sentences:  His father was a civil servant in the British Indian government who worked as an administrative officer in the Kapurthala State before the partition of India in 1947.After the partition that saw the establishment of Pakistan in August 1947, his father joined the Central Superior Services (CSS) and worked as Federal Secretary in various ministerial cabinets.After graduating from a local high school in Lyallpur, he was commissioned in the Pakistan Navy as a midshipman on 11 May 1967 and was sent to join the Pakistan Military Academy where he did his initial military training.