A member of former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's inner circle who served as the country’s Director General Military Operations and headed its anti-corruption watchdog has been killed in Afghanistan, local media reports said. Lt Gen (retd) Shahid Aziz wanted to compensate for what he had done in favour of the US troops, and therefore, he was in Afghanistan serving in some capacity where he was killed, the reports said. The former chairman of the National Accountability Bureau had written a book in which he spoke of the involvement of Pakistani Army’s regular troops in the Kargil war against India. He admitted that at the time of the coup d’état against Sharif, he had supported the decision for a military takeover. Aziz served in Pakistani Army for 37 years, and was also the chief of general staff and Lahore corps commander.

Source: Hindustan Times May 21, 2018 08:48 UTC