Early Life
Niazi was born in 1915 to a Ghilzai Pashtun family in the Punjab, when it was part of the British Indian Empire. In 1932 he enlisted in the British Indian Army as a junior non-commissioned officer and was sent to the Indian Military Academy, where he gained a BSc in Military science and completed a paratrooper course. He was then commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 5th Paratrooper of the Punjab Regiment in 1937 and served in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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