Nights of the knights : Hamood-ur-Rahman Commission Report

[Manas]

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Brigade Major Munawar Khan testified before the Hamood-ur -Rahman Commission (The Commission) that the Commander Brigadier Hayatullah had brought some girls for entertainment in his bunker on the night of 11th & 12th December 1971 in Maqbulpur sector when enemy shells were falling on his troops. Brigadier Jahanzeb Arbab (later Lieut. General) as SMLA Multan had demanded 100,000 as bribery from a PCS officer who was chairman of Multan Municipal Committee. The PCS officer committed suicide while leaving a note behind which read that he had only earned rupees 15000 while the SMLA was asking for rupees 100,000, informed Brigadier Abbas Beg to the Commission. The same Jahanzeb Arbab as Commander 57 brigade in former East Pakistan had looted rupees 13.5 million from the National bank treasury in Siraj Ganj.

The Commission concluded that Major General Khudadad Khan Adjutant General Pakistan Army had illicit relations with General Aqleem Akhter Rani whom he helped in suppressing some martial law cases. He also minted money in a number of business deals during martial law.

General A.A K Niazi had amorous relations with Ms Saeeda Bukhari of Gulberg Lahore who used to run a brothel house by the name of Sinorita Home. She also worked as a tout for Tiger Niazi for receiving money and getting things done when he was GOC and later Corps Commander at Lahore. She also colluded with Niazi in the smuggling of pan from East Pakistan. Shamim Firdaus was another notorious character from Sialkot who did the same job as Saeeda Bukhari but at a different location. Major Sajjad-ul-Haq of 604 field intelligence unit told the Commission that dancing girls were frequently brought to a house in Dacca where they would entertain the generals. He further informed that Tiger Niazi would even visit some dancing girls in his staff car bearing 3 stars and the corps flag. Lt.Colonel Aziz Ahmad Khan told the Commission that the troops said “When the commander himself was a rapist, how could they be stopped”. General Niazi also shamelessly defended the rapists by declaring that: “You cannot expect a man to live, fight and die in East Pakistan and go to Jhelum for sex; would you?”

Yahiya Khan was extremely fond of women and wine. Some of his girl friends were wife of an IG Police, Begum Shamim.K.N Hussain,Begum Junagadh, Madam Noor Jehan, Aqleem Akhtar Rani ,wife of a Karachi based businessman Mansoor Heerji, wife of a junior police officer, Nazli Begum, ex wife of Major General(retd) Latif Khan Mst Zainub, ex wife of Sir Khizar Hayat Tiwana with the same name i.e. Zainub, Anwara Begum, an industrialist from Dacca, Lilly khan and Laila Muzammil, again from Dacca, plus actresses Shabnam, Shagufta,Naghma , Tarana and countless others. A number of generals and other army officers would accompany their wives and other female relations to presidency and then leave while the ladies would remain behind. The report contains names of more than 500 women who spent time with the most licentious ruler of this country and in return extracted countless material benefits at the expense of the State. The wives of Generals Naseem, Hameed, Latif, khudad, Shahid, Yaqoob,Riaz,Peerzada,Mian and several others were Yahiya’s regular visitors. Even when the situation in East Pakistan was degenerating Yahiya Khan used to visit Lahore and stay at the Governor House where the aphrodisiac Madam Noor Jehan used to meet him at least twice or thrice a day, in different dresses, makeover and hairdo. At night, she made sure that she was there. General Rani told ex-IG Prisons Hafiz Qasim that once she herself saw General Yahiya pouring liquor over the body of Malika-e -Tarannum Noor Jehan and then licking it, while both were sitting naked on the bed. This was when East Pakistan was burning. Begum Shamim K N Hussain would come to see Yahiya at night and would leave early morning. Later Shamim was appointed ambassador to Austria while her husband was sent as Pakistan’s ambassador to Switzerland. Both husband and wife were not from Foreign Service with no experience of diplomacy. The father of Shamim, Justice (retd) Amin Ahmad was appointed Director National Shipping Corporation when he was 70 years of age. Similarly when Noor Jehan went to Tokyo to take part in a music festival, she got hefty allowances in foreign exchange in violation of rules while many of her family members were sent to Japan on state expense. When Nazli Begum, one of Yahiya’s mistresses was not sanctioned loan by the MD PICIC, Yahiya dismissed the officer.

61, Harley Street Rawalpindi, a house owned by Yahiya was built and decorated with funds obtained from Standard Bank. Yahiya and his Chief of staff General Abdul Hamid Khan used to have fun with their mistresses in the guarded premises of this house. General Rani in one of her rare interviews described Yahiya’s idiosyncratic behavior “One night Agha Jani came to visit me and was somewhat agitated. The moment he entered, he inquired if I had heard the song "cheeche da chala" from the film Dhee Rani. I smiled and stated that I had no time to listen to songs. So, he called the military secretary and ordered him to have a copy of the song delivered to my house at once. It was two o' clock in the morning and the MS had to specially have an audio shop opened up in order to obtain the album. But the command was obeyed and within an hour, Agha Jani was blissfully listening to the song.

Another widely circulated anecdote during the regime of the philanderer General Yahiya Khan was about actress Tarana, One evening a woman arrived at the presidential palace and demanded admission, “I am actress Tarana,” she told the security guards. “I don’t care what Tarana you are,” replied the guard, “you have to have a pass to go in.”
The woman was incensed and demanded to speak to the ADC to the President. The guard rang up the ADC and was told to let the woman in. Two hours later when she was leaving, the same guard sprang to attention and saluted her. “What change in your behavior!” remarked the woman very sarcastically.

