Farooq Shaukat Lodi (Urdu: سردار فاروق شوکت خان لودھی‎; 17 June 1931 – 14 September 2004)[a], better known as F.S.

[6] He was born on 17 June 1931 in Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq as Farooq Shaukat Khan Lodi to his father Sardar Mohammad Abdullah Khan Lodi, a British/Imperial civil servant who was posted in Mandatory Iraq in the British Indian Army at the department of Finance.

Farooq's mother was Jamila Khanum, a woman known to be of great beauty and high status in Baghdad.

[5] However, his Cessna aircraft crashed in a remote area and pilot Nadir Imtiaz Saigal and ADC died in the aviation accident and Lodi received minor injuries.

He was admitted to a local hospital where the doctors gave him a unnecessary blood transfusion that infected him with malaria and later hepatitis C. The infectious disease damaged his liver and he was subsequently airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi where he recovered from disease, and he resumed his duties in Quetta.