evidence: General Shahnawaz: Hero of the INA [...] General Shahnawaz Khan was born in Rawalpindi on January 24, 1914. His father, Tikka Khan, was an officer in the British-Indian army and Shahnawaz duly followed in his footsteps and was commissioned into the army in 1935. [...] After Independence, General Shahnawaz opted for India even though much of his family was based in Pakistan. He was elected as an MP from Meerut in the first Lok Sabha elections in 1952 and served as a Deputy Minister in the Railway Ministry till 1964.