“Yes madam,” replied the guard, “when you came, you were the actress Tarana; now you are leaving you are the Qaumi Tarana (national anthem), and so I must salute you.”


General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan continued to live a peaceful and happy life at 61, Harley Street, Rawalpindi while drawing full retirement benefits including pensions as Army Chief and as President. When he died on August 10, 1980 he was honored with a full military burial.

[JanjaWeed]

Aiwan e sadr ka raslila while the army was fighting an important war to save the country..

[JanjaWeed]

I cannot imagine its possible in the Islamic republic of Pakistan.

Lot of things happens irrespective of any republics.. it's just that they are either doesn't get exposed or kept locked up. Take this report itself.. it was tucked away in secrecy till an Indian media got hold of the findings in 2000. Only then the things started coming out of woodworks..

[Manas]

Lot of things happens irrespective of any republics.. it's just that they are either doesn't get exposed or kept locked up. Take this report itself.. it was tucked away in secrecy till an Indian media got hold of the findings in 2000. Only then the things started coming out of woodworks..

No, i'm more flabbergasted how it could be tolerated in a conservative society like Pakistan . Nude parties at the house Commander-in chief's house ??

Sounds more like from stories from the play boy mansion of Hugh Hefner.

[Oscar]

No, i'm more flabbergasted how it could be tolerated in a conservative society like Pakistan . Nude parties at the house Commander-in chief's house ??

Sounds more like from stories from the play boy mansion of Hugh Hefner.

Pakistan was far from "conservative" as you put it before Zia.
We practices our religion, but were not vomiting it all over the place like today.
However.. such unprofessional practices have nothing to do with religion..or society. I see this as a pointless attempt to derail the issue. Which was fat and flabby generals making a fool out of everybody.
Emotions in the field rise and fall, and troops urged on by the misdemeanour's of their leaders and by the morale sapping behaviour of what they had been told were their countrymen.. brought out monsters hidden in all men.

Yahya was nothing more than man out to enjoy a position he did not deserve.. the actual seeds of discord had been laid much earlier...and unprofessionalism in the Army encouraged by Ayub Khan.

[JanjaWeed]

No, i'm more flabbergasted how it could be tolerated in a conservative society like Pakistan . Nude parties at the house Commander-in chief's house ??

Sounds more like from stories from the play boy mansion of Hugh Hefner.

I think it's the culture of generals there I suppose.. They are kinda royalty in that part of the world due to the kind of status they occupied in the country. Have a listen to this..from 4:30 onwards.. explains the mindset for some extent..

[ice_man]

No, i'm more flabbergasted how it could be tolerated in a conservative society like Pakistan . Nude parties at the house Commander-in chief's house ??

Sounds more like from stories from the play boy mansion of Hugh Hefner.

yes and your NAITAA jee watch POONAM PANDEY & porn videos in assembly & parliment! that is normal for indians i suppose??????

[asad71]

In the final days, say people close to Yahya, he wouldn't get a kick unless a woman peed on his face. Tall, long legged Tarana was an expert in this.

[Icarus]

In the final days, say people close to Yahya, he wouldn't get a kick unless a woman peed on his face. Tall, long legged Tarana was an expert in this.

And the people close to him were a party to this practice? It's one thing to raise fingers at a living man, completely different when the object of ridicule is a coffin.

I think the article is a gross example of playing on the unknown to make a cheap article that forces readers to go through it not for it's intellectual content but it's lewd, almost pornographic depictions. I find it hard to believe that a 60+ year old can have over 20 rolls in the hay everyday. This is disgusting, fabricated bullshit and the cheap source from which it is derived is a testament to the fact.

[ice_man]

In the final days, say people close to Yahya, he wouldn't get a kick unless a woman peed on his face. Tall, long legged Tarana was an expert in this.

please don't say stuff about a dead man & woman if you cannot provide an authentic source. YAHYA might have been many things but now that he is dead it is between him and his lord.

[mafiya]

And the people close to him were a party to this practice? It's one thing to raise fingers at a living man, completely different when the object of ridicule is a coffin.

I think the article is a gross example of playing on the unknown to make a cheap article that forces readers to go through it not for it's intellectual content but it's lewd, almost pornographic depictions. I find it hard to believe that a 60+ year old can have over 20 rolls in the hay everyday. This is disgusting, fabricated bullshit and the cheap source from which it is derived is a testament to the fact.

What's asad fault? When a man has a lose character and morale and above all a soldier who is having illicit relations with women and thinking how to bang women instead of thinking battle strategies, Then these kind of rumors bound to spread too.!

[kobiraaz]

Sigh!!!!!!

[Icarus]

What's asad fault? When a man has a lose character and morale and above all a soldier who is having illicit relations with women and thinking how to bang women instead of thinking battle strategies, Then these kind of rumors bound to spread too.!

You obviously did not take my post in the sense that it was intended to be taken in.

[mafiya]

You obviously did not take my post in the sense that it was intended to be taken in.

I fully understand your post but i have no respect for this "This Dead Man", His endeavors started right after Independence. A famous incident in 1948 happened in Kashmir, When he drank alcohol and ate pork sandwich in the month of ramadan infornt of Qudratullah Shahab Saab while Qudratullah Saab was working in open air and Indian Airplanes were hovering above him.

[kobiraaz]

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@asad, so far i know, you are well informed on everything. Can you tell me whether such 'free sex culture' exists in BD army or not?