Lt. Gen. Kirpal Singh Randhawa - Sikhs The Supreme

Born in Lahore in 1932, decorated with the AVSM in 1978 and PVSM in 1988 for his distinguished services rendered to the Indian Army, Lt. Gen. Kirpal Singh Randhawa is the man who was the favourite choice of Govt. of Iraq, who trained Iraq army between 1977-1979. General Randhawa was posted to Baghdad as the Chief Instructor, Indian Army Training Team, reportedly on a special request by the Government of Iraq.

Actually Gen. Saadi Tuma Abbas, the then Chief of the Army Staff of Iraq and also the right hand of Adnan Khairallah, Minister of Defence, had been the student of General Randhawa in Pune Army Training College in 1970. He was so impressed by General Randhawa's personality that when Iraq govt. took a strategical-cum-political decision to get his army trained by Indians, General Saadi availed himself of the opportunity to convince his government to make special request to Govt. of India for General Randhawa which was otherwise against the The Mighty Sikhs / 132 norms of diplomatic world. This was a great achievement for a Sikh General. A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College and Britain's Royal College of Defence Studies, General Randhawa earlier had two tenures in Laos and Vietnam as SecretaryADC to the Chairman of the International Commission for supervision and control of these states.

He had also many prestigious instructional appointments at the Infantry School, the Armoured Corps School and the College of Combat's Higher Command.

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