Brig ali khan biography

Pakistan Army

Ali Khan is a former brigadier of Pakistan Army who was arrested in May for links with banned Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir.^[1] According to CNN he was the senior most Pakistani officer to face such allegations since His arrest raised suspicions of infiltration by Islamic fundamentalists into the senior officer corps of Pakistani Army.^[2][3]

Background

HuT has been banned in Pakistan since ^[4] HuT has long been accused of trying to infiltrate Pakistan's military and in the aftermath of the American raid that killed Osama bin-Laden it distributed pamphlets near Pakistani military bases calling on officers to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic caliphate.^[5] Two other Pakistani army officers were court-martialed in for links with Hizb ut-Tahrir.^[1]

Career

Khan belonged to Punjab had joined the army in and had a distinguished career.^[6] At the time