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Chief of General Staff (Pakistan)

Index Chief of General Staff (Pakistan)

Chief of General Staff, shortly abbreviated as CGS, is the most coveted position within the Pakistan Army. [1]

38 relations: Akbar Khan (Pakistani general), Ali Kuli Khan Khattak, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Asif Nawaz, Aziz Khan (general), Bilal Akbar, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan), Ehsan ul Haq, Farrakh Khan, Federal Secretary, Gul Hassan Khan, Iftikhar Ali Khan (general), Iqbal Khan (general), Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad, Jehangir Karamat, Khalid Shameem Wynne, Mahmud Ahmed, Mian Hayaud Din, Mirza Aslam Beg, Muhammad Safdar, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Army, Pervez Musharraf, Rashad Mahmood, Rawalpindi, Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Shahid Aziz, Shamim Alam Khan, Sher Ali Khan Pataudi, Tariq Majid, Waheed Arshad, X Corps (Pakistan), Yahya Khan, Yusaf Khan, Ziauddin Butt, Zubair Mahmood Hayat, 1999 Pakistani coup d'état.

Akbar Khan (Pakistani general)

Major General Akbar Khan, DSO (1912 - 1993), also known as Mohammed Akbar Khan, was a Pakistan Army officer who is most known as the Brigadier-in-Charge in Kashmir on the Pakistan side in Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.

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Ali Kuli Khan Khattak

Ali Kuli Khan Khattak (Urdu: على قلى خان; HI(M), is a retired Pakistani three-star rank general officer and former field commander of X Corps. Prior to this field assignment, he was the chief of general staff and also directed the directorate-general of the Military Intelligence (DGMI) during his career. Khattak was also an instructor in the National Defence University (NDU) before being elevated to the senior staff appointments. He has been credited for foresight in predicting the dangers of terrorism and the public appraised reputation when thwarting the conspiracy hatched by infiltrated rogue officers against the government of Prime minister Benazir Bhutto. He opposed the Kargil War and was notably superseded by the former Prime minister Nawaz Sharif after approving the appointment of Khattak's course-mate, General Pervez Musharraf to four-star rank and chief of army staff.

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Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (اشفاق پرویز کیانی; born 20 April 1952),, is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), being appointed on 29 November 2007 until 29 November 2013.

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Asif Nawaz

General Asif Nawaz Janjua (آصف نواز جنجوعہ 3 January 1937 – 8 January 1993).

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Aziz Khan (general)

General Muhammad Mir Aziz Khan (محمد عزیز خان 1 January 1947),,, best known as Aziz Khan, is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, appointed on October 2001 until his retirement in 2005.

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Bilal Akbar

Lieutenant General Bilal Akbar is an officer from Artillery Corps of the Pakistan Army.

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Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) is, in principle, the highest-ranking and senior most military officer, typically at four-star rank, in the Pakistan Armed Forces who serves as a principal military adviser to the civilian government led by elected Prime minister of Pakistan and his/her National Security Council.

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Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)

The Chief of Army Staff (سربراہ پاک فوج) (reporting name: COAS), is a military appointment and statutory office held by the four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, who is appointed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan and final confirmation by the President of Pakistan.

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Ehsan ul Haq

General Ehsan ul Haq (احسان الحق; b. 22 September 1949),,,, is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army and the public official, served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, appointed on October 2005 until his retirement in 2007.

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Farrakh Khan

Lieutenant-General Farrakh Khan (12 December 1938 – 25 June 2016), 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.

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Federal Secretary

The Federal Secretary (also referred to as the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan) is the highest-ranking post and rank in Government of Pakistan, occupied by the most senior civil servant in a specific Ministry or Division.

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Gul Hassan Khan

Gul Hassan Khan (گل حسن خان) (1921; b. 1921—10 October 1999), was a former lieutenant-general and the last Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army, serving under President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from 20 December 1971 until 3 March 1972.

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Iftikhar Ali Khan (general)

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Iqbal Khan (general)

General Mohammad Iqbal Khan (Urdu:اقبال خان‬‎), was a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from being appointed in 1980 until 1984.

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Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad

Lieutenant-General Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad (Urdu: اشفاق ندیم احمد) HI(M), is retired Pakistani army general who held command of the II Corps of the Pakistan Army.

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Jehangir Karamat

General Jehangir Karamat (Urdu: جہانگیر کرامت; born 20 February 1941), is a retired four-star rank army general, diplomat, public intellectual, and a former professor of political science at the National Defense University.

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Khalid Shameem Wynne

Khalid Shameem Wynne (Urdu:;28 August 1953–30 December 2017),,, was a four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who tenured as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee appointed in 2010 until retiring on 8 October 2013.

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Mahmud Ahmed

Lieutenant-General Mahmud Ahmed (محمود احمد; b. 1944), is a retired three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence from 1999 until being terminated, following the terrorists attacks in the United States in 2001.

