Rao Farman Ali
Major general Rao Farman Ali Khan (Urdu: راؤ فرمان علی; ; b. 1923– January 21, 2004), was a senior and high profile officer who commanded combatant assets and elements of the Corps of Military Police during the East-Pakistan war and following the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. As commander of Military police and senior military adviser as well, Ali executed and oversaw the internal and external deployment and operations of military police in East-Pakistan and security forces including the Volunteers unit. Initially a forward observer in Regiment of Artillery and later as military adviser in East Pakistan.
Though Ali has denied such allegations, the Hamoodur Rahman Commission proved the involvement of misconducts and atrocities of Pakistan Armed Forces personnel but not on his part. Ali remains a controversial figure with many of his colleagues and his superior officers accusing Ali for being a "conspirator" of the war in East Pakistan. He gracefully retired from Pakistan Army in 1974, later in he joined Fauji Foundation and FFC is one of his product. However, after Bhutto's death in 1979, General Zia-ul-Haq appointed him as MD Fauji Foundation and Minister for Oil and Gas till 1985. He died in 2004 after a brief illness in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Read more about Rao Farman Ali: Brief Career, Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report, Rao On Mukti Bahini and General Niazi, Rao's Controversial Letter and Diary, Doubts On Rao's Version of 1971
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