The Living Scripts | Aziz Khan (Former IG, KPK)

The eighteenth session of IPS series of program ‘The Living Scripts’ was held with Aziz Khan, former Inspector General (IG), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on January 15, 2021.

Aziz
shared that he was born in Mardan in 1943 and had his early education from his
village, but later on moved to Lahore for higher education where he completed
his graduation from Law College, Lahore. He then appeared in the competitive
exams which he qualified with good marks.

After
joining the Police services, Aziz told, he went to Bangladesh (former East
Pakistan) for initial training courses and served there during the historic
elections of 1971 as well. He shared that he had witnessed almost all the major
incidents that happened in the Eastern Pakistan at that time, where according
to him, the agitations started soon after the elections and gradually began to
get worse.

The
speaker also shed light on his services in Beirut where he served in Pakistan’s
embassy as an FIA officer and had several opportunities to meet renowned
Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat.

Speaking
of Balochistan where he had served as an IG, the speaker said that it was
important to understand the nature of the province and the issues of its people
first in order to solve the underlying problems. Doing this in a better way, he
opined, should take care of most of the problems by itself.

Responding
to a question over improving the efficiency of the police in the country, the
speaker stressed on the need of police reforms while urging to equip them with
improved modern technologies.