| Honorific-Prefix: | Adjutant-General |
| Muhammad Riaz Khan | |
| Placeofburial: | Dewal Sharif, Murree |
| Order: | 6th |
| Office: | Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence |
| Term Start: | October 1977 |
| Term End: | April 1979 |
| Predecessor: | Ghulam Jilani Khan |
| Successor: | Akhtar Abdur Rahman |
| Birth Name: | Muhammad Riaz Khan |
| Commands: | Adjutant-General of the Pakistan Army Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence |
| Relations: | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (son-in-law) |
Muhammad Riaz Khan (Urdu:) was a Pakistan Army general who was the 6th Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), serving from October 1977 to April 1979.[1] [2] Prior to that, he served at the General Headquarters as Adjutant-General of the Pakistan Army.[3]
Riaz was well-regarded amongst the military establishment, and described as "religious minded, scrupulously honest, thoroughly professional and a committed soldier... a man of unimpeachable honesty and integrity."[3] Although he presided over the ISI for a short term, his tenure, which occurred during Zia's era, coincided with a tumultuous period in Pakistan–U.S. relations: Bhutto's execution, the Carter administration's sanctions against Pakistan's nuclear program, the U.S. embassy burning in Islamabad, the Soviet buildup in Afghanistan, and the CIA's expanding cooperation with ISI.[3]
Riaz died in 1979 from cardiac arrest. His post was seceded by Akhtar Abdur Rahman.[3]
His son-in-law, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, became a prominent politician and was appointed as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2017.[4] [5]
. Bruce Riedel. Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. 2012. Brookings Institution Press. 978-0-8157-2274-8. 146.