Tariq Khan (actor)
Tariq Hussain Khan, born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is an Indian film actor who acted in films from 1973 to 1995. He is a son of producer and director Nasir Hussain and cousin of actors Aamir Khan and Faisal Khan. He started his career with Nasir Hussain's 1973 hit film Yaadon Ki Baraat. He acted in Nasir Hussain's next hit film Hum Kisise Kum Nahin (1977). Although both were hit films, Tariq's career never took off successfully. After appearing in a handful of other films, he quit acting after his last film Mera Damad in 1995.
Filmography
List of Tariq Khan's films:
References
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Tariq Khan (Guantanamo detainee)
Tariq Khan is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
He arrived in Guantanamo on June 16, 2002. He was repatriated on 16 July 2003.
McClatchy News Service interview
On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. Tariq Khan was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
At the time of his interview Tariq Khan was working as a real estate agent in Pakistan. His McClatchy interviewer described his account of his travel to Afghanistan as far-fetched.
He said that in November 2001 he had traveled to Quetta, a city in Pakistan near the Afghan's southern border, to buy a quantity of cigarettes to sell. His visit coincided with Ramadam. And, at the mosque he went to pray at in Quetta he agreed to accompany some religious pilgrims—not realizing that they planned to cross the Afghan border. Tariq Khan told his interviewer:
Tariq Khan (general)
Lieutenant General Tariq Khan, HI(M) was a Pakistan Army general officer who was the Commander of I Strike Corps at Mangla. A war hero, he has been the Inspector General of the Frontier Corps from September 2008 till October 2010.
He has also commanded the 1st Armoured Division in Multan from 2006 to 2007 and then the 14th Infantry Division in South Waziristan till 2008. Khan gained fame when he led the Frontier Corps to victory against the Taliban in the Battle of Bajaur in 2009.
Pakistan Army career
Tariq Khan belongs to the Tank area with more than 300 years lineage. He was commissioned in the Armoured Corps in the 55th PMA Long Course on 16 April 1977 and was awarded the Sword of Honour from the Pakistan Military Academy. He has participated in the First Gulf War of 1991, and contributed towards the international effort in the War on Terrorism as Pakistan's Senior representative at CENTCOM, Tampa, Florida from 2004 to 2005.
Khan was then promoted to major general in 2006 and commanded an armoured division in Multan and later an infantry division in South Waziristan leading Operation Zalzala against the militants. On 1 October 2010 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed Corps Commander Mangla.
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