MAK Chaudhary || Mahmood Ali Khan Chaudhary || ایم اے کے چوہدری || محمود علی خان چوہدری

MAK Chaudhary || Mahmood Ali Khan Chaudhary || ایم اے کے چوہدری || محمود علی خان چوہدری

Mahmood Ali Khan (1923-2011) spent his childhood in Wazirabad, returned to Jullundur upon his father's retirement, went to college in Ludhiana, joined the Army, and when a Captain opted for the Police. He went on to become I.G. East Pakistan in the 1960s, and Director General FIA and Secretary Interior in the 1970s. Like his colleague A.B. Awan, he acquired a reputation for integrity that shone especially brightly in a service where, sadly, the "corrupt cops" of thriller fiction are not the exception but the rule.

He made his major mark in East Pakistan, by 1970 poised to strike back at decades of arrogant over lordship from military and civilian West Pakistani personnel. MAK Chaudhry, like General Azam Khan and Syed Alamdar Raza, was among the handful of officers who won widespread and lasting admiration and affection. Taken prisoner of war in December 1971, he endured this ordeal gracefully, as did his wife and children.

Mahmood Ali Khan's experiences made a writer out of him. At the launch of his book 'Reminiscences from Bengal' (it was dedicated to his spouse Suraiya), my mother Ruhafza Hyder, herself a woman of letters, compared him to Hasrat Mohani who had dedicated his exquisite poetry to his wife. His autobiography 'All Those Years' makes is compelling and entertaining. Despite the drama he witnessed in his eventful life, he never lost his sense of humour, and his subtle laughter and suddenly sparkling eyes will be remembered and missed by friends and family.

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