Zahid Ali Akbar Khan

Lieutenant General Zahid Ali Akbar Khan is a now-retired Pakistan Army engineer officer, best known for his role in Pakistan's acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. He was delegated by then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the fledgling uranium enrichment program alongside Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan in 1976, spearheading the construction of Kahuta Research Laboratories (then known as the Engineering Research Laboratories). Under the military dictator General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, he was made the principal military head of Project-706, Pakistan's integral atomic bomb project. Having fought in both the Indo-Pakistani wars of 1965 and 1971, Akbar also commanded the Rawalpindi-based X Corps during the start of the Siachen conflict in 1984.