 14th Battalion of the Frontier Force Regiment (Naubara), Pakistan Army. As Lieutenant, Aurakzai had led a Guerrilla company during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In 1976, as Major, he served as the Forward observer in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In 1983, he served as the Aerial observer and intelligence observer in the Pakistan's western border. He is graduate of Command and Staff College, and was posted in Generals Headquarter (GHQ) in 1985. He served there as an intelligence analyst for the Pakistan Army. Throughout the 1980s, Aurakzai had served as an intelligence and military advisor at The GHQ.


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