Khawaja Wasiuddin (20 March 1920 – 22 September 1992) was an army general and diplomat. He started his career as a young officer in the British Indian Army and later became a senior general in Pakistan Army. In 1973, he was repatriated to Bangladesh and later served as a senior general in Bangladesh Army. He was the permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations.
After the partition of India he opted for Pakistan Army. In Pakistan, he continued to work in Pakistani Inter Services Selection Board, eventually becoming its president. In 1951 he went for further studies in Camberley Staff College in United Kingdom and subsequently was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In 1960 he was made the general officer commanding (GOC) of the 14th Division located in East Pakistan's Dhaka and in 1963 he was the commander of 10th Division located in Lahore, West Pakistan.[1] In 1962 he was a provincial martial law administrator.[3] In 1964 he got his higher educations from Imperial Defense College in United Kingdom.[1] In 1967, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and was appointed as the commander of the II Corps, the headquarters was firstly in Lahore and later was transferred to Multan, Punjab.[1]
Bangladesh
During the Bangladesh Liberation War he was the Master General of Ordnance (MGO) in General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, West Pakistan.[4] In October 1973, he was repatriated to Bangladesh from Pakistan.[5] After returning to Bangladesh he would serve as the ambassador of Bangladesh to Kuwait and France.[1][6] He retired from Bangladesh Army in 1977 and was made the permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations,[7] position he held until 1986.[1] As the representative he supported Indonesia's annexation of East Timor in the United Nation.[8]
Death
He died on 22 September 1992 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[1]
^Mishra, Sidharth; Singh, Bikram (1997). Where gallantry is tradition : saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College : plantinum jubilee volume, 1997. New Delhi: Allied Publishers. p. 46. ISBN9788170236498.
^Krieger, Heike, ed. (1997). East Timor and the International Community: Basic Documents (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN978-0-521-58134-9.
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