A retired Pakistani army’s general, Shahid Aziz, who had served as Pakistan’s Director General Military Operations (DGMO) and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, was reportedly killed in Afghanistan some time ago.

Speaking to a local media outlet, however, Lieutenant General Shahid Aziz’s son denied the reports that his father had been killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan Today said in a report on Saturday.

According to the report, Aziz wanted to compensate for what he had done in favor of the US troops, and therefore, he was in Afghanistan wherein he was killed.

The report said that recently in a statement, former Pakistani army chief General Pervez Musharraf said that Aziz had grown a beard and gone to Syria, and according to some people, he had been killed there.

Aziz served in Pakistan army for 37 years and retired in 2005, Pakistan Today said in its report. While being in the army, he remained as the DGMO, the chief of general staff and Lahore corps commander.

After his retirement from the army, Aziz was appointed as the NAB chairman – Pakistan’s apex anti-corruption organization – in November 2005 by the then president Pervez Musharraf.

However, he resigned after two years on moral principles when he was asked to close all cases of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari amid back-channel negotiations between Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto prior to the passing of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Pakistan Today said in the report.

Aziz also wrote a book titled “Yeh Khamoshi Kahan Tak” in which he made staggering revelations about certain issues including the Kargil War.