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| name =Ghulam Safdar Butt
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1928|03|13}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2006|05|01|1928|03|13}}
| birth_place =Sukkur, Sindh, British Indian Empire, (present-day India)
| death_place = Lahore, Pakistan
| placeofburial = Cavalry Grounds Grave yard. Lahore
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| nickname =Safdar
| birth_name =Ghulam Safdar Butt
| allegiance ={{PAK}}
| branch ={{army|PAK}}
| nationality ={{GBR}}
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| serviceyears =1948-1987
| rank = Lieutenant-General
| servicenumber =PA – 2725
| unit =Corps of Engineers, Pakistan Army
| commands =DG Frontier Works Organization, DG Lowari Tunnel Organization, Managing Director Pak-Arab Refinery Arab Refinery Co PARCO, Military Engineering Service Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers
| battles =Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
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| awards =Sitara-e-Basalat “Star of good conduct”, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Military “Moon of Distinction”
| relations =
| laterwork =Chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
Chairman Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Ltd (SNGPL)
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Ghulam Safdar Butt (13 March 1928 – 1 May 2006) was the first three star general in the Corps of engineers of Pakistan Army. He also held the honour of being the first PhD of Pakistan army. Commissioned in 1950 after graduating from the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) he was part of the 1st PMA long course which was the first course to graduate from the PMA that was selected trained and graduated in Pakistan after its partition from India in 14 August 947. He had an illustrious career starting from professorship at the military college of engineering, professor of highways, airfields, soil and foundation engineering, integral work on the Karakorum Highway KKH, platoon commander at PMA, Director General Frontier Works Organization (FWO), Director General Lowari Tunnel Organization (LTO), Managing Director Pak Arab Refinery Co (PARCO), Chairman Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) and finally Chairman Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL)] were some of the prestigious posts held by him in his career.

Lt Gen. Ghulam Safdar Butt (1928-2006) was a president of the Pakistan Cricket Board, serving in that position from February 1984 to February 1988. He was a founding member, Secretary General and President of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. A passionate mountaineer, he died on May 1, 2006, after an aggressive bout with a brain tumor at the age of 78, and was buried the same day.[1]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Pakistan/Articles/4/4223.html|title=History of Lt: Gen: Dr. Ghulam Safdar Butt|author=Arshad Chughtai|work=Pakistan Cricket Board|accessdate=5 May 2016| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107202954/http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Pakistan/Articles/4/4223.html | archivedate=January 7, 2009 |deadurl=yes}}
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