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Mian Hayaud Din

Major General Mian Hayaud Din HJ MBE MC sc, idc (2 July 1910 – 20 May 1965) was an army officer of the British Indian Army during second world war and later of the Pakistan Army.

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Mirza Aslam Beg

General Mirza Aslam Beg (Urdu: مرزا اسلم بیگ; born 2 August 1931), is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, who served as its Chief of Army Staff from 1988 until his retirement in 1991. His appointment as chief of army staff came when his predecessor, President General Zia-ul-Haq, died in an air crash on 17 August 1988. Beg's tenure witnessed Benazir Bhutto as being elected Prime Minister in November 1988, and the restoration of democracy and the civilian control of the military in the country. Controversial accusations were leveled against him of financing the Islamic Democracy Alliance (IDA), the conservative and right-wing opposition alliance against left-wing PPP, and rigging subsequent general elections in 1990. As a result of general elections, Nawaz Sharif was elected Prime Minister in 1990, but fell out with Beg when the latter recommended support for Iraq during the Gulf War. Beg was denied an extension from President Ghulam Ishaq Khan soon after in 1991, and replaced by General Asif Nawaz as chief of army staff.Ahmad Faruqui. Dawn, 12 October 2009 Apart from his military career, Beg briefly tenured as professor of security studies at the National Defence University (NDU) and regularly writes columns in The Nation. Beg's post-retirement has been characterized by controversies: first, Beg was accused of playing an internal role in the airplane crash that killed President Zia, and, second, he was summoned to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2012 for his alleged role in releasing the financial funding to the conservative politicians as opposed to the Pakistan Peoples Party's politicians during the general elections held in 1990.

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Muhammad Safdar

Lt. General Muhammad Safdar (محمد صفدر.) is the former Governor of Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan, having served from 1999 to 2001.

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Nawaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu/میاں محمد نواز شریف, born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani business magnate and former politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, all of the three terms were unsuccessful.

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Pakistan Army

Pakistan Army (پاک فوج Pak Fauj (IPA: pɑk fɒ~ɔd͡ʒ); Reporting name: PA) is the land-based force of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

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Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf (پرویز مشرف; born 11 August 1943) is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star army general who was the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until tendering resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008.

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Rashad Mahmood

Rashad Mahmood (Urdu/راشد محمود), is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the 16th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.

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Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi (Punjabi, راولپِنڈى), commonly known as Pindi (پِنڈی), is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Sahabzada Yaqub Khan

Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan (Urdu: صاحبزادہ یعقوب خان; born 23 December 1920 – 26 January 2016) SPk, was a Pakistani statesman, diplomat, military figure, pacifist, linguist, and a retired three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army.

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Shahid Aziz

Shahid Aziz (شاہد عزیز), is a Pakistani military author, intelligence writer, and retired three-star ranking general officer of the Pakistan Army.

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Shamim Alam Khan

General Shamim Allam Khan Urdu: شميم ىالم; b. 18 August 1937),, is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, who served as the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, appointed in this capacity in 1991 until retiring on 1994.

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Sher Ali Khan Pataudi

Major General Nawabzada Sher Ali Khan of Pataudi (نوابزادہ شیر علی خان پٹوڈی) HJ (13 May 1913 – 29 May 2002) was the second son of Nawab Ibrahim Ali Khan of Pataudi, in Pataudi.

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Tariq Majid

General Tariq Majid, (Urdu: طارق مجید; born 23 August 1950; NI(M), afwc, fsc(m), psc) is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who held prestigious four-star assignment as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 2007 to 2010, the principal and highest-ranking military advisier in the Pakistan Armed Forces.

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Waheed Arshad

Waheed Arshad, HI(M), TBt, afwc, fsc(t), psc, is a retired three-star general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Chief of General Staff (CGS) at the General Headquarters from 2010 to 2013.

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X Corps (Pakistan)

The X Corps is an active military administrative corps of the Pakistan Army, currently assigned in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province of Pakistan.

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Yahya Khan

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (آغا محمد یحییٰ خان; 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980), widely known as Yahya Khan,, was the third President of Pakistan, serving in this post from 25 March 1969 until turning over his presidency in December 1971.

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Yusaf Khan

Muhammad Yusaf Khan (محمد یوسف خان) (born February 10, 1948), is a retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army who served as the Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS) from October 8, 2001 until October 7, 2004.

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Ziauddin Butt

General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi (خواجہ ضیاء الدین عباسى), also known as Ziauddin Butt (ضیاء الدین بٹ), is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, who served as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), for a brief time, until Chairman joint chiefs General Pervez Musharraf reasserted the command and control of the military despite his termination on 12 October 1999.

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Zubair Mahmood Hayat

General Zubair Mahmood Hayat (Urdu:زبیر محمود حیات; b. 1960), is the 15th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.

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1999 Pakistani coup d'état

The 1999 Pakistani coup d'état was a bloodless coup d'état in which the Pakistan Army and then-Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Pervez Musharraf, seized the control of the civilian government of publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_General_Staff_(Pakistan)

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