Mushtaq Ahmed Baig

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Lieutenant General Mushtaq Ahmed Baig
Birth name	Mushtaq Ahmed Baig
Born	(1951-12-21)21 December 1951 Lehr Sultanpur Village District Chakwal, Punjab, Pakistan.
Died	25 February 2008(2008-02-25) (aged 56) Rawalpindi, Punjab
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service / branch	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1976 - 2008
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Pakistan Army Medical Corps
Commands	Surgeon General PAK Army Medical Corps Director General Medical Services Commandant Army Medical College
Battles / wars	Kargil War Indo-Pakistani Standoff (2001) War in North-West Pakistan
Awards	Hilal-i-Imtiaz

Mushtaq Ahmad Baig HI(M) (1951 – 25 February 2008) was the surgeon general of the Pakistani Army until his death from a suicide-bomb attack on 25 Feb. 2008. He was an ophthalmologist by profession. Baig is the oldest senior Army officer to be targeted and killed since Pakistan's involvement in the War on Terror and the North West-Pakistan Conflict. He is the most senior Pakistan Army general to have died in war since the death of Major General Iftikhar Khan Janjua in the Battle of Chamb.^[1]