General Jehangir Karamat is a retired four-star rank military officer,diplomat,public intellectual,and a former professor of political science at the National Defense University. Prior to serving as a Chief of Army Staff,he also served as the 9th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1997 to 1998.
General Asif Nawaz Janjua NI(M),HI(M),SBt,psc,was a senior officer of the Pakistan Army who served as the fourth chief of army staff from 16 August 1991 until his death in 1993.
General Abdul Waheed KakarNI(M) HI(M) SBt,is a retired senior officer of the Pakistan Army who served as the fifth chief of army staff,appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 January 1993 upon death of his predecessor Asif Nawaz Janjua,he remained in office until retiring on 12 January 1996.
Mahmud AhmedHI(M) is a retired Pakistani three-star rank army general who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence from 1999 to 2001.
The 1999 military takeover in Pakistan was a bloodless coup d'état initiated by the military staff at the Joint Staff HQ working under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf. The instigators seized control of the civilian government of the popularly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999. On 14 October,General Musharraf,acting as the country's Chief Executive,issued a controversial provisional order that suspended the Constitution of Pakistan.
Muhammad Aziz KhanNI(M) HI(M) SBt TBt,better known as Aziz Khan,is a retired Pakistani four-star rank army general who served as the 11th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee,appointed in October 2001 until his retirement in 2005.
Ali Kuli Khan KhattakHI(M) is a Pakistani retired three-star general and former field commander of X Corps.
Ehsan ul Haq NI(M),HI(M),is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army and a public official,served as the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee,appointed in October 2005 until his retirement in 2007.
Ashfaq Parvez KayaniNI(M) HI(C) HI(M) LoM LoH OMM,is a retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army who served as the eighth chief of army staff,being appointed on 29 November 2007 after his predecessor Pervez Musharraf retired from his military service and remained in the office until 29 November 2013.
Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai,is a retired three-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army who served as the Corps Commander of XI Corps and the principle commander of the Western Command. As Commander,he commanded all military combat assets and oversaw the peaceful deployment of XI Corps in the Northern Areas and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi,also known as Ziauddin Butt,is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army,who served as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS),for few hours,until Chairman joint chiefs General Pervez Musharraf reasserted the command and control of the military despite his termination on 12 October 1999.
Jamshed Gulzar Kiani,HI(M),SJ,SBt,TJ,was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army,intelligence officer and the former Colonel Commandant of the Baloch Regiment and commander of X Corps.
Chief of the General Staff is the most coveted position within the Pakistan Army after that of the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS). Although the COAS is the head of the land forces,the CGS is "the organizational lead on both intelligence and operations",hence being in charge of the Military Intelligence (MI) and Military Operations (MO) Directorates. Since 1985,a three-star rank Lt. Gen. is appointed to the post.
Zaheer-ul-Islam HI (M),is a retired lieutenant-general of the Pakistan Army who served as the 25th Director General of the ISI. He was appointed to the position on 9 March 2012 and began working a day after his predecessor Ahmed Shuja Pasha left on 18 March 2012. At the time of his appointment,he was serving as the Corps Commander V Corps. In 2012 Forbes named him as the world's 52nd most powerful person.
General Raheel SharifNI(M) HI(M) LOM is a retired four-star army general of the Pakistan Army who served as the ninth chief of army staff from 29 November 2013 to 29 November 2016. After his retirement as Pakistan's army chief,he was appointed as the commander of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition,a 41-nation alliance of Muslim countries headquartered in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
Farrakh Khan,was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who was notable for his tenureship as the Chief of General Staff (CGS) at the Army GHQ from 1991 to 1994.
Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad HI(M),was a retired three star rank Pakistan Army general who served as Corps Commander II Corps of the Pakistan Army. He previously served as Chief of General Staff and Director-General of Military Operations. Lieutenant General Ahmad was second on the seniority list in 2016 of being Chief of Army Staff,but then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Lt Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa,who was the inspector general training and evaluation at that time,as the army chief.
Naweed Zaman is a retired three-star rank general of the Pakistan Army.
Faiz HameedHI(M) is a retired three-star general of the Pakistan Army,awaiting court martial. Faiz was the country's top Spy-master and served as the 29th Director General of the ISI from 2019 to 2022. He was commissioned in the Baloch Regiment having served as GOC 16th Infantry Division Pano Akil. He last served as Commander of the XXXI Corps before taking premature retirement on 10 December 2022.
Shafaat Ullah ShahHI(M) is a retired three star general of the Pakistan Army,diplomat,and author. He often writes for the Pakistan Armed Forces magazine,"Hilal English". He has served as Chief of Logistics Staff at the GHQ,Colonel Commandant of the Baloch Regiment,Commander IV Corps,and as Military Secretary to President Musharraf.
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