sentences:  In 1991, he was promoted to Major-General rank and subsequently became General Officer Commanding of 8th Infantry Division.In 1994, he was appointed as director of directorate-general of the Military Intelligence.In 1995, along with Lieutenant-general Jehangir Karamat (chief of general staff), Khattak successfully infiltrated and thwarted the attempted coup hatched by major-general Zahirul Islam Abbasi in an attempt to overthrow the government of Prime minister Benazir Bhutto and replacing with far-right theocratic regime.